Nevada County picayune., 1890-11-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.l
 WASHINGTON, Nov. :, 1890.


 The great tidal wave of Democrat ic success that swept over this coun- try Tuesday brought more real re- joicing to Washington than anything which has occurred since the elec- ton of Cleveland and Hendricks in 1884 Democratic faces are over spread with smiles, and who has a better right to smile, while the Re publicans, who are frightened clean out of thelr boots, go around with woe -begone faces, and make no at tempt to explain the condemnation which the voters of the country have placed upon the administration and upon the Republican majority in Congress for it's action in giving the people a batch of the most unpopu- lar laws ever turned out of single session of Congress, topped off with the worst of all, the Mckinley tariff law, the weight of which has been felt by everybody, although it is on lv a month since it became q law. The Democrats expected, as they had every reason to do, to carry the House of Representatives by good working majority, but they were hardly prepared to see the party win such an unprecedented victory in every section of the country, electing more than two-thirds of the House and carrying Republican strongholds like Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin. If ever there was good reason for holding a Democratic jubilee it certainly eX- ists now, and it is not strange that the Democrats here are in the widest state of enthusiasm.
 Mir. anamaker was asked what he thought of the result of the elec- ton, but he declined to talk further than to say that he knew nothing about politics. No news in that.
 Millionaire Carnegie, who IS here looking after some of his fat con- tracts with the Navy Department, says in an interview that he regards the results of the election as the sal vation of the republican party, and that he is glad of it. Mir. Carnegie is probably the largest individual beneficiary under the Mckinley tar if law in the country, and necessarl- ly a republican, and it is the passage of that law and the results of the election that have become mixed in his mind, when he says he is glad of it. As to salvation, if the "G. o. r. " gets few more doses of the same kind as that administered last Tues day, it will need the services of an undertaken.
 Secretary Noble and Attorney General Miller want to be provided for before the general break up, which they see ahead, and are both bringing all the pressure they can command to bear on the man in the White House, for the purpose of se- curing the vacant place on the bench of the Supreme Court.
 The Democrats are fortunate in having so much good material at hand to select the next Speaker of the House from. Among the names already mentioned are Messrs Mills, Crisp, McMillan, Breckenridge, (Ky.D Bynum and Springer Very few members of lCongress are now in this city, but somehow the idea seem general that the speakership will go to the South. In that event it is almost certain that it will be one of the first four gentlemen above men, toned.
 Chairman Brice and Flower are meeting with praise on every hand tor the able manner in which they managed the campaign, and left the republicans under the impression that they were doing little or nothing.
 The republicans who went home to vote returned mostly at night, to escape the jeers of their friends.