Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)

! WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 1883.
Senator Plumb's resolution inquir-
ing the reason for the inefficient
mail service that the present admin
istration is giving the people, is
making the Democrats squirm. In
the meantime complaints against the
mail service, from all sections of the
country, but particularly from the
south and west, are flooding the con-
gressional mail. These complaints
are nearly all from business men and
are by no means confined to men,
bers Of any one political party.
On Thursday Senator Kenna de-
livered speech which he Was pleas
ed to call reply to the recent re-
marks of Senator Sherman on the
Presidents message. It was re-
marked that Mr.. kenna had dis
played poor judgment in selecting
for his opponent so able man as
John Sherman. Still if Mr.. Kenna
can stand it the Republicans should
make no objection.
The House Committee on Post
Offices has agreed to report favora-
bly, a bill that is likely to provoke
the deadly hostility Of the publish
ers OF cheap paper covered novels,
etc. The DILL provides for the ex-
plusion from second class [newspa
eer and periodically rates of postage
all publications in the character Of
books, complete or in parts, bound
Or unbound, Or in series, whether
sold by subscription or otherwise.
Senator Cockrell has introduced
Constitutional amendment, which
provides for the election of the Pres
ident and Vice President by Il direct
vote of the people, and declares that
the President shall be Ineligible for
a second term.
Louisiana's six Democratic Con
gressmen are in a quandary. They
have been asked by the Democratic
majority of the Ways and Means
Committee ii they will support a
tariff bill with twenty per cent re-
duction in the sugar tax They do
not like the idea of that tax being
reduced at all, but they are afraid to
kick outright for fear the entire tax
will be taken off: They notified the
| committee that they hoped some ar
rangement might be made by which
the tax would remain as it is Still
| it is unde, stood tina, they will sup
port the twenty per cent reduction, If
it becoInes absolutely necessary.
The Democratic majority Of the
| Ways and Means Committee Of the
| Honse are working jnst as hard to
get tariff bill perfected according
to their narrow idea as though there
was possibility Of such bill be-
coming law. A large New York
manufacturer said to me to-day: ss1n
my opinion, the proper thing for
that committee to do would be to
report to the House that owing to
diversity Of opinion among members
it is injudicios to attempt to frame
a tariff bill which we know before
hand, cannot become q law, annd the
discussion of which will only re-
suit in injury to the business inter-
ests of the country, which should al
ways be paramount in the minds Of
Legislators"
The fight to do away with secret
executive sessions Of the. Senate goes
bravely on, and in the near future
the victory will be won by the peo-
pie. The death Of John A. Logan
was q severe loss to the open sessions
cause, but other and unexDected
champions have come to the front.
a son Of ex-senator Conkling,- OF
New York, has been appointed a
page in the House Of Representa-
! tives.
Already preparations are being
made aud the doubtful districts
MAPPED out for the congressional cleo
tion this fall. A member of,he ma
tsonal Republican Congressional
Committee said to day, ave want
and must have a ma jority in the
House. We might have had the
present House but it was allowed to
remain with the Democrats simply
because majority of he leaders Of
the party thought that it was good
politics to have it thus. But now
We are unanimous in our determina-
ton 10 get full control of the Gov
ernment at one time He contin-
ned, ave have the Senate and we
| will elect the President and a ma
jority of the Honse next November,
| and then the country can confident
| iy look forward to a long season of
| unprecedented prosperity"
- HOWELL.