The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-03-20
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
Some Things Of Interest in and Around
washington --DoingS in Congress,
&c., &C., as Reported by our
Special CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 10. 1890

| Nlce-President MOrton's s sudden trip to
Florida has been fully explained to your
correspondent by a prominent Republi-
can who is not an admirer of the Doodle
cOmpaign which Mr.. Morton has entered
upon to capture the Republican nomina-
ton in 80. "Mortons object said
this gentleman, Gin going to Florida at
this time is to hold private consulta-
ton with Senator Quay, who is also
| down there, and to ascertain whether his
support can be purchased. He is prepar-
ed to pay Il big price, and am afraid he
Will succeed for Quay has always had a
weakness for money, particularly when
IN large sums, and no man knows the
value of money in a apolitical campaign
better than he"
There is an old fashioned game called
the devil among the taiors'' that re-
minds one of Frank Hatton and the Civil
Service commission. AS soon as the tes-
tlmony in the Congressional investiga-
hon, which has been anything else but
favorable, to the present brand of Civil
Service Rdfofm, was all in, Hatton threw
another dynamite bomb into the reform
sham camp by charging that certain let
ters written by one w. d. Foulke and
printed in the New York Times and the
st. Louis Republic which charged Mr. Har-
rlsOn and his Cabinet with having enter
ed INTO conspiracy to break down the
system OF civil service reform, were in
splred by two of the Civil Service Com
miSSIOners.' The two commissioners DENY
the charge. OF course that was to be ex-
pected; 1T was either deny or hand in
their designations. But Hatton will not
let the thing stop here, if he can convince
Mr.. Harrison of" the truthfulness of his
charge somebody will hear something
drop before long.
The Democratic members of the House
are fretting no little because they lost a
seat in the House last week that might
Just as well have been kept The trouble
is that certain Democratic members of
the House refuse to sacrifice either their
pleasure or their private business to Oc-
cupy their seats and attend to the duties
that they were elected to perform. There
are several OF these men who have not
votedin the House three times this entire
session. In this particular case several
Republicans, disgusted with the report of
the majority of the Elections Committee.
lntlnated to Democrats that while they
would not vote against the contestant
they would make it point to absent
themselves without pairing when the
make it certain that the DemocratscouldI |
kept their words, and yet the contestant
was seated by beggarly majority of two
votes, all because the chronic absentees |
OF the Democratic side were not on hand |
to vote.
\ minority report was submitted by |
Mr. Oates, who, it will be remembered. |
engineered the long deadlock in the last |
Congress against the same bill. No dead |
lock can prevent it from becoming law
this time.
The House committee on Pensions seems
to have gone daft 4 majority of that |
has practically agreed to re
port bills that would if they became laws,
require nearly S7OU,0O0,O0 to pay the
pensions. Thesereports are only bunkum,
onsane man has any idea that more than
one half OF the bils-the dependant-wiIl
be passed, and that is by no means Ger
tain, as the rapidly lessening Treasury
surplus has already caused the Republi-
can leaders to notify the chairman of
to curtail their appropria-
tons if they expected the bills to get
through.
The House will probably take up the
bills admitting Wyoming and Idaho this
WIEN. ht Ill dHtdpOUlLtl
the bills with an omnibus bill prepared
by Mr.. Springer providing for the admis-
sion OF Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico and
Arizona.
1t was supposed that in view OF the
acts and the law, and also of the fact
that the votes were not specially needed
that the Senate Committee on Elections
;ould afford to be fair in making u decis-
on in the Montana Senatorial contest.
out by strict party vote it has decided
TO report in favor Of the Republicans. \
more outrageous and unfair decision was
never made by any committee
1t is impossible to get a Republican
member OF the House Ways and Means
committee to say a word about the new
tariff bill, and when it will be reported, if
t ever is, nobody seems willing to even
guess.
Out OF the four contested election cases
iecided by the House only one Democrat
has been allowed 20 retain his seat.
When the Senate committee that has
Deen struggling so hard to discover how
he proceedings OF secret sessions leaked
Iut began to examine the Senators the
scales fell from its eyes. Now the Com
nittee knows what everybody else has
Known all the time. TAR HEEL.