The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-03-08
SATURDAY, MARCH s. 1890.
WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, D. c., March. 8, 1890
{From our regular correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. e., March. ), 1890
The Supreme Court of the United
States is to he given an opportunity to
decide whether Speaker Reeds new
method of counting a quorum is con-
stitutional or not. The democratic
leaders have mapped out a programme
with that end specially in view. Mr..
J.. O. Pendlctnn of the first district of
W. Va. who was unseated last week
by the votes of less majority of the
House, which is a constitutional quo
rum, proposes to claim his salary as a
member of the House of Representa-
tives, and if the treasury officials re-
fuse to pay him-and they will-he
will enter suit or it in the court of
claims and appeal it from there, if de-
cided against him, to the Supreme
Court. And if the Republicans show
any disposition to delay the case in
either court he will sue out Il man
damus to stop the treasury officials
from paying the salary of the man
who has been illegally given the seat
belonging to him. 1t is we'll that
this question is to be legally decided,
and the sooner the decision can he got
ten the better.
How circumstances alter cases was
never made palmer than by the ac-
tions of the election committees of the
two Houses of Congress. In the
House where the republicans need
every vote they can get. there has
been an indecent haste in reporting
contested election cases, while in the
Senate where no votes are needed
there is a dignified leisure in the way
contests are treated. On the Is Of
February the evidence was all taken
and the arguments heard in the Mon
tana senatorial contest !; Saturday
March 1, the committee met and ap-
pointed a subcommittee to collate
the facts to be reported at the next
meeting, which will be next Saturday.
Governor Thompson, the demo-
cratic civil service commissioner, is
the only one of the trio that has not
been smirched by the investigation
now in progress. Lyman has been
convicted of favoritism of the worst
kind in having promoted his brother
in-law after he had acknowledged
that he had stolen examination papers
from the Office for a party who was
seeking promotion, and now Roose-
welt, the high priest Of the ~ am bet
ter than you" element in politics, is
convicted of having deceived the Sec
rotary of War in order to tranfer an
incompetent clerk from his own office
to the war department., and Of hav-
ing deceived the Post Master General
and the Superintendent OF the Census
in order to obtain = place in the cen
sus bureau for q man who had perjured
himself in order to help Roosevelt
make a report against the postmaster
ct Milwaukee.
The urgency deficiency appropria-
ton bill $23, $50, OOO-has been passed
by the House $21 600 900 of it is to
pay pensions of the wal of 1912, and
Of the Mexican war.
The Worlds Fair bill is now in the
hands of the House committee await
ing the decision of the representativ yes
Of Chicago as TO what changes they
desire made in it. As o o as this is
determined upon the bill will be re-
ported to the House and there is little
or no doubt of it's being promptly
passed by the House. The doubtful
part of the business will be reached in
the Senate.
A New York syndicate, of which D.
O. Mills, the father-in-law of White
law Reid, editor of the Tribune and
ex-senator Tom Platt, the Republican
boss, are leading members, has been
awarded, by secretary Window, the
exclusive right to catch sealsin Alask-
an waters for twenty years from the