Nevada County picayune., 1889-01-16
WASHINGTON TOPICS,
Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
From our Special Correspondent.l

ian Institution, to succeed the late Chief Justice Waite.
 Senator Edmund's resolutions re- affirming the Monroe doctrine were adopted. Only three Senators, Messrs. Blackburn, Hampton and Vance voted against it.
 The Democratic Senators asked, on account of the day spent in dis cussing the Edmuds' resolutions, that the final vote on the tariff bill he postponed until the 22nd inst, and the Republicans have agreed to it.
 The Senate has refused to concur in the House amendments to the bill incorporating the Nicaragua canal company, and have appointed as conferees on the part of the Senate, Senators sherman, Edmunds and Morgan.
 W. W. Dudley, although afraid to show his face in Indiana, had the cheek to appear before the Senate committee on pensions this week and make an argument in behalf of the Washington pension attorneys, and against the proposed reduction of pensions agents fees.
 The Republican Senators have, l understand, decided to pigeon-hole the nomination of Judge Claypool to be L. $. District Attorney for lndi ana, so as to give Harrison chance to appoint some one who will protect the Republicans who helped to steal Indiana for him.
 It is said that when the contested election case of Smalls ys. Elliott, of South Carolina, gets before the House, Representative Oates, of Alabama. will make speech on the race question that is likely, from the boldness of the stand which he pro- poses to take, to make a sensation throughout the country.
 The sherman Republicans have gone on a new tack in order to de- feat the cabinet aspirations of Gov. Foraker, of Ohio. They are, it is said, pushing Rutherford B. Hayes for Secretary of War in Harrison cabinet, provided, of course, that sherman is not selected for Secretary of State.
 The sentiment in support of the proposed census of the veterans of the late war Is growing rapidly. Gen. Warner, commander of the G. A. K. and others whs favor it, were given hearing by the Senate com mittee to-day. The committee seems inclined to favor it, and there is little doubt of it's adoption.
 Blaine and his family have settled down here for the season, and he has, so to speak, enlisted for the war. What the outcome is to be is not now any more apparent than it was the day after Harrison's election. His friends say he will be the next Sec retary of State, but his enemies, al- though badly frightened, have not given up all hope of defeating him. Their latest move is to bring the i'm meuse influence welded by the | wealthy New York and Boston capi- l talsts engaged in the import trade, to bear on Harrison against him. This was not hard to do, as these men all dislike Blaine on account of his "ingoism," which they fear would bring on foreign complications, and possibly war, which would great lv injure them. What effect this pressure will have on Harrison re- mains to be seen.
 Representative Weaver has been the autocrat of the House this week. After the deadlock brought about by the proposed change in the rules, preventing the introduction of bills on suspension days, had practically been defeated by the House voting by a majority of three to -recommit the resolution to the commlteee on rules. Mir. Weaver announced his in- tention of blocking all legislation, no matter what his intention might be, until the Oklahoma bill is disposed of. This might seem an impossible task to a person not acquainted with the complicated rules under which the House does business, but Mir. Weaver quickly dispelled any doubts as to his ability to stop the wheels of legislation by putting on the brakes and bringing the machine to a stand still, How long this is to last is at present probematical. It depends entirely upon the staying powers of the friends and opponents of the i Oklahoma bill. It hardly seems probable, though, that the Demo- cratic majority in the House will, in