Nevada County picayune., 1888-03-28
WASHlNCTONTOPlCS.
Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
From our Special Correspondent

From our Special Correspondent.
 WAsnINGToN. March 23rd, 1888.
 Cleveland and revenue reform is the refrain that is being echoed from one end of the country to the other. Ex-C Congressman Hill, of Ohio, who is in the city, says tue democrats of that state are unanimous for the nomination of MT. Cleveland, and that the delegates to St. Louis will go instructed to vote that way. MT. Cleveland and his policy of revenue
 reform are gaining strength every day, all over the country. and yet
 right here at the Capital a handful of members of the House of Repre-
 sentatiyes calling themseves demo- crats have set themselves up in op-
 position to the whole party and have gone deliberately to work to prevent l the passage by the House of the Mill
 tariff bill, thus preventing the party i from redeeming the pledges upon
 which it elected President and
 hopes to re-elect him. These men
 claim to represent the sentiments Of 1 their constituents, but unless MT. i Hill who is quoted above is wrong about the sentiment in Ohio, the members from that state who have
 joined hands with MT. Randall, who represents a republican district in i Pennsylvania. are misrepresenting 1 their constituents in opposing reve- nue reform. The same might be
 said of the Louisiana members who
 are opposing the Mills tariff bill.
 The republicans here are still in demoraIized condition. never having
 recovered from the effects of the
 Blaine letter, If they do not rally
 before the campaign opens they will
 not fight with enough vim to make ] the contest interesting.
 Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, i is thought by some to he suffering
 from softening of the brain. His ] fastest crank idea is bill which he
 has introduced in the Senate propo- posing the ex-Confederate soldiers
 and sailors shall have preference ov-
 CT ex-Confederate civilians in ap-
 pointments to civil service positions.
 The bill was not asked for nor is it
 wanted by anybody.
 The Ways and Means Committee
 have completed the consideration of
 the Mills tariff bill and before this letter is in type it will have been re- ported to the House, unless the re- publican minority of that committee shall discover some new method of delay. They have already exhaus- tel all that were known.
 The Capitol was struck by lightning on Wednesday after noon during a terrific thunder storm. and for time lhcrc was great excitement, The only damage done however was to destroy the telegraph instruments in the press galleries of bota the.ilo"sc and Senate and to kill horse at the door of the Senate wing.
 The House Committee on territo- ries have reported q bill to organize the territory of Alaska.
 Hon. ]. r. Anderson, of Iowa. who has been appointed Commission toner of the General Land office. was the democratic candidate for Governor at the last Iowa state elec- ton, and boiled the largest vote ey- CT given to a democratic candidate in that state.
 Hon. s. NJ. Stockslager who has been appintcd Commissioner of the G. l.. O., served iu the Forty-seycnty and Forty-cigth Congresses,
 The bill to prevent the employ l ment of alien and convict labor on public works has been passed by the House.
 The President has sent to Congress a communication from the Secretary l of the Interior, with much testimony relating to grant ofpublic land to the State of Oregon for the construc- ton of wagon roads. Accompany- | ing these documents is message l from the President which says: The | presentation of the facts by the Sec retarv is the result of an cXamina- tion which has developed. as it seems to me, the most unblushing frauds upon the Government. which if re- | mainng unchallenged, will divert | several hundred thousand acres of | land from the public domain. and | from the reach of honest settlers, 10 | those who have attempted 10 pervcrt | and prostitute the beneiicent designs of the Government, which sought by the promise of generous donations of land to promote the building of wag- on roads for public convenience and for the purpose of encouraging set clement upon the public iands. The roads have not yet been built and yet an attempt is made to claim the lands under title which depends for its validity upon the construc- lion of thciI roads. v 4 bill repeal ng these land grants and restoring the lands 10 the public domain is recommended for immediate passage by the President The bill protects he interests of parties who have in- iocently purchased land of the wag- 1n companies. A. s. |.