The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-31
Washington Letter.

laugh on the Democratic press of
the country which has been railing
at him for allowing his wife to &C
cept a seaside cottage at Cape May
Point. The criticism would have
been but just if Mrs. Harrison had
accepted q cottage from citizens as
a gift: but the fact has just leaked
out, and it did not come from the
President either, that Mr. Harrison
gave his check for $40, 900 in pay
ment for the cottage which his fam
lily is at present occupying at Cape
May Point. 1t was intended by the
gentlemen who purchased the
ground and built the cottage to
have presented it to Mrs. Harrison,
but as soon as the President learned
of it he informed them that he made
it an inviolable rule Of his public
life never to accept, nor to allow
any member Of his family to accept
presents of any kind. How many
Democratic papers will have the de-
cency to correct the wrong accusa-
tions they have been making ?
The House has been Industrious
this week, and Notwithstanding
that one day was lost ON account of
the death of Representative James
P. Walker, of Missouri, it has pass
ed two very important bills-the
"Original Package bill and the
National Bankruptcy bill.
If the Democratic Senators have
no stronger arguments to offer
against the Mckinley tariff bill than
those made by Senator Voorhees, in
his speech delivered in the Senate
this week, they might as we'll to re-
tire from politics, for this year any
way AS a phrase maker Mr.. Vor-
hees i evidently trying to run OPP
position to Mr. Cleveland; but he
seems to lack the originality of the
ex-President. It is understood
that the Republican Senators will
make no set speeches on the tariff
bill until the appropriation bills
have all been disposed Of by the
Senate.
The air is full of rumors as to
what will or will not be done by the
Senate in regard to the several re-
ciprocity amendments which have
been offered to the tariff bill; but it
is noticeable that they all come
from Democratic sources. The Re
publican Senators, who will decide
the matter, are not talking about it,
certainly not for publication, but
that they will take care of the inter
ests of the people, as the Repub-
lican party has always done is not
for a moment to be doubted; there
fore Republicans can afford to pa
tiently wait for the action of the
Senate, knowing that the bill final
ly passed will embody the ideas and
principles for which the Republican
party has stood for 10, these many
years.
The correspondence between this
government and Great Britain re-
lating to the Behring Sea dispute
has been made public and it reflects
nothing but credit upon Secretary
Blaine and the administration. It
is brought up to Mr.. Blaine latest
dispatch to the British Minister,
which is dated July 49,
This has been military week with
the President. Tuesday afternoon
he returned from a visit to his fam
lily; Wednesday he went down the
Potomac to visit the District of Co
lumbia militia in it's annual encamp-
ment, and yesterday, accompanied
by Secretary Proctor, he went to
Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, where
the State National Guard of that
State is encamped
There is nothing new in the status