Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-01-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondence

WASHINGTON, yJan 18th. 1888.
The big speech of the session thu.
far was made by Senator Hale, o
Maine, on Wednesday. He tool
up the history of this Administra
ton on the Civil Service Reform is.
sue. While the Senator was dis.
passionate and canid, he presented
a most wonderful combination Of
facts that reflected anything but
credit upon the claims of this Ad-
ministration. will not undertake
q synopsis of his wonderful speech,
but advise the readef to get copy
of it.
Mr.. Mills, of Texas, the new
Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, said today that he
would have his tariff bill fully per-
fected and ready to report IT, the
House within two weeks. Scores
of members are preparing speeches
for the occasion, and the country
will have an abundance of literature
on the subject this session.
The Presidents message, that
was sent TO the House five weeks
ago, was not referred to its appropri-
ate committee until yesterday.
when it went to the Committee on
WAYS and Means by motion Of its
own Chairman. 1t is said that a
like incident never occurred before
in the history OF this Government.
The urgent" deficiency bill has
been favorably reported, and of
course will be speedily passed,
which will enable the Government
to pay up a portion of the indebted.
ness contracted beyond appropria-
tons by his reform and economical
administration. The boomerang is
on the home stretch now, and will
hit severely the sham pretenses of
economy so prominent in the
for ground OF the last Congress.
Democratic foresight don't reach
very far into the future. The great
object of the party seems to be to
serve a temporary purpose, and
patch up the neglect or evil effects
of their legislation when necessity
compels them to action. Thousands
of honest and needy claimants,
whose accounts have been fully ad-
Indicated, have thus been kept out of
their just dues for whole year to
bolster up the nefarious Demo-
cratic claim of economy.
In the Senate on Monday, Gov.
Brown OF Georgia read speech two
hours in length, advocating the re-
peal OF all internal revenue taxation.
1t took his Democratic friends
rather by surprise, for his position
seriously antag onizes that taken by |
the President in his message on the
tariff question, and which is gen.
orally sustained by his party. Sena-
tor Brown made strong points in
his argument, to show that the
whisky ring" were in league
with the Democratic party to keep
up the ternaltaxationo on distillation
Of liquors, and that they were
gathering immense wealth by this
in their favor, and
characterized the "ring" as the
most gigantic monopoly the country
ever encountered. This brought
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, to his
.eet, who said the Governor was
,pologizing for the Georgia moon
and stabbing the admins
ration. All this shows that from
In unexpected quarter comes loom
ng up an opposition to the Presi-
ient's programme, and some who
:laim.. powers akin to divination,
zee an entering wedge that will
'plit the "solid South" if the issue
s pressed too closely,
The bill to refund to the various
States and Territories the amount
collected by direct taxation in 1861,
to $2O,O0O,OOO, gave
Use to a good deal of discussion on
tuesday, and was finally laid aside
Without action Nearly all of this
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