The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-07-31
WasIiingtom Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.


Secretary Window is preparino- at
the request of the President. a com
prehensive statement of the amount
of revenue derived from the inporta-
ton of sugar by the Government.
1t is generally understood that this
statement is to be used as the basis of
q special message which the President
proposes to send to Congress, giving
his ideas of what amendments The
Senate should adopt to the tariff bill.
There is a doubt as to whether the
President will advise the adoption of
reciprocity outright, as advised by
Mr.. Blaine, or some sort of compro-
mise. The probabilities are strongly
in favor of his taking the latter
course,
The tariff debate has SO far been
confined entirely to the Democratic
Senators; long speeches have been
made by Senators Voorhees,, Vance,
and Morgan. The republicans are
waiting until they have definitely
determined just what points in the
bill are to be covered by the amend
ments, and one of them said today
that he did not think the vote would
be taken on the bill before Sep
tember
Speaker Reed has appointed as CON
ferees on the part of the House on the
"Original Package bill, passed last
week, Representative Reed, of Iowa,
Thompson, of Ohio, and Oates of Ala
bama. 1t is regarded as practically
certain That the House amendment
will be agreed to by the Senate
The committee on Rules, reported.
and the Hsuse adopted a resolution
instructing the comnitte on Pensions
toinvestigate the charges which Rep
resentative Cooper of Indiana, recent
ly made on the floor of the House
against Gen. Raum, Commissioner of
Pensions. The committee in its report
stated that all of the essential state
ments OF Mr.. Cooper are hearsay, and
his conclusions conjectural, and that
they did not know whether they are
true or false but, continues the report
whether true or false your committee
believes that an Investigation should
be had to the end that the truth NAV
be ascertained; the public service
must not even rest under a suspicion
and the character of public officials
must be SO clean and their admins
tration SO honorable and straightfor-
ward as to command the public con-
fidence and withstand the most care
full scrutiny. Every public official
should invite the most careful invest
igation of his public and official acts
and your committee believes that
Gen. Raum, whose public and private
character has been heretofore without
taint or suspicion, will gladly promote
the investigation. Gen Raum is very
much pleased with the action of the
committee, and of the House. He re-
fused to dignity the charges by of
ficially asking for an investigation;
but he has not hesitated to say pri-
vately to members of the committee
that he wished for it.
Senator Sherman has the people
with him in his effort to have the
Congressional Recordn edited. If
ever there was a publication that
needed careful, painstaking editer
it is that same cumbrous and mi s.
named Congressional Record
| The House committee on Elections
| expect to decide the celebrated Ar
kansas Clayton Breckenridge con-
| tested election case this week 1t is
believed that it will by a party vote
decide that Mr.. Brecke nridge is not
entitled to the seat which he holds,
and Col. Clayton having been muir
dered while trying to obtain evidence
| in the case, another election will be
ordered
Senator Frye has received another
letter favoring reciprocity from Sec
retary Blaine, and that together with
the correspondence in the Behring
Sea negotiations, has caused Mr.
Blaine to be the most talked about
man in the United States Mr.. Blaine
| is very much in earnest about reci-
procity, and calls attention to the
fact, that as long ago as February he
made a statement to the Republican
members OF the House committee on
Ways and Means urging them to CON
slider reciprocity in making up the
| new tariff bill. With one exception
Representative McKenna, of Cali
fornia, the Republican members of
that city decline to talk on the sub
ject. Mr.. McKenna says that he has
from the first favored Mr.. Blaines
ideas.
Even the Democrats admit that Mr.
Blaine deserves great credit for the
manner in which he has handled the
Behring Sea matter.
Not a single Democratic Senator or
member endorses the absurd talk
about boycotting the north in case
the Federal election bill becomes q
law, with which southern telegraph
wires have of late been burdened.
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