New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, d. c.. July 13, 1888.
Senator EVarts attended the conyen-
tion of the New 7 ork State Republican
League. and delivered speech at their
ratification meeting ednesday evening
at Saratoga.
The democrats of the House would
even put the lights out in number Of
lighthouses on our coasts and rivers.
They cut down the estimates made by
the lighthouse board to such an extent,
that the board has notified them that
unless the amount is raised, it will be
necessary to discontinue number OF
lighthouses. The lights will not be ex.
tinguished. The Republican Senate NAV
be relied upon to protect our commerce
by increasing the appropriation to the
amount estimated.
Senator Morrill,, whose health has not
been very good OF late. has paired
and gone to the mountains of his native
Vermont, where he will probably re-
main until December.
Mr.. Cleveland was busy signing We
toes of private pension bills, that he
could not find time to attend the SOL
diers' reunion at Gettysburg.
Attorney General Garland must have
realized on his Pan Electric stock. He
has purchased an $4,000 residence in
this city. About next March he will
be hunting for purchaser.
Accompanying one of Mr.. Cleve-
lands vetoes of private pension bills
last week, was a labored explanation
of his reasons for having vetoed SO ma
ny bills of this class. He is friend of
the soldier; at least he says he is. No
use, Mr.. Cleveland. The soldier vote
is dead "again ye''. Gallant Ben Har-
rison is the man they propose to elect
this year. He did not hire substitute,
and he will not veto bills giving pen
sions to deserving veterans or their
widows.
The republican Senators are engaged
in preparing tariff bill, which is to be
offered as substitute for the Mills bill,-
now certain OF passage by the House
when that measure reaches the Senate.
First and foremost, this substitute will
repeal the internal revenue tax on to-
bacco in all forms; there is strong
movement to repeal the internal reyen-
ue tax on alcohol used in the arts, but
it is opposed by as xperienced states
man as Senator Sherman, on the
ground that such a law will invite fraud
on the part of dealers; it seems almost
certain that the duty on sugar is to be
heavily cut into; numerous other ar
ticles have been mentioned as likely to
be affected, but it is not probable that,
the measure will be perfected until af-
ter the Mills bill passes the House,
which it is not thought will be later
than Aug. 1st.
Even Chairman Mills, the free trader.
does not object to a little protection,
provided it is placed where there are
votes at stake. This was fully proven
in the House on Friday, when Mr..
Mills accepted an amendment to his
tariff bill, striking out paragraph
which proposed to reduce the duty on
woed screws. In order to fully under.
stand this action, the fact must be
known that the manufacture of wood
screws in the United States is virtually
monopolized by the only doubtful"
New England State, Connecticut.
A conference committee is now at
work on the river and harbor bill, to
which the Senate added numerous
amendments before its passage.
Helman's substitute for the Senate
railroad land grant forfeiture bill has
been passed by the House. Represen-
tative Payson, of Illinois, says the bill
is directly opposed to a decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Cleveland wrote letter to the Tam
many Fourth of July celebration which
was probably intended as the forerunner
of his formal letter of acceptance. It
pleased the republicans greatly to find
that he still stick to the free trade tariff
ideas expressed in mis- message last Dec
ember. The dodging which has lately
been indulged in by Carlisle, Mills,
Henry Watterson and other democrats,
had caused the republicans to fear that
Cleveland would dodge too.
Representative Reed, of Maine, the
republican leader of the House, took it
into his head last Friday to have some
fun with that alleged statesman, Chair
man Mills, and right we'll did he carry
it out. They had little spat in regard
to the recent dodging on the tariff by
democrats. Mr. Mills in the most pom