Milford chronicle., 1889-12-20
WASHINGTONL BTrER.

WAsHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 10, 1850
Corgtess ITSELF at least a good deal Of
it, has been thinking of Christmas cash,
or the woeful lack it, during the past
week The solons have not yet evolved
a satisfactory solution to the Silcott theft
and defalcation, that is, whether the loss
shall fall upon the Treasury or the mem
bers of the House individually. OF
course it would be very comforting, if
not entirely patriotic and unselfsh to
shift the financial responsibility of that
colossal steal from their own shoulders to
those Of our much respected and over
durdened Uncle Samuel. But that is
easier said than done, and, besides the
approval of the dear people might not be
forthcoming at the next Congressional
election The loses fall very heavily on
some of the Republicans. Roger Q. Mills,
Of tariff fame, who is poor man, loses
three thousand dollars while sings larly
enough, Roswell p. Flower, the million
are New Yorker, is not out one cent It
is thought the custom Of giving receipts
for salaries i'll advance and making a
banker of the Sergeant-at-Arms, will fall
into "innocious desuetude.
Speaker Read with the thrift and push
characteristic of the down easter, star
tied his colleagues the other day by az
pointing the leading committees of the
House, something that has not been
done heretofore until after the holiday |
recess. The personnel OF the committees |
is such as to warrant the belief that the |
Fifty-First Congress may be expected TO
do vigorous work on the lines laid down |
in the Republican platform supplement
ted by the Presidents message. In brief,
l. seems to me that the issues to be
fought over at the present session will be
the tariff the silver question, internal
revenue, the proposed Federal election
law and the direct tax bill. It will be
remembered that the bill 10 refund the
direct tax was defeated largely by Demo
cratic votes i'll the last Congress. Mr.
Oates, the one-arined member from Ala
bama, valiantly leading The fight against
the measure.
Secretary Window in his report has
taken such a conservative position on the
silver question that he neither pleases
Ror the friends of sill
yer. But silver has strong and numerous {
advocates in both the great parties, and /
like Bauquos ghost it will not down at {
the bidding Of President, Secretary or v
banker. Silver will come to the front il
as mighty as an army with ban II
ners. Il
President Harrison has eudeared him C.
self to railroad subordinates by re-
in his message that le- i
yislation be enacted for their protection
n the discharge of their dangerous, and :
alas, too often fatal duties The railroad p
nen one and all now are ready to hurrah d
or Harrison and protection of that sort. d'
Grief was brought into the Presidential
the past week by the death of D
lrs. Lord, a sister of Mrs. Harrison; and &C
he mansion was closed TO visitors one ii
ay on account of the sad occurrence.
peaking of death reminds me of Chap IN
ain Milburn's remarkable prayer, in an
'hich he ingenuously coupled graceful bu
nd tender illusions to Abraham Lincoln all
nd Jefferson Davis, without offending gil
lie advocats of either of these statesmen.
s Speaker Read well said, ,-"Our Chap. fu
iii has a way of telling the Lord all the
ews." The blind man eloquent has il 10
le course Of his ministry preached in the
States and more than Travelled va
e circumference of ,he globe, and he Is
.rhaps the only Democrat iii the country its
ho could see his way clear to holding at
ice under Republican House "B'' Of