The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-09-27
The Situation at the National CAPITAL.
Correspondence of the Journal

Correspondence OF the journal.
WAsIIINGroN, d. c., Sept. a. 1885, Congress is
dragging its slow length along working quite in
dustrously but doing nothing of which it has rca-
son 10 he proud When adjournment will come
no one knows, but that the middle of October will
see it here in session is quite certain. The House
has no quorum present, yet an immense number
Of bills, many of them for the payment of private
claims which are just and not controverted, might
be passed We're it not true tina there is most al
ways some crank who will call quorum on every
question which he does not un derstand, and that
means almost every thing which is before Congress
Still, notwithstanding sometimes meritorious bill
gets through. The most absurd and outrageous
moyemen, in the House has been the savage attack
upon the appropriation for building the public
Congressional library. 1t was planned by Smith
meyer, a very competent architect. 1t was to oc-
cupy square east OF the southern end of the
Capitol and he the finest library building on the
globe such the country needs and will need in
the future Now that one million dollars have been
expended, the House, under the lead of gentlemen
who live in close districts and whose only stock in
trade for election is to cry economy, votes to
discontinue the work OF the library bu ilding and
let the work already done go to ruin. All this is to
get votes in the districts Of gentlemen who oppose
the appropriation. 1t is as indecent and unpat-
riotic a piece of dcmogogic work as the House
has done 1t is unfortunate tina t certain sec
lions of the country send to Congress men who
live in nothing better than Maine pig pen, as
they think the government should fare no better
than themselves. As an instance of the result Of
this feeling the Washington Post Office is a rem
lezN Gus Of rats and vermn and inferior to any
brick building in Belfast even in its poo rest quar-
tiers.
Tie Maine Congros smon are all back In their
seats They have been the subjects of much con
graduation l,y their colleagues ard even by Demo
cratic inomhcl- Especially has Congressman Mil
| liken received walm congratulations from mem
b,rs Of both sides Of tie House upon being elected
10y G531 plurality. the largest given for any Con
.crc-e 10y any CorgiCssiona district IN Maine
since the organization Of the state.
There & an almost universal opinion that Cleve
l.uA's ,iays will lie numbered ON the 4th OF March
Vt. All the reports from the doubtful states
som conclusive that the grandson Of the Old hero
of 1870 Will occupy the White House during the
ensuing four years.
IN this calculation ito not fail to take into ac
count The fact that get the electoral vote of New
| York we mus. carry it by at least 10000 majority
ou any less mHj"Iity shall he counted out by
| m'li,"ds which have become a paramount part OF
| Democratic machinery. The misfortune of MI
| Elaine four years ago was not that he did not
carry New York State. lie did carry 1t by dccis
| i've majority, but not enough to defy the Demo
| cratic counters Had he received 10000 majority
it is believed The State would have been returned
| for him. but his majority, though ii was many
| hundreds, was not enough to survive Democratic
manipulation. This is not now disputed even by
| respectable New York Democrats who know the
/ il.nnr MMrhin..s Of the machjuc