Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent,

(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. O., Sept. o.
Representative Mckinley is the
hero of the hour. His tariff bill
has been reported from conference
practically as he first reported it to
the House; the report has been
agreed to by the House, and today,
or tomorrow at the outside it will
be agreed to by the Senate. Most
of the Republicans, in both House
and Senate, have worked like tro-
jams on this bill, aud it would be
manlfestly invldlous to single out
individuals for special praise; but
all the same every Republican in
the United States who believes IN
the cardinal principles of his party
as laid down by the National plat
form of '8S and ratified by the vote
OF the people who elected Harrison
and Morton and the Representa-
tives of the Fifty.first Congress,
should throw up his hat and give
three rousing cheers for Senator
Aldrich and Representative Nc.
Kinley for the able manner in
which they have discharged the
arduous duties and responsibilities
which their party associates placed
upon their shoulders by putting
them in their respective branches
of Congress, in charge of this, one
of the most important measures,
from a business standpoint, ever
passed by the American Congress.
To them it may be truly said, "Well
done good and faithful servants"
Delegations of Georgians and
Alabamians are here trying to in
duce the President and his cabinet
to visit their States. The pro.
gramme is, to get Secretary Blaine
to deliver an address on reciprocity
and Secretary Rusk one on farming
at the opening of the Atlanta,
Georgia, exposition, October 10,
and then to have the Presidential
party before returning visit the
Alabama State Agricultural Fair
which opens at Birmingham on
October 20.
Secretary Tracy considers the
recent Government tests at An
napolis of the relative strength of
various kinds of metal armour for
naval vessels as the most import
ant event in maritime war fare,
if the expression be allowable in
time of profound peace, of the age.
And Congress evidently agreed
with him, for his request for an ap'
preparation of S1,00O.00O to pur.
chase nickel to be used in allowing
the steel plates for all the cruisers
now being built (the test proved
that plates composed of nickel and
steel we're the only ones which
could stand the fire of modern ar
tilIery) was promptly met by the
passage of joint resolution carry
ing an appropriation of that amount
for the purpose named.
The President and all of the
members of his cabinet are here to
perform their duties in the closing
hours of Congress, and that the
closing hours are near at hand
would be apparent to even a
stranger on account of the general
hurry and hustle around the Capt..
tol particularly in the House wing.
Secretary Noble has issued regu.
latiOns for the guidance of those
who may desire to make their own
applications for pension under the
new pension law, without the aid
OF an attorney, and copies will be
mailed to all who care to apply for
them. He has also ISSUED stringent
orders against any preference be.
ing shown in the adjudication OF
these claims, and any attorney at
tempting to obtain such preference
is to be disbarred from practice
before the department.
The Democrats of the House have
been as meek as lambs ever since
the Republicans had a quorum of
their own present.