Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.

arrive here tomorrow afternoon,
suite at rooms at the Arlington
Hotel has been newly and
elegantly furnished for the enter
tainment of the President elect and
his family. Vice-Prcsident-elect
Morton will occupy apartments at
the same hotel. Many prominent
republicans including eX-Senators
Plat and Miller of New York,
are expected here during the
week to confer with General
Harrison before the Cabinet is
finally agreed upon. Rumors are
thicker than candidates for Public
Printer, but l shall not fill up your
columns with conjectures, when a
little patient waiting will get the
official facts.
Southern elections are to be
Investigated after all. The Senate
has now before it the resolution
introduced by Mr.. Hoar authoriz-
ing the Senate Committee on
privileges and elections to take
charge of the work. Mr.. Hoar's
resolution is a very broad one,
covering the Louisiana state cleo
ton, that Senator Chandler has
been hammering at SO long, as
well as the recent killing of J. NJ
| Clayton in Arkansas, subject
that Representative Grosvenor
tried to get the House committe
on elections to investigate, as we'll
as all the Southern States where
the election laws are so framed as
to deprive citizens of their votes.
The Democratic Senators are
making a very determined fight
against the adoption Of this reso-
luton. They have even resorted
to flibustering which is something
unusual for the dignifed Senate.
The Republican caucus has
decided that it shall pass.
Sam Randall, who Gov. Hill
calls the "grandest living Demo
crat," has given chairman Mills,
the mushroom leader Of the
Democracy, drubbing that he
will remember all his life. Randall
is postmaster in parliamentary
tactics, while Mills comparatively
is only an apprentice Randall is
chairman of the appropriations
committee, to which was referred
the CoWles bill repeating the
tobacco tax. Mills first idea was
to prevent Randall from reporting
that measure back to the House
in time to get vote upon it.;
Randall surprised him the other
day by getting the report in.
Then Randall began his fine work
by offering two resolutions making
changes in the Rules of the House.
The first providing that the House
shall for the remainder of the
session meet daily at 10 o'clock,
and the second making the Cowles
bill a special order and requiring
its consideration to a conclusion.
These resolution were both referred
to the House committee on rules,
which is composed of Speaker
Carlisle, Mr.. Mills, Mr.. Randall,
Mr.. Cannon and Mr.. Reed, and
the two republicans voting with
Randall, he carried his point and
reported both resolutions to the
House; as if that was not enough,
the next day the fight was renewed
on the floor of the House. Both
Randall and Mills were on their
feet asking for recognition, which
was secured by the latter. He
called up his resolution declaring
the Senate tariff bill to be uncon-
stitutional, and just there is where
Mr. Randall secured his sweetest
revenge for the House by vote
of I43 to So refused to consider
the resolution. Mr.. Randall then
reported his first resolution as to
early meeting Of the House, and
it was adopted. And when he
started to pass the Cowles bill
resolution, Mr.. Mills, the whilon
undisputed boss of the House, was
compelled in order to prevent its
immediate adoption to resort to
films terinC. and that Is now his