Nevada County picayune., 1888-05-09
WASHINCTONTOPICS.
Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
From our Special Correspondcnt.l
WAsHINGToN, May, 4th, 1888,

His latest popular hit in this line was the nomination of MT. Melville Fuller the eminent Chicago lawyer, for Chief Justice of the United States. The appointment is universally con ceded to be an excellent one even the republicans join in praising Mir. Cleveland for the good judgement shown in making the selection. He will be promptly confirmed by the Senate. and it is prObal Y that the vote will be unanimous. Mir. Fuller has always b9en consistent demo- crat. He was a delegate to the dem- Ocratlc national conventions of 1864, lS76. and 1880. The President has been anxious to give him an office ev- CT since the beginning of his admins tration. and has offered him success ivelv the positions of Solicitor Gen eral. now filled by MT. Jenks; the Civil Service Commissionership, which MT Oberly accepted the Pa cilic Railroad Commissionship to which MT. Littler was afterward ap pointed, and the Interstate Com merce Commissionership, which Hon. W. k. Morrison afterward received. i He has declined all of them, but the last and greatest he has accepted.
 Had a foreigner stepped into the Senate Chamber on Tuesday last he would doubtless have been of the opinion that the civil war was in full l blast. The occasion was the deliv- cry of speech by Senator lngalls of Kansas. in reply to one by Senator 1 Norhees of Indiana made last week. Mir. Ingalls, reiterated his attack of some weeks ago on Gems. Hancock and Mcclellan, abused the South in a much more reckless manner than he did when the war was actually going on and finally made vicious per ] sOnal attack on Senator NOrhees, ma 1 king all sorts of unfOunded charges l against the gentleman's conduct dur 1 ing the war. The unfortunate part of l the affair was that MT. Norhees be- came so maddencd by these attacks that he allowed himself to be goaded l into using language unsuitable to the i Chamber of the United States Sen ate The provocation was great but all good democrats would have pre- i ferred that MT. Norhecs had remain eel impertuhable Mir. Ingalls, and the republican party can afford to go into the present important Presl- dential campaign with these old arguments of a quarter of d century ago. the democrats need not object. As for the latter, they propose mall ing the fight on this issues of to-day, revenue reform and an economical administration of the Government. The war is over and new genera tion of voters have been born anG have grown Up. IL i, to these that the democratic party appeals for support.
 The Senate Committee on foreign relations has made favorable report on the Chinese treaty recently nego- tiated by MT, Cleveland. It will probably he ratified by the Senate in a short time. Another triumph for the democratic administration
 Speaker Carlisle will, it is under stood. make the closing speech on the democratic side in the general debate on the Mills tariff bill, which has some ten days to run yet.
 The President has been compelled in the interest of the public, to put his veto upon quite a number of small bills of late.
 It is thought that the Blair Edu- cational bill is dead, so far as the present session of Congress is con cerned.
 The Senate Committee on Inter state Commerce have decided to re- port an entirely new bill to take place of the present interstate com mcrcc law.
 A bill has been introduced in the Senate to increase the pensions of soldiers and sailors who contracted heart disease in the servics, and one in the house, giving pensions to all soldiers or sailors who served 90 days and over, al the rate of one cent per month for each day of act ual service. ShouI q this last bill be- come a law, it is estimated that it would require 900 extra clerks for one year to make up the rolls etc.
 The House committee on Territo- rics are trying to get the committee on Rules to report resolution provi- ding for an evening session of the House on Monday. to consider the bill organizing the Territory of Os- knlnnsA. The nassagc of this bill is