Mohave County miner., 1888-10-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tvRos OUR REGULAR coaREspoNDEsT.
WASHINGTON, Oct 8th, 1888.

4 "HsbhNoioSs VIZ CtAb 1000. Il
Judge Thurman arrived on Saturday
| with his son Allan, and went directly to
the Ebbitt House, from which he after
wards went to Oak View, as the guest Of
the President. He looks physically weak
leaning heavily on his cane and shifting
the weight as occasion demands, upon
his sons arm. In common with Mr..
Cleveland and Mr.. Harrison, the work
and worry Of the campaign has aged him
ten years. On Thursday he viii appear
before the United States Supreme Court
as counsel in the telephone cases. His
charge for court attendance in this case is
said to be 81 900 perdiem.
When the vestibuled train OF Pullmans
was pulled into the Washington station
on Saturday and Judge Thurman walked
up the platform, you could have counted
the people present to. welcome him on
your fingers. Washington is surfeited
with great men, and unless the services
OF a brass band is Unlisted in the cause, a
crowd win not gather at the station to
look at any man. Washington and New
York are the two towns on this continent
where man learns that all flesh is grass.
AT every hamlet on the way from Colnm-
bus 10 Washington, Judge Thurman was
the attraction for thousands. Arrived In
Washington he is swallowed up in a col
lection OF famous men.
That howling wilderness known az the
House OF Representatives has fallen upon
evil davs. The few members who have
not gone out to do or die in the campaign
are busily endeavoring to have their own
private and particular measures passed.
Prayer is hardly over before these states.
men are calling "Mr. Speaker" The
circle grows smaller. Holman and Blount
have gone home. But no sooner has the
pet bill OF the Congressman been started
on its way than it 10 stopped by the i'm
possibility OF procuring unanimous con-
sent, Mr.. Lyman, of the Republicans,
or Mr.. kilgore, of the Democrats, may
object. These men are OF the sort that
object to anything. Nobody feels evilly
disposed toward Mr.. Kilgore, but there
are men who would follow his funeral |
train without regret. Mr.. Kilgore is un-
grammatical, illogical and ignorant, and
all that, but he is as much in the way as
II he were a statesman.
Mr.. Allan, of Mississippi, stopped the |
legislative mills for two hours on Friday |
by the call OF "no quorum" The Senate
bill incorporating the Nicaragua Canal |
Company was discussed in the Committee |
of the Whole, and favorable report pre-
vented in a like manner.
The Retaliation bill has been practically |
sidetracked for the present. Senators
Sherman and Evarts have left the city |
Senator Morgan, the other member OF the |
subcommittee, swears that Senator Sher- |
man aims at making "a big bluff at |
annexation. In the meantime, the Ohio
Senator is very serene.
The conference on the general deficiency
bill, while not yet final, seems fairly on
the way to an agreement The clause
providing for the payment Of years
salary to the family or to. the heirs d
Chief Justice Waite is to be stricken OUT, |
together with the provision to extend the
laws Of the United States over No Mans |
Land. The latter action is agreed to by
the Senate to save the bill, as the "no
quorum" cry would be raised in the
House. The clause as to the investiga-
ton Of the Washington acqueduct is
omitted, as that investigation has been
otherwise arranged. The Deficiency bill
will merely contain an appropriation for
the expenses of the investigation.
Mr.. McCalps bill appointing scientific
commission TO consider the cause OF yell
low fever and find remedy has been
fayorably reported by the Senate commit
tee on epidemic diseases, but will not be
called up during this session.
Senators and army officers galore went
to Philadelphia on Saturday to launch the
Baltimore. Mrs. Wilson, wife of the
Chief of the Bureau Of Construction, to
whom it was said the dudes objected be-
cause she had once been goyerness,
broke the wine over the ships bows after
all.
Apropos Of the Baltimore, some one
recalls the fact that John Porter, who
designed and constructed the first iron
clad for this country, il to-day working as
a carpenter In the navy yard at Norfolk.
The gratitude of republics is once more
exhibited.
Ten days ago the Postmaster-Cenersl
completed negotiations for fast mail
train from Chicago TO New York. To-day
a schedule providing for fast mail, east
and west, between New York and st.
Louis, goes into effect, reducing the pre-
cent time by one hour and half, which
will make east difference Of one business
day, the mail arriving in New York at 8
p. m. ,
The Washington monument will soon
be accessible for people who do not long
to climb stairs for twenty minutes. The
elevator which has capacity for thirty
people, begins running Wednesday. The
last one OF the wooden buildings about
the shaft is being destroyed.
1t is long look ahead, but it is agitat-
ing the Knights Templar as much as if it
were matter OF next week. In October,