The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-03-12


WASHINGTON. ID. c.. March, z, 1890.
The President was so much pleased
by the news of Senator Allison's re-elec-
ton that he sent for Mr. Allison To come
20 the White House in order that he
might receive his personal congratula-
tions. Since the news arrived here Mr..
Allison has been compelled to devote
the greater part of his time TO receiv-
ing congratulations. Few men in the
Senate are as popular as the senior
Senator from Iowa.
Certain dignitied members of the
Senate continue To fret because the
wicked newspaper men will not tell
how they get the proceedings of the
secret sessions of the Senate, and all
sorts of remedies have been proposed
Senator Blackburn even going To the
extent of proposing 10 abolish the press
gallery entirely. 1t is much more
probable that it will end in the abolish
ment of the secret session.
1t took the House four days To seat
Mr.. Featherstone, the Republican con
testant from one of the Arkansas dis
tricts, but he got there"
Political lines nave become somewhat
obliterated in the discussion of the Blair
Senator Barbour, of Virginia, for it
this week.
Invitations are out for an excursion
through the South to he given by the
State Department To the members of
the Three Americas Congress. 1t will
start Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the Congress, the date being
somewhat uncertain at this time.
The Civil Service investigation, after
being extremely lively and sensational,
has again become quite dull. 1t is be-
lieved that the committee will report
the majority of the charges against the
commission as having been proved.
The Senate committee. on Agriculture
has reported favorably on the bill
transferring the weather bureau from
the War to the Agricultural Depart
ment.
Ralph Beaumont, chairman of the
Knights of Labor Legislative committee,
made an argument before the House
post-office committee this morning in
favor of Post master General Wanna
makers postal telegraph bill.
The United States Supreme Court
this week heard arguments in the case
of Neagle, the deputy u. s. Marshal
who killed David Terry To prevent hi.
making an attack upon Justice Field.
The decision is anXiously awaited as
the question at issue involves to GER
tainextent the old Calhoun doctrine of
States rights. Neagle was released
from the custody of the State authori-
ties of California by United States
Judge on a writ of habeas corpus, it be-
ing claimed by the State that he should
have been regularly tried for murder in
the STATE Courts. The court room was
crowded to its utmost capacity while
the arguments were being made.
The fifth woman-Clara Shortridge
Foltz, of California been admitted
to practice before the u. 5. Supreme
Court.
Ex-Governor Warmoths nomination
to- be Collector of the port of New
Orleans was confirmed by the Senate
after the hardest fight of the session.
The Democrats thought they would
create CONSERVATION among the Repub-
leans of the House when they announc-
ed that Mr.. Pendleton, of West Vir-
ginia, who was unseated last week
with less than a quorum, would carry
his case to the Supreme Court by max
ing a claim for his salary as Repres-
entative, but they quickly discovered
their error, Tor nothing would please
the Republicans better than to get a
decision from the Supreme Court on
Mr.. Reeds quorum rulings. They are
perfectly satisfied that the rulings are
Constitutional and decision of the
Supreme Court would probably quiet
the loud -mouthed men on the Demo
cratic side OF the House.
A committee of the House will inves-
tigate the killing of Powell Clayton in
Arkansas.
ExRepresentative Taulbee, contrary
TO the reports generally circulated, is
likely to die from the pistol shot receiv-
ed from Charles +. Kincaid, correspond
ent of the Louisville Times, last week
The ball has not yet been found and the
patient is suffering severly. The witness
to the assault in the House corridor
will not talk and the scandal out OF
which the shooting grew is not much
discussed. All stories To the effect that
Mr.. Taulbee dosen't want Mr.. Kincaid
prosecuted are moonshine, rs they gen
orally are i'm such cases.