New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c.. Feb. II. /

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convenient habit of laying aside tenn
poralily their pet hobby, ''retrench.
ment and economy" whenever their
own comfort is in any manner at stake.
Two entirely new committees have been
made by the Democratic House, one on
Indian Depredations, and the other on
the Eleventh Census, Of which those
two shining lights of Democracy, Mr..
Whitthorse, of Tennessee, and Sunset
| Cox, OF New 7 York, are respectively the
chairmen. AS it was eminently neces-
sary-in the eyes of these gentlemen
to have separate rooms for these COM
| mlttees to meet in, they have persuaded
majority of the House Committee on
Accounts to recommend that two rooms
be rented for them, in the large stone
building opposite the Capitol known as
the Butler mansion, at q rental of 500
per month, and that the Clerk of the
House shall furnish the same. This is
a sheer waste of money. 1t is not at all
likely that either one of these commit
tees will be in actual session for ten
hours during the entire session. The
rooms will simply be elegantly furnished
private offices for the chairmen of the
committees and their friends. In order
to save that 500 month, one or two
postal employees will have to be dis
charged.
For making the best out of a bad sit
uatlon, the average democratic official
beats the world. Speaker Carlisle al
lowed the corridors Of the House to be
occupied by the private offices of sever
al New York stock brokers during the
entire session, until an entcrprising cor
respondent showed the thing up, then
he at first denied their existence, then
made them get out, and now he and
particularly his friends for him, want
to claim credit for bringing about a
great reform by abolishing these places,
shat never existed before he was Speak
er. How's that for Democratic cheek
A leather medal should be at once
awarded Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri,
democrat of course) for the able man
ner in which he stood up in the House
for the inefficient mail service the ad-
ministration is giving the country just
now. Postmater General Dickinson
should see to it that he has postoffice
named after him at once.
The Cleveland and anti Cleveland
democrats will probably have their first
real fight right here in Washington. AL
though the citizens of the District of
Columbia are not allowed to vote for
President or Vice-president after they
are nominated, both of the great politi-
cal parties. allow them two delegates
in the national nominating conventions.
1t is over the election of these two dele
gates that the fight is going to take
place. In fact it has already begun.
Of course Cleveland expects the friends
of his local Federal appointees to see
that Cleveland men are selected but it
will not be by any means an easy task, as
Cleveland is probably more thoroughly
disliked by democrats in this District
than anywhere else in the country.
The we're-here-to-stay expression
which was worn by democratic officials
in the early days Of the administration,
has been superseded by q frightened
can-we-carry-New York look. They
are losing confidence every day, while
republicans are gaining it. This is the
direct result of the unbusiness like poll.
cy of the administration, which has
made the democratic party thousands
of enemies whose votes will for the first
time be cast for the republican party
this fall.
1t is daily becoming palmer that as
long as the House is controlled by the
Solid South, no new states, no mat
ter how large they may be, are to be
admitted to the Union for fear they may
be republican. These same Southern
democrats tried for years to break up
the Union and ANONYMOUSLY failed,
but the thoughts of the vast power they
WELD under the present administration,
serves as mitigation to great extent,
of that failure. They are now accom-
plishing, by means of suppressed votes,
what they lost by fighting.
It's now confirmed beyond doubt
that w. B. Tascolt. son of Col. J.. B..
Tascott, wealthy Chicago manufacture
er, is the muderer of Millionaire Smell,
and a is thOuUht to he in California