The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-09-03
THE NArIONAL CAPITAL.
Special Correspondence to the GLoBE-RE-
PUBLICAN.

Special Correspondence 10 TIC ULohh-hH
PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. D. c., September LIST.
Leading republicans in both Senate
and House are considerably worked NJ
over the recent disgraceful episodes hap
pening in the latter body. Heretofore
the democrats have had monopoly OF
these turbulent scenes. Disorder with
them is but a natural condition, but the
republicans in Congress have Away;
been noted for good conduct and respect
| for the rules and prophecies of life. The
recent occurrence. therefore. is deemed
by republican leaders as the more repre-
hensible.
Judge Cannon, of Illinois. the man
who provoked the trouble is of vigorous
expression and does not always count
the cost of his words when giving them
expression. He has had two spats this
session. in the first of which his attack
! upon Milliken. of Maine, was of threat
ening nature. His late antagonist, Ma
son, of Chicago. is considered one of the
jOlliest men in the House, full of fun
and witty as the best. Both, however.
proved that their vocabulary of personal
abuse and explosives was full to over
flowing, and vulgarisms slid out of their
mouths as if smoOthed with double COM
pound lard.
The excitement attendant upon this
war of words was as nothing when two
members in adjacent seats came to blows.
Never before in the history of Congress
was Il blow struck in open session.
Brooks, of South Carolina, came the
nearest to it when he assaulted Charles
Sumner just after the Senate adjourned
Congressman have also fought to
the death for words spoken in debate.
like Graves and Cilley, most horrible
assassination, but the conflict never took
place in either branch of Congress.
The new state of Washington. in the
person of Mr.. Wilson. its representative.
and one of the original thirteen. New
Jersey. in the person of Mr.. Beckwith.
have the credit of bringing the ways of
pugilism into the deliberations of the
American House of Representatives. 1t
should be added though, that both men
are profoundly sorry for their miscon-
duet and for bringing Il stigma upon the
hitherto unsullied name of their states.
The war is over, though, the only man
wounded. except in reputation, is Repre-
sentative Williams, of Ohio. who at
tempted to separate the combatants and
as usual with the peacemakes, got black
eye for his pains.
The New York City delegation have
set themselves up to thwart the will of
the American Congress in the matter of
changing the burial place of General
Grant from Riverside to Arlington. The
leading objection they urge to the re-
moval of the illustrious body is that the
General himself signified his wishes to
be buried on Manhattan Island. Those
who are of good memory, though, know
that General Grants preference was
West Point, but this was out of the ques-
ton as he made it condition precedent
that no matter where laid away Mrs.
Grant, at her death, should be laid by
his side. The same objection is illated
against the beautiful Soldiers Home
near this city as the site. These New
York democrats also affect to sneer ut
the objections raised by the American
people to surrounding Grants tomb with
unsightly stables and ask Ibid you ever
see grave yard from which stables
could not be SEEM" Curious. isn't it.
that the same men who bitterly reviled
Grant when alive fight for the possession
of his bones. 1t is said though. that a
local real estate speculation has some-
thing to do with the anxiety to retain
the generals body in New York City
soil.
Republicans in the Senate are now
working steadily eight hours day to
finish up the tariff bill and 90 home.
This has been a long and trying session
to them. Men can enter the United
States Senate at thirty years of age but
few ever do. They are mostly old men,
white or gray haired, weighted. not
alone with years, but with the cares and |
anxieties of apublic career. 1t is won
derful, therefore, the energy and endur-
ance they show in these long contests
with nature. John Sherman, for in |
stance. rarely misses roll call. He is
nearly seventy years of age and has seen
almost forty years of service. He is. too.
but specimen senator. His colleague,
Henry B. Payne is eighty. Wonderful
vitality these old men possess. and al
most one believes that politics is
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