Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-05-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondence of the STANDARD.

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Regular Correspondence of the Standard.
WASHINGTON, May 4, 1883.
President Cleveland has the happy
faculty OF making good appointments
His latest popular hit in this line was
the nomination of Mr.. Melville Fuller
the eminent Chicago lawyer, for ChieI
Justice of the United States. The
appointment is universally conceded
to be an excellent one. Even the Re.
publicans join in praising Mr.. -Cleve-
land for the good judgement shown in
making the selection. He will be
promptly confirmed by the Senate
and it is probable that the vote will
be unanimous. Mr.. Fuller has al.
ways been consistent Democrat
He was Delegate to the Democratic
National Conventions of 1864, 1872
1876 and 1880 The President has
been anxious to give him an office
ever since the beginning of his ad.
ministration, and has offered him
successively the positions of Solicitor
General, now filed by Mr.. jerks; the
Civil Service Commissionership, to
which Mr.. Littler was afterward ap-
pointed, and the Interstate Com
merce Commissionership, which Hon.
w. r. Morrison afterward received.
He declined all of them, but the last
and greatest he has accepted.
Had a foreigner stepped into the
Senate Chamber on Tuesday last he
would doubtless have been of the
opinion that the civil war WAS in full
blast. The occasion was the delivery
of a speech by Senator ingalls, OF
Kansas, in reply TO one by Senator
Voorhees, of Indiana, made last week.
Mr.. Ingalls, reiterated his attack of
some weeks ago on Gems. Hancock
and McClelland, pitched into the
South in a much more reckless man.
ner than he did when the war was
actually going on; and finally made
vicious personal attack on Senator
VOORHEES,, making all sorts OF un-
founded charges against the gentle
mans conduct during the war. The
unfortunate part of the affair was
that Mr.. Voorhees, became go mad
dened by these attacks that he allowed
himself to be goaded into using
languages unsuitable to the Chamber
OF the United States Senate. The
provocation was great, but all good
Democrats would have preferred that
Mr.. Voorhees, had remained imper-
turbable. If Mr.. ingalls, and the Re-
publican party can afford to 60 into
the present important Presidential
with these old and explod-
ed arguments Of quarter of ceE-
tury ago, the Democrats need not Oh
Ject. As for the latter, they propose
making the fight ON the issues of to-
day, revenue reform and an econom-
ical administration of the Government.
The war is over and a new generation
OF voters have been born and grown
up. 1t is to these that the Democratic
party appeals for support.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations has made favorable report in
the Chinese treaty recently negotiated
by Mr.. Cleveland. 1t will probably be
ratified by the Senate in short time.
Another triumph for the Democ ratio
Administration.
Speaker Carlisle will, it is under
stood, make the closing speech on
the Democratic side in the general de-
bate on the Mills tariff bill, which has
some ten days to run yet.
The President has been compelled,
in the interest of the public, to put
his veto upon quite q number of
small bills of late.
1t is thought that the Blair Edu-
cational bill is dead, so far as the pres
ent session of Congress is concerned.
The Senate Committee on Inter
State Commerce have decided to re-
port an entirely new bill, to take the
place of the present Interstate Com
merce law.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate to increase the pensions Of
soldiers and sailors who contracted
heart disease in the service, and one
in the House, giving a pension to all
soldiers or sailors who served 80 DAYS
and over, at the rate of one cent per
month for every day of actual services.
Should this last bill become a law, it
is estimated that it would require l.
500 extra clerks for one year to make
up the rolls, etc., which would be abb
solutely necessary.
The House Committee on Terri
tories are trying to get the Committed e
on Rules to report resolution pro-
viding for an evening session of the
House on Monday, to consider the bill
organizing the Territory OF Oskaloosa.
The passage of that hill is considered
somewhat doubtful at this time.
A Democratic caucus of members
of the House will probably be held
next week, to decide upon a line of
policy to govern the acceptance of
amendments to the tariff bill.
Evidently the Republicans of the
Senate would like to see the House
in another deadlock. The direct tax
bill, which was the cause of the recent
trouble, has been hitched on as an
amendment to the Sundry Civil Ap-
preparation bill. which will probably
pass the Senate. Dem.
Montesano will have o thrse-story
hotel, costing $3.50.