The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-24
WASHINGTON LETTER
A BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE MA
TION'S CAPITAL.

EnIarging the National Museum Build
ing-A Tribute to Ex-SpeaIxer Randall
I Ingalls, Estimate of AnisOn-Republic-
ans Agree Upon Policy on the Silver
/ Question.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
| WASHINGTON, April 81, $780,
Perhaps the death of no statesman has
so stirred the heart of the Washington
| public as the demise of Hon. Samuel J.
Randall. after continued service in the
| House of Representatives for thirty
years. He was the most conspicuous fig
IRE on the floors of Congress for more
| than twenty years, and was the acknowl-
edged leader of his party upon the floor.
It is said of him that he was man Of
most wonderful self-control and iron
will. This was displayed TO a large de-
gree during the last Congress, when al
most his solid party was arrayed against
him on the tariff question, and notwith-
standing the gigantic efforts of the whole
| administration to bring him over. Only
future history will tell the almost super
human struggles Mr.. Randall endured
| during this period, and of the disappo Mt
ments brought upon him by his own party
administration, unwilling as it was to heap
| them upon him. His Judgment upon all
| questions was only formed after mature
| deliberation, and a position once taken
no power on earth could change. Rep
resentative Roger @. Mills, one of the
| strongest opponents III the last Con-
! gress of Randall's tariff ideas, thus
| feelingly and earnestly speaks of the
deceased statesman: "Of unimpeachable
| integrity and natural born leader. He
had more of the elements of leadership
| than any man [ ever came in contact with.
| 9th Int no aO1116
| have prevented him from being the leader
of the Democratic party. If it had not
been for that he would have been nomi-
mated for President in 1876, and, said
! Mr.. Mills, with emphasis, he would have
| been elected and seated, for he would
have asserted his rights. But when he
| believed his opinions were right he would
never change them, no matter what might
f! happen. When our tariff bill was up |
| pleaded with him, urged and begged him
| to make some concessions and COM
promise, but he believed he was right
and could not be moved When his whole
party, except Sowden and one or two
others, came over he still held out and
would not move. That was the only thing
in which we differed"
| Unless the House of Representatives
| concludes to disagree with the actiO of
| the Senate. the great National Museum
! building will be doubled in size, bill
appropriating $500, 600 for that purpose
| having passed the latter body. This
addition gives fifteen more exhibition
| halls and an available floor space of 200,-
600 square feet. The lack of room at the
present time is serious drawback to one
of the grandest institutions of the kind
| in the world. No visitor leaves Wash
| ington without seeing the magnificent
| collection here. It contains object les
sons in natural history dating backward
| for thousand years, and once seen is
never forgotten.
XIX
There is disposition rapidly growing
in the Senate to change the rules govern
| ing debates. There are two rea sons why
| such proposition will find favor In the
| eyes of the Senators themselves and the
country at large. The proposed change
! is to limit the time allowed for debate on
each question. As it now is discussions,
sometimes on trivial questions, run on for
| days. Beyond this, these discussions are
! confined 10 half a dozen Senators on each
| side of the chamber. There seems to be
a recognition or assent to the saying that
| a Senator is to "say nothing, but saw
wood, until he has served two or more
| terms. But few men have had the DARN 6
! to break this rule. Indee |, Turpie, OF
Indiana, and Spooner, of Wisconsin, are
! the only ones I can call to mind who have
/ had the audacity to trample on this pre-
cedent with impunity and afterward main
tain their position. So that rule limit
| ing the time Of debate on all questions
will be hailed with delight by the younger
| branch of Senators, and they are ~ far
| in the majority.
|
A prominent man in public life who is
making remarkably little noise this se5-
sion is Allison, of Iowa. Many of his
friends and good many who are not
particularly friendly to him are wonder
| ing what is keeping him SO quiet. But
this reminds me that there is saying in
| Washington that you can't tell very much
what Allison is doing by what be says
about it. He is one of the closest but
most effective workers in Congress. Some
| years ago an important piece of leglsla-
ton came up before the Senate which
| Ingalls, had determined to oppose. The
measure passed and then it came to light
| that Allison had engineered the whole
thing through. Frank G.. Carpenter, an
old newspaper correspondent, in IN inter-
view with ingalls, asked him what he
man in the Senate" replied Ingalls,; you
could put his two hundred pounds into
hob-nailed clogs and drive at a ten mile
pace over corduroy road and he
wouldn't make as much noise is tom
cat slipping across Turkish carpet after
a canary bird.
The proposition of Mr.. Wansmlker to
have the Government take charge of the
telegraph service of the country is secur-
ing the unqualified Endorsement of hun
dreds of laLor organizations throughout
the country as well as an immense num-
Der of country newspapers. The Post
master Generals personal mail is sight
to look at, being lsrger than any of the
other Cabinet Offices, He keeps clerk
for no other purpose than to open and
dispose of letters and newspapers con-
tanning matter relating to the Govern
ment telegraph system Without at
tempting to discuss the feasibility of
| Mr. Wanamaker's plan, it is at ill events
seemingly most popular one.
Representative Mudd, the successful
| contestant in the case of Mudd VS.. Comp