The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-12-14
washIngton Letter.
tFrom our regular correspondent.l
WASu1NnrnN d @. Dec. 10. 1873

/ ltSJtDtu. L it iNSpbOiiCdlS are hti va
ions however, and feel that only the finest
management can secure the organization
of the Fifty-First Congress. if the major
ity be as is expected. only one. The ex-
ira session becomes an unavoidable ne
cessity to the Republican party, in order
that the organization of the House may be
completed and the contested elections set
tied as soon as possible.
The National Republican Committee has
adjourned, and will probably meet again
in January. The Committee is now per-
manent. and it is rather broadly limited
will govern the next administrators or
make a strong attempt to do so. This om-
nous threat, together with the growing
feeling that Mr.. Blaine will be in the next
Cabinet. makes certain Republican clans
sea sick. 1t is certain that Mr.. Matthew
Quay is not sleeping, and no one has seen
Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, close his optics.
The Ford investigating committee has
decided not to 90 to California, and will
proceed to Rhode Island where the inn0-
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overhauled. The committee will shortly
| present to the House a bill making it a
criminal offence for immigrants Of the pro-
| seTibed classes to enter the United States,
and providing for their return. The bill
| will demand that the immigrants intend
ing to come here shall give notice Of such
| desire to the nearest United States consular
agent, and if he deems the persons worthy,
immigrant certificates shall be issued. The
fifty cents tax on immigrants will be
greatly increased.
The River and Harbor Committee of the
House is already hard at work, and seems
determined to push a bill through Con-
gress as early as possible. 1t is believed
that the President would veto almost any
river and harbor bill this session. Thu
committee therefore desires to present the
bill to the House early in January, and
send it to the President early enough to
secure its passage over his veto before
March 4th. The sub committees bill is
said to embrace over SIP, 900, 900 in appro-
priations.
Not to be outdone as a Nimrod, Presi-
dent Cleveland followed President-elect
Harrison's example and went hunting on
Monday. Just above Brightwood, three
very plentiful, and armed with an English
gun and under the leadership of a know
ing White House sporting attachs he went
over the hills far away and brought back
fourteen squirrels. The atf1cde is wise
enough to say that the President killed
ten Of the animals. Still Mr.. Cleveland
says that he will not try shooting again.
Fishing is more comfortable for a fat man.
Hon. Daniel Dougherty brought his
charming presence and magnificent voice
to Washington and lectured Friday night.
The President did not, for some reason,
go Lear the orator who nominated him at
St. Louis, but every one else of note seem
ed to be present. Mr.. Dougherty said in
a private interview that he could we'll UNI
derstand why great orators do not care to
become members of the House. His
opinion is that The average man is not in
Congress long enough to make an impress
sion. There is too much rotation in of
fee" The days when the South sent
Clay and Calhoun and the North sent
Webster to Congress as long as they
would come, are over. The structure of
the halls of Congress is, in Mr.. Dougher-
tvs opinion, destructive of debate. The
great galleries are not suited to great de-
Lucrative bodies. The members should
be closer together, the members of the
House should take their feet off of their
desks, and there should be less difficulty
in securing the floor. The present arrange
ments, by which the floor is promised by
the Speaker weeks in advance, is fatal to
oratory.
The record of postal clerks who have
rilled letters exhibits a queer lot of alleg-
ed temptations as leading to such crimes.
Postal clerks who steal are mostly gamb-
lers and not a small class are tempted to
steal in order to win lewd wonen's smiles.
\ Georgetown postmaster stole money
from letters to pay his pew rent. One
railway postal clerk used the money to be
married. Another stole for the purpose
of spending a week at Cape May, and this
after lie had been fifteen years in the ser
vice and had a good record. But it re-
NAMED for a youth of twenty, named
Adams, appointed four months ago through
a civil service examination, as a petty clerk
in the Washington post office, to break the
record. This young mar was discovered
with the evidence of guilt in his pocket.
When asked why he became dishonest, he
said, II was so fond of waltzing, and l
wanted to become a better Walter" And
now he will have to learn the prison lock-
step. The local papers lay stress upon the
fact that he was well ''raised" and yet to
my simple mind there was a flaw in his
training. WESTON.
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