The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-07-02
Washington Letter.


This has been an important week in
the House, and one long to be remem-
bered. After an unusually exciting
time over the Senate free coinage
amendment To the silver bill the House
by vote of l35 to l5l refused its con-
currence to that amendment, and asked
/ for a conference on the Dill. Had the
Democrats voted solidly in favor of free
coinage, IS they did last week, the
amendment would have been accepted;
but, in addition to number who
absented themselves when the vote
was take, there was respectable
number that voted against the amend
ments, more than enough To of set the
republicans who voted Tor them.
As soon us the silver bill was out OF
the way the House took up the Federal
Election bill, and the exciting tight over
that measure is now in full swing The
present programme is To debate the bill
until next Wednesday when vote will
be taken. The bill will pass the House,
unless something now unforeseen shall
occur To change the sentiments of "A
large number OF Republicans; but those
best posted on legislative probabilities
say that il will not pass the Senate at
this session, even if il is taken up by
y
The President threw a little bomb
shell in the House this week by telling
several Republican members that if the
House accepted the Senate amendments |
adding more than $4,000, 600 to the |
River and Harbor bill, which carried |
nearly $2l 900, 600 as passed by the
House, he would feel compelled To veto
the bill. Quite number of people
believe that he intends to veto the bill |
anyway.
Mr.. Blaine's idea of an amendment To |
the Mckinley tariff bill providing for |
reciprocity with the South and Central |
American countries continues To be an
absorbing topic of conversation, in
spite of the important happenings of
the week 1t is strongly favored by the
President, and is gaining ground very
rapidly i'm Congress and unless all sur
face indications are at fault, the Sen
ate will certainly adopt it, and it will
have an excellent chance of passing the
House also. The more it is discussed
the more friends it makes; ii promises To
afford relief not only To the overtasked
manufacturer but also the great agri
cultural interests of the country by en-
larging the market for our products. 1t
is by no means new idea with Mr..
Blaine; it is only the legitimate outcome
of the plans he began when Secretary
of State under the late President Gar
field, and which would have been carried
out under that administration had not
the assassin Guiteau shot Gen. Garfield
Senator Henderson has made
strong report to the Senate which
bears out the statement several times
reiterated in this correspondence as To
m hnp l.l az
trap used for the Government Printing
office, the largest establishment of its
kind i'm the world Senator Henderson
says, the only remedy is the construc-
ton for the use of this office of fire
proof building. Ground may ut this
time easily be obtained in the immediate
vicinity of the present office; but unless
Congress shall act promptly in secur-
ing 1t private enterprise will set ahead
of it by purchasing the ground for
other purposes.
The long investigation by Senate !
Committee of the dressed meat traffic, |
which took place last year, has borne !
fruit, and the Senate Committee ON
Agriculture has favorably reported Il
bill To provide for the inspection of all |
live stock about To be slaughtered in
tended for human consumption i'm any
state or territory other than where |
slaughtered or for expectation.
The House bill authorizing oaths to |
pension papers To be administered by
any official authorized to administer
oaths for general purposes, has been
favorably reported To the Senate
Senator Ingalls, hit the nail square on
the head, rs he usually does, when he
said that senator Call of Florida has |
not only grossly violated and abused
the privileges OF the Senate; but had !
deliberately falsified the Record in I'LL |
ing fourteen pages of that publication
with personal statement defending
himself from an attack made upon him
by citizen of Florida 1t cannot be
too often stated that the Congressional
Record should contain only what
actually takes place in Congress.
The President will tomorrow pay
his first visit to the new cottage at Cape
May where his family are quartered for
the season. He will return To Washing
ton Tuesday.
Wonders of the Dead Sea.