Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-04-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TFrou our regular cOrespO BdeDt.l

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Ex-Speaker Carlisle thinks the Lodge
Federal election bill one Of the most OBJ.
ljectlonable measures ever before Con-
1 gress, and considers that it would be
practically impossible to hold q legal
election under its complicated proyis.
ions. In speaking Of the bill Mr.. Car.
Isle said suppose we do little figur-
ing on II to start with. II this bill was
law there would be at each Of the 80,
900 election precints of the country, at
every Congressional and Presidential
election, Federal officials, making a
total of 630, 900 men, and costing ten or
fifteen millions Of dollars every two
years. This estimate Is based upon the
present number Of voting precincts but
the complications of this bill would
make the process ofvoting such slow
one that the number of precincts would
have to be largely increased, prehaps
doubled, In order to give the voters an
opportunity to deposit their ballots".
The bill has not been much better re-
ceived by the republicans than by the
democrats. .#
The Blair educational bill is dead.
But the Senator has come up smiling
with another bill this time the appro.
priation is only $5S,000,O 900.
The republicans of the House don't
vote as they talk in contested election
cases. The democrats were led to be-
lieve that seven or eight republicans
would vote with them in the case of
Mudd VS. Compton, but when the vote
was taken Mudd got the solid republi-
can vote and the seat.
There are four contested election cases
in which all the arguments have been
heard, and 1t is expected that the re-
publicans Of the committee on Elections
will try to railroad them through this
week.
A favorable report has been made to
the House on the bill providing for the
appointment of a commission to inves-
tigate the liquor traffic.
The announcement by the republi-
cans of the House Ways and Means
committee several days ago that the
tariff bill was complete has brought
great deal of trouble upon them in the
shape of objections from influential
members of their party to certain
clauses of the bill. The result is that
the bill has not yet been reported to the
House and 1t may not be this week, and
it would not be surprising If the pres
sure should prove great enough to COM
pei radical changes in the bill before it
Is reported. 1t is probable that the
democrats will prepare a substitute,
based on the Mills bill, but giving all
raw materials used in manufacturing a
place on the free list.
So general has been the complaint
against the paper used in the postal
cards that the Post-office department
was compelled to get after the contrac-
tor, and that individual has promised to
use better quality of paper. hereafter.
The House has passed the annual PEN
sion appropriation bill. 1t was for $685.
800, 900, and every man who voted for
1t knows that it is not enough, and that
there is bound to be big deficiency at
the end of the next fiscal year, but that
does not stop the demagogues from get
ting up and bowling for additional leg
islation. One of them in speech ad-
vocating a service pension said, as
If he was speaking of buying an apple,
that the total cost of such bill would
not exceed $648, 100000.
When Mr.. Carlisle's statement was
published recently that the appropria-
lions which the republicans of this Con-
gress intended making would cause a
deficiency in the Treasury at the end of
the next fiscal year, Mr.. Cannon chair
man of the House committee on Appro-
Driations, stated that it was a misrepre-
'entation made for political effect. Now
IS good republican as Senator Hawley |
'tates on the floor of the Senate that the
to be made for the next |
iscal year will aggregate $523, 900, 900,
against an estimated revenue of $780,
700, 900. making a deficit of $73, 900, 900.
Certainly Mr.. Hawley was not talking
or political effect.
Now it is discovered that the Secre-
ary of the Navy needs an assistant.
to increase the pay roll is the
MOTTO of the party in power. |
The Pan-American Congress wants
ubsized steamships and cables from
ian Francisco to South America.
Senator Vest made good point when
Senator Sherman's antitrust bill was
lnder consideration by stating that the
,asiest way to abolish trusts was to ab-
,lish the protective tariff which made
hem possible.
The bill placing John G. Fremont on
he retired list of the Army with the
ank Of Major General has passed the
House.
The committee engaged in investigat-
ng the Ohio ballot box forgeries has
Notified Foraker and Grosvenor that
hey will be allowed until the 81, inst,
o submit arguments in writing.
The House will vote on the Worlds
Fair bill tomorrow afternoon. It's
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