Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-20
THE NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[FrOm our regular oOrsspO DdeDt.l

WASHINGTON, d., mhr.i lV,iooV'
Vice President Morton's sudden trip
to Folrida has been fully explained TO
YOUR correspondent by q prominent re-
publican who Is not an admtrer OF the
Doodle campaign which Mr.. Morton
has entered upon to capture the repno-
lican nomination in '92. "Morton's OBJ
jectn, said this gentleman" in going TO
Florida ut this time Is to hold q private
consultation with Senator Quay, who
is also down there, and to ascertain
Wether his support can be purchased.
He is prepared to pay q big price,
and I am afraid he will succeed for Quay
has always had O weakness for money,
particularly when in large sums, and
no man knows the value Of money In q
political campaign better than he."
There Is an old fashioned game called
hthe devil among the tailOrs" that re-
minds one of Frank Hatton ana the
Civil Service commission. AS soon as
the testimony In the Congressional IN
Vestigation, which has been anything
else but favorable to the present brand
of Civil Service reform, was all in, Hat
ton threw another dynamite bomb into
the reform-sham camp by charging
that certain letters written by one w.
d. Foulke and printed in the New York
Times and the st. Louis Republic which
charged Mr.. Harrison and his Cabinet
with having entered into q conspiracy
to break down the system of civil ser
vice reform, were inspired by two OF
the Civil Service Commissioners. The
two Commissioners deny the charge.
OF course that was to be expected; 1t
was either deny or hand in their resig-
nation. But Hatton will not let the
thing stop here, II he can convince Mr..
Harrison of the truthfuiness of his
charge somebody will hear something
drop before long.
The democratic members Of the
House are fretting not little because
they lost seat in the House last week
that might just as we'll have been kept.
The trouble Is that certain democratic
members of the House refuse to sacri-
fee either their pleasure or their pri-
vate business to occupy their seats and
attend to the duties they were elected
TO perform. There are several OF these
men who have not voted In the House
three times this entire session. In this
particular case several republicans, dis
gusted with the report of the majority
Of the Elections Committee, intimated
to democrats that while they would
make 1t q point to absent themselves
without pairing when the time came to
take the final vote SO as to make 1t GER
tain that the democrats could defeat
the contestant. These gentlemen kept
their words, and yet the contestant was
seated by beggerly majority of two
votes, all becuse the Chronic absentees
of the democratic side were not on hand
to vote.
A minority report was submitted by
Mr.. Oates who it will be remembered
engineered the long deadlock in the
last Congress against the same bill.
No deadlock can prevent 1t from be-
coming law this time.
The House committee on Pensions
seems to have gone daft. A majority
of that committee has practically
agreed to report bills that would, if they
became laws, require nearly 500, ,000, 600
TO pay the pensions. These reports are
only bunkum, no sane man has any
idea that more than one of the bills
the dependent-will be passed, and
that Is by no ways certain, as the rapid
II lessening Treasury surplus has al
ready caused the republican leaders to
notify the chairman of committees to
eurtail their appropriations If they ex-
pected the bills to get through.
The House will probably take up the
bills admitting Wyoming and Idaho
this week. The democrats will antag-
Onize the bills with an omnibus bill
prepared by Mr.. Springer providing
for the admission of Wyoming, Idaho,
New Mexico and Arizona.
It was supposed that In view of the
facts and the law, and also of the fact
that the votes were not specially need
ed that the senate committee on cleo
tions could afford to be fair In making
q decision In the Montana Senatorial
contest, but by a strict party vote it has
decided to report in favor of the Re-
publicans. A more outrageous and un-
fair decision was never made by any
committee.
It is impossible to get o republican
member Of the House Ways and Means
committee to say word about the new
tariff bill, and when 1t will be reported,
lit ever is, nobody seems willing to
even guess.
Out of the four contested election
eases decided by the House only one
democrat has been allowed to retain
his seat.
When the Senate Committee that
has been struggling so hard to discover
how the proceedings of secret sessions
leaked out began to examine the Sena.
tors the scales fell from its eyes. Now
the committee knows what everybody
else has known all the time.