Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-29
WASHING GTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDING OF THE MONITOR.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.

indications, the White House will be
in no condition to receive him and his
family for at least ten days to come,
and to get it ready in that time the
workmen will have to do some lively
hustling. 1t has not been fully de-
termined where they will go, but it is
probable that they will accept the hos
pitality of Postmaster General Wan
amaker, 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 demo-
cratic fllibustering in the House,
which compelled the House republic
an 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 committee
has almost completed its work and
the bill will probably be reported
Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest,
unless the lack of a republican ono
rum delays it, and, as usual, the nu-
merous democratic prophecies of IL
reconcilable differences among the re-
publicans failed to materialize; there
has been no trouble whatever up to
this writing and none is expected.
The republicans of the committee
were unanimously in favor of the
reciprocity amendment, and they
were also unanimous for a new
amendment extending the time for
removing goods from bonded ware
houses 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 govern
ment at the disposal of the New
York spectators who were yelling
"panic" as loud as they could, aud
now that all danger of panic has
been avoided by the able manner in
which Secretary Window put a very
large sum of money legitimately into
circulation, these very same demo-
Gratis are abusing Mr.. Window for
doing it, and accusing him of having
exceeded his legal authority in pay
ing out money to relieve the money
market; one of them-Senator Cock
rell-giving utterance to his criticism
on the floor of the senate. That's
fair specimen of what the democratic
party has done for thirty years; it
always opposes what the republican
does, no matter how much states man
ship and patriotism may be displayed
by that party.
The bill closing the mails to all
matter pertaining to lotteries, includ-
ing newspapers which publish their
advertisements, was signed by the
president at the same time, and the
high priced lobby are now engaged in
trying to discover some way to break
the force of the new law. 1t is un-
derstood that they have advised the
Louisiana lottery company to employ
several prominent gentlemen, includ-
ing Mr.. Grover Cleveland, as attor-
nies for the purpose of testing the
constitutionality of the law in the
courts.
Superintendent Porter of the CEN
sus bureau, who was dangerously i'll
last week from nervous prostration
brought on by worry and overwork,
is much better, though not vet en-
tirely out of danger.
Secretary Noble has returned from
his vacation looking much improved,
and he says, feeling in tip-top con-
dition.
To say that the present condition
cf affairs in the house Of representa-
tives is disgraceful, is very mild
way of putting it. Another week
has been entirely wasted by the dem
ocratic hide and seek method of break
ing quorum, and so determined
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 before
their names were reached in the roll
call. One of these kicking demo-
Gratis was Representative Kilgore of
Texas, who several years ago earned
the title of "bully" by his anxiety TO
fight a man old enough to be his fa-
ther. His valiant assault on the door
is worthy of place beside Don QuiX-
ote's charge on the wind mills, and
Sancho Panza's place was filled by
Amos Cummings able journalist, who
lately imagines himself politician.
There is only one remedy for this
state of affairs. That is, to get q
quorum of republicans on the floor of
the House. and for this the republic
an managers have been striving sew
eral weeks without success. If they
can get quorum of republicans to
: stay here for week they could pass
all the measures necessary, and if the
quorum does not materialize by the
time the tariff bill is reported from
conference serious trouble is feared
, Every day republicans expect to see
that quorum, but they have been dis
appointed so often that they are al
a most losing hone