Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-10-26
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspondent

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. I9, 1883. |
 Around the departments the crowds l are growing larger and the buzz about the White House and Capitol is omi nous of the time, less than six weeks off. when the Fifty-first Congress shall open its first session. Along the broad avenues the splendid equipages Of so- ciety leaders once more whirl through the mellow October sunlight and in the pulses of fashionable women the blood moves little faster in ant;cipa- ton of the triumphs of what is fond ly hoped will be the most brilliant season since the war;" though why "since the war" no one knows, for there was little enough of grand soci- ety here before the struggle.
 At the White House the president has promulgated new rules regarding the hours at which guests are to be re- ceived and the public hours are short ened. This IS to give the private sec retary and himself an opportunity to | get through with the Message to Con. gress, that document which maddens presidential dreams and is mocking spirit that never leaves him until the work is over. Even Baby Mckee Is neglected these days and can get his face as dirty as he pleases without danger of grandfatherly reproof.
 That the Fiity-tirst Congress will be one of action, and decided action, oil momen:ous economic questions can not be doubted. The republican par ty ,s in supreme power in both houses and must move. The tariff question must be settled and policy must be I formulated upon which that party must live or die. The democratic par ty meets, on the other hand, with all the difficulties that beset a dissatisfied
 minority.
 Congressmen are already beginning
 to come to town. Fully forty are al
 ready on the ground. Congressman
 Cannon arrived last night, confident of his ability to win in the speakershiI contest. He is the only candidate now
 in the city. With due reference to hi opinion I believe that MT McKinle,
 will be the next speaker and will b. chosen on the second or third ballot
 MT. Reed will doubtless develop thu most strength on the first ballot, bu failing of election on that ballot mucl
 O his following will go to other can t didates, and probably to Mir. McKin ) ley. Many members will vote for Nil
 Reed on the first ballot merely witt
 the feeling that the man who accept
 ed the nomination when it was al V empty honor should receive it. no, : that it is substantial honor Thei
 fealty will not go far, however, and f doubt that 1t will go further than tn Q first ballot.
 The proclamation announcing tn
 compliance of the new states of Wast , ington, Montana and North an , South Dakota with the terms of tn
 enabling act, is ready for promulga > ton. The act merely requires that tn > constitution should be republican i form and that the president should b d satisfied that the terms of the act ha $ been compiled with. Copies of tn
 proposed constitution of each stat V must be submitted to the president a l. soon as adopted by the constitution,
 conventions. There has been consit 4 erable telegraphing between the sta leaders and the government with u d purpose of expediting matters, as Il
 new legislatures called to elect Unite
 States senators can have no legal e :, istence until the states have been 10 ,r mally proclaimed.