The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-05-19

From our regular Correspondent.

Washington, May 7th, 1888.
Speaker Carlisle and the men,
bers of the House Committee on
rules, with the exception of Mr..
Randall, who is confined to his
room with an attack of rheuna-
tism, held a long consultation Sat.
urday on the order Of business be-
fore the House. They decided
that no day would be designated
for the consideration of any other
measure until the general debate
on the Mills tariff was concluded.
If no interruption shall occur it
will close on one week from tomor-
row, Tuesday the Is, inst. Then 1t
is thought some appropriation bills
will be taken up and passed, before
the debate on sections of the bill
begins.
The Democratic members of the
House are to hold caucus We'd
nesday evening for the purpose of
discussing and deciding what
amendments shall he accepted to
the Mills bill. An effort will be
made to get all of the Democrats
into this caucus, but is very doubt
full whether those members who
represent protection districts will
be willing to be bound by caucus
action in this matter.
Since his famous fight with
Senator ingalls, last week, Senator
Voorhees, has been confined to his
room with a malignant carbuncle
on his leg. He is now much better.
His disappearance from the Capital
gave rise to the rumor, at first,
that he had gone to Indiana.
The Indiana Democratic Associa-
tion of this city have adopted re-
solutions thanking Senator Voor-
hees for his fearless and patriotic
defense of Gems. Hancock and Nc.
Clellan and his mastery arraign-
ment and exposure of Senator In.
gals and rendering him public
reception as a tribute of admira-
tion. The same association gave a
reception on Thursday evening to
Representative Matson, who was
recently nominated by the Dem
Ocrats for Governor of Indiana.
The bill which has already pass
ed the House prohibiting the EN-.
ployment of alien labor on public
works has been favorably reported
by the Senate committee on educa
tion and labor.
The President and the Cabine
have been invited to attend the
centennial celebration of the estab
lishment of civil Government in the
Northwestern states, to be held al
Marietta, o., July 10Th. Senators
Everts of New York and Daniels
Virginia, are on the programme
for speeches.
Shortly after the Democratic
caucus broke the recent deadlock
in the House, it was suggested thai
testimonial be presented to Re
preventative Enloe, of Tennessee
who picked the lock by procuring
all the signatures that were neces.
sary to call the caucus. The re-
suit of that suggestion is unique
watch charm, consisting of gold
lock and key, which has been pre-
sented to him by Mr.. Cox, the
chairman of the caucus and which
he highly prizes.
There is a Republican scheme on
hand to bring about another dead
lock in the House. Senator Spoon
er has offered an amendment to
the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill, which is substantially the di-
rect tax bill which caused the late
deadlock in the House. Should
the Senate pass the amended ap.
preparation bill, it then goes back
to the House for concurrence in
the amendment. Should the House
concur, it will gain the point which
it lost to the filibusterers during
the deadlock but the chances are
that the filibusterers would again
begin their dilatory actions, thus
losing much more valuable time.