The Globe-republican., 1890-09-24
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Special Correspondence to the GLOBE RE-
PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. d. c., September 22nd.
The republican managers have given
up all hopes of securing the presence of
a quorum of their own members in the
House for the remainder of the session. 1t
is recognized that it is almost an impossi-
bility to drag members away from noml-
mating conventions, either in existence
or in prospective, or to lead them from
close fight in which their political exist
ence is imperiled. Hence, no republic
can quorum can be depended upon and
the organization of the House at least. so
far as business is involved. is at the mer-
cy of the democrats who ''git up and
git to break a quorum whenever they
catch sniff of so-called political legis-
lation. This, of course, settles the fate
of many measures which meet with DEM
ocratic opposition, such as the bill to
prevent the outrageous Ohio gerryman-
der.
In the opinion of everybody the session
is rapidly drawing to close. Nothing
now remains for action of the legislation
classed as indispensable" but the tariff
and the last appropriation bill, the gen.
eral deficiency which gathers up all the
odds and ends and pays the remaining
debts of the fiscal year just dead. But
few days will be required to dispose of
these measures, then the first session of
the fifty first Congress will have become
history, and its many good and striking
acts marred somewhat by personal cpl
sodes which it were we'll had they never
happened.
When Congress does adjourn Speaker
Reed and other leading republican ora
tors will be hurried into the close states |
and districts, politically speaking, where
they will go to work with willing and
confident hearts. The Speaker will aid |
Major Mckinley to cut into that demo-
cratic majority which the Ohio legisla-
ture SO sneakingly devised to remove
brilliant man from public life. And it
can be said that republican managers
have the strongest kind of hopes that
Major Mckinley will wage winning
fight. AS man he is most aggressive
and fights to win, but more than all the
republican committeeman say they have
strong faith in the fairness of Ohio men
who will not be a party to the unfortu-
nate plan to retire this brilliant man from
legislative life. The truth is Ohio is be-
coming weaker in national legislation
instead of stronger as it should be, and
local interests will not permit the with
drawal of such efficient men as McKin-
ley and Butterworth, not to mention
Others, irrespective of political faith.
With such champions as these, the mate
rial interests of the state are always safe,
and therefore, self interest and local
pride dictates that there is danger to be
run in their expulsion from Congress.
Secretary Rusk, of the agricultural de-
partment, gives some interesting infOr-
nation relative to the condition of the
crops, from which have made up the
following statement of interest to farm
ers and all. While the average cOndi-
ton of corn for the whole country is fix
ed at 7O.1, many states show much
better percentage, of course, as Sec
ton. New England makes the best
showing. Connecticut and New Jersey
show the highest average condition, or
81, and Kansas the lowest, or ~. The
Dakotas are but little better off with As
and even Nebraska has but 50.
In wheat, with general average of
75.5, the new state of Washington makes
the highest percentage, or 50, as indeed,
California. Montana, and indeed all that
part of the country called the far west
shows up we'll. New England is also
well up to the head, and the Middle
States are but slight way behind. Tex
as has the smallest percentage, or 40, but
is not far surpassed by the great grain
growing region in which Indiana returns
60, Illinois 81, the Dakotas 6S, up to
Minnesota So.
The states making the best return in
rye are Massachusetts, and Oregon, or SO,
and Texas shows up the worst, or 81 per
cent. In oats Washington makes the
best percentage, 80, and Kentucky the
least %; barley Arizona and Washing
ton have 80 and New York IS; buck
wheat, Massachusetts, 80 and the Dako-
tas 65. Fruit was generally pretty much
of failure, Washington showing the
best average for the country.
Another Democratic leader has