The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-05-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

eaowtled galleries, and much interest
was manifested In the beginning of
the battle which the Congressional
war horses had so long been smiling
from afur.
The first speech which presented
the revenue reform side of the ques-
ton, was made by Mr.. Mills, Of Texas,
Chairman Of the Ways and Mems
Committee. The reply came from
Judge Kelly, the Acknowledged leader
and exponent of protection. The dis
cusslon promises to be long continued
and exhaustive. 1t will not be strange
IL 1t wears upon the public patience
to some extent before vote Is reached.
The President Is at his old game of
voting private pension bills. Three
such measures have fallen victim TO
his fearless pen during the present
week.
Senator Stewart, of Nevador, has
introduced bill granting pension of
/ 5000 year to the widow of the late
Chief Justice Waite. He stated that
the responsibility for the proposition
was solely In himself, he believing the
widows of Chief Justices should be
provided for In the same manner as
/ the widows of ex-Presidents.
1t is believed In Democratic circles
here, at this moment, that Mr.. Phelps,
of Vervont, the present Minister TO
/ England, has been selected for the
vacant Chief Justiccship The talk Is
that had the vacancy been that of an
Associate Justiceship, the President
would doubtless have chosen Senator
Gray, OF Delaware, but ms the vacancy
Is that of Chief Justice, the latter gen.
tleman is deemed too young TO preside
over the experienced old men on the
Supreme Court Bench, and that con-
sequently Mr.. Phelps, who Is sixty
six years of age, Is the coming man.
Rev. Green Clay Smith, of Kentuky,
who has recently accepted call &c
the Mt. Sterling Baptist Church, Is
mentioned here as the probable Presi.
Dental candidate of the Prohibition
party.
While speaking of this subject l will
quote from recent editorial of q
Washington paper. High license
and local option may put temporary
check ON the progress of the prohibi
ton movement, but will not discour
age the honest aud irrepressibIe zeal
ots who are pledged to make RELENTLESS
war ON alcohol. This check will Civ,
the Republican party a respite, bu
cannot annul the decree that dooms i
to disentegration through the instru
mentality of prohibition fanaticism.
"AnS kind of license, high or low
is simply abhorrent to persons who re
gard liquor selling as an infamous
crime, and the number Of such person
is increasing rapidly. They would a
soon have laws enacted for the sale o
: licenses TO steal as to have liquor II
/ censes provided for by legal enact
a ments. 1t is easy enough to call sucl
zealots ugly names, TO sneer at then
and deride their work, but sneers an,
derision do not diminish their numbe
5 or their energy. They mean busines
: and their cause has very significan
, staying powers. The liquor traffi,
in its various phases, is the one topi
that keeps near the front all the time
"It happens, unfortunately for tn
j; Republican party, that nearly all tn
| uncompromising Prohibitionists hav
, been members of that organization
1t has been the mission of the Repul
lican party to give birth to and I
nurse fanaticism. A few years henc
the Prohibition party will have al
sorbed its progenitor. 1t is only
s question of time.n
: The Senate Committee on Foreig
t Relations have decided by a part
/. vote that the Fisheries Treaty ougl
not to be ratified.
The American Alliance will hold
y National Conference in this city {
= the 23rd Of May, to which at least oi
/ delegate will be sent from every Co
! gressional District in the countl
;. where the organization has establih,
councils. The object of the conferen
. is to consider what policy is most e
IL pedient to pursue with reference to Il
e. approaching Presidential campaig
10 1t is not probable that the Allian
+. will place ticket i'm the field, but
action may have some effect i'm sha
u ing the platforms of the two gre
y party conventions to be held in Jun
N The Alliance believes in the restri
= ton of immigration to the extent
excluding its undesirable elemen
and in requiring of foreign born ci
y zens residence in this country
to twenty-one years as precedent to t
Of exercise of the electrive franchise, b
,e prescribes no religious test and max
:. war upon 10 church.
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Pacific States during the past we
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dis plugger. A. s. Hallidie, San Fra
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