The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-07

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WASHINGTON Letter.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Feb. 3, 1890.
The last week in the House was the most
turbulent in many years. For the amount
of confusion and bitterness indaIged in
there was comparatively little personal
feeling developed, and Speaker Reed is
probably as popular personally among his
Democratic colleagues as he ever was and
that is saying considerable. The result
was to all effects decided on Thursday,
when the Speakers iron will prevailed,
and the question of whether or not men,
be-s who are present and silent can be
counted as voting was settled, for the pre-
sent, in the affirmative. Though on Fri
day the Democrats were able to fight offthe
consideration of the question of taking mp
the election case, FOR over four hours, yet
the acknowledgment Of defeat had to come.
On Saturday the battle has eased down to
a skirmish and the firing was spilitless.
The galleries were comparatively empty.
The result is certainly a victory for
Speaker Reed, but it was one expected by
the most experienced men on both sides of
the House. 1t establishes a fact that was
notorious before, and that is that Speaker
Reed is a man of remarkable perseverance
and unyarying good nature, combined with
an iron will. In his manner the Count
Fosco was never more urbane. OF course,
there is one thing that detracts from his
,;o+orx- a ND that ir tba + tho nap, no re did
not put up the best fight possible. Mr..
Carlisle had proposed taking a stand pure
ly upon parliamentary law and fighting
the Speaker " ithout confusion, but he found
himself unable to control his forces and
bedlam ensued. The so-called '.impassioned
| orators took the bit bet their teeth
and ran away, and an impassioned orator
is of about as much use in a debate on
purely parliamentary questions as he is be-
fore the United States Supreme Court.
Throughout the week the Democrats MISS
ed one man, and he is Samuel j. Randall.
| He had written Mr.. Carlisle to stand firm,
but he could not give Mr.. Carlisle his cum
ming, his force and his knowledge of parlia.
mentary law. No man living in this coun-
try has all these qualifications so highly
developed. In short the Democrats were
unable to use ther full force unitedly.
Butthough temporarily defeated the Dem
ocrats have determined to stand together and
! to dispute the ground inch by inch until
the Republicans are compelled to present
rules for the guidance Of the House. In
this effort, 50 long as it remains legitimate
in its conduct, the Democrats will meet
with a large amount of sympathy from
business men throughout the country who
desire to see legislation actually in motion.
In the meantime the Republicans are to-
day making %renuo efforts to secur a
quorum of their own members in the House
to dispose of the pending election cases.
Saturdays vote showed a strength of 1863,
or two less than a Republican quorum. In
the morning Mr.. O'Donnell turned up and
it was thought that, with the vote Of the
Speaker, the party in power would have
the necessary 165. 1t WAS discovered to
their sorrow, however, that Representative
Naidringhaus, the gentleman with the
strange and wonderful biography in the
Congressional Record, had slipped off to New
York. lie was te~legraphed for. Mean
while, Mr.. Rockwell, of Massachusetts,
sent word that although he was i'll lie
would come if absolutely necessary. The
other absentees are Mr.. Wilbur, of New
York, whose severe illness places his at
tendance out Of the question, and MIR. Cas-
well, whose wife died on Friday, but who
will nevertheless be here to morrow.
The society columns of the local papers
are Just now torn up over a fashionable ac-
fair that threatens the social fabric of the
administration A granddaughter of
Wanamaker, described as very precocious
and entrancingly beautiful at the mature
age OF three years and three months, was
introduced to that gay young rake, Baby"
Mckee, last week. The blood of the
spectators was fairly frozen by the chilly
reception given him by the Philadelphia
prude, who warmly resented the princes
advances. Even now, after several TRADES,
she cannot abide him, and cries Go away,
nasty thing whenever he is in the room.
And all this the local Jenkins grandly re-
lates, as if it were an occurrence of import
ance. Tue journalists under the last Nap
oleon were paid for ascribing pictures to
his young prince when he was but seven
years of age, but inasmuch as President
Harrison is not paying for this stuff by the
yard, the reader might be spared.
Senator Farwell did not openly oppose
the appointment of Mr.. GARRISON as COL
lector of the port of Chicago when the case
was reached, but his bitterness against the
administration is still very marked. lie
says that he believes he could have pre-
vented the nomination had he tried, but that
it would have availed nothing. He adds
that in making the nomination the Presi-
dent deliberately ~disregarded the wishes of
the entire Illinois delegation, and probably
intended it as anaffront. WESTON.
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