The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-03-14
WASHINGTON Letter.
(From our regular correspondent
II q A. n 100

the Senate committee on elections and pri-
vileges, us is always the practice in con-
tests for seats from a purely party stand
point. la accord with this custom the ma
iority recommends the seating ofSaunders,
the Republican. The grounds for this rec
ommendation is that the Republican House
in Montana was the legal House rs its
members held certificates of election and
the body was recognized as the legal
House by the State Senate. The report
will be made in a few days. Senator Gray
will prepare the minority report, which
will be an exhaustive argument for the
Democratic side. Senator Turpie will not
sign either report, but will likely make
one for himself, as he holds that no formal
election of Senators has been accomplished
and believes the case should be returned
to Montana for action.
The Senate committee on privileges and
elections has reported on the request of
Mr.. Call that the accuracy of the report Of
his speech on the Saunders Florida murder
as published in the Congressional Record,
be investigated. The committee declined
to question the accuracy of the stenograph-
err and recommended that the report of the
speech stand without correction. The adj
ditional question as to how far a Senator
may go in debate and be within parliament
tary bounds was recommended to be refer
red to the Senate committee ON rules for
definition.
In this beautiful manner does the Senate
sit in judgment ON hair pulling among its
old women. Senator Chandler claimed
that Senator Call had i%nterpolated into the
published report of his speech remarks de-
rogatory to his New Hampshire dignity.
This accusation Mr.. Call resented with all
the ~tervency of his Southern nature. OF
course the charge was true and everyone
knew it to be true. Still Mr.. Calls Ian
guage as used on the floor was fully as bit
ter and personal as vas the language i'll the
Record. lie had added nothing of impor-
lance. The custom of allowing Senators
and Representatives to revise the official
reports of their speeches shall have some
limit. At present it sometimes means that
the official report is mangled beyond re-
cognition, and a speech that was when de-
livered a miserable, stumbling failure be-
comes after pruning and padding a bril-
liant success. When you start to revising
a speech there is no telling where you end.
The House is deep in figures. The
scores of public building appropriations
ira 1.f,,.a II anl thn ap1 snavtc far off
The mill grinds rapidly enough. Regular
IL Il bill is called up in the Committee of
the Whole, it is recommended that the
proposed appropriation be reduced about
twenty. five per cent, and then the able sa-
Ions grab the next one and put it through
a horizontal reduction.
The government clerks are having some
difficulty recognizing their Republican
State Associations. The trouble is gener-
ally about membership. The truth is that
so many of them forget their allegiance to
the old party during Mr.. Cleveland's adj
Ministration that there might be awkward
explanations to make. Their love feasts
give promise of being cold and Suspicious
affairs.
Speaker Reed usually walks home from
the Capitol, and you can be sure that
there is always somebody lying III wait to
catch him and ask iol some favor, as he
strides up the avenue. His enormous DO
dy shakes as he walks and the gait is rapid
but not firm. His head is bent forward as
that of a man who has habitnally poured
important advice into shorter mems eaIs.
The smile on his face is one of PEI feet con
tent and his eyes, looking like small beads
in that immense mass Of jelly-lile flesh,
take in everything. No Que in his party
is half 50 we'll pleased with his success as
a Speaker as is Mr.. Reed himself. For
years he has fretted at being kept in the
back round, aud now the sarcasm and ac-
cusatiors of his political enemies are as
dear to him as the congratulations of his
friends.
But if the present session las ~glorified
Reed. it has depressed Major Mckinley.
The Ohio mans leadership is waning.
Reed takes all the ~laurels. The recent de- |
bate on the new rules and the prior fill
clustering, offered Mckinley an opportupi-
ty of which he failed to avail himself. As
the representative of the majority in the
most important committee of the House,
he exhibits the same defect that Carlisle
does as representative Of the minority. He
is too slow. With all their experience and
good sense these men are unfortunately
placed, for neither has the cut-and-c6me-
again powers that make such men as Reed
and Randall leaders on the floor.
The contested election eases are espec-
tally annoying to the Democrats. The de-
bates on these cases have developed the
strength of Crisp, of Georgia, who is rap
idly going to the front rank and who is
personally popular with his Democratic
colleagues. He is the readiest man now
on the House floor, of his party. It the
Democrats had their choice to-day Crisp
would be speaker. Ifthe Republicans had
1t to do over again, | doubt if Mckinley
would receive n quarter of the votes he had
last December. Thus are regulations lost
and made in a few months. WESTON
Something worth Having,
We have just received from Johnson &