Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1888-11-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Resular Correspondent

ldCc, SCl pioueiy chu'Sh W."
shorn, and who is prominent on
account of pair of restless blue
ewes, around which the crows feet
are busy marking off the years,
pulls his head far down in his
overcoat, and watches the great
Morton flats hear completion. The
face of the old gentleman has
much of content nnd.something OF
lurking triumph in. its lines, and
you are not surprised at it when
YOU recognize Levi p. Morton.
Mr.. Morton was only in town a
couple of days this week. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Morton, and
they were the guest Of Mrs. Hol-
son. Mr.. Morton says that he has
not determined where he will re-
side while. and only knows that he
will not reside in his new apart
ment building. He has not felt
tie necessity of an eai !, decision,
as he will not be in Washington
for any length of time until the
opening of the Fifty-frst Congress.
He will be here only four days at
Inauguration. After giving this
much information, Mr.. Morton
shook hands with Senator Cameron
and started down Fifteenth street
with surprising briskncss.
The fathef-in-Iaw of General
Harrison, Rev. Mr.. Scott, says
that the President-elect does not
expect to visit Washington before
next March. The General had,
up to last week, arrived at no con-
clusion about the matter, but had
given a conditional promise to
come here in December.
Mr.. Burrows will be prominent
candidate for the Speakership of
the House in the Fifty-first Con-
gress. His campaign has already
commenced, and he is, so far as
known, the only candidate in the
field. This is extremely unfortun-
ate for Mr.. Burrows. A long
campaign is in itself apt to be
disastrous, but when one has to
fight for months against men of
straw, he is almost sure to find
himself vanquished in the end by
a real enemy.
The announcement that the official
count of Virginia will be contested
by the Republicans, creates
very much surprise here, where
, the conferences between Senator
Quay, General Dudley and Cen
eraI Malone, have been watched
with interest for the last ten days.
A great many very 6le distinc-
tions in law are involved, and on
some points the courts will be
called upon to decide, where nc
,, precedent exist. Ii the Republi-
cans succeeded iu capturing the
electoral vote of Virginia, the in
fuence of New Workers with the
administration would be diminish
ed, as the election of Harrison
would be effected without the as
! sistance of the Empire State in the
| electoral college.
The Inaugural Committee is
busily arranging the details for
, March 4, and Chairman Britton
seems plunged to his whiskers in
business. Secretary Dickinson
has consented to delay the removal
g of the city post Office to the
!, Pension Office hall, ED Secretary
Villas has offered the committee
all possible assistance from the
interior Department. The grand
court in which the ball will be
S held is 3l6 feet long and 116 feet
d wide. At the Clevelands inaugura.
, ton 5000 people attended, and
the crush was only at times un.
comfortable. 1t is proposed by 8
4 majority of the committee to place
e the tickets at s. each, though g
: powerful majority fevor $40 as the
price. The lower price seems the
more appropriate, as the inaugural
t ball has long since ceased to be g
n ball in any usually accepted sense
f of the word. but is merely grand
e public reception, where people
. can congratulate the President tc
their hearts content, hear good
music, and get their clothes pulled
e off in we'll dressed mob. The
r attempt to make such an affair
exclusively would be futile.
. The Black kburn. Rucker contro
:. versy goes merrily on, and the
talk of the code is heard wherever
: Kentucky men congregate
t That Senator Blackburn called
' General Rucker liar is undoubt.
! ed, and believe that Joe Black.
burn is not man to eat his words
Rucker is not known in Washing.
ton, put, [ understand, his rep.
t utation for fighting is very high in
the wild and untamed west. Still
if there must be duel it strikes
me that Rucker should insist upon
1t at once, and come east. I don't
think that the position of Black
burns friends, that Rucker is
: beneath Blackburn's notice is