The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-02
WashsngIOn Letter.
(trom our regular correspondent.l
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WASHINGTON u. u, Aprll 70, 1891.
Senator Quay is to retire from the head
of the Republican National Committee and
Assistant Postmaster-Genera Clarkson is
to succeed him If the rumor which is being
much talked about here is true. Accord
ing to this story the change is to take
place at the meeting Of the committee
which has been called for May It'll in this
city, and it is to be made at the special re-
quest of Mr.. Harrison.
In reporting the Senate Anti Trust bill
to the House the Judiciary Committee took
occasion to give the Senate 4 blow below
the belt. The report says tina the measure
is not hat any member of the committee
would have proposed upon his WI mo-
ton, bat it recommends its passage as
perhaps the only Lex ~islation possible under
existing circumstances by this Congress.
In order to get the fell force of this report
the fact must be remembered that both in
and out of Congress the opinion is general
that this bill will accomplish nothing.
That Congress can sometimes rise to the
occasion was fully shown when the joint
resolution appropriating $3.50, 900 for the
relief Of the sufferers by the Mississippi
flood became a law in less than two hours
after it was introduced. Representative
Coleman, of Louisiana, introduced 1t in
Senator Gibson performed 4 like service in
the Senate, and as soon as it was cngrossed
Mr.. Coleman jumped into a cab and took
it to tho White House and the President
Immediately signed it. Mr.. Coleman then
went to the War Department and got the
Secretary of War to telegraph its passage
to the officers in the flooded district. The
nearest approach to opposition the resolu-
ton met with was when Representative
Bland, of Missouri, asked where Congress
found the authority to appropriate money
for the relief of the people i'll the various
States. Representative Cannon, of Illinois,
replied that they found it in precedents
and IN the starving demands of thirty-five
thousand people. Which was right +?
Mr.. Reed went to PittsbErg Saturday
and Mr.. Burrows VAS appointed Speaker
pro TEN. of the House.
The attempt to de feat the appropriation
for the Civil Service Commission in the
House failed, but 81 members voted for it.
A vote for the outright repeal of the law
would receive a much larger vote than
that, but not large enough to repeal it.
A committee from the American agri-
cultural colleges and experimental stations
is here for the purpose of bringing their
needs to the attention of Congress. 1t asks
for at least S15, 900 a year for each State.
Politics have been getting qnitc warm
here Of late, and since the introduction of
the Republican Senatorial caucus Federal
Election bill they have become red hot.
The Democrats call the measure revolu.
tionary and say they propose to resort to
every possible means to defeat it.. The
Republicans don't say much, but they go
right along preparing to pass the bill, and
as a preliminary thereto a resolution has
been introduced in the Senate restricting
debate on any measure to six days and
prohibiting dilatory motions 10 prevent a
vote being taken at the end of that period.
The Democrats claim that under the
present rules of the Senate they can and
will defeat this resolution, but that will
depend largely upon the decisions Of the
presiding officer of the Senate, and if Mr..
Morton hasn't the sand TO meet the ex-
pectations Of his party leaders he will be
persuaded to take a little trip aud Mr..