Nevada County picayune., 1890-11-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1890.

MT. Harrison and the Republican alarm over the political situation. and MT. Harrison has consented to go home and vote, for the moral effect his going will have in compell- ing unwilling Government employees go to the expense of doing likewise and in order to send as many voters home as possible the Republicans in all the Government departments have been privately informed that the time so lost would not be deducted from their annual leaves, although if any Democratic employe dares to go he will not only have the time he is away deducted from his annual leave, but will stand chance, and an almost one at that to lost posi- tion. To those Republican em- ployes who claim to be not able to pay their way home free railroad transportation is furnished, and the result is that several thousand men, many of them with questiona- ble right to vote, will go to the sev- era States to help the "G. o. r. :" out of the hole which it's leaders rec ognize it to be Tn.
 In order to pave the way for the use of the enormous corruption fund known to be in the possession Of the Republicans, they are circulating stories about the large amount of money the Democratic Congressional committee has raised for use on elec- tion day. As a matter of fact, the Democratic committee has no money at all, and has found it extremely difficult to pay for the documents which it has had printed and dis tributed, and only succeeded by the personal contributions of memnbbeeTrs of the National and--tr'o and Congressional e6 66fffifn1ittees.
 Notwithstanding the lack of money the Democratic Congressional com mittee is confident of carrying the House by majority of from twleve to twenty, and the only fear they have is that the local committees will not succeed in getting out the full Democratic vote in the close dis tricts, but they have every assur- ance that no effort will be spared to get every Democrat to the polls.
 The Republicans are terribly mad at Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, because he has sprung the arbitration of the Behring Sea con troversy on the public before the election. They had counted on using MT. Blaine's "jingle" letters on that subject to influence Irish votes.
 The Republican director of the mint made an intellectual attempt this week to help his party by trying to explain the recent heavy decline in the price of bar silver. Instead of going to par with gold, as the Republicans in Congress sad 1t would before Christmas, it is still go- ing down all the time, and there is no telling at this tune where it will stop. The silver bill, like the tariff bill, only played into the hands of clique of spectators.
 J. s. Clarkson is veritable "old man of the sea" to the admlnlstra- ton. His friends have demanded of Mir. Harrison that Secretary Noble be nominated to succeed the late Justice Miller, and that Clarkson be made Secretary of the Interior, and it is said MT. Harrison has agreed to do so, provided, first, that the Republicans elect majority Of the House next Tuesday; second, that Mir. Clarkson renounce his allegiance to Gen. Alger, as Presidential can didate and agree to support MT. Harrison for re-nominatiOn. in view of the provisOrs, particularly the first one, MT. Clarkson's chance of becoming Secretary of the lnteri- or is a very dubious one.
 Secretary Windom has scheme in view to cripple the Canadian rail- roads that pass through this coun- try, or rather threatened to do so, in order to prevent the Canadian gov ernment's s adopting the retalitory leg islation against the United States which the Mckinley tariff law has made if inclined to do.