New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington. d. c., Oct. 29th, Is

Senator ingalls, has never performed
an official act that gave his colleagues
more genuine satisfaction that when he
declared the Senate adjourned sine die.
And it is only the truth to say that the
adjournment was received with great
satisfaction by every one; it might have
taken . six weeks ago without de
trimc any one, as no business of
any IL lance has been or could have
been b ny possibility passed by both
Houses The adjournment was brought
about by necessity; only handful Of
CONGRESSMAN being in attendance when
the adjournment tooK place less than
dozen in the Senate and not 20 in the
House. The session may fairly be said
to have died from exhaustion 1t was
the quietest adjournment ever seen in
this city. about the only incident worth
mentioning being the singing of the
DoNology BY a group of very, very tired
newspaper correspondents in the press
gallery of the House, Immediately after
Speaker Carlisle declared the House ad-
journed sine de. If anybody has a right
TO return thanks for this adjournment
it is the occupants of the press gallery
in the House and Senate, who have just
completed nearly eleven months of CON
secutiye service, writing daily on such
exciting and exhilorating subjects as the
tariff, the Chinese question, etc.
The Senate finance committee will
continue its investigation of trust dur
ing the recess.
The first session of the Fiftieth Con-
gress was just eighteen days longer than
the longest previous session in the his
tory of the Government.
The delegation of sixty Sioux Indian
Chiefs have gone back to their reserva-
ton without accomplishing anything.
All but IA of them positively rejected a
proposition submitted to them by Secre-
tary Villas, to sell their lands at ST.. per
acre They want $.15, and want it all
paid at once by the Government.
Gen. Alfred Pleasanton has, by act of
Congress, been placed on the retired
list of the Army with the rank OF major.
This is the rank which Gen. Pleasanton
held in the Regular Army at the close
of the war, when he resigned.
Senator Mitchell has the honor Of hav-
ing introduced the last bill in the Senate
previous to the adjournment. It-was a
bill too that a good many people think
should become a law. It proposes an
amendment to the Constitution provid-
ing for the election of United States
Senators by the directvote of the peo-
pie.
Senator ingalls, will 90 to Connecticut
this week to take part in the campaign.
The directors of the Garfield Hospital
in this city have raised quite rumpus
BY electing a Canadian physician to the
house physician of that institution. It
is probable that the courts will be called
upon to decide whether this action is
not, violation of the law prohibiting
the Importation of foreign laborers un-
der contract. Trinity Church. New
York, had TO pay fine of 81, 900 for i'm
porting an Assistant Rector from Eng
land. The two cases are similar, but
whether the judges i'll our courts will
rule as the New York judge did, re-
mains TO be seen.
The notorious Eugene Higgins, ex-
chief clerk of the Treasury Department,
has been hele hob-nobbing with the big
democrats. This is sure sign Of
crookedness somewhere. Higgins
should be carefully watched between
now and election day. / understand
that Higgins will have charge of gang
of ballot box experts in New York, on
election day, who will get in all the
crooked votes for Cleveland and Thur
man that they possibly can, provided,
OF course, thot the wide awake republi-
cans of New York city do not succeed
in getting them put behind the bars be-
fore hand.
The latest effort to bolster up the fall
ing fortunes of the democratic parts in
N. Y. city, is the announcement that
Mr.. Cleveland will review the democra-
tic parade which is to take place there
next Saturday. II the sight Of Cleveland
can raise any enthusiasm among the ci-.
tizens of n. y, then they must differ
very widely from peo pie in this city.
The republicans OF this city are work
ing hard in order to send every man
that votes in either of the doubtful
states to his home before election day.
Those who cannot afford to pay their
way have transportation furnished them
gratis.
1t is Il little queer to note the large