The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular correspondent.)

WASHINGTON, March 81. 1890
The President is understood to De
taking a great deal of interest in Inc
investigation of the civil service COM
mission now going on here. and there
is reason to believe that the reslSha-
tiOu of at least one member OF the
present hoard will as consequence
be asked for at an early day II 1t Is
not rendered Voluntarily. Up 10 the
time that Shidy rnnfrsSed peuurer
and the man who was given posi-
ton in the CensnS oil q here for turn
Ing States evidence against the post
master of Milwaukee, was put on the
witness stand. Commissioner Lyman
WAS the only sufferer. but Shidy
made it plain that all three of them
are in the same boat and now the
popular verdict is guilty. Guilty of
trying to hamboozle the public with
reform talk while following practices
that would bring bushes TO the cheek
of the most hardened spokesman. IL
this be reform the people have hao
quite enough of it.
The Senate committee on Elections
discussed the Montana Senatorial
contest on Saturday without ARRIVING
at any conclusion. and appointed n
sub. ommittee-Senators Hoar and
Gray-t0 make collation. of the facts
in the case and report them to the fu II
committee next Saturday.
The President of the Western I'm
ion telegraph company made an ar
gument before the House postoffice
committee Saturday against Post.
master General Wanamaker's Postal
telegraph bill.
Mr., e. E. Kincaid, correspondent
of the Louisville, Kentucky. Times
| had personal difficulty last Friday
in coSrider of the Capitol building
with ex.represenative Taulbee. of
Kentucky. and the latter gentleman
was shot in the head by the former.
J The widest excitement existed for a
while in the building. Mr.. Tauibee
is now out of danger and Kincaid has
been released on bail.
Vice President Morton and family
have gone to Florida for a stay of
several weeks. Senator Ingalls, ha~
been elected president pro tenapore
of the Senate to act during Mr.. Nor.
tons absence.
Secretary Window has accepted
the offer of the North American com
merciaI company of New York and
San Francisco and awarded it the ex
elusive privilege If taking seals in
Alaska waters for the next 20 years.
The amount to be paid is about ST.
O00. 900.
Secretary Tracy has returned from
his hurried trip to Br0Oklin. He
looks well. but his extreme restless
ness tells the close observer that his
shattered nerves have not yet resum-
ed their normal condition.
The House has seated two more re-
publicans-Atkins, of w. Va. and
Featherstone. of Arkansas. The
other contested cases are to be pushed
along rs rapidly rs possible.
Elk President Cleveland has sold
his suburban residence near this city
tor Sl4O 900. His friends say that he
has cleared SlOO,000 in the transac.
ton. but lots of people here believe
that the entire amount received
is profit as the place was given ~ him
by real estate syndicate for the pur-
pose of booming property in the vi
entity.
The bill providing for the holding
of a Worlds Fair in 1892 is still in
the hands of the House committee.
and will not be reported to the House
until it IS fixed up to suit the Chicago
people who have not yet fully decid.
ed just what they want. 1t will pass
the House though not without oppo-
Sition, but its fate In the Senate is re-
garded % very uncertain.
Many republicans are beginning to
talk up Speaker Reed as the candi.
date for'92. We might go farther
and fair much worse. Mr. Reed has
two of the principal requisites to
make successful President-brains
and backbone.
The meinbers Of the Senate in their
attempts to discover where and how
the newspaper men get the reports
OF the proceedings in executive SEES.
sions are furnishing a heap Of fuu for
the newspaper men without gaining
any information. If all the Senators
attendant upon an executive session
were locked up for "a hours afrer.
wards il would be perfectly safe to
bet thsA Ahe newspapers of the next
day would not haye the proceedings
of that session.
The Three Americas Congress has
adopted resolution recommending