Fergus County argus., 1890-05-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, May 16, 1880.

| " "ANnlNt.pN, .Nut w, ic''.
| Mr.. Harrison is very unhappy on account
Of the present deadlock between the house
and the senate ON pension legislation. and
| fears that il it is not broken soon there " III
be nothing done al this session. The SEN
ate has passed the dependent pension bill
and the house adopted as a substitute
| therefor the Morrill, service pension hill.
This the senate refused to accept and the
house has refused to reverse itself. and thus
| IL stands.
| The Democrats We're made very happy
when that eminent Republican. Represen-
tative Butterworth, arose on the iioor Of
the house and made n five-minute speech
showing the injustice of protecting certain
industries. as the Mckinley tariff hill does,
at the expense of all the rest. Mr.. Butter
worth said he believed in - prot ective tariff.
but he thought il was searrying il rather too
lar when n certain industry is enabled to
pay S6,,, 900, 900 in dividends ON u ca pitt al
.f 81 ,.5o. 900. Mr.. Butterworth has been
very harshly criticised by the Republicans
for having made the speech. They do not
lear any effect that il may have upon the
passage of the Mckinley bilI-that is as
sured hut they fear it's effect upon the
| voters when used as n campaign document
this fall.
Two ugl, aspersions against the great
political parties "f the country were wiped
out this week, as far as il was possible for
gentlemen prominent in each party To have
removed them by making positive state
nenrs respecting their opponents. Mr..
Gros,enor of ohio and Mr.. Mills al Texas
had II sharp con, r",.rsy over the charge
made by Mr.. Grnsvenor that the NM sjority
uf the ways aud means committee of the
last house had been cont rolled by Have
meyer. the head Of the sugar trust. Mr..
Mills stated that he regretted that the de-
bate should have become personal, and
that he did not believe that any member of
the present waysand means committee had
been improperly approached, whereupon
Mr.. Mckinley. chairman al that commit
tee. not To be uutdone ia magnanimiiy,
said And ! lo not believe that any mem
Der Of tl. majority of the committee on
ways aud means oi the last house was i'm
properly approached" The incident very
tiitingly ended 10y the applause of The entire
newspapers on both sides will now drop
these ridiculous charges.
The Jones silver hill has occuped the
greater portion "f the senators time this |
week and will continue to u" so until it in
disposed of. Its passage is regarded as
almost certain, ~ only one Republican
senator Tcller-has s@ far spoken against
it.
Why did the national Republican com
mittre hold n secret meeting here after AN
nouncing that the meeting called Tor last
Monday had been indefinitely post poned?
is II question that is puzzlins the few poll
ticians aud newspaper men who have dis
covered that such was the ease.
Every amendment so far proposed to the
Mckinley tariff hill has been voted down.
Those two good Republican brothers.
Senators Plumb and Hoar were naughty
The other day on the floor OF the senate.
Mr.. lIoar wanted to speak on sonnet hing
that required unanimous consent. when
Mr. rlumh objected. Mr.. lioar lost his
temper aud remarked that he had never
seen such an exhibition of houri.hne-s."
Then you never hook in "A mirror re
tortrd Mr.. Plumb. Aud now there are two
more senators who never speak as they
pass by.
senator quay continues tn pay very fire.
Iuent visits To the White House. aud the
,ossips are giving all sorts "f reasons there
or
representative Flower expressed several
very decided opinions to n representative
II the Farmers Alliance who made an ar
,unent before the house committee on
ways and means in favor Of tho bill To e--
iablish subtreasuries for the receipt and
storage of agricultural products. Mr..
Flower does not favor the idea, rs he thinks
{ it was adopted We would soon ha veevery.
hing I'm hook, and that in ten years the
government would lee nursing the children
md the women working in the fields. Mr..
Flower thinks the farmers only hope for
prosperity is to regulate production, which I
would enable them to control prices. lie I
also thinks our present system of currency ,
Entirely wrong, and that the money should
ne ISSUED by the several states. |,
Speaker Reed says congress can adjourn
lune 81" and Senator Allison says he
loes not think it possible for congress To
adjourn before the middle of August.
Sir Julian Pauneefoote, the British min
ster, has at the request oi the Prince of /;
Wales planted an English oak tree at the ,
omb of Washington at Mount Vernon, to
axe the place Of the one planted there by
he prince some years ago, which had died. +;
senator Frye thinks the house will pass
he river and harbor bill this session.
senator Brown of Georgia, whose health
,as been bad for IA long time, will resign
oon. Ia