Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[spEcIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.
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prehensive statement of the amount |
of revenue derived from the importa-
ton of sugar by the Government.
1t is generally understood that this
statement is to be used as the basis
of a special message which the Presi-
dent proposes to send to Congress,
giving his ideas of what amendments
the Senate should adopt to the tariff
bill. There is no doubt as to wheth-
er the President will advise the adop-
ton of reciprocity outright, as adj
vised by Mr.. Blaine, or some sort of
compromise. The probabilities are
strongly in favor of his taking the
latter course.
The tariff debate has so far been
entirely to democratic Senators long
speeches have been made by Senator
Voorhees,, Vance, and Morgan. The
republicans are waiting until they
have definitely determined just what
points in the bill are to be covered
bv the amendments, and one of them
said to-day that he did not think the
vote would be taken on the bill before
September.
The committee on Rules, rep orted,
and the House adopted a resolution
instructing the committee on Pensions
to investigate the charges which Rep
resentative Cooper of Indiana, recent
| " made on the floor of the House
against Gen. Raum, Commissioner
of Pensions The committee in its
report stated that all of the essential
statements of Mr.. Cooper are hear
say, and his conclusions cOnjectural,
and that they did not know whether
| they are true OF false; but, continues
the"report whether true or false your
committee believes that an investiga-
ton should be had to the end that
the truth may be ascertained the
public service must not even rest un-
der suspicion and the character of
public officials must be so clean and
their administration so honorable and
straightforward as to command the
public confidence and withstand the
most careful scrutiny. Every public
official should invite the most careful
investigation of his public acts, and
your committee believes that Gen.
Raum, whose public and private char
acter has been heretofore without
taint or suspicion, will gladly promote
the investigation" Gen. Raum is
much pleased with the action of the
committee, and of the House. He
refused to dignity the charges by
officially asking for an investigation
but he has not hesitated to privately
say to members of the committee that
he wished for it.
Senator Sherman has the people
with him in his effort to have the
Congressional Record edited. If ever
there was a publication that needed
a careful, painstaking editor, it is
that same cumbrous and misnamed
Congressional Record.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
has resumed his warfare upon the
Louisiana Lottery, and is determined,
if it can possibly be done, that Con-
gress shall adopt the bin which the
House committee on Post-ollices has
just reported, which prohibits, lottery
circulars and tickets, lists of draw
ings, money or drafts for purchase Of
lottery tickets, or newspapers con-
tanning lottery advertisements or
drawings from being carried in the
mails or delivered by carriers, and
imposes a fine not exceeding $500
and Imprisonment not exceeding one
year upon any person depositing such
matter in the mails.
The House committee on Elections
expect to decide the celebrated Ark
ansas Clayton-Breckenridge contested
election case this week. 1t is believed
that it will by party vote decide
that Mr.. Breckenridge is not entitled
to the seat which he holds, and Col.
Clayton having been murdered while
trying to obtain evidence in the case,
another election will be ordered.
Senator Frye has received another
letter favoring reciprocity from Sec
retary Blaine, and that together with
the correspondence in the Behring
Sea negotiations, has caused Mr..
Blaine to be the most talked about
man in the United States. Mr.. Blaine
is very much in earnest about recip-
rocity, and calls attention to the fact
that as long ago as February he made
statement to the republican mem
bers of the House committee on Ways
and Means urging them to consider
reciprocity in making up the new tar
iff bill. With one eXception-Rep-
resentative McKenna of California
t the republican members of that COM
mittee decline to talk on the subject.
e Mr.. McKenna says that he has from
=. the first favored Mr.. Blaine's ideas.
. Even the democrats admit that Mr..
Blaine deserves great credit for the
E manner in which he has handled the
t Behring Sea matter. Not a single
4 democratic Senator endorses the alb
i surd talk about boycotting the North
: in case the Federal election bill be-
e comes a law, with which southern
telegraph wires have of late been bur-
dened.
3 How's Tms?-We offer One Hundred Dollars
reward for any of catarrh that cannot he cured