Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-08-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.



Regular Correspondence of the standard.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July -, 1880.
The Southern Senators deprecate
bovcotting, but decline to talk about
it; some OF them, for instance Cor
man, of Maryland, and Vance, OF North
Carolina, see nothing in it but the
silly vaporings OF superheated highly
excited imaginations.
Senator Vance said . am 4 Christ
ian, and therefor do not swear; but
ii | were a proiane man, | should call
it the d-st nonsense. We ought to
oppose the Force bill by every cOnsti-
tutional and legal means within our
power. Ii it be passed in spite OF Us,
then we should do as the town clerk
OF Ephesus did, and counsel our peo-
pie to do nothing rash
Senator German was equally free III
expression. The Maryland Senator is
very blunt, and although that manner
is liable to offend, it usually carries
with it the sincerity OF the speaker.
He said: Such utterances are sense
less in the extreme. No public man
in Washington is in sympathy with
such plan, or would encourage it for
a moment. The effect OF the passage
OF such measure as the Lodge bill
would be bad in both sections. 1t is
having its effect already, as a result OF
the mere agitation Of the question
Iba,f ri GRO
gentlemen had called upon him, who
have projected large enterprises in the
South. "They told me-" he con-
tinued, that they would so no further
in the matter until the Force bill had
been finally disposed OF. Ii the meas
ure passes, they will drop the affair
altogether. and similar action will 70
doubt follow in scores of cases. All
talk OF boycott, however, is foolish"
Attention is directed to the Forty
third Congress and the attempt to
pass the Force bill when Blaine was
Speaker of the House, and B. F. Butler
was chairman Of the Judiciary COM
mittee, which reported the bill to the
House. General Wheeler, OF Ala
bama, recently made great argument
against the present bill, and Gen.
Butler wrote to him for a copy, as
worth preserving, and received an
answer as follows: upon the ques-
ton of the constitutional right of
Congress, involving its right to take
charge of federal elections, in cases OF
emergency, can, by the U. S. Statutes
and Constitution be only this: Sec. 4,
Chapter l: When the State shall re-
fuse or neglect to provide for the cleo
ton OF U. S. Senators and Rcpresen-
tatives, the National Legislature may
appoint the Representatives of the
State. But the times, places and
manner OF holding elections for Sena-
tors and Representatives shall be pre-
scribed in each State by the legisla-
ture thereof"
1t is a notorious fact that a number
of Republican Senators are disguised
with the Lodge bill, and would say so,
but for the trouble such frankness
brings. No sooner does Senator say
that he deprecates such legislation
than he in bounded by a lot of parti-
sans into denying, or modifying, his
published expressions. 1t has become
as much as Republican Senator's life
is worth, to think aloud, contrary to
the Republican journals in this mat
ter.
Every Senator who is reported as
being lukewarm is Immediately seen,
and if he does not authorize a contra
diction of any little expression that
escaped him, it is contradicted any
how. 1t is not strange that under the
circumstances Senators should, for the
sake of peace, keep their views to
They will not, however,
be regulated or subjugated, if ever the
time comes, to jump upon the neck of
the Lodge bill and choke the life out
of it.
Mr.. Harrison must have learned
recently which caused him
to think that his chances of being re-
are improving; he has au-
thOrized q statement to be made to
the effect that his wife did not accept
the cottage ut Cape May Point, be-
cause he refused to allow her to do it;
and that he paid for it with 10000 OF
his own money. The effect of this
would have been greater if
it had been made sooner.
The House in obedience to the die
tation of Speaker Reed, has passed the
original package bill, and the National
bill.
The Behring Sea correspondence
has been sent to Congress, and the
fact is apparent that Mr.. Blaine has
done nothing but maintain the claims
of Mr.. Cleveland's administration.
Dem.