Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20.

heen reported from conferences prac-
tically as he first reported it to the
House the report has been agreed
to by the House, and to-day, or to-
morrow at the outside, it will be
agreed to by the senate. Most of
the republicans, in both house and
senate, have worked like trojans on
this bill, and it would be manifestly
invidiOus to single out individuals
for special praise but all the same
every republican in the United States
who believes in the cardinal princi-
piles of his party as laid down by the
national platform of '88, and ratified
by the vote of the people who elected
Harrison and Morton and the repre-
sentatives of the fifty-lirst congress,
should throw up his hat and give
three rousing cheers for Senator Al
drich and Representative Mckinley
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 meas
ures, from a business standpoint,e ever
passed by the American congress.
To them it may be truly said "Well
done, good and faithful servants"
Delegations of Georgians and Ala
bamians are here trying to induce
the president and his cabinet to visit
their states. The programme is to
get Secretary Blaine to deliver an adj
dress on reciprocity and Secretary
Rusk one on farming at the opening
of the Atlanta, Georgia, exposition,
October Is, and then to have the
presidential party before returning,
visit the Alabama state agricultural
fair which opens at Birmingham on
October 20.
Senator Ingalls, Indignantly denies
the report sent out from Washington
that he was paid 5000 for the speech
which he recently made at Pittsburg.
Said Mr.. Ingalls,, ''It is an infamous
falsehood. | neither expected nor
received any remuneration for the
speech. My reward was the con-
seriousness of having done my duty,
and it was amply sufficient.
Secretary Tracy considers the re-
cent government tests at Annapolis
of the relative strength of various
kinds of metal armor for naval ves-
sells as the most important event in
maritime warfare, if the expression
be allowable in a time of profound
peace, of the age. And congress ev-
identity agreed with him, for his re-
quest for an appropriation of 81, 000,-
900 to purchase nickel to be used in
alleging the steel plates for all of the
cruisers now being built the test prov
ed that plates composed Of nickel
and steel were the only ones which
could stand the fire of modern artil-
lery was promptly met by the passage
of joint resolution carrying an APP
propriations of that amount for the
purpose named.
The president and all of the men,
bers of his cabinet are here to per-
form their duties in the closing hours
of congress, and that the closing
hours are near at hand would be APP
parent a even a stranger on account
of the general hurry and hustle around
the capitol particularly in the House.
Secretary Noble has issued regula-
tons for the guidance of those who
may desire to make their own appli-
cations 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 being shown
in the adjudication of these claims,
and any attorney attempting to OBJ
tain such preference is to 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.
The committee investigating the
charges against Gen. Raum, surpris-
ed most people by sending for other
witnesses In order to ascertain who
furnished the New York Tribune with
certain information it published about
the pension office. The correspond
ent will not tell unless the parties
who gave him the information shall
consent.
The democrats have succeeded in
having a resolution providing for the
investigation of certain charges
against postmaster Wheat of the
House of Representatives adopted by
the House. The republicans had no
objection-they knew that investiga-
tions of democratic charges generally
result in the injury of those who
bring them, and this is not likely to
prove an exception.
The House has adopted joint res
olution providing for adjournment to-
morrow, but the Senate may extend
the time day or two.
Since the above was written, the
president has signed the tariff bill
and congress has adjourned.
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