Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-03-13
washington Letter.

Washington, u. Z. March 10, 1890.
Tie Montana Senatorship was treated
in the Senate committee on elections
and privileges, as is always the prac-
tice in contests for seats, from purely
party standpoint. In accord with this
custom the majority recommends the
seating Of Saunders, the Republican.
The grounds for this recommendation is
that the Republican House in Montana
was the legal House by the State Sen.
ate. The report will be made in few
days. Senator Gray will prepare the
minority report, which will be an ex-
haustive argument for the Democratic
side. Senator Turpie will not sign ell
ther report, but will likely make one for
himself, as he holds that no formai
election of Senators has been accom-
plished and believes the case should be
returned to Montana for action.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections have reported on the re-
quest Of Mr.. Call that the accuracy of
the report of his speech on the Saun
ders Florida murder as published in the
Congressional Record, be investigated.
The committee declined to question
the accuracy Of the stenographer and
recommended that the report of the
speech stand without correction. The
additional question as to how far Sem
ator may 60 in debate and be within
parliamentary bounds was recommended
to be referred to the Senate committee
on rules for definition.
In this beautiful manner does the
Senate sit in judgement on hair pulling
among its old women. Senator Chan
der claimed that Senator Call had in
terpolated into the published report of
his speech remarks derogatory to his
New Hampshire dignity. This accusa-
ton Mr.. Call resented with all the fer
vency Of his Southern nature. Of
course the charge was true and every
one knew it to be true. Still Mr.. Call 8
language as used on the floor was fully
as bitter and personal as was the Ian.
guage in the Record. He had added
nothing of importance. The custom of
allowing Senators and Representatives
to revise the official reports Of their
speeches shall have some limit. At
present it sometimes means that the
official report is mangled beyond recog-
milton, and speech that was when de-
livered miserable, stumbling failure
becomes after pruning and padding
brilliant success. When you start to
revisinga speech there is no telling
where you end.
The House is deep in figures. The
scores Of public building appropriations
are before it, and the end seems far of.
The mills grind rapidly enough. Regu-
larry bill is called up in the commit
tee of the whole, it is recommended
that the proposed appropriation be re-
duced about twenty-five per cent, and
then the able solons grab the next one
and put it through a horizontal reduc-
ton.
The government clerks are having
some difficulty recognizing their Re.
publican State Associations. The
tronble generally about membership.
The truth is that SO many of them for
get their allegiance to the old party
during Mr.. Cleveland administration
that there might be awkward explana-
tions to make their love feasts give
promise Of being cold and suspicious
affairs
Speaker Reed usually walks home
from the Capitol, and you can be sure
that there is always somebody lying in
wait to catch him and ask for some ia
vor, as he strides up the avenue. His
enormous body shakes as he walks and
the gait is rapid but not firm. His head
is bent forward as that of man who
has hatltually poured important advice
into shorter mems ears. The smile on
his face is one Of perfect content and
his eyes, looking like small beads iu
that immense mass Of jelly-like flesh,
take In everything. No one in his party
is half SO we'll pleased with his success
as Speaker as is Mr.. Reed himself
For years he has fretted at being kept
in the background, and now the sarcasm
and accusations of his political enemies
are as dear to him as the congratula-
tons of his friends.
But if the present session has glori-
fed Reed, it has depressed MAJOR Nc
Kinley. The Ohio mans leadership is
waning. Reed takes all the laurals.
The recent debate on the new rules
and the prior 6llibustering, offered Nc
Kinley an opportunity of which he
failed to avail himself. As the repre-
sentative Of the majority in the most
important committee Of the House, be
exhibits the same defect that Carlisle
does As representative Of the minority.
He Is to slow. With all their expert
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