Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-09-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondence of the Standard.

never witnessed, and the active par.
Elephants were all members of the Re
publican party, which claims to repre-
sent all that is good and moral in the
politics Of the country-claims, mind
you.
Representative Cannon, one oil
Speaker Reeds most submissive lieu
tenants, began the trouble by assum-
ing the authority to publicly repri-
mand in a resolution forty-four mem
bers of the House by name, because
they did not meekly sit in their seats
in order to be counted to make up a
quorum. Ten of the gentlemen named
were Republicans. The subject before
the House was the compound lard bill,
which Mr.. Cannon is anxious to have
passed, and to which there is bitter op-
position in both parties. The gentle
men whom Mr.. Cannon wanted to rep
rimand, very naturally protested
against any such proceeding. Mr..
Vaux, the venerable successor to Mr..
Randall, his gray locks fairly bristling
with indignation, said: "Have you a
right to impute motives? That is not
the parliamentary power of the ma
jority in this House until the empire
comes" This was greeted with ap-
plause from the Democrats.
There was more Of the same sort,
and it so angered Mr. Cannon that he
completely lost his head and made use
of language which no respectable
newspaper can print. That fired up
Mr.. Mason, Republican opponant of
the bill whose family were in the gal
lcry, and going over to where Mr..
Cannon was, he roundly abused him
in the choicest Chicago billingsgate,
but he had the good taste to do it in a
tone too low to be heard by the ladies
in the galleries. Meanwhile the House
was in a terrible uproar.
The lie was passed between Repre-
sentatives Mason, of Illinois, and
Walker of Massachusetts, both Repub-
licans, and had it not been for the in
tcrference of members they would have
engaged in fisticuffs.
1t would seem that nothing more
disgraceful could occur; but the end
was not yet. Representatives Wilson,
of Washington, and Beckwith, of New
Jersey, two more Republicans, got ;nto
an alteration over the Cannon reso.
luton, and Mr.. Wilson called Mr..
Beckwith blankety blank liar, where
upon the Jerseyman disgraced himself
and his constituents by applying the
most disgraceful epithet in the English
Language to the Representative of the
State which bears the honored name
of the father of his country. The re
suit was an immediate slugging match
which required the combined Efforts OF
the Sergeant-at-Arms and a number oil
members to stop. These be the men
who are asking the voters of this
country to continue them in power.
The agreement to begin voting upon
the tariff bill September s, has been
unanimously ratified by the Senate.
Senator German says the bill will be
sufficiently exposed bv that time to
show the people Of the country what
an outrage the Republicans are foisting
upon them. The sugar lobby is again
gathering here in force in order to get
in their work when the sugar clause of
the bill is reached, which will probably
be next week.
Senator German is chuckling over a
joke which he very innocently played
upon the representatives of several en-
terprising newspapers several days ago.
He entertained at his house number
Of his Maryland friends, and by the
merest accident one of the correspond
ents saw the party enter the house.
The result was that full particulars
were sent of by telegraph OF a caucus
Of Democratic Senators. Mr.. German
laughs heartily every time any one
says anything about it. There has
been no caucus of Democratic Senators,
nor is there any probability that there
will be one. They are acting as unit
and there is no occasion to caucus.
BY accident have stumbled upon
the Republican programme by which
the leaders OF that party expect to
hoodwink the voters once more. There
is to be no further appropriation of
money at this session than is absolute
ly necessary to keep the wheels of
government moving. They will then
60 before the country posing as econ
omists and ask the suffrages of the
voters. If they can persuade Mr.. Har-
rison to call an extra session to meet
not later than November 10, or Is, it
will be done; il not, at the regular ses-
sion which meets in December, the
mask is to be dropped and the spoil
alton of the Treasury .is to begin in
earnest. Campaign contributions are
being solicited from all parties in,
terested in any of the hundreds OF
measures carrying liberal appropri
ations, now pending, and they are all
promised that the bills shall be pushed
through at the next session, and the
statement is made that forty-three Re
publican Senators have agreed to adopt
Ia gag-rule for the Senate in order tC
push these bills through the faster
By this means the leaders of the part,
hope to raise corruption fund large
enough to buy up the doubtful district.
and retain control of the next House.
Dem.
| THE cotton crop of the Unite,
States this year is estimated at 7 800
Ion Ia & O(M 0O0 hales