Nevada County picayune., 1890-09-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
I From our Regular Correspondent.


 WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 1890.
 Speaker Reed having adopted about all the prerogatives pertaining to the legislation branch of the gov ernment, suddenly remembered that there were certain other prerogatiyes conferred by the Constitution upon the executive exclusively, This was more than he could stand and he de- termined to poach upon the execu- tive preserves and he actually did, for more than week, refuse to sign the River and Harbor bill which had been passed by both House and Sen ate, and to make the matter worse he stated that unless the Democratic members would agree to remain 1T their seats to make ''cOunted quo rum" while the republicans passed anything they pleased, he would not sign it at all. The Democrats sim ply laughed at his threats and lei him understand clearly that they knew a method of quickly convincing him that he had no authority to veto bills. That brought him to his sen ses. He dismounted from his Fro. ian horse and attached his name to the bill without more ado. The signing of the bills passed, by the Speaker of the House and the Presi dent of the Senate, are clerical func tions, exactly the same as those per formed by clerks of courts, merely attesting that the bill has beer passed, and for either official to re fuse to do so, should be suiiicien cause for his impeachment.
 The conference committee on tht tariff bill k made up as follows Re publicans-Senators Aldrich, His cock, Sherman and Allison; Repre- sentatives Mckinley, Burrows, Ding ley and Bavne. Demoerats-Sena tors Vance, Carlisle and Voorhees, Representatives Mills, McMillin anC Flower Republicans expect the bill to be reported back early next week but whether it will or not depends entirely upon the power of Republi, cans to reconcile tue radical differ ences existing among them on the sugar and other schedules.
 The Senate having passed the bil closing the mails against the lotter' ies, it is said that the lottery people have offered MT. Cleveland and Sen ator Evarts fabulous retaining fee to take the new law to the Supreme Court to get a decision as to whether it is constitutional.
 The House has cased it's conscience by ordering that the worst parts of the speech calling Senator Quay q modern Judas Iscariot and con victed felon, recently delivered in the House by Representative kenne' dy, of Ohio, but not printed in the Congressional Record until Monday last, shall be expunged from the Re cord. In the mean time MT. Quay says nothing.
 Two Republicans out of three taken at random will admit that Rep resentative Cooper's charge against Pension Commissioner Raum have been proven, notwithstanding the protection given the accused by the Republican members of the commit tee, and any report whitewashing him, made by the majority of the committee, will have wilful and de liberate perversion of the evidence Hr. Harrison is inconsistent. He rc- fuses to speak to Dudley and yet he allows Raum to remain in an impOr- tant office.
 The conference report on the rail- road land grant forfeiture bill, which does not forfeit an acre of land which any of the big railroads want to re- tam, has been agreed to by the Sen ate. Every Democrat present voted against it.
 The bill to repeal the Timber Gull ture act has also been passed by the Senate.
 Mir, Harrison has sent word here that he wishes Congress to take re- cess until November 10, instead of adjourning, hut the indications are that if he wants Congress to come back in November he will have to is- sue proclamation to that effect.
 There will be no more political leg islation passed by the House at this session unless the Republican bosses can succeed in getting a quorum of Republicans on the floor of the House, which they expect to do every day, but they have been ex- pecting the same thing for a month past. S.
 --------------------s--sr--"-
 It is too much to have to scratch for }