St. Landry democrat., 1888-08-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. Jnly 20. 1SS

w ASHINGION, July on, 1000.
Representative Springer has been
working very hard to get his Okl0homa
bill passed. 1t was before the House
several times last week, but vote was
not reached. Mr.. Springer is very san
guine of its passage. He says the only
real nppUsirlOn to the bill comes from
the Cherokee Live Stock Association, II
svndicate of white men, who lease {, 000,-
600 acres at 100000 per annum. Mr.
Springer says the passage of this bill
would he followed by one of the most
remarkable phenomena that colonial
ton has ever known. In less than six
months the territory would be Quali-
fed by population to become q State
and, with sly wink, two thirds of
them would he Democrats.
Senators Morgan and Salisbury
made speeches in favor of the ratitica-
ton of the fisheries treaty last week.
Mr.. Mills il still getting an average of
about fifty letters day asking for cop
pies of his speech on the tariff.
The House bill to create boards of ar
bitration to settle the differences be-
tween railroads and their employees, has
been reported favorably to the Senate.
THE effort make by the labor men to
have the use of the steam plate print
ing machines prohibited in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, was defeat
ed in the Senate.
Owing to the delay in passing several
of the appropriation bills, another joint
resolution extending the old appropria-
tiatinns thirty days from to day, has
been passed.
Mr.. Cleveland left here last Thurs
day for short yachting trip. Mrs.
Cleveland and her mother accompa-
MED him as far as New York. Mr..
Cleveland is expected back Tomorrow.
Notwithstanding the fact that this is the
Ouly holiday that Mr.. Cleveland has
taken this whole summer, the Repub-
licans are trying to raise howl over
his alleged neglect of public business.
Commissioner StOcklager has noti-
fed the St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad Co. to show cause within thir->
ty days. why proceedings should not
he taken In accordance with the act of
March 8, 1887. to secure the restoration
of 80 1917 acres of land, alleged to have
been prrnnennsly patented to the At
lantic Co. The land referred to is in
Missouri.
The House committee on agricul-
ture has favorabIy reported the Lee
bill to prevent the sac, manufac-
ture, or transportation of adul-
terated articles of food. drink, or drugs,
and the bill regulating the manufact-
ure of compound lard.
Now that the Republican Senators,
after much wranging. have agreed tn
report substitute for the Mills tariff
bill they are having a regular monkey
and parrot time to get up bill that all
of them will vote for.
1rt,If faks f0d
ture has been working hard, trying to
get to the bottom of the whisky trust.
The further consideration of the
Outhwaite bill has been postponed for
the present by the Senate committee on
railroads, hut it ia understood that
majority of the committee favor the
biIi.
Chief Justice Fuller has been in the
city aevpral days. 1t was his intention
tn have gone back home the next day
after his arrival, hut as he came spa-
cialiy to ace Mr.. Cleveland. he c0ncud-
ed to remain until the President re-
turned. He has been the recipient of |
many social attentions,
The ratification bill has been re-
ported to the House. It provides for |
u Board of defense, composed of three |
civilians and three army officers, and |
appropriates $15, 10000 to he spent in
the next six years for heavy ordnance.
The bin for the enlargement Of the
Yellowstone Park has been favOrably
to the House. It adds about
sixteen hundred square miles of terri
tory, and gives the Secretary of the In
terror authority TO grant a right of way
to railroad from Cinnabar to Cook
City,
Chairman Barnum was 10 town for a
few hours last week. He held consul
tati0na with several gentlemen.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate to pension every man who
served three months in the United
States army in the late war.
Senator ingalls, is the vainest man
ever met" said a Washington bust
ness man. 81 went to his house on bus
mess. and for more than one h0nr he
stood posing before a large mirror,
While he talked to me, not seeming in
he least to mind my being present"
Editor nEN0ep