Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1890-09-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
I From our Regular Correspondent. !
WAsHISGToN, Sept. u, 1890.

Republicans are indulging over hay-
ing reelected Speaker Reed from
district where there was no organized
Democratic opposition. one would
suppose they had elected majority
Of the next House, and secured a
mortgage on the Presidential chair
for four years from March 4, 1898.
Let them remember that ''he who
laughs last laughs best.
Representative Cooper proved
that Lemon, the pension attorney,
who endorsed Commissioner Raum's
notes for Sl2 900 the day otter Raum
made ruling that put more than
S2OO,O in Lemons pockets, had
committed a forgery in this city more
than twenty years ago, and had
been therefor debarred from prac-
tice before a Government depart
ment, and that the patent upon
which the refrigerator company of
which Raum is president and Repre-
sentative Smyser, to whom has been
delegated the task of electing Rep
resentative Mckinley, is large
stock holder, was q worthless fraud
before the Republicans Of the white
washing committee got their heads
together and decided not to investi
gate the private business affairs of
Raum. The majority of the commit
tee may whitewash until doomsday,
but it will not change the verdict of
guilty as indicted which the un
prejudiced public mas found against
the Commissioner of Pensions, and
Mr.. Harrison will retain him in of
flee at the peril Of his party. 1t is
stated quietly by Republicans that
Mr.. Harrison would have demanded
the resignation of Raum before this
if the Congressional elections were
not so near, and that after Raum
gets his coat Of whltewash and the
elections are over he will be COM
PEELED to resign.
Has Mr.. Harrison the backbone to
carry out the threat he made Of We
toing the River and Harbor bill if
the s., 000, 900 Of Senate amend
ments were agreed to? We shall
soon know the Senate amendments
were agreed to, and the bill is now in
his hands.
The Democratic Senators, like
most members of the party, believe
in the principle of reciprocity and
would be glad to see it extended to
every country which buys our pro-
ducts or sells us theirs, but they
want none Of the so-called reciproci-
ty which is contained in the Aldrich
amendment to the tariff bill, which
puts it in the power OF the President
to close our ports against friendly
nations whenever it may be his pleas
ure to do so, and that makes it pos
sible for combinations Of unscrupu-
lous spectators to manipulate our
tariff for their own benefit at the
expense of the consumers That
ism the Democratic idea of recip-
rOcity and therefore it was not sur
prising that the solid Democratic
vote was cast against it. Two Re
pnblicans-Messrs. Eyarts and Ed
munds-also voted against ii, and
another Republican, Senator iloar,
had the unblushing effrontety to
state in substance in his closing
speech that he only supported it be-
/. cause he regarded it as make believe
reciprocity. He told the truth; the
object Of the Republicans in adopt
ing the so-called reciprocity amend
ment is to catch votes for the party.
They recognized the popularity OF
the idea and have attempted to take
advantage OF it.
The Democrats of the House have
this week been engaged In iustifiable
fllibustering to prevent the seating
of two negro contestants whom the
majority of the committee on cleo
tons have unjustly decided were en-
titled to seats held by Democrats. If
the Republicans will persist in their
dirty political work let them keep a
quorum of their own men present to
do it.
II the conference committee to
which the tariff bill has now gone
allows October LIST TO remain as the
date for the new tariff bill TO 90 into
effect, and it throws the country in
to a financial panic, as the bankers
/ of New York say it will, owing to
the unusual demand on the part OF
importers for money to get their i'm
ported goods out of the bonded
warehouses before that date, the re-
sponsibiity will be with the Repub-
lican party. They have been warned,
and if trouble ensues the people Of
the country will know where toPlace
( the blame for it. =.
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