Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-02-27
wAsHINGpoN LETTER.
Iron our reeuIar cOrespondspt.I

Mr.. Harrison has allowed himself to
he beguiled by the soft-speaking office
seekers into believing that he might
again be the candidate of his party In
1892. This Is daily becoming more ap-
parent and accounts for many seeming
iy queer appoiutments.a His idea Is to
appoint only Harrison men, and to
carry it out he has already offended
nearly every leading man IN his par
ty. 1t Is only few days since he re-
fused to appoint a relative of Secretary
Blaine postmaster of a Pennsylvania
town. Notwithstanding the fact that
Mr.. Blaine had personally asked that
the appointment be made. This bit Of
wild lunacy, for 1t can be called nothing
else, on the part of Mr.. Harrison, furn-
ishes lots of fun for the politicians here.
McGinty has more show of being nomi-
mated by the Republicans in 1892 than
Mr.. Harrison has. ~
The Democratic Congressional Cam
paign Committee is now fully organized
for business and in few days head
quarters will be opened in this city and
the machinery started in motion to
capture the next House of Representa-
tives. The following list Of members
of that committee was obtained by your
correspondent from the Chairman. 1t
is absolutely correspondent from the
Chairman. 1t is absolutely correct, and
Is the first one given to the press:
Roswell P. Flower, of N. Y, Chair
man; T. o. Towles, of Mo-, Secretary;
s. L. Norris, of Washington d. @.
Treasurer. Members: Oates, of Ala,
McBea, of Ark; Clunie. of CAL, Grant,
of COL; Wilcox, of Conn.,; Pennington,
of Del; Davidson, of Fla; Carlton, of
Ga; Wike, of ILL.,; Mcclellan, of Ind;
Hayes, of Ia: McCreary, of Ky.;
Blanchard, of La; Putnam, of Me-;
Compton, of Nd; Andrew, of Mass;
Whiting, of Mich; Hit, of Mimi;
Hooker, of Miss; Bland, Of Mo-; Haus-
er, of Mont; McShane, OF Neb.; Cassidy,
tof New; Mckinney, of N. H; Fowler,
ofN. j.; Bum, Of N. D.; Yoder, of o.;
Maish, Of Penn; Lapam, of R. l., Dib-
BILE, off e.; Mcmillan, of Tenn; Kill
gore, of Texas; Smalley, of VT, Vena-
BILE, of wa; voorhees,, of WASH; Will
son, of w. Va; Barwig, of Wis; Smith,
of Arizona; Stevenson, of Idaho;
Joseph, of New Mexico; and Caine, of
| Utah. No member of the committee
has vet been selected for either of the
Oak kota g or for Oregan. The Senatorial
members of the committee are German,
chairman; Mcpherson, Blackburn,
| Cockrill and Jones, of Arkansas.
| A gag rules under which the present
House will work were adopted by a
strict party vote of 16l to 145.
| If the Senate committee on Privileges
and Elections decide the Montana
cases, which were heard Saturday, on
the law and the evidence, the Demo-
Gratis will soon have two more Sena-
tors. At any rate it is hardly possible
in view of the poor showing made by
the Republican contestants that the
majority will have the afffontery to re-
port in favor of seating them. The re-
port will be made this week.
Politics are to be shelved this week
| in the House and, the Worlds Fair ques-
ton disposed of. The committee has
reported two bills, one for holding the
| fair at New York, Chicago or st. Louis,
and the other at Washington. To-mor-
row discussion is to begin, and if posi-
BILE the final vote is to be taken Friday
or Saturday. The fight will be short
but decidedly interesting, as all of the
cities have lots of friends on the ground
whooping things up. ~.
The Blair educational bill is the foot
ball of the Senate. 1t was kicked aside
last week to pass the bill establishing a
Territorial government in Oklahoma,
but will bob up ,serenely this week as
unfinished business. A vote may, but
it is somewhat doubtful.
Mr.. Harrison will have a somewhat
delicate duty to perform If bill which
/ l. ka aIol r u rnzI,
the House. 1t appropriates So 500 to
pay legal fees to the firm of Porter, Har-
rison & Fishback, a firm of which Mr..
Harrison was member. The question
is, will he sign a bill appropriating
money for his own benefit, or will be
let it become law without signing it =?
It's dollars to brass buttons that he
don't veto it. '-.z7rs 's' H
The Republicans are not having
smooth sailing in the. preparation of q
new tariff bill. They started out with
the intention of reporting the bill to
the House by the first of February, now
they say they hope to have it ready by
the first of March. n The whole truth Oi
the matter is, the. tariff reform idea Ii
spreading so rapidly that it is getting
among tue Republicans, and unless the
Ways and Means committee report O
very different bill from what Chairman
Mckinley started out to make, it viii
never be passed by the House. The
new rules are pretty far-reaching bu
they cannot accomplish everything, as
will be discovered before this session
ends.
? The regular annual convention of tht
woman's rights people opens here to
morrow.
II Listen men and brethren. The pen
lsion office asks for a deficiency appro
priation of $21 ,5OO,0 900 to carry it up tt
the first of July. ia
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