Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1890-08-07

From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 2s. 1890


Mr.. Harrison is preparing. so ! am
informed. to take hand in the tariff
reciprocity business. The amend
ment offered last week by Senator
Pierce providing for the restoring Of
the present duties upon sugar, after
one year at the discreet ion Of the presi
dent, against such countries rs fail to
admit our agricultural products free.
is believed to have been prepared at
the suggestion Of MIR. Harrison, who
is unwilling to go to the extent OF the
Hale amendment, which is in accOr-
dance with Mr.. Blaine's ideas. and
now MIR. Harrison. according to my
informant. proposes to send to the
senate ~ special message urging the
accept ance Of Senator Pierce's = amend
m,ent. lie may do it, but it hardly
seems probable that lie would care to
make such open war with his secre-
tary Of state, unless he really wished
to drive him out Ot the cabinet, which
no one well informed believes that he
does. Ii Mr.. Harrison se,n!s any sle-
c;al message on this subj jsct to congress
it will be safe to wager that it will he
submitted to and approved by James
Il. Blaine, before it goes in.
The senate ior some reason seems
indisposel to devote much time to
the tariff bill yet, and it remains the
unfinished business" which only
comes up after two O'Clock. senator
Morrill, attempted tn change this early
in the week, but enough republicans
voted with the democrats to defeat
his motion.
The workinsnen want n hearing in
the house. The committee on labor
has reported anumber OF bills in which
the labor organizations are greatly in
terested, and u committee from these
organizations has waited on Speaker
Reed to ask that gentleman why il
was that he did not recognize men,
b-rs OF the labor committee when
they endeavored to call up some OF
these bills; they pointed out the TACT
that durin, former sessions labor
measures had been given from four to
seven days while in the present they
had had none. MIR. Reed made u di
plomatic answer, and now the FEEDER =.
ton of Labor have sent him monster
petition which they hope will cause
him to grant their very modest request
one day for the consideration OF the
Alien Contract bill and the bill amend
ing the eight hour law.
As anticipated, the house passed
the '.Original Package" bill, or rather.
its substitute for the senate bill, and
the National Bankruptcy bill this
week. The rest of the week promises
to he occupied 10y the very uninterest-
ing but necessary appropriation bills.
The republican senator's are still in
u state of uncertainty about the
federal election bill. and just now the
most oi them have their ears to the
ground" carefully listening to ascer-
tain how the public ut large feels on
this matter. should they decide To
take it up after the appropriations
and the tariff are disposed OF, the COM
mitt-e on elections will be ready to
report il with amendments which the
committee have already agreed upon;
but the decision is not looked for just
yet.
The house and senate military com
mittees seem to have entered race
to see which could first get Il bill
through pensloning the widow OF Gen.
j. T.. Fremont, aud the result is that
bills have been favorably reported to
both houses. the only difference being
that the senate bill names $1,000 as
the amount she shall receive, while the
house bill is for 1000. The house
committee has also reported a bill
allowing the widow OF Gen. Geo. B.
Met lellan the same amount.
The influence OF the Farmers
Alliance is being felt in congress. par
ticularly in the house; it has killed the
bill allowing u clerk to each member
of the house, which has been cousi,l-
cred rs likely to pass ut this session.
Mr.. Harrison has been reviving re-
collections of his soldering days this
week by visiting the encampments Of
the District OF Columbia militia and
OF the Pennsylvania State National
Guard. Secretary Proctor accompan-
ied him, probably to- get some military
ideas.
1t is stated here that the cottage
occupied by the HarrisOns at Cape
May Point, New Jersey, was not given
to Mrs. Harrison, as has been so
widely published: but that IT was pur-
chased by Mr.. Harrison with 10000
good honest dollars. Why this was
not told before is acOnnundrum which
| beg to be excused from answering
Perhaps Mr.. II. used it as IL trap to
catch the democratic newspaperst?)
The Fifty-first congress. although
less than seventeen months old, has
already lost more representatives by
death than any one congress ever did.
Nine members of the house have died
since March 4, 1889, two from Penn
sylvania-SamuelJ j Randall and VIM.
d. Kelley; two from New York-S. s.
Cox and David Wilbur: two from Mis-
souri-James n. Burns and James =.
Walker. who died this week; and one
each from Illinois-R. W. TOwnshend;
Nebraska-.james Laird; and Louisi-