Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-19

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondence of The Standard

Is involved therein. Tlls is the way
Senator Edmunds paid his respects to
Mr.. Blaine's idea: GAS to rcciprocite
with Central and South America, the
demand OF country for commodities
does not depend as much upon num-
bers as upon the state Of its society, its
wealth and its civilization. When |
look at any Central American or South
American State, / think that any one
hundred average people in North
America have, during the last year.
consumed more of the products, mer-
chandise, food and clothing that go to
make up the comfort, luxury and hap
piness of mankind than any one
thousand average people in the Central
or South American States. Therefore
the expectation OF the United States
being able to dispose of a large increase
OF its products there, is, in my opinion
one OF the greatest illusions that bril-
liant men or sober statesmen have
lately fallen into" Senator Sherman
in advocating his Canadian reciprocity
amendment was equally emphatic in
condemning the Blaine idea. 1t is not
that these gentlemen have anything
specially against reciprocity, but they
hate Blaine, in fact the Republican
Senators all seem to hate each other
anyway.
Of course the reciprocity amend
ment will be adopted when the time
comes to vote, and I'll bet horse cake
that both Edmunds and Sherman vote
for it.
Senator Vance had some fun with
Senator Edmunds, by giving the old
gentleman rope enough to get himself
tangled up as to the duties upon the
products of North Carolina. Mr.. Ed
munds is an able lawyer, but he knows
simply nothing ct all about the tariff,
and every time he has attempted to
speak on that subject he has but ex-
hibited his ignorance of it
The House has, after debate which
should raise blush of shame to the
cheek of every honorable American
citizen, unseated Representative Breck-
enridge of Arkansas.
Representative Cannon having un-
dertaken by " cooked up" statement
to show the House that the receipts of
the Government for the present fiscal
year would exceed the appropriations
made by Congress for the same period,
Representative Sayers, OF Texas, who
to large extent taken the late Sam,
uel J. Randalls place on the Commit
tee on Appropriations, punctured the
Cannon bubble and demonstrated by a
carefully prepared statement that for
the first time since 1866 the appropri-
ations will for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1891, exceed the revenues of
the Government. The deficit will be
somewhere between $6,OcO,O0O and
1000 900 providing OF course that the
majority springs no new and unex-
pectcd appropriations to increase it.
Mr.. Sayers also presented detailed
statement showing that nearly 500, ,OOO,-
600 will he necessary to meet the de-
ticiencies of the present fiscal year.
All of which shows that if the United
States was compelled ON the 3Oth day
of next June to pay all of its floating
indebtedness, it could not do it, not
withstanding the enormous surplus of
cash which the Democratic admins
tration turned over to the Republicans
on March 4, 1889. These facts speak
louder than columns of argument.
Speaker Reed got SO frightened over
the reports from his district that he
took off his silk sash and russet shoes
and started for home this week. Sem
ator German laughed when he saw the
accounts which certain Re-
publican papers gave of his going to
Maine to carry money to beat Reed.
As a matter of fact, Mr.. German has
never been in the State of Maine in
his life.
Secretary Rusk should hang Davy
Crockett's motto "Be sure you are
right and then 60 ahead" where he
can see it all the time. Then perhaps
he would not make another such bad
break as he did when he stated in an
official communication, that harley is
the only cereal of which there is not
raised sufficiency for home consump-
ton. Wednesday, Secretary Evarts
presented to the Senate cOmmuni-
cation from the Oswego, N. Y Board
of Trade, contradicting Secretary Rusk
and showing that we raised 100000
bushels more than we consumed last
year.
:. 1t looks very much like MIR. Har-
rison would be given All opportunity to
veto the River and Harbor bill, as he
threatened to do early in the session.
1t has been reported from the confer
ence committee, and the Senate amend
ments are practically unchanged. !
predict that Mr.. Harrison will sign it
in spite Of the $25,OOO,OOO which it
carries.
Representative Kennedy of Ohio
compared Senator Quay to Judas Is
CARROT in speech in the House. More
Republican harmony.
FREDERICK Winters, who was badly