Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.


Washington, Oct. 18th.
Judge Thurman arrived on Satur-
dav with his son Allan, and went di-
rectly to the Ebbitt House, from
which he afterward went to Oak
View as the guest of the president.
He looks physically weak, leaning
heavily on cane and shifting the
weight as occasion demands upon his
sons arm. In common with Mr..
Cleveland and Mr. Harrison, the work
and worry of the campaign has aged
him ten years. On Thursday he will
appear before the United States Su
preme Court as counsel in the tele-
phone cases.
When the vestibule trains of Pull
mans was pushed into the Washing
ton station on Saturday and Judge
Thurman walked up the platform,
you could have counted the people
present to welcome him on your fin
gers. Washington is surfeited with
great men, and unless the service of
brass band is enlisted in the cause,
a crowd will not gather at the station
to look at any man. Washington and
New York are the two towns on this
continent where a man learns that all
flesh is grass. At every hamlet on
the way from Columbus to Washing
ton, Judge Thurman was the attrac-
ton for thousands. Arrived in
Washington, he is swallowed up in a
collection of famoue n.
That bowling wilderness known
as the House of Representative has
fallen upon evil days. The few men,
bers who have not gone out to do or
die in the campaign are busily en-
deavoring to have their own private
and particular measures passed.
Prayer is hardly over before these
statesmen are calling "Mr. Speaker J"
The circle grows smaller. Holman
and Blount have gone home. But
no sooner has the pet bill of the con-
gresham been started on its way
than it is stopped by the impossible
ty of procuring unanimous consent.
Mr.. Lyman, of the republicans, or
Mr.. Kilgore of the democrats, may
object. These men are the sort that
object to anything. Nobody feels
evilly disposed toward Mr.. KIlgore,
but there are men who would follow
his funeral train without regret. Mr..
Kilgore is ungrammatical, illogical
and ignorant, and all that, but he is
just as much in the way as though he
were a statesman.
Mr.. Allan, of Mississippi, stopped
legislative mills for two hours on
Friday by the call of "no quorum -
The senate bill Incorporating the Mic
aragua Canal Company was discussed
in the committee of he whole, and a
favorable report prevented in like
manner.
The retaliation bill has been prac-
tically sidetracked for the present.
Senators Evarts and Sherman have
left the city. Senator Morgan, the
other member of the subcommittee,
swears that Senator Sherman aims at
making ga big bluff" at annexation.
In the meantime, the Ohio senator is
very serene.
The action of the conferees on the
General Deficiency bill, while not yet
final, seems fairly on the way to
agreement The clause providing for
the payment of years salary to the
family or to the heirs of Chief JUS
tice Waite is to be stricken out, to-
gether with the provision to extend
the laws of the United States over to
No Mans Land. The latter action
is agreed to by the senate to save the
bill, as the tno-quorum" cry would
be raised in the House. The clause
as to the investigation of the Wash
ington acqueduct is omitted, as that
investigation has been otherwise ar
ranged. The deficiency bill will
merely contain an appropriation for
the expenses of investigation.
Mr.. McCalPs bill appointing sci
entific commission to consider the
cause of yellow fever and find a rem
edy has been favorably reported by
diseases, but will not be called up
during this session.
Senators and Army officers galore
went to Philadelphia on Saturday to
launch the Baltimore. Mrs. Wilson,
wife of the Chief of the Bureau of
Construction, to whom it was said
the dudes objected because she had
once. been governess, broke the
wine over the ships bows, after all.
Apropos the Baltimore, some one
recalls the fact that John Porter, who
designed and constructed the first
ironclad for this country, is to day
working as carpenter in the navy
yard at Norfolk. The gratitude of
republics is once more exhibited.
Ten days ago the postmaster-gen-
eral completed negotiations for fast
mail train from Chicago to New York.