The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-07-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular correspondent.l


WARRINGTON, July 10th 1888.
Commissioner Colman, of the agri-
cultural department has received an
early and complete vindication from
the charge made by General Greeley,
Chief Signal Officer, to the Senate
committee on Agriculture, to the effect
that Mr.. Colman was working in an
underhanded manner to get the wealth
er bureau transferred to his department.
Gen. Greeley has written manly let
ter to Senator Palmer Of that commit
tee, in which he apologies for having
made the charge, having learned since
that the information upon which he
had based it was erroneous; he also
,, askes Senator Palmer to assure the
members Of the committee of his re-
gret that he should unintentionally
have placed high official in a very
wrong light. To those who know Mr..
Colman, no vindication of anything he
has done since he became Commission
er of Agriculture is necessary. 1t is
for those who are not fortunate enough
to know the man in all his rugged
straight forwardness and honesty, that
this is written.
No subsidies for pet steamship lines
this year. The house has again crush
ed the Senate amendment to the Post.
office appropriation bill, appropriating
$500, 900 to increase the mail facilities
between this country and South Amer
lea. The decisive vote 14l to 81
by which the House for the second
time, rejected this amendment, will
probably cause the Senate to see the
wisdom of Withdrawing it.
Col. Lamont has gone to New York
to visit his family. He will return
this week.
The House is now considering the
wool clause of the tariff bill, and un-
less there is some unexpected delay in
disposing of it, the bill will be passed
this week.
Senator Pugh to-day made a strong
speech in favor of the ratification Of
the fisheries treaty. Friday Senator
George did likewise.
A delegation Of the Patrons of In
dustry Of Pennsylvania called on Mr..
Cleveland Friday, to invite him to at.
tend their exhibition and picnic on
August "a. The President said that
his duties are now such as to require
his strictest attention. but when Con-
gress adjourns, he would have more
time.
The next trust to be Investigated by
the House committee on manufactures
will be whiskey.
''Granny" Blair, who is one of the
most blatant demagogues who ever oc.
cupied seat in the United States Sem
ate, received a blessing down on
Thursday last at the hands of Senator
Butler of South Carolina, which he is
not likely to forget for some time to
come. The subject under discussion
was the presidential vetoes of private
pension bills. Blair said that taken as
a whole, the vetoed CAGES we're cases of
absolute merits, and the vetoes were
outrages of the rights Of American
citizens. Mr.. Butler in reply said
that the greatest blessing that could
overtake the Senate and the country
would be for the Senator from New
Hampshire to be less faithful TO the
line of duty which he had marked out
for himself. If there has been any
incumbrance, any incubus on the SEN
sible, respectable, orderly discharge of
the duties of the Senate, it had been
in the person of the Senator from New
Hampshire, and in the measures which
he had introduced. Mr.. Butler also
truthfully stated that Blair was, like a
demagogue, trying to appeal to the
soldier vote of the country. Referring
to remark of Mr.. Blair, that the Ian
guage of some of the messages was
ungentlemanly, Mr.. Butler said: "God
save the mark! What terrible Gala
nifty it would be to this country if the
standard of gentlemen had to be esta-
blished by the Senator from New
Hampshire. 1t would undermine and
destroy every rule on the subject, re-
cognized among civilized people"
Mr.. O'NeiI of Missouri, who is
chairman Of ,ne House committee on
Labor, says that the most important
bill in the House is that prohibiting
the carrying of convict made goods
from one State to another. 1t is ex-
pected that an evening session of the
House will be held for the passage of
this and other labor bills.
The House has passed bill, provid-
ing for the taking of the eleventh and
subsequent censuses.
The campaign committee selected
by Chairman Barnum of the national
committee is regarded here as very
strong one.
The President has accepted with
deep regret the resignation of Hon. G.
V. N. Lsthrop, U. S. minister to Rus
sis. III health is the cause.
Representative s. J. Randall is
dangerously i'll in this city. He has
had several attacks of hemmorhage.
Attorney General Garland, whose
health is some what undermined, has
gone to one of the Virginia springs.