The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-01-03
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE SENTINEL'S WEEKLY LET
TER FIsOM WASHINGTON,

New Year Reception at the White
House.-Harrison's Inauguration to
be Grand Afair.-The Next House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The re
ceplion at the White House New
Years Day begins the social season
which will be one of the gayest since
Mrs. Cleveland has presided 1t will
be her last-for four years at least
and l am told she is going to spare no
pains to make the winter brilliant
one from social standpoint. It will |
interest your lady readers to know she
has many new costumes made both in |
Paris and New York.
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The House sub committees in charge |
of the sundry civil bill, the naval and |
Indian appropriation bills were in ses-
sion last Thursday, working hard to
get the bills ready against the expira-
tion of the holiday recess.
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The cowboys are coming to the in
auguration In great style. Instead of
fifty men and band, as at first pro-
posed, they will leave Denver with 100
men. They are known as the Harri-
son and Morton Club of Marching
| Cowboys, and will be dressed in the
characteristic style of the plains, and
will come without their usual orna-
mental appendages of COWS and horses. /
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MIR. Talbot, clerk of the WAYS and
Means Committee, has been set to work
upon critical review of the Senate
tariff bill and the collection of data
bearing upon the portions of the bill
which are not in accord with the views
of the tariff reformeIs. This informa-
ton will be at the service of the DEM
ocrats OF the Senate in the future dis
cussion of the measure, and will be
useful to the tariff reform leaders in
the House in making up their state
ment of objections to concurrence in
the Senate substitute for the Mills bill,
which is expected to reach the House
before the first of February. The bill
and substitute will take the usual
course of reference to the Ways and
Means Committee, but how long will
be required by the committee to re-
view it cannot be told 1t is safe to
predict that a majority will recon-
mend non concurrence. The Senate
will insist upon its substitute and ask
for conference. A conference may
be ordered, but probably it will be too
late in the session to expect any agree
ment to be reached upon question
about which the parties differ SO wide
ly. The Republicans say they are
determined to complete their bill and
give the House chance to come to an
agreement with them, but they have
little, if any, hope that any plan of
reduction Of revenue will be adopted
by this Congress The work done
y upon the Senate bill will not, they
: think, be thrown away, because it will
= be the basis of what will be proposed
at the Lext session Of Congress.
1t seems to be almost certain that
: Blaine "wlll get there" The three
y reported as selected are Blaine for
Secretary of State, Mckinley for
Treasury Department, and Doodle
Wanamaker for Postmaster General.
!,
The biggest preparations are to be
n made to make Harrison's Inaugural
ton grand affair. Twelve thou
r sand soldiers will be in the procession,
the ball is to be big affair, and Tip.
pecanoe will figure conspicuously. in
pyrotechnic displays.
THE NEXT HOI-SE
:. The Washington Star, an Indepen-
dent newspaper, and decidedly the
best daily published at National Cap.
+ ital, says:
One hundred and sixty three repub-
:. licans and one hundred aud fifty nine
o democrats have been certified by off
cial count. In three districts both
parties still claim election. These are
/ in West Virginia, where two demo-
Gratis have been given their certificates
a and two certificates have been with
3 held, and in Tennessee, where there is
still dispute between Bates and
n Evans. If certificates in all three OF
e these districts are given to the repub-
r licans they will have majority OF
q seven.
+ They cannot have larger majority
a than this until some of the contests
are settled in the House, and they can.
v not be cut below one majority except
!. by death. 1t is whispered at the cap
4 itol that the certificates that will be
r filed with Mr. Clarke as the legal GER
# tifcates of election will be in favor o.
!. Bates, democrat, in Tennessee, anG
q one more democrat in West Virginia
e This would fix the republican major
a ity at three.
!. This, or even seven, is too close :
r mark for it to be safe for the Fifty
h first Congress to delay its meeting
a until December. Life and death ar,
,r uncertain things to count on unde
such circumstances. The probabili
ties in this direction are already be
ing reckoned ON by those who go ou
if the republicans came in. Th
~ death of Mr.. Laird, who is CRITICAL.
he i'll, would take one from the republi
Is Is can majority until an election coul'
IS IS be had Several other. republican
ut who are elected to the next House ar
e in uncertain health. Several who's
k. names are often mentioned, are re
ns garded as having very uncertai
m =. tenure of life. Every indication G
ill-health on the part Of a. member {