The Washington critic., 1888-07-23
WASHINGTON, JULY %, 1855
CONGRESS AND ITS RECORD.

the second by the consideration of
broad and patriotic measures. 1t has
already made good record for itself
In this respect, and there are still
other measures of similar character
that should be disposed of during the
present session.
1t has made liberal appropriations
Tor Expositions at Paris, Melbourne,
Brussels, and Barcelona.
1t has elevated American politics
by placing the issues of the coming
campaign on high plane and bring
ing great international questions to
the front.
1t has provided for commercial
and arbitration congress of all the
nations of the American Continent to
meet at Washington next year. The
bill has been signed by the President
and all that is left to be done is the
appointment of the ten commits
sioners.
The Senate has passed the bill for
a Constitutional Centennial Celebra-
tion by the sixteen American Repub-
lies at Washington in 1889, and the
same has been favorably reported by
the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs.
The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs has also unanimously report
ed in favor of Three Americas and
Worlds Exposition at the National
Capital in 1892, in honor of the four
hundredth anniversary Of the Dis
covery of America.
The bill providing for an Interna-
tional Marine Congress at Washing
ton, to secure greater safety at sea,
has already become law.
There has been appropriated
$147, ,750 to enable the departments
and bureaus at Washington to be
fully represented at the Centennial
Exposition at Cincinnati.
De Bausset's air ship project has
been favorably considered by House
committee.
The Senate has passed the bill pro-
viding for a charter for the Nicara-
qua Ship Canal and this important
measure now awaits and justly claims
adoption by the House.
Large and judicious appropriations
have been made for the improvement
of rivers and harbors.
A bill has been considered appro-
priating $250,000 for dammiRg the
canons of the Rocky Mountains-to
store their surplus waters and re-
deem the arid lands of that region.
The Senate has also appropriated
$5OO,00O for the enlargement of the
National Museum, and in various
other ways have both Houses indi-
. Gated broad -gauged and patriotic
sense of their obligation to do all that
can be done by wise legislation
toward promoting the commercial,
agricultural and industrial interests
of the country.
These and similar considerations,
in brief, are rapidly supplanting Sec
tional and partisan issues, and the
Republic is entering upon new, adj
yanced and illustrious era.
1t is now to be hoped that Congress
will find time during the remaining
weeks of the session to supplement
this admirable record by favorable
action upon the Centennial and Per
manent Exposition bills, for without
such action these grand projects viii
lose months of valuable time and bC
otherwise embarrassed. There is NJ
question as to the merit of the meas
tres, and it is of the utmost conse
ouence to their success that they
become laws before adjournment.
The AVERSION of Mayor Smith o
Cincinnati to cold water is likely tt
get him into hot water. Loud anC
ominous, at least, are the complaint
against him that he will not enforc
the Sunday closing ordinance AM
that his reasons for not doing so con
sist in partisan unwillingness t
ALLEVIATE the German vote. 'Twa
ever thus in Ohio and more particu
Iarly in Cincinnati
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THE ASTRONOMICAL REPORTER OF on
esteemed morning contemporary sa
mn with the moon last night and re
ported that at 1880 the penumbr
had evolved into state Of umbra
and the totality of the eclipse was s
total that the orb Of night was blot
tad from the heavens, where ii re