Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-11-20

ers that you may lead them In paths Alright
suffer in their failures. or rejoice in their
| successes, which shall cause to take root
the lessons of honesty, purity, loftiness Of
ambition, and the true aim Of noble living?
FLORA ID. MARKS
From our regular Correspondent
Washington Letter
WAsHINGToN, d. G., Nov. 10. 1890
The President is hard at work on his
annual message TO Congress. just as he
would have been had there been no poliii-
cal cyclone. He listens patiently to all the
explanations made by the returning repub-
/ licans of the causes, and Is satisfied that
| the result was brought about principally
| by stay home republicans, aud that they
remained at home on account of democratic
misrepresentation concerning the new
tariff law and the Federal election bill and
tn the number Of republicans that voted
| for democrats is small ID any one locality,
though it mounts up in the aggregae
| notable thing about the situation i,
that not single prominent republican who
has been to Washington since the election
feels any alarm about the result In 1892
without exception they are OF the opinion
/ that the dissatisfaction in the republican
ranks which enabled the democrats To
elect such a large number Of Representa-
tives In the Northern States. will all han,
disappeared before the opening Of the
National campaign This Is certainly en-
couraging.
What about the election bill:" is
question that tia, been asked very often
since the election. | do not pretend to
speak by suthority. but judgin. from what
i said by republican Representatives aud
Senators now here, | think It viii be push
ed through the Senate at once. However.
nothing will he done until a caucus of re-
publican Senators has been hello. and as
there are several prominent Senators who
have from the start thought it unwi>e 10
pass this bill, it may be decided to let it
drop. The President will, in all prohabil-
ty, make some recommendation regarding
this Bill in his message; he has been
generally supposed to he in favor Of Ii.
but there are rumors during the last day
or two that he now thinks il would be
unwise To attempt to pass It through The
Senate at the short session; not because
lie does not think there is a necessity for
such Il law, but because hc fears democrat.
Il, rlti,u ri . H.
80 much time that 1t would be impossible
To pass the Congressional apportonment
bill, which will also be bitterly opposed BY
the democrats, in both House and Senate,
and the thirteen regular annual appropri-
alton bills, al the short session. 1t il per
fcct!y natural that the President should be |
aserse to calling an extra session of the
newly-elected Fifty second Congress in the /
spring, and the failure Of even one Of the 4
regular APRON Iatiun oihS to pass at Tire I
coming session will leave him no choice in
the matter-the passage of all the appro-
priation bills before the first of next July
j. necessary TO keep the wheels Of Govern /.
ment running.
vers here think that nothing short of a !
miracle can prevent the holding CT IN /
extra session in the spring, and the fact |
that the democrats have already opened the |
campaign for the Speakership of the House /
in the Fifty second Congress, shows that /
they believe an extra session to be one Of
the certaiuties. of course the rcpubii- ,
cans will do their level best to pass all /
necessary legislation at the coming short (
session, in order to prevent the holding of /.
all extra session. The closing session Of
the Fifty first Congress certainly bids fair /,
To be one of the most interesting and cx
citing short sessions ever held
Speaking Of the campaign for the Speak
ership Of the next House it is already in
full blast here, and owing to the large ami
unw wieldy majority that the democrats will
have, it promises TO be unusually hot and
exciting. For the first time in thirty years
the northern democrats VIII ind themselves
able to control the House, if necessary.
without The aid of sluele vote from the
! Southern States and that they will attempt
to elect northern democrat Speaker is
well nigh certain. The Southern demo-
Gratis have so long regarded the Speaker
ship of the House as their special perqui-
site, when the democrats controlled the
House, that they are not at all disposed 10
give it up, and will not without making a
most bitter fight. Already they are argu-
ing that among the democratic Representa-
t;ves elected from the Northern States
there is no man who possesses the par
liamentary knowledge and legislative ex-
perience necessary to make a successful
! Speaker of the House, and up to this time
the argument has been an unanswerable
one. NeitLer Bynum of Indiana nor Sprin-
| ger of Illinois. both of whom are candi-
dates, can hope to secure the solid support
of the members from the northern States.
and without it they cannot win. Mills, Of
| Texas, Crisp and Blount of Georgia,
Breckenridge of Kentucky, Hatch Of
Missouri and Wilson of West Virginia,
are already in the field as Southern candi-
dates.
The town has been shocked by a rumor
which started in New York, that Post
master General Wanamaker was financi-
! ally embarrassed. Nobody here believes
word Of it, and Mr.. Wanamaker's friends
say that Jay Could started the rumor in
order to injure Mr.. Wanamaker's credit,
because against Gould's wishes Mr.. Wana-
maker persists in pushing his idea of
postal telegraph system, which Gould
thinks would be injurious to the Western
Union Telegraph company, which he con-
trolls.
Coercion in Religion.