Milford chronicle., 1889-12-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.


of the recipients of such favors. Ihe
Chief Executive has under consideration
fully one hundred and fifty presidential
postofices. .anditis believed that he means
TO dispose of the whole lot within the
next thirty days. One Of these appoint
ments caused a little discussion IN the
secret session of the Senate day or two
since, between Messrs. Edmonds and
Mcpherson, in which the New Jersey
Senator made an attack on the President
for removing a postmaster. But the Yer
mont statesman excused the President on
the ground of a repeal Of the Tenure OF
Office act, for which Mcpherson and
other Senators had voted.
The usually sedate and dignifed Sen
ate was almost shocked into a real sensa-
ton during one of the executive sessions
this week, when it was supposed that the
deliberations of that learned body were
veiled in the traditional secrecy that ex-
cludes the general public on such ocea-
sions. Cockerill shook his silvery locks
in surprise. Edmunds few remaining
hairs stood OH end Indignantly; ingalls,
assumed the warlike attitude which char
acterizes him while playing his oponents,
and Vance blew like porpoise, all be-
cause harmless Washington dude, sui
fering from softening of the brain, had
fallen asleep in the gallery and had been
overlooked by the watchman, whose
duty it is to escort the public from those
sacred precincts. Verify it was a temp
est in a teapot.
There is a move in contemplation to
get rid of the United States supreme
Court. do not mean, to abolish that
August tribunal, bxt to provide quarters
for the Court outside of the Capitol,
where all the space is needed for the
purposes of Congress. Then it IS pre-
posed to relieve the Court Of the great
pressure of business which now over.
xhelms il by enlargin4gy that -eF-b55
establishing an appellate Court as
sort of attachment, with jurisdiction
in cases involving sums between hve
thousand and twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
The week in Congress has not beer
fruitful of important matters, but has
been remarkable for the flood of bills
poured ON the defenceless head OF
Speaker Reed, the number being ovei
one thousand, only one of which passed,
an act to supply deficiency in the
appropriation for the Government Pnnt
ing Office. Many of these bills were a
heritage from the last House. A bakers
dozen were ofshoots of the Blair Educa
tional Bill, and nearly twice as many
concerned the free coinage of silver. As
a rule, less than one third of the bills
introduced in Congress ever pass, yet
many of them secure a brief new lease
on life at the beginning Of each new
Congress.
There has probably been feeling oi
iealously between the Senate and th'
House since the organization Of thos'
bodies. It crops out now and then
chiefly on the part of the House. Ih'
Senators have more political power anC
more personal privileges than Representa-
tives, then, too, the members OF TIT
Lower House resent the idea of being
without private secretaries at public ex
pense, while the Legislators at the nortl
end of the Capitol are indulging in sucl
luxuries. Last session bill to provide
REPRESENTATIVES with secretaries was de
feated, but it will again be brought for
ward at the present session, and tn,
probability of it's passage is mucl
greater than at any time heretofore.
agree with the members of the House
that as their work is more onerous thai
that of the Senators, and the pa,
the same, it is nothing more than fai
that they, too, should be provided witt
secretaries.
Some of the Republicans are attempt
ing, and with pretty fair success, to hl
the moral, if not the financial responsi
bility of the Silcott defalcation upon EN
| Speaker Carlysle, whom it is charged
permitted the faithless cashier to serv
several months without giving bond. /
is held that Silcott's bondsmeH are nc
now legally responsible for the ex-cash
4 iier's shortcomings. The committee t
| investigate this affair has virtually agree
to report a bill reimbursing the victims c
the swindle. But there is sure to be
sharp fight over the proposition. 1t az
pears to be a Republican scheme, an
the supposition is that the Democrat
will be up in arms against it.
The Senate Committee on Territorie
has about made up it's mind to recon
mend the admission of Idaho and WyoIr
ing as States. The Democrats will yer
likely oppose the measure, as the ne,
States would probably be Republican
The former have lively rememberanc
of Washington, the Dakotas and Mon
tana.
Senator Quay and Congressman Dalzel
are not dwelling togeather in brotherl,
unity any more. The latter gentleman
represents the smoky city of Pittsburg
and claims that for twenty-one years /
has been the custom for the Represen
tative of that district to control the az
pointment of the postmaster 70
Ethat city. But Senator Quay has Sc
cured the place for a friend of his VIII
does not happen to be a friend of Dal
zell's, and now, like the wicked Demo
Orats. the latter cruelty calls Quay pc
litical boss, and the two gentlemen n
longer "smile" as they pass.
General Sherman was caller at tn
White House the past week. do no
suppose the veteran asked for anything
as the only request he made Of the Ad