Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-31

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which will give him their votes if h,
asks for them.
How's this for new navy? Th,
committee appointed by Sccretar,
Tracy to report plans for new nav,
has gone into the business in a wa,
that would soon turn the Treasury sur
plus into big deficiency. If it hac
its way we should build 102 war YES
sells during the next fourteen years al
cost of $2S0,000,000. Fortunately
for the taxpayers OF this country, Mr.
Tracy's committee has no control ovel
Uncle Sans cash box.
The seven million acres of land in
the Sioux reservation in the Dakota.
will soon be opened to settlement
Mr.. Harrison's proclamation to that
effect has already been written, but
has not yet been made public.
The uncert.inty about the action o.
the House Committee on Rules, con
tinues, and there is diversity of opin
ion about it. Some believe that the
rumor of Representative Mckinley
and Cannon refusing to agree to 6
number OF radical changes proposed
by Speaker Reed is true; others thai
the delay is simply to leave the House
in the Speakers power, and still 9th
ers, that the hitch is caused because 6
number of Republicans h ave refused tc
vote for any rules curtailing the
rights of the minority, recognizing the
fact that two years from now they
will belong to the minority. Mr.
Carlisle will make no fight in the
committee, but when the new rules
are reported to the House, unless they
are very different from those pro
posed by the Speaker, he will fight
their adoption in every possible man
ner.
Speaker Reed will appoint a special
committee of the House to have
charge of Worlds Fair matters. Mr.
Reed says he intends to arrange the
committee so that no one of the rival
cities shall have undue advantage.
The fun, has begun before the
House Committee engaged in investi.
eating the Ohio ballot-box forgery
Governor Campbell and Ex-Governor
Foraker are to tell the committee
what they know about the matter
Murat Halstead also, the last named
will probably take advantage of thi:
opportunity to get even with come oi
his political friends, but personal enc.
mics, in the Senate.
McKinley's committee will give nc
more hearings on the tariff. 1t will
not attempt the difficult feat of bring.
ing the Republican members together
in the new bill. Sugar will probably be
the greatest obstacle to harmony.
Secretary Windon has prepared a
bill, which is to be introduced in the
House next week, to carry out the sill.
Yer ideas contained in his annual mes.
sage. 1t is supposed that Mr.. Harri-
son will send message to Congress,
approving the bill, Immediately after.
wards.
Representative Cummings OF New
York City, and also of the New York
Sun, is something of wag, but the
Republicans did not seem to see the
humor in the resolution he offered in
the House providing for the erection
in the center of the rotunda of the
Capitol building of bronze statue OF
the late Samuel J. Tilden upon which
the following is to be prominently in
scribed: Samuel J. Tilden, nine.
teenth President of the United States,
but not seated"
Mr.. Walker Blaine, Oldest son OF
Secretary Blaine, died suddenly
"Wednesday night in this city, of pneu.
monia. He was thirty-fve year, of
age, and during Garfeld's brief Ad-
ministratiOn, held the Office of Third
Assistant Secretary of State. At the
time OF his death, he was Examiner
OF Claims in the State Department, as
the confidential representative of his
father. The Blaine family have in
deed been afflicted since their return
to the Capital. Within the last two
months Mrs. Blaine has lost her sister,
Mr.. Blaine brother, and now they
both mourn the loss of their eldest
son. Dem.