Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-03-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent

cd. not to say shocked, AZ the
latest charge OF editor Frank Hat
ton against Messrs Roosevelt and
Thompson, the two Civil Service
Commissioners appointed by Mr.
Harrison. Mr.. Hatton charges
that the communications signed by
Mr.. W. D. Foulke, of Indiana which
we're published last week In the
New York Times and in the ST..
Louis Republic, and which charge
the President and his cabinet with
having entered into a conspiracy
to break down the civil service re-
form system and that the Con
gresslonaI investigation was the re-
suit of that conspiracy, were In.
spired By Messrs Roosevelt and
Thompson, if net actually prepared
by them. Both Uf those gentlemen
deny the charge, but the fact that
Mr.. Foulke, who has been here for
several weeks has been a good deal
in their company makes the thing
look very bad. This added to the
result of the investigation is enough
to DISCUS. the President with the
whole business.
a big Chicago delegation is here
helping the House committee to fix
up the bill for the Worlds Fair,
and it is probable that the bill will
be reported TO the House and pass
ed this week. The Chicago people
say they will not ask to have the
fair postponed until 1898, hut that
they would not object to such a
postponement believing that 1t
would result in making the fair a
greater success. There are still
lots of people here who do not be-
lieve any fair will be held.
The majority of the Senate Com
mittee on Elections have decided
to report IN favor of the Republi-
can SenatoriaI contestants from
Montana. This means practically
that the Republicans will be
seated.
It's expected That the bills tor
the admission of Wyoming and
Idaho will be taken mp by the
House this week. The Democrats
will offer as substitute for the
Idaho bill an omnibus bill includ-
ing New Mexico, ArIz ia and
Idaho.
The senate committee which has
been try so hard to fud out how
the proceedings Of secret sessions
get out has at last got on the right
track by summOning Senators TO
testify before it.
The House committee on Fec
tIuns will send a subcommittee OF
five members to Arkansas TO n
vestigate the killing of Col. Clay
ton, and to determine whether he
or Mr.. Breckenridge, who now
holds the seat, was elected to the
House from the Second Arkansas
district.
The district tax bill, which has
already passed the Senate, has
been favorably reported to the
House. There IS no doubt Of its
passing.
Postal telegrapby has taken up a
good deal of the time OF the Con-
gressional committee on post-of1ices
Of late, and everybody that has
been heard, except the Represent
atlves of the Western Union tele-
graph company, favor the idea OF a
postal telegraph system. some OF
them supporting the Postmaster
Generals bill, which provides for
leasing wires and others Repre-
sentative Wade's bill which pro-
vides for the Governments erecting
the wires. 1t seems pretty certain
that the time is not far distant
when a postal telegraph system
will be in operation in his country.
There have been altogether four
ont of the seventeen cOntented
election cases declle'I Ivy the
House. Three of the Republican
cOntests ITS h ave been seated and
one case decided in favor of the
Democratic sitting memb-r. The
election committee is working hard
to get the other cases ready to
report, but as each case averages
about one thousand printed pag"s
of TESTIMONY it is ces.arily very
slow work.
Senator Plumb's Till TO declare
forfeited the lands granted to aid
in the construction of railroads has
beeh faSorabIy repolte-l to tie
Senate.
That some sort of a silver bill
will be passed by the present Con
gress is certain, bot whether il
will be the bill repolte.l by the
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