Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-02
WASHINGTON.
ALL INTEREST CENTRES IN THE
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Boa Quay Thought 10 Have Finger In
the Republican Pis-He Wants an
Eicction-Law.
fProm Our R.rular CorrsspondentJ

Thursday and the President is not, there
fore. making any appointments during
TINS brief interval, so that no one can get
worked up over the selections for Office.
ceedings, and il the galleries could ac-
commodate 10000 people instead of 2.o00
| they would probably DO crowded
every day while the struggle between
the Republicans and Democrats goes
on. When the House met this Morn
ing the Democrats renewed the fill
clustering tactics OF yesterday, although
that they would do so to-day as Messrs.
Carlisle and Crisp had advised an orderly
proceeding while the West Virginia con-
| tested-election case of Smith Us. jackson is
before the House, 1t looked yesterday as
| II the Democrats had about abandoned the
| fight, and the more hot-headed ones be-
came disguised and freely expressed their
opinions of what they called the policy Of
fighting for few days and then eating
dirt"
EFFECT OF THE CAUCUS.
The caucus last night stiifened the backs
of the Democrats, however, and when the
| House met again this morning the fill
clustering was renewed, and the first move
made was the demand for the reading of
the entire Journal Of yesterday, which in
cluded all Of the roll-calls. This killed
nearly one hour of time, and during the
weary, dull, and prosy proceedings the
| Car of the House sat in the tyrant's chair
and perused every now and then the New
| York 7f7bune-the paper which is uphold
ing him in every diabolica, ruling that he
| has made.
QUAY's HAND.
| There seems to be hardly shadow of q
| doubt that Boss Quay, the chairman of the
! National Republican Committee, has been
helping to direct the policy of the Repub-
licans in the House. Not only is an at
tempt to be made to pass an infamous
election-law. aimed at the South, but the
this Congress which will amount to
nothing less than bare robberies unless
some honest men on the Repub--
licsn side step in and prevent
the proposed raid. Although the Republi-
cans of the House in the fight now pend
ing are all standing by the big bulldozer
from Maine, many OF them loathe and de-
spise the miserable tactics which he is pur-
suing. The party whip keeps them in line,
but before many more months the notorious
| jobbers will probably discover there is a big
| Republican member from the State of Hi
nois. who is chairman of the House Commit
teeon Appropriations, and that he will use
his great influence to put q quietus on
many of the most gigantic jobs that have
|
Der is Joseph G.. Cannon, "a man with an
| honorable career though strong partisan.
Mr.. Cannon has served a great many
years on the Appropriations Commit
tee, and now that no is chair
man he probably realizes fully that
if jobs creep through the House or
if the regular appropriations are unusually
| large this session he, as chairman of the
committee, will be held largely RESPONSE
bio for the extravagsnces at least. Mr.:
| Cannon and MIR. Randall agree pretty well
regarding the question of appropriations.
| Recklessness in this sort of business Mr..
Cannon we'll knows will not suit the west
| ern people among whom he lives, and being
| an honest and fair-minded Republican he
will undoubtedly oppose the many schemes
which the Treasury raiders have ooncooted.
AN ELEcTIoS-LAw.
Boss Ouay wants above all things an cleo
| tion-law passed. Bulldozer Reed is with
him, and the Boss helped to make the Bull
dozer the Gar of thel present House. If
brute force can put the measure through,
the Republicans are going to pass the
| election-law. and there is one noteworthy
point to be made right here regarding this
matter. The Dispatch correspondent
was conversing last night with very
prominent Republican, and the latter said
that although the Republicans intended
| 10 pass, III pOsSlDle, Iut law uiluucu
| to, yet they had not the slightest idea 1t
could be enforced, as it is O well-estab-
lished rule that no law can be enforced
in any community where public senti-
ment is against the law. General Cutch-
con, prominent Republican congress-
man from Michigan, has frequently stated
here that he was once prosecuting attor-
| ney in local-option county in that State
| and that he was never able TO secure o
iotin Gov n hppQIlgp
after the law was passed sentiment
changed and no juries could be gotten
which would convict.
The Republican talked with last night
| further said, in substance, that neither ne
| nor any other sensible man in his party
had the slightest idea that an election-law
could be enforced. But" he added, we
can say after the law is enacted, it Is on
the statute-books, and the Democrats IN
the South are violating the law 1t Is
generally conceded that the Democrats
will have a majority in the next House, and
| am aware of tho fact that it would re-
quire an army of million men to enforce
any such law in the South"
THE NORTH AND WEST.
Evidently, then, the Republican leaders
expect to gain nothing in the South, and
their only hope is to arouse the North
and West. That is forlorn hope. how
ever, and the only possible benefit the
Radicals can hope to reap under the
outrageous policy they have map
ped out is that during their tempo
rary control of Congress and the Execu-
tive Mansion they can vote the biggest
sort of subsidies. pass doubtful claim
bills, squander money on wild cat coast
defence projects and soldify the party by
appropriating q couple of hundred million
dollars more for the benefit OF the Grand
Army of the Republic. When they get
through with this business the taxpayers
of the land will take hand, and II the
black Republican party doesn't get
whipped badly at the November election
then the signs of the times will fail
INTERVIEWED.
Mr.. Parke Agnew, the well-known Re- |
publican of Alexandria who made the race |
for Congress in the Eighth Virginia dis
trict against General W. II. +. Lee, in a talk |
with the Dispatch correspondent said yester-
day that there wasn't Republican politi- |
clan north of Mason d Dixon's line who |
knew as much about southern interests as |
he knew Of the interior of Africa. Mr. Ag- |
new, who is such respectable man, is be-
ing accused by some of the irresponsible |
local Republicans of Alexandria of not be-
ing Republican in spite of the |
fact that in national affairs he has |
voted the ticket right along. Being very |
independent man Mr.. Aghew doesn't en-
dorse the local trash IN Virginia, and they |
howl at him. Like all sensible Republic
cans in the South Mr.. Agnew knows quite
well that the policy of the Republican
leaders in Congress in regard to the South
will not do, and truly does he say that
these northern Republicans know nothing
about the condition of affairs in the South.
The filibustering in the House was kept
up until 2 o'clock to-day, and then Bull
dozer Reed ruled so tyrannically on every
point raised by the Democrats that the lat
ter ceased their obstructive policy again
for awhile, and the contested-election case
was once more taken up. Mr.. Crisp made
an argument and tangled mp the Republic
cans badly by making some statements re-
garding the juggling by the Committee on
Rules. This brought Mr.. Mckinley to his
feet, and the morning debate was interest
ing.
Just what the Democrats will do next
week to circumvent Bulldozer Reed has
not yet been fully agreed upon. Under
such unprecedented decisions as he has
rendered it is hard to determine what move
N naGa ua rafucao IN ligtqn IN motions !