The Portland daily press., 1890-07-19
ORIGINAL PACKAGES IN THE HOUSE,
In Process of transportation Over
the Legislative Line.
a Quiet Week in Congress Follows
Stormy Sessions.
Mr.. BIaIne's Proposals and the Case
of Hawaii.


WASHINGTON, July IS. - The "origlnal
package" bill was put under way in the
House this forenoon and will be voted on
Monday. 1t is regarded as sure to pass,
either in the present form or in the form In
which it came from the Senate, most proba-
bly, In the latter form, a. applicable TO liquors
A very few Republicans, like Allen of Chi
cago and Van Setback of Milwaukee, will
vote against it, probably as they represent
brewing constituencies. On the other hand,
many Democrats will vote for it. Culbert-
son of Texas made very strong speech in
favor of the bill today. On Tuesday the
bankruptcy bill will be up. Its friends are
very active and seem to feel that they have a
fighting chance to pass it.
The past week has dragged decidedly
with both House and Senate, and especially
with the House After the long hard con-
test over the federal election bill. those who
had bee n conspicuous in the fight on both
sides felt that they had earned the right TO
absent themselves. Mr.. Lodge went back
to Nahant, where in the delicious GOODNESS
of the sea breezes he has been felicitating
himself upon the passage OF the election Dill.
Mr.. Mills, of Texas, departed to Corsicana,
there to nurse his wrath and compare his
expectations of what the Republicans in this
Congress would not be able to do with his
realizations of what they have done.
Roswell p. Flower, of New York, and
almost all the other mlllionaires, including
the generally indefatigable j. j. Belden,
chairman of the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, sought some COM
Portable resorts in their own states. AT
least one member Of the House Is In Europe,
drawing his salary of thirteen dollars a
day while he wanders through historic
corridors and contrasts the splendOrs and
the sinecures Of monarchies with the plain:
ness of republic and the jealous duties OF
the servants of republics. Some OF the
members are away looking to the conditions
of their fences. This is especially true OF
the Ohio members. The recent gerry
mander of the congressional districts
of Ohio by the Democratic legislature
has completely changed political conditions
in that State. The Republicans Will lose
six or seven members of Congress by this ger
rymander, and those members who are hit
by it are either withdrawing from politics
for the present or are making great efforts to
overcome Democratic maj0rities that haye
been imposed upon them. Ben Butterworth,
whose brilliancy has comforted his friends
and confounded his enemies so many times
this session is thus gerrymandered out, and
for the next two years will busy himself as
secretary: of the Chicago Worlds
Fair instead Of as .souuS9 Congress, Tsss
had gerrymandered Mr.. Mckinley out also,
but he has determined to make the figet new
ertheless, and this has taken him to Ohio
considerably since the passage Of the cleo
tion bill. Gen. Grosvenor, who Is FORAKER 5
eternal enemy, and whose nomination Is bit
terly contested, is also away in Ohio attend
ing the state convention, watching Foraker
and seeing to his own fences.