Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-05
wAsHii1soroN LETTER. 4. rII
IEDn our regular COrespODdeDt, !

Senators Sherman and Allison are at logger
heads over the crazy quilt hodge-podgs
known as the Mckinley tariff bin. and Sena-
tor Allison "a reported 10 be preparing q
speech 10 be delivered against The bin on a.
floor OF the Senate, should he fail as now
seems probable, to, carry his point in the
Finance Committee. In the meantime the
party leaders seem to have gotten the whip
hand OF the kickers, certainly 30 far as the
Republicans Of the committee are concerned
and the majority Of the committee are work
ing like Beavers to get through with the bill,
importance. Some Republicans say the bill
will be reported In q week, but It is more
probable that IL will take four weeks TO
get through, allowing that harmony continues
in the committee, which Is by no means GER
tain. .'.. ..t. ..st
Speaker Reed is getting a good deal of
notoriety because he issued an order prohib-
iting the sale of drinks in the House restaur-
ant. The only effect of the order has been 10
put the proprietor TO the trouble of serving
liquor to his guests seated instead of stand.
ing, in the good old fashioned way, Sitting
at table to take your whisky is a Boston idea
The fiery g. A. R. orator, whose feelings
suffered excruciatingly because the people at
Richmond chose to enjoy harmless bit of
sentiment by exhibiting the flag of the Con.
federacy, was in his glory in this vicinity on
Decoration Day. he was quite numerous but
does anything but laugh at him.
When Senator Stewart stated on the floor
of the Senate that Major Powell, director of
the Geological Survey, was at the head of "a
lying-in hospital for lame ducks" he struck
the nail square on the head. The Geological
Survey occupies large and luxuriou .ly fitted
up quarters here, and no man has ever been
able to put his hand upon anything tangible
performed by that bureau, and il has long
been standing joke that the only work Der.
formed by Major Powell and his numerous
assistants was in the nature Of lobbying to
get fancy appropriations through Congress for
themselves. These fellows call themselves
scientists, and perhaps they are. They have
certainly learned the science of living in style
at the expense of tina Government. An inyes
tigation would amount to nothing unless
and successfully had upon Congress should
fail to work.
Assistant Postmaster General Clarksou.
who has of late been posing as the speciai
champion of the anti-civil service legion. has
disguised many Of them by proving himself
to be as great a humbug as the civil service
law. Mr.. Clarkson recently discovered that
Just as his official life was nearing its close.
the postal service on the Pacific coast was
AOONAhB ga OhAoAoA AhcpCOelOu DY MIN, ana YES
terday, having previously made arrance-
ments with an obliging railroad official for
the use OF private car, Mr.. Clarkson started
on his farewell junket. At Des Moines his
family will Join this model official who il
doing his level best to reduce the Treasury
surplus. As soon as Mr.. Clarkson gets tired
of the travelling over the Pacific slope he will
return to Washington, and resign.
Senator Carlisle is the latest Democratic
IN oRiva the Fop
good advice. In reply to letter from gen.
tleman in Alabama asking his views of the
bill, which has just been reported adversely
by the House Committee on Ways and Means
to provide for the establishment of sub
treasures for the storage of agricultural
products, Mr.. Carlisle says: 1.-The farmers
have been taxed so long for the benft of
other classes and have seen so much legisla-
lation for the aggrandisemento of corporations
and syndicates that their patience is exhaust
ed, and finding it impossible, for the time
being at least to abolish the system which |
mas oppressed and despoiled the greatest ln- |
1ustrial interest of the coantry, they are now
that the very policy. which they |
have. heretofore denounced as unjust and |
'uinous shall be applied to them, or rather |
part OF them, for no scheme has yet been sug-
yested that will operate alike upon all for |
9lgners. But no evil can be corrected, no |
wrong can be righted by increasing its mag
litude and extending the scope of its opera |
ion. There is but one effectual remedy for |
he evil which undoubtedly exists, and that
to reverse the policy which produced it.'
Postmaster General Wanamakeris is earning |
he ill-will Of all the small Washington PEN
ion agents, because he is allowing one large |
irm, which publishes paper, to violate the |
'ostal laws in sending out copies of that pa
,er. Like MIR. Wanamaker, the head of this |
avored concern was large contributor to |
he Republican campaign fund, which ex-
useth many things.