The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-10-01
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. D. c., September 18th.
The government is again doing busi-
ness at the old stand. President Harri-
SON and family have returned to the city,
Secretary of State Blaine is on his way
hack. and a cabinet council will be held
Tomorrow for the first time in many
weeks. Thus smoothly do the wheels of
government begin to move.
The President says that his health Is
first class, as the quiet and good air of
PENNSYLVANIA mountains did him power
of good, and be is now ready to dive
deep into public business. Of course the
first thing to claim attention is such con-
pressional business as has accumulated
during the past few days. but this tOgeth-
er with Congress itself, will soon 90 and
then purely executive functions will re-
ceive attention.
By the way the various bureauX chiefs
udNC UCCu OHCStCu " SCtOue tuSAa ouI"
al reports so that the president may look
into the workings of the governmental
system before he begins the preparation
of his annual message to Congress. These
annual reports on the operations of the
government mount up like the rounds of
ladder before they reach the president.
First the heads of divisions in the various
executive departments write out a state
ment of the business under them; then
the chiefs of bureaux takes these reports
and prepare a statement for the whole
bureau; then the members of the cabinet
take the reports of the heads of bureauX
and prepare from them their annual re-
port. which last goes to the president who
uses them as the foundation for his mes
sage which every December is so anx-
iously awaited. 1t will thus be seen that
mere clerks in the departments have a
good deal to do with the annual message
of the president.
If you want to preserve copy of Bob
Kennedy's speech arraigning the Senate
of the United States you had better get
copy of the daily Congressional Record.
for the House has solemnly voted that no
part of it shall enter the stitched and
bound form of that interesting publica-
ton. Kennedy tells me that he does not
care even if it be ''eXpunged'' as he did
not make the speech for the edificatiOn of
future ages, but rather to draw the d.
rect attention of thepeople now living to
recent Senatorial acts which he says
merited criticism, and there can be no
doubt he adds, that his real purpose was
fully accomplished Judging from the noise
making over his speech. Kennedy is
smart bold fellow. and only spoke what
many of his more timid associates think.
The Republican Congressional Com
mittee has settled down to hard, fine
work, and from this to election day will
make things hum. The committee is To-
Gated in house on Lafayette Square oc-
cupied by illustrious men in the recent
past, Secretary Window and later Colo
mel Bob Ingersoll having been its tenants.
Here they have a force of men at work |
from dawn to midnight sending out cam
paign literature by the cart load, which |
almost makes me believe that somebody |
does read it. Colonel Clarkson, who
leads the fight, says that things are not
always so dark as they seem. He tells
me that Major Mckinley has much more
than lighting chance" to come back
from bis gerrymandered district; in fact
the prospects are that this brilliant man
will continue in Congress and that the
Ohio gerrymander will be apt to be not
SO much of a gerrymander after all.
The Senate has passed the bill making
a dozen or more little supreme courts all
around the country, which will be well
come news to the thousands of litigants
now awaiting a hearing before the ''high-
est court ia the land These courts
VI appear Ill cstCu VI Tue nine JUDICIAL
districts of the United States will do the
work which has hitherto not been done
by the single supreme court because it
has been a physical impossibility to do
it, and will make legislation and the set
Element of suits an easier and quicker
matter for all concerned.
Now there are two ''colored members"
Laugston, just admitted and Chatham. of
North Carolina. Langston is probably
the ablest negro in America. not so elo-
quent perhaps as Fred Douglas, but of
finer mind. He is bright mulatto, dress
es well, and is modest in company, no.
thing of the assumptions order about
him. He says that Virginia will have
big republican majority in the next presi-
dental election. result due in a meas
ure to the large northern immigration
to the state ARNAT