The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-09-10
TIE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Special Correspondence to the GLoBE-hl
PUBLICAN.

PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. D. c., September Sth.
This has been session of sensations,
and, unhappily, many of them have en-
tered in the republican ranks. The pu-
gilistic episode of the other day had Its
SEQUEL Yesterday in the attack made by
Representative Kennedy. of Ohio. upon
the Senate in general and Senator Quay
in particular. The speech of the Ohio
member was ill-advised, ill-chosen and
illy-delivered. While parliamentary
rules restrain the members of the House
of Congress from casting reflections upon
the other, party discipline and individ-
ual character alone should have taught
Mr.. Kennedy that in this instance at
least silence is golden. Who constituted
him censor of the Senate, or gave him
responsibility for the character of indi-
vidual senator's? The Senate OF the
United States is fully able to sustain its
character as legislative body. and SEN
ators as men have the keeping of their
own honor. But MIR. Kennedy first de-
mands the resignation of Senator Quay
because he does not enter upon contrO-
versy with newspapers politically hostile
to him. with his own honor as the bone
of contention, and then he proceeds to
denounce the Senate as clOee corpora
ton of wealthy illiterates who owe their
legislative distinction to the power of gold
alone. Republican members say that
the Kennedy speech must rank as prod
ICY in this prodigious Congress.
There are milliOnaires in the Senate,
but they are in both parties. Senator
Payne, of Ohio, and Senator Joe Brown,
of Georgia. are both millionaires and
both are democrats. mention this be-
cause AS Mr.. Kennedy attacked the re-
publican leaders it might be inferred that
he was only assailing the republican
party when he charged so ferociOusly
upon the Senate of the United States.
A republican senator when asked his
opinion about the speech said that no
notice would be taken of it and that he
did not think it would turn the world
topsy-turvy. There is some talk in the
House, though, of excluding it from the
record. 1t is not understood that Mr..
Kennedy had any grievances to justify
his attack beyond the fact that he is not
satisfied with the senatorial course on the
election bill. A difference of opinion,
therefore. as to the order of business for
the rest of the session seems queer ba-
sis for charging Senator Quay with per-
sonal corruption. and the Senate as a
body with being made up of ignorant
and arrogant wealthy men who have
bought their seats in the first instance
and then disgrace them afterwards. Re-
markable session, this.
The republicans in the House are much
pleased with the presentation made by
Speaker Reed in Boston. of the work i'm
Congress. 1t has had good effect they
say and will show the republican man
agement in its proper light. 1t has
leaked out here, by the way, that the
democratic managers from Col. Brice
and German down are all concentrating
their energies upon the defeat of Speaker
Reed for the next Congress. While the
effort is being laughed at in many quar-
tiers, the more cautious men don't be-
lieve in taking things for granted. Gen.
eral Clarkson, who has just left the post
office department, has consented to aid
the republican congressional committee
during the next two months, and he says
in his pointed way that the fellow who
is the most confident is the fellow who
gets left. From this on, therefore.
''work" is the watchw ord and every man
is expected to do his duty. Plenty of
speakers will be sent to Speaker Reeds
district to counterfeit the ''still hunt of
the democrats, or in other words their
purchase of corrupt voters.
If there has ever been set of badly
fooled men they are now sitting in the
Senate of the United States. The men
aforesaid are democratic senators who
have been awaiting with anxiety the
scene of total split in the republican
majority over the reciprocity feature of
the tariff. They have been chuckling
for weeks over the prospect, and they
are disguised, they say, with the facility
with which the republican senators
swallowed Blaine's dose, as they call 1t.
To find republicans the main supporters
of the reciprocity idea has added their |
brains, and they have not even yet |
caught on to the discussion but continue |
to talk about pages of the tariff bill
which were passed weeks ago.
ARMAT.
There are some things in Tom Reeds