Mohave County miner., 1888-05-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.

startling or sensational has occurred on
Capitol Hill. There have been no per-
sonal encounters during the week-none,
indeed, since those two, one 10 the Senate
and the other in the House, which were
the scandal OF the town ten days ago.
Senator Voorhees, announced to the
Senate that he was full OF contrition for
the supplementary language used by
him in the debate with Senator Ingalls,,
but he did not mention the latter's name,
and while apologizing for his ofIense to
the Senate did not apologize to Mr..
Ingalls,.
Bnt in the House OF Representative
there has been no apology or retraction
or explanation. Messrs. Woodbun and
Brumm made the charge, stale and old,
that Abram s. Hewitt had, On certain
wellknown oncasion, apologized to the
British Minister, and although Mr. Bryce,
OF New York, took mp much time in try.
ing to vindicate Mr.. Hewitt, Messrs
Woodburn and Brimm insist that they
never make any chrrges they cannot sub
stantiate.
Congressman Martin, OF Texas, has
again distinguished himself and is once
more topic OF conversation among his
associates Mr.. Martin did not intend TO
speak on the tariff bill, but some OF tho
jokers of the House told him that his
colleagues from Texas we're afraid he
would do SO, and that they were doing all
they could to prevent his appearance on
the floor as speaker. They represented
to Mr.. Martin that his Texas associates
were jealous and afraid he would outshine
Mills and all the rest OF the Texas men if
he insisted on being heard. This was too
much for Mr.. Martin. He spoke, and his
speech was one OF the funniest ever heard
in Congress. The crowd in the galleries
voted it to be we'll worth the admission
fee.
After making a number of dabs at for
feiture of unearned land grants, the SEN
ate actually passed the railroad land for
feiture bill on Thursday, with large
number of other measures, among which
public buildings were most numerous.
The talk over the animal industry bill in
the Senate seems to be endless. The
Texas Senators especially have much to
say about it. ..a. .-.
The House passed the bill enabling the
Government to participate in the Centen'
nial Exposition at Cincinnati, and the
hill providing for Congress Of American
nations to be held in Washington is now
ready to 60 to the President. This bill
invites the Republics OF Mexico, Central
and South America and the Empire oi
Brazil to a conference for the purpose ol
promoting arbitration and encouraging
reciprocal commercial relations. 1t ap
propriates $500. 900 for the proper enter
tainment Of these guests.
Both Houses were compelled to yield
the appointing of ten United States dele
gates to the President, the original scheme
being 10 have the President appoint sir
delegates and the presiding officers Of the
two houses each appoint two, This was
discovered to be slightly unconstitutional
Early in the week Senator Vest an
nounced to the Senate his sympathy fol
the unprotected figure of the Father o
His Country" at the east front of the
Capitol. | refer TO Greenough's statute
OF Washington, which every visitor to the
Capitol sees who stands at the front Of the
great marble pile. Think Of George
Washington in classical drapery! What
was Greenough thinking about? The
Missouri Senator produced letter from
the Librarian Of Congress lamenting the
exposure o! the undraped Washington,
and suggesting canopy to protect him
from the weather. He also submitted a
resolution instructing the Library Com
mittee to inquire what can be done abou.
it. 1t is difficult to imaging what can be
done about it, unless the Committee re-
port in favor Of providing the almost nude
figure with full suit Of winter clothes
and an umbrella.
The Supreme Court were in session all
of Saturday afternoon and have doubtless
acted upon the great telephone appeal
case. The decision will probably be an
nounced to-day between one and two
o'clock. If II is refused the Court will SO
announce; il granted, it will be so stated
and time set to send the case over to
the next term Of the Court. Both sides
are hopeful, but no one can know the re-
suit unit! announced, and you will prob.
ably know it before this reaches you.
Congressman Scott, the thin-voiced
millionaire from Northern Pennsylvania
who spoke for two hours on the tariff bill
last Friday, has the credit OF having made
one OF the ablest contributions yet to the
discussion, and one OF the hardest for the
protectioDists to answer. The gentleman
was honored by two distinguished visitors
during the delivery of his speech, Mrs
Cleveland occupying seat in the Execu.
tive CALLERS, and Postmaster General Dick,
inson sat by Mr.. Scost's side.