Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Usual Batch of Breezy News from
 Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, July 9, 1890.

NASHlNGIONs Ouly Ao, loJV.
 The President certainly has the laugh
 on the democratic press of the country
 which has been railing at him for allow
 ing his wife to accept seaside cottage
 at Cape May Point. The criticism
 would have been but just if Mrs. Harri
 son had accepted a cottage from citizens
 as gift; but the fact has just leaked
 out, and it did not come from the Presi-
 dent either, that Mir. Harrison gave his
 check for S10,OOO in payment for the
 cottage which his family is at present
 occupying at Cape May Point. It was
 intended bv the gentlemen who pur-
 chased the ground and built the cot
 tage to have presented 1t to Mrs Harri-
 son, but as soon as the President learn
 ed of it he informed them that he had
 made it an inviolable rule of hIs public life never to accept, nor to allow any
 member of his family to accept presents | of any kind. How many democratic
 papers will have the decency to correct
 the wrong accusations they have been
 making?
 | The House has been industrious this week, and notwithstanding that one day l was lost on account of the death of Re presen tative James P. Walker, of Mis-
 souri, it has passed two very impo' tant bills the Original Package" bill and the National Bankruptcy bill.
 If the democratic Senators have no stronger arguments to offer against the
 Mckinley tariff bill than those made by Senator Vorhees in his speech delivered ln the senate they might as well retire from politics, for this year any
 way. AS phrase maker MT. Vorhees IS evidently trying to run opposition to MT. Cleveland; but he seems to lack the ori- ginality of the ex-President. It Is un- dersto0d that the republican senators will make no set speeches on the tariff bill until the appropriation bills have all been disposed of by the senate.
 The air is full of rumors as to what will or will not be done by the senate in regard to the several reciprocity amend ments which have been offered to the tariff bill; but it is noticeable that they all come from democratic sources. The Republican senators, who will decide the matter, are not talking about 1t, certain ly not for publication, but that they will take care of the interests of the people, as the Republican party has always done, is not for moment to be doubted; there fore Republicans can afford to patiently wait for the action of the senate, know ing that the bill finally passed will en- body the ideas and principles for which the Republican party has stood for, these many years.
 The correspondence between this gov ernment and Great Britain relating to the Behring sea dispute has been made public and 1t reflects nothing but credit upon Secretary Blaine and the admlnis- tration. It is brought up to MT. Blaine's latest dispatch to the British minister, which is dated July 19.
 This has been military week with the president. Tuesday afternoon he re- turned from visit to hls family; We'd nesday he went down the Potomac to visit the District of Columbia militia in its annual encampment, and yesterday, accompanied by Secretary Proc or, he went to Mount Grstna, Pennsylvania, where the State National Guard of the state is encamped.
 There is nothing new in the status of the Federal Election bill. The repub- | lcan Senators have adopted one of the | maXjms of that great and wise republi | can, Abraham Lincoln, tits no use to | cross bridge before you get to it," ana it is not probable that any definite an- nouncement of what the majority of the | Senate proposes to do will be made | until he appropriation bills and the | tariff bill are out of the way. The FL | ection committee is carefully consider | ing the bill with a view of making | changes in it to supply certain defects which have been pointed out.
 The Southern Senators and Represen- | tatives are in a state only little short | of panic stricken on account of the | strength displayed by the Farmers Al iiaaces whics according to news rel ceived here, seems to have swallowed Il the democratic organizations of several | southern states entirely.
 The Republican state associations in this city are unusually active in making preparations to take part in the Con- gressional campaign. Among the ap- plicatlons for membership presented to the Pennsylvania association at its last | meeting was the name of Senator Quay, and at a meeting of the Indiana associ- atiJn the Presidents private secretary, Elijah J. Halford, made a stirring speech to the boys, all of which has the right sort of look.
 Bills pensioning the widow of Gen. John c. Fremont have been favorably reported to both House and Senate.