Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[Erom our regu lar corespopdeDt.I

The Supreme Court of the United
States Is TO be given an opportunity
to decide wether Speaker Reeds new
method Of counting quorum or not.
The democratic leaders have mapped
out programme with that end special
ly in view. Mr.. ]. o. Pendleton Of the
first district Of w. Va, who was unseat-
ed last week by the votes Of less than O
stitutional quorum, proposes to claim
his salary as q member ofthe House OF
Representatives, and If the Treasury
officials refuse to pay him-and they
will-he will enter suit for 1t In the
court of claims and appeal it from there,
II decided against him, TO the Supreme
Court. And II the republicans show
any disposition to delay the case in
either court he will sue out a man.
damus to stop the Treasury officials
from paying the salary of the man who
has been illegally given the seat belong
ing to him. 1t Is well that this question
is to be legally decided, and the sooner
the decision can be gotten the better.
How circumstances alter cases was
never made palmer than by the actions
of the election committees of the two
Houses of Congress. In the House
where the republicans need every vote
they can get there has been an indecent
haste in reporting contested election
cases, while in the Senate where no
votes are needed there is q dignified
leisure in the way contests are treated.
On the Is, of February the evidence
was II taken and the arguments heard
in the Montana Senatorial contest; Sat-
urday Mar. l, the committee met aud
appointed subcommittee to collate
the facts to be reported at the next
meeting, which will be next Saturday.
Governor Thompson, the democratic
civil service commissioner, is the only
one of the trio that has not been
smirched by the investigation now in
progress. Lyman has been convicted
of favoritism of the worst kind in hav-
ing promoted his brother-in-Iaw after
he had acknowledged that he had sto-
len examination papers from the office
for q party who was seeking promotion.
and now Roosevelt, the high priest of
the "I am better than youT element in
politics, is convicted of having deceived
the Secretary Of War in order to trans
fer an incompetent clerk from his own
office to the War department, and of
having deceived the Postmaster Gene
raj and the Superintendent of the Cen
sus in order to obtain place in the GEN.
sus bureau for man who had purjured
himself in order to help Roosevelt make
a report against the postmaster at Mil
Waukee.
The urgency deficiency appropriation
bill-$23, $50, ,000-has been passed by
the House. $2l 800, 900 of it is to pay
pensions of the war Of 1872, and of the
Mexican war. 4
The Worlds Fair bill is now in the
hands of the House committee awaiting
the decision Of the representatives Of
Chicago as to what changes they desire
made in it. AS soon as this is deter
mined upon the bill will be reported to
the House and there is little or no
doubt of its being promptly passed by
the House. The doubtful part of the
business will be reached in the Senate.
A New York Syndicate, of which D.
O. Mills, the father-in-law of WhiteIaw
Reid, editor of the Tribune and ex-Sen-
ator Tom Platt, the republican boss,
are leading members, has been awarded,
by Secretary Window, the exclusive
right to catch seals in Alaskan waters
for twenty years from the first of next
May. This is a combination of politics
and business that is quite characteristic
of the Republican party.
Mr.. Blaine has become so disguised
with the administration that he re-
fuses to see any applicants for office
even in his own department.; he turns
them over to one Of the assistant seere-
taries of State. --5'i@ ' ''1.s
Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son is telling his friends that he cannot
possibly remain in Office longer than
the first of May, and that he may re-
sign earlier, but he does not tell them
that he has received very pointed
hint from the President intimating In
the most unmistakable manner that
his resignation would be acceptable.
The question ofa railroad to South
America has been much talked about
since the Pan-American Congress
adopted resolutions recommending the
of q commission to go over
the proposed route and report as to its
feasibility etc. A joint resolution has
been introduced in the House, by Mr..
Buckalew, authorizing the President
to appoint suitable parties to examine
and report on the advisability Of q rail-
road to South America. - t'''
G. E. Kincaid, correspondent Of the
Louisville Times shot ex-Representative
Taulbee, of Kentucky, during a person.
al difficulty at the Capitol Friday. Mr..
Taulbee's wound is not dangerous.