Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent. }

ington this week, but from present
indications, the White House Will
be in no condition to receive him
and his family for at least ten days
10 come, aud to get it ready that
soon the w0rkmen will have to do
some lively busting. 1t has not
been fully determined where they
will go, but it is probable that
they will accept the hospitality of
Postmaster General Wanamaker,
which has been rendered them,
until the White House IS ready
for them.
The conference committee would
have reported the tariff bill to-day
II no time had been lost through
Democratic fillibustering in the
House, which compelled the House
Republican members of the com.
mittee to be IN their seats in the
House when they might just as
we'll have been at work upon that
measure. The committee has al
most completed its work and the
bill will probably be reported
Tuesday or Wednesday at the
latest, unless the lack of a Repub-
lican quorum delays it and, as
usual, the numerous Democratic
prophecies Of irreconcilable differ.
ences among the Republicans fail
ed to materiallze; there has been
no trouble whatever up to this
writing and none is expected. The
Republicans of the com mittee
were unanimously 10 favor of the
reciprocity amendment, and they
were also unanimous for a new
amendment extending the time
for removing imported goods from
bonded ware. houses to February
l, 1891.
Only the other day Democrats
in Congress, and editing newspa
pers, were heaping abuse upon
Secretary Window because he did
not place the entire cash surplus
of the Government at the disposal
of the New York spectators who
were yelling "panic' as loud as
they could, and now that all dan
ger OF a panic has been avoided by
the able manner in which Score
tary Window put very large sum
Of money legltlmately into circula.
ton, these very same Democrats
are abusing Mr. Window for doing
it, and accusing him of having ex.
ceeded his legal authority in paying
out money to relieve the money
market; one of tbem-SenatOr
Cockrell-giving utterance to his
criticism on the floor of the Sen.
ate. That's a tair specimen of
what the Democratic party has
been doing for thirty years it al.
ways opposes what the Republican
party does, no matter how much
craftsmanship and patriotism may
be displayed by that party.
The President signed the RIVER
and Harbor bill within twenty.four
hours after he received it, and a
good many people in and out of
Congress, interested in the various
items carried by it, are feeling
much better than they did this
time last week.
The bill closing the mails to all
matter pertaining to lotteries, in.
Guiding newspapers which publish
their advertisements, was signed
by the President at the same time,
aud the high-priced lottery lobby
are now engaged in trying to dis
cover some way to break the force
of the new law. 1t is understood
that they have advised the Louisi-
ana Lottery company to employ
several prominent gentlemen, in
Guiding MIR. Grover Cleveland, as
attorneys for the purpose of testing
the constltutlOnallty of the law in
the Courts.
To say that the present condi.
ton of affairs in the House of Rep.
resentatives is dlsgracefnl is a very
mild way of putting 1t. Another
week has been entirely wasted by
the Democratic hide and seek
method of breaking quorum, and
so determined were these skulkers
TO get out of the chamber every
time an attempt was made to do
any business that several OF them
did not hesitate when they found
one of the doors locked to kick 1t
open in order to get out before
their names were reached in the
roll call. One of these kicking
Democrats was Representative
Kilgore, of Texas, who several
years ago earned the title of "Dully"
by his anxiety to fight a man old
enough to be his father. His valiant
assault on the door is worthy of a
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