Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-03-08
WASHINGTON.

ptdtSo ID w w RlNtH all opportunity
to decide whether Speaker Reeds
new method of counting a quorum is
Constitutional ornot. The democrat
ic leaders have mapped out a pro-
gramme with that end specially in
view. Mr. 80. Pendleton of the
first district of w. Va, who was un-
seated last week by the votes Of less
than a majority of the House, which
is a constitutional quorum, proposes
to claim his salary as a member of
of the House Of Representatives, and
If the Treasury officials refuse to pay
him-and they will-he will enter
suit for it in the court of claims and
appeal it from there, If decided
against him, to the Supreme Court.
And ifthe republicans show any dis
position to delay the case in either
court he will sue out a mandamus to
stop the Treasury officials from pay
ing the salary of the man who has
been Illegally given the seat belong.
ing to him. 1t is well that this ques.
ton is to be legally decided, and the
sooner the decision can be gotten the
better.
How circumstances alter cases was
never made palmer than by the ac-
| tions of the election committees Of
the two Houses of Congress. In the
House where the republicans need
every vote they can get there has
been an indecent haste in reporting
contested election cases, while in the
Senate where votes are not need
ed there is a digniied leisure in the
way contests are treated. On the
10Th of February the evidence was
all taken and the arguments heard
in the Montana Senatorial contest
Saturday Mar. ], the committee met
and appointed a subcommittee tc
~collate the facts to be reported at the
next meeting, which will be next
Saturday.
Governor Thompson, the demo-
cratic civil service commissioner, j:
the only one of the trio that has moi
been smirched by the investigation
now in progress. Lyman has beer
convicted of favoritism Of the wors'
kind in having promoted his brother
in-law after he had acknowledged
that he had stolen examination pa
pers from the Office for q party wh'
was seeking promotion, and nov
Roosevelt, the high priest Of the Z"
am better than you" element il
politics, is convicted of having
deceived the Secretary of War in or
der to transfer an incompetent clerl
from his own Office to the War dc
partment, and ofhaving deceived tn
/, Postmaster General and the Super
!; intendent of the Census in order I
obtain a place in the census burea
! for a man who had perjured himse
in order to help Roosevelt make
report against the postmaster
, Milwaukee.
The urgency deficiency appropri'
ton bill-$23,6 $50, 000-has been pa
sed by the House. $21 800 900, Of
: is to pay pensions of the war of 1871
and of the Mexican war.
, The Worlds Fair bill is now in II
hands of the House committee avail
i ing the decision of the represent
. tives of Chicago as to what chang
they desire made in it. AS soon
:. this is determined upon the bill W.
& be reported TO the House and there
d little or no doubt of its being promI
n ly passed by the House. The dout
full part of the.business will be reac
ed in the Senate.
A New York Syndicate, of whiC
d. o. Mills, the father-in-law
80 Whitelaw Reid, editor ofthe Tribun
q and ex-senator Tom Plat, the repu
x lican boss, are leading members, h
Y been awarded, by Secretary Windo
4 the exclusive right to catch seals
z Alaskan waters for twenty years fro
IL the first of next May. This is a col
20 bination of politics and business tn
10 is quite characteristic of the Repub
e" can party.
* Mr. Blaine has become 80 disgust
"a with the administration that he
"a fuses to see any applicants for off
= even in his own department he tn
them over to one of the assists
Secretaries of State.
. Assistant Postmaster Gene
I'D Clarkson is telling his friends that
a T. l. mn1 4.