Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-06-07
WASHINGTON.

Senators Sherman and Allison are at
logger heads over that crazy quilt |
hodge-podge, the Mckinley tariff |
bill, and Senator Allison is reported |
to be preparing speech to be deliv.
cred against the bill on the floor of
the Senate, should he fail, as now
seems probable, to carry his point in
the Finance Committee. In the
meantime the party leaders seem to
have gotten the whip hand of the
kickers, certainly so far as the repub-
licans of the committee are concerned,
and the majority of the committees
are working like beavers to get
through with the bill, and up to date
they have made no changes of inn
portance. Some republicans say the
bill will be reported in a week, but it
is more probable that it will takefour
weeks to get through, allowing that
harmony continues in the committee,
which is by no means certain.
Speaker Reed is getting a good
deal of cheap notorfety because he is.
sued an order prohibiting the sale
of drinks in the House restaurant.
The only effect of the order has been
to stop the sale of drinks over the
bar, and to put the proprietor to the
trouble of serving liquor to his
guests seated instead of standing in
the good old fashioned way. Sitting
at table to take your whiskey is
Boston idea.
The fiery G. a. r. orator, whose
feelings suffered overwhelmingly be-
cause the people at Richmond chose
to enjoy a harmless bit of sentiment
by exhibiting the flag of the Confed-
eracy, was in hisglory in this vicinity
on Decoration day. He was quite
numerous but also perfectly harmless.
No sensible person does anything but
laugh at him.
When Senator Stewart stated on
the floor Of the Senate that Major
Powell, director of Geological Survey
was at the head of "a lying,in hospi-
tai for lame ducks" he struck the
nail on the head. The Geological
Survey occupies large and luxurious
ly fitted up quarters here, and no
man has ever been able to put his
hand upon anything tangible per-
formed by that bureau, and it has
long been a standing joke that the
only work performed by Major Pow
ell and his numerous assistants was
in the nature Of lobbying to get fancy
appropriations through Congress for
themselves. These fellows call them
; selves scientists, and perhaps they
. are. They have certainly learned
l the science of living in style at the
expense of the Government. An in
7 vestigation would amount to nothing
= unless the "pull" which Major Pow
ell has SO long and successfully had
) upon Congress should fail to work.
: Assistant Postmaster General
= Clarkson, who has Of late been posing
as the special champion of the anti
:, civil service legion, has disguised
y many of them by proving himsel
j. to he as great humbug as the civi
. service law. Mr.. Clarkson recent,
) discovered that just as his official lif,
was nearing its close, the postal ser
vice on the Pacific coast was needing
d an official inspection by him, ant
yesterday, having previously made
arrangements with an obliging rail
road official for the use of a private
v car, Mr.. Clarkson started on his fare
u well junket. At Des Moines his fam
lily will join this model official who i
a doing his level best to reduce tn
y Treasury surplus. AS soon as MI
y Clarkson gets tired of travelling owe
= the Pacific slope he will return t
u Washington and resign.
Postmaster General Wannamake
}: is earning the illwill of all the small
a Washington pension agents, becaus
q he is allowing one large firm, whic
le publishes paper, to violate the pos
tai laws in sending out copies of tina
Is paper. Like Mr.. Wanamaker, tn
he head of this favored concern was
At large contributor to the Republica
re campaign fund, which eXcuseth man
ID things.
!. Hoods SarSaparilla is on the foo
ID tide Of nOOularifU NUhip;, noCitiOn