Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-03-29
WASHINGTON.

Lodge Federal election bill one of
the most Objectionable measures ev>
er before Congress, and considers that
it would be practically impossible to
hold a legal election under its COM
plicated provisions. In speaking of
the bill Mr.. Carlisle said Suppose
we do a little figuring on it to start
with. If this bill was a law there
would be at each of the $4,000 elec-
ton precincts OF the country, at ev-
cry Congressional and Presidential
election, 7 Federal officials, making,
a Total of $780, 900 men, and costing
ten or fifteen millions of dollars every
two years. This estimate Is based up
on the present number of voting pre-
cincts, but the complications of this
bill would make the process of voting
such a slow one that the number Of
precincts would have to be largely in
creased, perhaps doubled, in order to
give the voters an opportunity to de-
post their ballots". The bill has
not been much better received by the
the republicans than by the demo-
Gratis.
The Blair educational bill is dead.
But the Senator has come up smil-
ing with another bill. This time the
appropriation is only $5S, 0OO, 900.
The republicans of the House don't
vote as they talk in contested cleo
ton cases. The Democrats were led
to believe that seven or eight repub~
licans would vote with them in the
case of Mudd VS.. Compton, but when
the vote was taken Mudd got the
solid republican vote and the seat.
There are four contested election
cases in which all the arguments
have been heard, and it is expected
that the republicans of the commit
tee on Elections will try to railroad
them through this week.
A favorable report has been made
to the House on the bill providing for
the appointment Of commission to
investigate the liquor traffic.
The announcement by the republic
cans of the House Ways and Means
Committee several days ago that the
tariff bill was complete has brought a
great deal Of trouble upon them in
the shape Of objections from inhuen-
tial members of their party to GER
tain clauses ofthe bill. The result
isthat the bill has not yet been re-
ported to the House and it may not
be this week, and it would not be
surprising if the pressure should
prove great enough to compel radi-
cal changes in the bill before it is
reported. 1t is probable that the
democrats will prepare a substitute,
based-on the Mills bill, hut giving
all raw material used in manufactur.
ing a place on the free list.
So general has been the complaint
against the paper used in the postal
cards that the Post Office depart
ment was compelled to get after the
contractor, and that individual ha;
promised to use a better quality O.
paper hereafter.
The House has passed the annua.
pension appropriation bill. 1t was
for sos, SOC, 900, and every man WHIT
voted for it knows that it is no
enough, and that there is bound Il
be a big deficiency at the end of tn,
next fiscal year, but that does no
stop the demagogues from getting VI
and bowling for additional pension
legislation. One of them in a speecl
advocating a service pension said a
coolly as if he was speaking of buy
, ing an apple, that the total cost {
such a bill would not exceed $648
; OOO, 900.
When Mr.. Carlisle's statement WI
4 published recently that the apprOpri
0 alton which the republicans of tn
5 Congress intended making woul
. cause a deficiency in the Treasury
the end of the next fiscal year, M
. Cannon, chairman of the Hou'
committee on Appropriations, ST.
. ted that it was a misrepresentation
made for political effect. Now
good a republican as Senator Hawle
| states on the floor of the Senat
I that the appropriations to be mac
d for the next fiscal year will aggrega
1923, OOO, 900, against an estimate
e revenue of $45O, 900, making
: deficit of 1913, OOO, 900. Certainly NJ
Hawley was not talking for polite
effect.
Now it is discovered that the Secr
tarv of the NAVY needs an assistan