The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-07-16
Washington Letter.

Senator quay, who has returned from
Pennsylvania, said to-day; Eyes, the
Democrats are claiming great deal in
Pennsylvania this year but they will be
wofully disappointed when the returns
are all in. My confidence in Republi-
can success is unshaken; il is founded
on rock, and when you have sand in
addition To the necessary rock you are
pretty well fixed, and that is Just the
condition of the Republican party of
Pennsylvania. That was "a pretty long
speech for Mr., Quay to make to a
newspaper man.
There is not word of truth in the
statements made In Democratic papers
that the Republican Senators had made
a bargain with the Democrats by which
the Federal Election bill was to be
shelved for the session in return for
Democratic promises of not obstructing
or delaying the passage of the Mckinley
tariff bill. No such bargain has been
made. The Republicans have large
majority in the Senate, and to intimate
that they would allow the minority to
dictate what should or should not be
done by that body is simply To insult
s)me of the brainiest members of the
Republican party. The tariff bill will
certainly pass before adjournment, hut
no determination has yet been reached
upon the Federal Election bill. 1t is
thought another Republican caucus
will be called before it is finally decid-
ed what shall be done with it. One
was held last night and several Sena
tors who had been credited as opposing
it stated that they favored it.
The silver bill reported from the con-
law, like all other compromise meas
ures fails to please the extreme gold
standard men or the free coinage silver
men, but it seems To suit the average
man pretty we'll. 1t provides for the
each month, which is said to be slight
ly i'm excess of the entire output OF all
the mines in the United States.
Notwithstanding the extreme warm
weather, the President, since his return
from Cape May Point Tuesday after
noon, has been working like beaver
After many delays Wyoming is a
State although the forty fourth star
will not be placed on the flag until the
Fourth of next July.
The Senate by majority of 3, re-
fused to open the debate on the tariff bill
this week. Five Republicans voted
with the democrats in this, because
they were opposed To taking up the
tariff bill until the silver bill had been
finally disposed Of.
Representative Perkins, of Kansas,
has introduced Il bill in the House To
establish public schools in the Territory
of New Mexico.
The House committee on invalid pen
s,ons has made a fayorabe report on
the bill to pension army nurses. The
bill only affects about 800 women, and
it seems but tardy justice that these
women, many of whom are destitute
and in bad health should be provided
for by the government for the rest of
their lives.
There is an ugly report floating
around here TO the effect that Repre-
sentatives Hooker and Catchings, sit
ting members from Mississippi, had re-
tanned their seats by obtaining the in
tluence of ex-senator Bruce and Audit
or Lynch, two Mississippi colored men
now in office here. This may or may
not be true, but certain it is that the
House committee on elections has made
II report against the republican contest
ants of Messrs Hooker and Catchings'
seats.
More than one hundred members of
the House are absent from the city, and
Speaker Reed has the hardest kind of a
time TO keep quorum present, in fact
he doesn't do it; the unimportant bust
ness is allowed to go through without
having the question of mo quorum"
raised, and when anything of import
ance is to be acted upon the members
are drummed up until there is quorum
present.
The Original Package bill was, ac-
cording to the programme of the COM
mittee on Rules, to have been disposed
of by the House this week, but the
House got contrary and refused To
adopt the resolution submitted to it by
the committee on Rules. This is the
first time this session that the House
has refused to follow the programme
adopted by that committee.
Chairman Belden, of the Republican
Congressional Campaign committee,
has sent an appeal to the Republican
editors of the country asking their aid
in arousing public sentiment to the
necessity of Federal Election law.
The House has passed bill contain
ing the regulations adopted by the re-