The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-09-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


ington this week, but from present
indications. the Waite House will
be in no condition to receive him and
his family for at least ten days to
come, and to get it ready that soon
the wOrkmen will nave to do some
lively hustling. 1t has not been fully
determined where they will go, but
it is probably that they wi accept
the hospitality of Postmaster Cen
eral Wanamaker, which has been
rendered them, until the White
House is ready for them.
The conference committee would
have reported the tariff bill to-day If
no time had been lost through Dem
ocratic fiilIbuStering in the House,
which compelled the House Republi
can members of the committee to be
in their seats in the House when they
might just as well have been at work
upon that measure. The mittee
has almost completed its work and
the bill will probably be reported
Tuesday or Wednesday al the latest.
unless the lack of a Republican
quorum delays it and, as usual, the
numerous Democratic prophecies of
irreconcilabIe difference among the
Republicans failed to materiaIize;
thnrn hAs frnnh1A bo
up to this writing and none is eX-
pected. The Republicans of the com.
mittee were unanimously in favor
of the reciprocity amendment, and
they were alsu unanimous for new
amendment extending the time for
removing imported goods from
bonded warehouses to February l,
1891.
Only the other day Democrats in
Congress, and editing newspapers,
were heaping abuse upon Secretary
Window because he did not place the
entire cash surplus OF the Government
at the disposal of the New York spec
uIators who were yelling "uanic" as
loud as they could, and now that
all danger of a panic has been avoided
by the able manner in which Secre
tary Window put very large sum
of money legitinately into circula.
ton. these very same Democrats are
abusing Mr.. Window for doing it,
and accusing him of having exceeded
his legal authority in paying out
money to relieve the money market
one of them-Senator CockrelI-giv-
ing utterance to his criticism on the
floor of the Senate. That's fair
specimen of what the Democratic par
ty has been doing for thirty years a; it
always opposes what the Republican
party does, no matter how much
craftsmanship and patriotism may be
displayed by That party,
The President signed the River
and Harbor bill within twenty four
hours after he received it, and good
many people in and out of Congress,
interested in the various Items car
ried by 1t, are feeling much better
than they did this time last week.
The bill closing the mails to all
matter pertaining to lotteries. includ.
ing newspapers which publish thei.
advertisements. was signed by the
President at the same time, and the
high-priced lottery lobby are now
engaged in trying to discover some
way to break the force of the new
law. 1t isunderstood that they have
advised the Louisiana Lott9r Com
pany to EMPLOY several prominent
gentlemen, including Mr.. Grover
Cieyeiand, as attOrnies for the pur.
pose of testing the constitutionality
of the law in the Courts.
Secretary Noble has returned from
his vacation looking much improved
and, he says. feeling in tiptop condi-
ton.
Supt. Porter of the Census
bureau who was dangerously i'll last
week from nervous prostration
brought on by worry and overwork
is much better though not yet entirely
out of danger.
To say that the present condition
OF affairs in the House of Representa-
tives is disgraceful is a very mild
way of putting it. Another week
has been entirely wasted by the
Democratic hide and seek method of
breaking quorum, and so deter
mined were these skulkers to get out
of the chamber every time an ATTEMPT
was made to do any business that
several of them did not hesitate when
they found one of the doors locked to
kick it open in order to get out be-
fore their names were reached in the
roll call, One of these kicking Dem.
ocrats was Representative Kiigore, of
Texas, who several years ago earned
the title of "bully" by his anxiety to
fight a man old enough to be his