The true northerner., 1890-05-28
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May %,


The President, like everybody else, is
glad that the House has disposed of the
troublesome tariff question. There are
two other things which the President
wishes to see done before adjournment:
one is TO pass a pension bill, and the
other to provide the means for carry
ing out the recommendations of the re-
cent Pan-American Congress relating
To close commercial relations between
the United States and the countries of
Central and South America. AS a
starter in the latter direction, the Presi-
dent this week sent IA special message
To Congress asking that the amount es-
timated as the quota of the United
States of the expense of making the pre-
liminary survey of the proposed trans
continental railway be appropriated.
This railway is one of the grandest pro-
jects of the age, and prominent en-
gineers have expressed the opinion that
1t is entirely practicable. 10 build il
would make a fitting close To the nine
teenth century, the most remarkable
hundred years in the history of the
world, and its beginning at this time
will make the Harrison administration
occupy proud place in the pages of
American history.
The conference committee having
charge of the two pension bills, which
have respectively passed the House and
the Senate, have not yet reached an
agreement, but the spirit of the dis
cussion has been such us to remove all
doubts of an early agreement This is
disappointing To nobody but the Demo
Gratis, who are opposed to pension lcgis-
lation of any kind.
Secretary Blaine has accepted an
invitation To deliver an address to the
second Scotch-Irish Congress, which
is to meet at Pttsburg on the 29th inst
Among the other speakers will he Gov
ernor Beaver, Representative Brecken-
ridge of Kentucky and Governor Camp
bell, of Ohio
Silver and the Original package"
questions, as represented i'm bills before
that body, have taken up most of the
senate's time this week.
EX-Speaker Carlisle takes the late
Senator Beck's place on the Finance
committee
No agreement yet in the pension con-
ference committee.
Senator Stanford has introduced a
bill cmbodying his ideas of the solution
of the agricultural problem. 1t provides
for the establishment i'm the Treasury
department of land loan bureau,
which shall be empowered to loan on
unncumbered agricultural land one
half OF its assessed value at the rate of
per cent per annum, no loans To run
longer than twenty years. The idea has
more advocates out of, than in Congress,
and there is not the slightest probability
OF its becoming "a law during the life of
the present Congress.
Chairman Mckinley has received
congratulations from all quarters for
the able generalship he displayed in the
management of the tariff bill; not a
single amendment proposed outside of
the committee was adopted, and only
two of those which came from the com
mittee were defeated-those affecting
jute and wool. This was a remarkable
showing, but much more remarkable
still was the fact that when the final
vote was taken, only two Republicans
Coleman, of Louisiana, and Feather.
stone, of Arkansas-voted against the
bill which was passed by vote of 164
10 142. Democratic predictions of .
Republican revolt in the House having
so signally failed, they have begun on
the Senate.
Senator ingalls, thinks ten years. I'M.
disputed possession of real estate should
give good title to the same and he
has introduced bill To that effect.