Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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The rumors about crookedness In con
nection with the awarding Of the con
tract for taking seals In Alaskan water
have all been revived by a newspaper
publication charging Secretary Win
dom and at least one other member o.
the cabinet with having taken enor
nous bribes from the parties that Sc
cured the contract. The thing has haC
snaky appearance from the first, and
the Indications now are that somebody
is going to get into trouble before IL Il
done with. Mr.. Windom's business
associates during the two or three year
he spent in New York City before be-
coming Secretary Of the Treasury wer'
not such as to inspire confidence.
The Republican caucus committee
which has been struggling for some
days to hatch out a silver bill upoI
which their party could get together Il
in q seemingly hopeless dead lock and
unless one side or the other shall give
In, no bill will ever be prepared by this
committee.
Senator Blackburn announced or
Friday when an attempt was made tc
call up the Worlds Fair bill, that the
measure would not go through without
opposition, and since then cold shivers
have been chasing each other up and
down the backs Of Chicago's friends.
Gen. U. s. Grant will have two
monuments in this city if the present
ideas prevail in Congress. A favorable
report has been made to the Senate for
an equestrian statue, and the G. A. r
have bills pending to allow them to
erect a statue of him In the statuary
hall of the Capitol building.
The absurdities of the Republican
tariff bill become daily more apparent
The country asks of Congress a material
reduction of the revenues of the govern.
ment, and this monstrosity, which Mr..
Carlisle has shown will increase the
revenues about $4,000,000 per annum
is rendered them by the Republicans OF
the House. There Is only one good
thing about this bill, and that is, it will
furnish lot of tip-top Democratic cam.
paign material for the coming Con-
gressional fight.
Speaker Reeds gag laws are to be ex-
tended to the Senate, it is said, to enable
the majority to rush things the rest OF
this session as fast as they mind to, no
matter how much the minority may
wish to take time enough to ointelfigently
discuss measures before passing them.
The Pan American Congress is a
thing of the past, and its members have
gone on jaunt through the Southern
States before returning home. If the
recommendations of the Congress are
adopted by the governments repre-
sented there Is little doubt that the Con-
gress will mark an era in American his
tory. Not the least in importance of
its recommendation was that in favor
ofsettling all disputes between the re-
publics of America by arbitration.
Senator Dolph's smelling commit
tee," which has for weeks been trying
to find the leaks through which news
of executive sessions of the Senate
reached the public, has by the decisive
vote 35 to % been snubbed by the
Senate for its trouble. The vote was
taken on the resolution reported by
the committee to bring the newspaper
men who refused to tell from what
source they received their information
before the bar of the Senate. This prob
ably ends the matter.
The two republicans from Montana
who have been by the grace of the re-
publican majority in the Senate seated
in the chairs to which two good dem
ocrats were legally elected, have drawn
lots for the choice of terms, and Sand
ers drew the short term ending March
8, 1898, and Power the long term end
ing March 1895.
Senator ingalls, has gone home to
see whether he can patch up some sort
of truce with the farmers alliance of
Kansas what will save his Senatorial
scalp.
On last Thursday the day of the fu-
neral of the late Hon. Samuel ]. Ran
dali. the House adjourned as a mark of
respect to the dead statesman's memory.
The republicans of the House COM
mittee on the Judiciary do not propose
being out done in hypocrisy by the
members of their party in the Senate,
therefore they have agreed to make a
favorable report on the alleged anti
trust bill recently passed by the Sem
ate.
There is already one bill on the cal
endar of the Senate providing for con-
stitutional amendment for the election
of Senators by direct vote of the people
and Senator Reagan has just intro
duced another one with the same end
in view.
Petitions are pouring into Washing
ton against the passage by Congress Of
the Butterworth option bill.
Saturday in the House was devoted
to euologies ofthe late S.S ''Sunset")
Cox.
The regular river and harbor appro-
priation bill has been reported to the
House.