New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-03-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington. d. c., March lst. 1889.
General Harrison arrived here We'd
nesday afternoon. A suite of rooms at
the Arlington hotel has been newly and
elegantly furnished for the entertain-
ment of the President-elect and his FAM
lily. V1ce-P President elect Morton will
occupy apartments at the same hotel.
Many prominent Republicans includ-
ing ex-senators Platt and Miller of
New York, are expected here during
The week to confer with Gen Harrison
before the Cabinet is finally agreed up
on. Rumors are thicker than candi-
dates for Public Printer, but | shall
not fill up your columns with conject-
ures when little patient waiting will
get the official fact.
Southern elections are to be investi-
gated after ALL The Senate has now
before it the resolution introduced by
Mr.. Hoar authorizing the Senate Com
mittee ON priyiieges and elections to
take charge of the work. Mr.. Hoar's
resolution is a very broad ore, covering
the Louisiana state election, that Sena-
tor Chandler has been hammering at so
long, as we'll as the recent killing of j.
Nj. Clayton in Arkansas, a subject that
Representative Grosyenor tried to get
the House committee on elections to in
vestigate, as well 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 resolution. They
have even resorted to tilibustering
which is something unusual for the dig
nitied Senate. The Republican caucus
has decided that it shall pass.
The President signed the bill admit
ting as States the Dakotas, Montana
and Washington on Washington's birth.
day. To hear the Democrats in Con-
gress growing over this matter one who
is ignorant of the long and bitter Demo-
cratic opposition to their admittance
would think it was a distinctly Demo-
cratic measure However, there is
nothing strange in this, the Democratic
party has for years been kept alive by
stealing Republican thunder.
The Monroe doctrine resolutions are
to be smothered in the House commit
tee on foreign affairs.
Sam Randall, who Gov Hill calls the
''grandest living Democrat, has given,
chairman Mills, the mushroom leader
of the Democracy, u drubbing that he
will remember all his life. Randall is
a master in parliamentary tactics,
while Mills comparatively is only an ap-
prentice. 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 he session meet
| daily at 10 o'clock. and the second
making the Cowles bill u special or
der and requiring its consideration to
conclusion. These resolutions were
| both referred to the House committee
on rules, which is composed of Speaker
Carlisle, Mr.. Mills, Mr.. Randall, MIR.
Cannon and Mr.. Reed, and the two re-
publicans voted with Randall, he car
ried his point and reported both resolu-
tions to the House, as if that was not
enough, the next 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 de-
claring the Senate tariff bill to be un-
constitutional, and just there is where
Mr.. Randall secured his sweetest re-
venge, for the House by a vote of 143
to 8S refused to consider the resolution.
Mr.. Randall then reported his first re-
solution as to early meeting of the
House. and it was adopted. And when
he started to pass the Cowles bill reso-
luton, Mr.. Mills, the whilom undis-
puted boss of the House, was compelled
in order to prevent its Immediate adop
ton, to resort to filibustering and that
is now his only hope of defeating the
Cowles bill. He says it shall not pass;
that he will flibuster the remainder of
the session if necessary, to prevent it.
That is The present status of the case.
and no matter how ii ends it has re1e.