River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent
Washington. July Is


From our regular correspondent
Washington, July Is.
Senator Hale offered a resolution
yesterday, which was passed by the
Senate, directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to transmit forthwith the
information called for in the resolu-
tions of LIST and Stb of May last, relat-
ing to the employees of the New York
and Baltimore Custom houses. Just
why the information desired was not
furnished when first asked, is more
than most people can understand, ex-
cept that it has been held back with
the hope that Congress would adjourn
and it would not have to be given m
TIL after election. There are doubt
less many things in the administra-
tiOn at both places, that Cleveland
would like 10 hide until after the
Presidential election.
Senator Plumb moved that the Sem
ate insist upon the subsidy amend
ment' to the Post-ofllce appropriation
bill, and ask for further conference.
As to the Postmaster Generals state
ment that the existing postal service
to Central and South America was
satisfactory, Mr.. Plumb said he did
not believe a word of it. 1t might be
satisfactory TO the Postoflice Depart
ment, but it was not satisfactory to
the business public. Senator Beck
said that he had no idea that the
house would agree to the amendment,
and he did not believe that it ought to
do so. Senator Chase replying to
Beck, said: This opposition is in
a line with the whole policy of the
Democratic party. 1t is a policy of
repression of industry. The Demo
cratic party is the party of reaction,
or retrogression. 1t is opposed to all
enterprise; to the building up of the
industries of the country. 1t has in
herited from the old slave holding
Confederacy the idea that there
should be nothing done by the Govern
ment to benefit the business of the
country.
II is now openly acknowledged by
quite a number of well informed dem
OcTats here, that Connecticut is sure
to cast its electoral vote for Harrison,
Morton, ana Protection.
Chairman Barnum, of the Demo-
cratic national committee, who has
been here for several days, is said to
have come for the purpose of persuad-
ing Cleveland to cut out all illusions
to the tariff in his letter of accept
ance, which has been written but lot
yet made public. My informant says
that Barnum told Cleveland that if he
took the same stand on the tariff in
his letter of acceptance, that he did
in his message to Congress last De-
cember, the Democrats would lose
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
and possibly one or two states in the
solid South, but if he would let the
subject entirely alone, the democratic
managers would adopt a straddling
policy, which might pull him through.
This rumor makes the letter of ac-
ceptance anxiously looked for. If
Cleveland has taken Barnum's advice,
it will be the first time that he has
been known to do such thing, and if
he has not. he will have pleased the
republicans very much.
Senator Plumb says the farmers of
the West are all in favor of transfer
ring the weather bureau to the Agri-
cultural department. General Greedy,
Chief Signal officer, is bitterly oppos-
ed to the change, and says that if it is
made he will not remain at the head
of the Signal Service.
Representative Samuel j. Randall
has been dangerously i'll this week.
He was attacked with hemOrrhage,
and for a short time his life was de-
SPARED of. He is now somewhat bet
ter. but will not resume his duties in
the House again this session.
Republicans in Congress are con-
stantly receiving letters from demo-
cratic constituents, announcing their
intention of supporting the republican
nominees this year.
Senator Hoar's speech against the
ratification of the fisheries treaty was
a terrible arraignment of the demo-
cratic party. In concluding he said :
81 would have the box where the
American freeman casts his ballot
sacred as a sacramento vessel. L do
not like this conspiracy between the
old slave holder and the English man.
ufaeturer, to strike down the wages
of the American workman, and the
comforts of the American workman s
home. l do not like your refusal to
maintain the American Navy and to
fortify and defend the American
coast. And like no better the pres
ent treaty. 1t leaves the American
sailor to be bullied and insulted with
out redress, and abandons the Ameri-
can right to the fisheries which the
valor of our grandfathers won for us
and the wisdom of our fathers pre-
served for u"