Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-12-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFron Our Regular Corrsspondenp
 Washington. Dec. 2I. I6S

Washington. Dec. 2l, 1888.
 Seuator Edmunds has never been se- cnsed by friend or foe of belonging to the clsss known e lingo" ststesmen, therefore tho following jeini resolution introduced by him has created rssl sensation; ''Resolved, that the Prss.. dent of the Uuitei States be requested to communicate this expression o, ibe views of Congress to the go7ernm slt- of the countries ot Europe"
 There is nothing very new ID ihis resolution, 1t IS simply reiterati1u ai the old and popular Monroe doctrine. P snd IS doubtless intended by is author as warning to France that Uncle Sam does not propose to allow the Panama canal to be Completed by the French government. and if the cable news can be relied upon the warning IS s timely one.
 Senator Allison, together with about five-sixths of the Republican Senators made 6 strong effort to prevent the Senate from tsking the ususl Christmas recess, but at this writing it looks ss if Christmas and the Democratic Senators combined would be too much for them. The House has already passed joint resolution providing for a recess from today rutil January 7th. and ths Demo cratic Senators gre unanimously in favor of it's adoption by the Senate. Oaucuses have been held by the Senat- ors of both parties on the subject and 1t is probable that 1t will be settled to- day by 8 com npromIse of some sort. The reoess is now looked on ss a certainty. The rssson behind Senator Allison and his Repu ilIoan colleagues ls Q sound cne. They consider themselves bound by sute-election promises to pass ihe Senate tsrlf bill, and they recognize the tsct that if Q long holIdsy recese is taken snd the Democrats continue tbelr present system of opposition, the pace sge of the bill will be jeopardized, oH- ing to the shortEess of the session and the importance of passing the regular appropriation b'lls.
 The democrats Of tbe house are truly 6 queer lot. Last week hey held snoth- CT ca1c is and decided Co psss a bill ad- hitting North and South Dakois, Mon tsns and New Mexico, and also till for the admission of Utah. The house com mittee on Territories were instructed to report these bills st once, and # VAS stated thst the first one would be re- ported on Wednesday of this week, but for some reason the chairman of that com mlttes stated on Wednesday that the bill would not be reported until the mid ale of Jsnsary.
 Once more MF. Cleveland hes, to use 6 homeiy phrase. put bis foot in 1t. He has Domineted Leon Bailey as Unit- ed State Aticrnty for the district of In diana. No more obnoxious man to the repu ublIcans .could have been seleoied. Bsiley IS the man who made himself oouspicuous ID trying Co prove that Gen, Harrison said that "a dollar s day was enough for any workiDgusu" snd that railroad strikers were shot by Gen. liar risop's orders. It would be expecting too much for Mir. Cleveland to indulge any hope of this mans confirmation by the senate. He will be rejected beyond the shsdowIof a doubt. Such men should never be allowed 10 hold any office un- der this government, no matter which party happens to be in power.
 When the Legislative, IExecutiye sc3 Judicial appropriation biil was before house last Tuesday, Mir. Cummir e, membe from one of the New York city | districts. and also s member 'of the stGff of the New York Sun, offered su amend | ment to strike out the clause to pay the | expenses of the civil service commission | Quite an interesting and somewhat spicy | rebate followed but when the vote wa taken only twenty-five members voted | for the amendment. It must n"t be un- derstood, however, that only twenty y-five | members of the house are opposed to | the civil servIce commission. I am sat- | i-fied that four-fifths of the members Of | congress believe this civll service com mission to be one of the biggest hum | bugs of the age, and they are ID a posi- | ton to have sscertsined the truth, bui | they have not yet decided upon whs. is the best method to get rid of it.
 Senator Stsaford. the California mil lionaIre, has retutped from Europe, and | again occupies his seat m the seDs,e with greatly improved health. Senator Beck has gone south Tn search of health MT. Randall is still quite feeble and un- able to i'll his place in the house.