Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-07-19
WASHINGTON LETTER
WAsn1NaroN. July la. lss.


WASHINGTON. July IL. 'SS.
Senator Hale offered a resolution
yesterday. which was passed by the
Senate, directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to transmit forthwith the In
formation called for in the resolutions
of LIST and Sth of May last, relating TO
the employees of the New York and
Baltimore custom houses. There are
doubtless many things ia the admins
tration at both places. that Cleveland
would like TO hide until after the presi-
! Dental election. ~
Senator Plumb moved that the Sen
ate insist upon the subsidy amend
ment" to the post office appropriation
bill, and ask for further conference
AS to the Postmaster Generals state
ment that the existing postal service
to Central and South America was
satisfactory, Mr.. Plumb said he did
not believe word OF 1t. 1t might be
satisfactory to the post Office depart
ment, but 1t was not satisfactory to
the business public. Senator Beck
said that he had no idea that the
House would agree to the amendment
and he did not believe that it ought to
do so.
1t is now openly acknowledged by
quite number of we'll informed dem
ocrats here, that Connecticut is sure to
cast its electoral vote for Harrison,
Morton and Protection.
Chairman Barnum Of the democrat
ic national committee, who has been
here for several days, is said to have
come for the purpose of persuading
Cleveland to cut out all illusions to
the tariff in his letter of acceptance,
which has been written but not yet
made public. My informant says that
Barnum told Cleveland that If he
took the same stand on the tariff
in his letter of acceptance, that he
did in his message to Congress last De.
cember. the democrats would lose New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
possibly one or two states in the solid
South, but that If he would leave the
subject entirely alone, the democratic
managers would adopt a straddling
policy, which might pull him through.
This rumor makes the letter of accept
ance anxiously looked for. If Cleve-
land has taken Barnum's advice, il
will be the first time that he has been
known 20 do such n thing. and IL he
has not, he will have pleased the re-
publicans very much.
Representative Samuel J. Randall
has been dangerously i'll this week, He
was attacked with hemorrhage, and
for a time his life was despaired of.
He is now some what better, but will
not resume his duties in the House
again at this session.
Senator Hoar's speech against the
of the fisheries treaty was
a terrible arraigDment of the demo
cratic party. In concluding. he said
4 would nave tile box where the |
American freeman casts his ballot
sacred as sacraInental vessel. I do |
not like this conspiracy between the
old slave holder and the English man.
ufacturer, to strike down the wages
of the American workman, and the
comforts of the American workman's
home. do not like your refusal to
maintain the American Navy and to
fortlfy and d. nd the American coast.
And | like no better the present trea-
ty. Ii leaves the American sailor to
be bullied and insulted without redress,
and abandons the American right to
the fisheries which the valor Of our
won for us and the wis
dom OF our fathers preserved for us.