Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-26
WASHINGTON LETTER
Written aud Compiled for the HtRALO.
WASer,GqOV Ocs. %, 1873.

Written aud Compiled for the FtRAIn
WASeEGTOV Oc,. %, 1893.
Senator ingalls, has never per
formed an official act that gave hi
colleagues more genuine satisfac
tiOn than when he declared the Sen
ate adjourned sine die. And it il
only the truth to say that the al
jOurnment was received with greal
satisfaction by every one 1t nigh
have taken place six weeks age
without detriment to any one, al
no business of any Importance ha'
been or could have been by any
possibility passed by both Houses
The adjournment was brought about
by necessity F.; only handful o.
congressman being in attendance
when the adjournment took place
less than q dozen in the Senate and
not 90 IN the House. The session
may fairly be said to have died
from exhaustion. 1t was the quiet
est adjournment ever seen in this
city, about the only incident worth
mentioning being the singing OF
the Doxology by group of very
very tired newspaper cOrrespon
dents in the press gallery of the
House, Immediately after Speaker
Carlisle declared the House adj
journed sine die. If anybody has
q right to return thanks for this
adjournment it is the occupants
OF the press galleries in the House
and Senate, who haye just cOmplet'
ed nearly eleven months of cousecu
tive service, writing daily on such
exciting and exhileratiDg subjects
as the tariff, the Chinese question
etc.
The Senate finance committee
will continue its investigation OF
trusts during the recess.
The first session of the fftieth
Congress was Just eighteen days
longer than the longest previous
session in the history of the Gov
eminent.
The delegation of sixty Sioux
Indian Chiefs have gone back to
their reservation without accom-.
plishing anything. All bnt IA OF
them positively rejected PROPOSE
ton submitted to them by Secre-
tary Villas, to sell their lands at 81.
per acre. They want Sl.25, and
want it all paid at once by the
Government.
General Alfred PleasantOn has,
by act of Congress, been placed on
the retired list OF the Army with
the rank of major. This is the
rank which General PleasantOn
held in the Regular Army at the
close of the war when he resigned.
Senator Mitchell has the honor
of having introduced the last bill
in the Senate previous to the ad-
journment. 1t was bill too, that
good many people think should
become a law. 10 proposes an
amendment to the Constitution
providing for the election ofUnited
States Senators by the direct vote
of the people.
Senator Ingalls, will go to Con.
necticut this week to take part In
the campaign.
The directors of the Garfield
Hospital IN this city have raised
quite rumpus by electing a Cana
dian physician to be house physi.
clan of that institution. II is prob
able tn at the courts will be called
upon to d eclde whether this action
is not a violation of the law pro
hibiting the importation of foreign
laborers under contract. Trinity
Church, Newt Cork, had to pay a
nne of 81, 900 fbt. Importing an AS
sistaut Re cior f984 England. The
two cases are siSiiN, but whether
the judges III. Aurts will rule
as the New YOFF5Eudgo did, re.
mains to be seen. ~.
The notorious Egeue Higgins
ex chief clerk of .,the Treasury
Department, has been here hob
nobing with the big Democrats.
This is a sure sign of crookeduess
somewhere. Higgins should be
carefully watched between now
aud election day. | understand
that Higgins will have charge of a
gang OF ballot box experts in New
York, on ele ction day, who will get
in all the Gro oked votes for Cleye-
land & Thurman that they possibly
car, provided. of course. that tho
wide awake Republicans of New
York city do not succeed in get
ting them put behind the hars0es-.
fore hsga
r
The latest effort to bolster up the
falling fortunes of the Democratic
party In New York city, is the an
nouncement that Mr.. Cleveland
will review the Democratic parade
which is to take place there next
Saturday. 1.-THE sight of CIeve
land can raise any enthusiasm
among the citizens of New York,
then they must differ very widely
from naonla in fhta cifv