River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From cur regular correspondent
March 10th, 1888.

From cur regular correspondent
March 10th, 1888.
Senator Brown. of Georgia, refuses
o march to the Administrative music.
lie made a strong speech in the Senate
m "Wednesday in favor of his resolu-
ZION, offered early in January. declar-
ing iJ to be the imperative duty of
Congress to repe,.l the internal revenue
laws at the earliest day practicable.
Tie believes that day has now arrived
aud that these laws should be wiped
from the statute book at once. He
believes that the money needed for
the support of the government should
NJ r4lsed by tariff so adjusted as to
give American capital and labor all
possible Incidental protection, and so
that the heaviest burdens shall be put
upon luxuries.
He is opposed TO the government
running two tax systems, especially
when one of them is as obnoxious to
the people as the internal revenue
system is. The Senator's views are
directly opposed TO those of Mr.. Cleve-
land and the majority of those of the
democratic party. Mr.. Colquit, the
junior Senator from Georgia, had on
the Monday previous made speech
fully indOrsing the Presidents tariff
message, but Senator Brown is in the
habit of making two internal revenue
peeches for every tariff reform speech
delivered by his colleague.
The Senate has pro lnced still anoth-
T aspirant for Presidential honors
senator Hale, of Maine, is the latest
candidate for q boom according to the
sossips of the Capital
The scoring that Senator ingalls,
gave Senator Vest has completely
taken away the little fellows courage,
1t would seem. RunOr says that at
the end of his present term in the Sem
ate he will retire from public life. 1t
IS always more or less dangerous to
monkey with buZZ-SaW.
The Government Printing Office in.
vestigation is dragging slowly along.
The most noticeable feature this week
was Benedict's admission that his re
publican predecessor had always shown
! disposition to adopt new methods
and machinery in that office as fast as
hey were approved by the trade at
large.
Here's a chance for the poor lobby
Ist to make some money. A sub com
mittee of the House committee on
public lands are preparing a bill to
ieclare a forfeiture of all unearned
railroad land grants. OF course the
railroads will fight this bill and that
means good deal to the seedy lobby
ist.
The republican minority of the
Ways and Means Committee are leav-
ing no stone unturned in their efforts
TO get hearing for the industries af-
fected by the Mills tariff bill, but so
far they have been fought at every
turn by the democrats both i'm the
committee room ana on the floor of |
che House. However, their efforts
will place the responsibility for refus.
ing hearing where it belongs.
An International Council of women
will toe held in this city, beginning on
the 25th inst. and lasting eighc days.
to commemorate the fOrtieth anniver
sary of the Woman's Suffrage move
ment. Many distinguished women
from foreign countries will be in at
tendance. The conneil will be follow
ed on the 81 of April by the annual
convention of the National Woman s
Suffrage Association.
The Presidential outlook from
republican standpoint remains un-
changed. No one candidate is going
to the front very fast. although Sena-
tor sherman is said to he making rapid
strides in the South. The same thing
was said of Mr.. Sherman in 1880. how
ever, and he was not nominated. and
unless he shall develop some strength
elsewhere than in the South and i'm
Ohio it is thought he is not likely to
fare any better this year. One result
of his present prominence is that he is
bring made the target for democratic
attack in and out of Congress. all of
which is not to his discredit. John
sherman may never be President but
ne will live in history as one of the
greatest statesmen that the republi-
can party has produced.
senator Chandler. Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
has attacked the Interior Department
for allowing the chippewa Indians to
ne swindled out of the timber on their
excavations 10y white spectators.
He has written a letter on the sub
jet to Secretary Villas which is likely
20 waken up the Indian Bureau thor.
'ughly Little Bill Chandler. as
the senator is sometimes called. is
perfect terror when he gets started.
He has way of fortifying himself
with facts that is usually fatal to his
opponents.
Rock Elm.
While James Kelley, a young man
from Arkdnsaw, was working in the