Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-03-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondence of the Standard.

Regular Correspondence of the Standard.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 81, 1890.
Mr.. Harrison has been trying to lay
wires this week that will result in his
controlling the Pennsylvania delega-
ton to the next National Republican
convention. He returned to the
White House to-day from Pittsburg,
and from the pleased expression on his
face when he got off the train, he evil
IDENTIFY thinks he succeeded. What
Senator Quay, who is now on a fishing
trip to Florida, will think of this inva-
sion OF his territory cannot be said,
but he will certainly smile very broad
ly at the idea of Mr.. Harrison, or Mr..
Anybody Else, controlling the Penn
sylvania delegation without his as
sistance. He owns the Pennsylvania
Republican machine.
Politics has got into the contest for
the Worlds Fair, which opened in the
House yesterday, and which is to be
finally decided next week. Members
of both parties fear the effect its loca-
ton will have upon the next Presiden-
tial contest, and those best informed
now believe that unless the fair is held
at Washington it will not be held at
all. Mr.. Carlisle says it. cannot con-
stitutionally be held under the control
CT the Government anywhere but in
the District of Columbia. Mr.. Mills
heads about sixty members who are
opposed to its being held at all, and he
expects to be joined by enough disap-
pointed members, after the site is Sc
lected, to defeat the bill providing for
the fair. That's the present status,
by Monday or Tuesday some sort of
combination may be made to change
| it.
Mr.. Wanamaker's scheme for a
cheap postal telegraph system between
all cities having free delivery seems
to be very favorably received, and it is
generally believed that Congress is dis
posed to give it trial.
The pension appropriation bill for
the next fiscal year has been reported
to the House. 1t is for sos, ,427 ,461,
nearly $17,000,000 more than that
passed by the last Congress, and still
the cry for service pension bill carry.
ing an additional amount of$110 O0O,-
loco q year is sreverberating through the
corridors of the Capitol. The gentle
men favoring this last measure do no
tell where the money is to come from
It certainly is not in the Treasury o.
likely to be in.
The Republicans of the House pro
lpose taking up the contested election
cases as soon as the Worlds Fair ques
ton is settled. There are four report
waiting to be acted upon, and strang'
to say, one Of them confirms the CLAIM
OF the Democratic contestant.
| The Republican members of tn
Ways and Means committee of tn
House, in order to make reduction
of about SEC, 100000 in the tariff, Pre-
lpose to suspend the sinking fund &C
which requires about $40,O00,O00
year. The only thing that they ar
agreed upon is the repeal OF the tobac
co tax. They are now engaged in try
ling to get up some sort Of compre
mise as to the sugar tariff.
Jay Hubbell, who a few years az
passed as the boss OF the Republica
party, is here in the interest of the bi
providing for the purchase Of the Po
tage Lake canal, connecting LAX
Michigan and Lake Superior.
The bill transferring the Weatht
bureau to the Agricultural departmcr
will be reported to the Senate ne,
week. Its passage is regarded as ce
Itain.
The investigation of the civil sc
vice commission opened quite livel
and Mr.. Lyman is far from being ha
lpy; he was compelled to acknowledi
that his brother-in-law stole set
3questions and furnished them to
woman who afterwards obtained a p
sition through the knowledge she g
from the stolen questions. He all
acknowledged that the stealer Of Il
Questions was afterwards promote
How Lyman can be kept on the COZ
mission after this without making Il
whole business more of laughir
stock than it already is, is more ths
lordinary folks can see. The commi
tee will hold another meeting Monda
The Woman's rights annual conve
ton ended four days session to-da
Several of the speakers predicted til
women would vote in less than t
years.
II The British extradition treat
which the late Senator heidelberg
succeeded in defeating last winter, h
been ratified by the Senate. Dem.