Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-10-03
OUR WASHINGTON Letter.
Regular Correspondence of the Standard.

Regular Correspondence of the Standard
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 26, 1890.
Might makes right" has always
been the motto OF the Republican
party. But it has never so openly
lived up to the brigandish theory as
during this session OF Congress, and the
action OF the majority oil the House
this week has been more revolutionary
weeks struggle, the Republicans sue
cecdcd in mastering Il quorum OF Their
own, it was OF course expected that
they would seat the negro contestant
Langston, whose case had been pending
for more than two weeks; but that
they would attempt to seat negro num-
Der two, without having given any pre-
vious notice OF any intention to call up
the case, and without allowing one
word OF argument, no one outside OF
| those in the plot had the remotest idea.
Well, that is exactly what was done.
The Speaker ordered the South Caro-
lima contested case Of Miller vs.. Elliott
to be called up, and in exactly thirteen
minutes the House had unseated Col.
Elliott and given his seat to the negro
Miller. Several Republicans, notably,
Representative Kerr, of Iowa, tried to
persuade the Speaker to allow both
sides to be heard before taking Il vote,
but the Republicans hooted them down
and proceeded to cOnsummatc the leg
islative disgrace. Privately, Republi-
cans apologizing for their unseemly
haste, say that they feared they could
not hold the quorum for any length OF
time.
The tariff bill has been reported from
conference and while III some respects
it is better than it was as passed 10y the
Senate, it is on the whole, the most
atrocious piece of tariff legislation ever
conceived by the Republican party,
and that is sayings great deal. 1t was
only by the use OF the party whip that
an agreement was reached in confer
ence, and about one-fourth Of the Re-
publicans privately curse the bill, which
they say robs their constituents, but
when vote is taken every one of these
men will be found smilingly voting for
the bill as reported from the conference
There has been considerable talk about
the Democrats in the Senate taking
advantage of the rules OF that body to
debate the report on the tariff bill until
the first week i'll November, in order
to prevent the calling of an extra SEES.
sion for the purpose of passing the
Force bill, but no such programme has
yet been agreed upon, although in
certain contingencies it may be DONE
Anything would be excusable and al
lowable to beat the Force bill.
Mr.. Morton, the gentleman who pre-
sides over the Senate when he has no
thing more pressing to do, seems to he
little slow in keeping up with the
news procession. In spite of the fact
that nine-tenths of the papers in the
United States, aside from the cringing
Republican organs, last winter printed
something about the bar-room i'll Mr..
Morton's new hotel here, then Just
opened, and that the w. G. L. U. in
national convention assembled, passed
Il resolution censuring Tor selling
liquor by the drink, he this week naively
announced that he had just discovered
that drinks were sold in his hotel, and
at the same time he announced that
he had at once ordered the sale stopped.
If it were not for the honorable
position he holds, should be inclined
to call Mr.. Morton a hypocrite.
The Senate has amended and passed
the bill intended to make the United
States Courts part of the machinery
of the Republican party. although os
tensibly its object is to define and reg
ulate the jurisdiction of the United
States Courts.
There are now three negroes sitting
as members of the House of Represent
atives, two of them in stolen seats.
The season for booming summer re-
sorts being about over, and that for
winter resorts being not yet open, Mr..
Harrison and his family returned to
Washington.
1t has been decided by the House
committee on the Judiciary to make
favorable report on the bill, which has
already passed the Senate, FORGETTING
the property Of the Mormon church.
There is screw loose in the Raum
yindication, and one of the Republican
members of the committee is said to
be opposed to the proposed white-wash-
ing. He is being "argued" with;
hence the delay in making the report.
The House has voted without di-
vision to expunge the speech wherein
Mr.. Kennedy called Senator Quay
modern Judas Iscariot and felon,
from the Record, and Mr.. Kennedy
made another speech stating that he
was glad he made the first one, and
that he still stood by his original Ian
guage. Mr.. Quay has been so busy
trying to save his nominee for the gov
ernorship of Pennsylvania from defeat
that he hasn't had time to give the
public his opinion.
Representative Flower doesn't seem
to be worrying over the adverse criti-
cisms of his management of the DEM
ocratic Congressional campaign. He
says wait until the returns are in and
see the results of the committees work.
Dem.