The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-02-15
From our regular corrsspontsns.l
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

wAsHrxoroN. d. e., Feb. ., 1852
President Cleveland and Secretary
Bsyard have every right TO be proud
over their action In the samoan matter
They have made the greatest bully Of ihs
nineteenth century, Bismarck. get down
on his narrow bones and acknowledge
himself in the wrong. aud promise to do
better Ia the future. What ever is Il
come out OF this samoan squabbIe ouI
rights aud honor are intact. and likely q
remain 50.
The refusal OF senator Allison 70 bury
his presidential aspirations BY becoming
Secretary OF the Treasury for General
Harrison, has knocked the cabinet max
ers silly. They do not seem able 10
pull themselves together yet, or 10 know
what 10 say next II IL believed thai
John Sherman chuckles 10 himself every
time he gets in dark place over Mr..
Harrison's trouble ia making up his
cabinet.
Representative Springer il happy
man. After working for many weary
months against determined opposition
ne has the satisfaction Of seeing the
Oklahoma bill passed BY The House
with 4 good healthy majority. The bill
now goes 70 the Senate where the fight
will begin again, hut. owing 10 the short
ness OF the session. il will have 10 be
made sharp and quick by the friends Of
the measure or il will be lost. John
Bushy head. x-Goveruor Of the Chero-
kee nation. says the President has prom
ised him to veto the bill should it get
through the Senate.
A IN I'm 10
Of American shipping was made BY the
American shipping Leagnc which held
its annual session here last week. FRI
day evening public meeting was held
Ut which . number Of prominent Demo-
Gratis and Republicans made speeches
commenting the work undertaken by
the League. A notable feature Of thel
speeches was the complimentary man
ner in which the Republican speakers
alluded 10 Secretary Whitney. Repre-
sentative Boutel.e, of Maine, called HIM
the ''enterprising and wide-awake Sec
rotary of the Navy, etc. When one al
al familiar with Navy Departments I'm
der previous administrations looks al
what Mr.. Whitney has accomplis shed,
and how little IL has cost. comparatively,
be cannot help commenting the hard.l
working Secretary for he good he has
done. and regre;ting that the country is
soon to lose the services OF such man
The number of nominations Enacted
upon and now pending before the Senate
is over 400. When Republican Sena.
tor Is asked whether his party proposes
10 "hang up" all these nominations for
good, be Will begin to talk with great
interest about something else.
Represe NATIVE Houck. Of Tennessee,
who is try ing TO boom Malone into the
has received letter from Ben
Butler endorsing Malone for Postmss-
r-General. Stop moment and think.
lear reader, of the com binsticn. Butler
and Malone. What pair they would
make? II would be exceedingly hard tol
make II three Of kind. and to make itlt
tours would be impossible. Butler en-
dorses Malone but who endorses Butler,l
that's the interesting question
The House committee on Ways and :
Means will endeavor 10 get up COM /.
promise tariff bill embodying those fea- !
Iures Of the Mills and Senate bills that
both sides can accept without too great
! back down. But owing to the short
line left to the Fiftieth Congress IL IL
@1.&tsof - auyt1luk tOulCs VI IL ~ Isl
aid that John Wsnamaker. the man !
Who IL to get seat in the coming cabi-
let because be raised $50U,O0O for the
republican corruption fund. hss bought
residence in this city for $4,000. He
making politics quite an expensive
luxury.
The advance guard Of the grand army
4 Republican bread-and- butter patriots IN
'as arrived in Washington. Every man
y them wants an Office. 10 less than !
TX months some of them who are now !
skiing for big positions will be trying to !
compromise on place as messenger or .
vatchmen in some Of the Departments.
Speaker Carlisle says he looks for
ward with pleasure TO giving up the
ares Of the Office he has held so long
L is generally conceded that he has
made one of the most i'm partial speakers
be House has ever had.
MIR. Cleveland has bad to send in an
,ther veto. He could not see why q
widow whose husband died in 1888 oil
typhoid fever should be entitled TO re-
ceivc pension.
The Senate's rejection OF the British
treaty was by the decisive
vote Of 80 to IS. nor was the division on
party lines.
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