Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-06-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
New York U1Stie to Raise Money for Monument to General Grant, and Asks Congress to Pass an App propriatiSn for tke Purpose.
Frol On Regular C respondent.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May %, 1890.
 The President, accompanied by the Vice President, Attorney General Mill Ter, Representative Mckinley and sever al other gentlemen, left here Wednes- day night on a special train for Cleve- land, Ohio, where they are to take part ID the ceremonies attendant upon the unveiling of the Garfield statue to- day. The president expects to get back to Washington tomorrow night. MT. Morton will go from Clevelend to his country residence in New York, where he will spend two weeks with his family, who have already gone there for the summer.
 The house, owing to the fact that many of the members desired to spend Memorial Day out of the city. adjourned from yesterday 10 Monday, June ?. A party of congressman have gone to Get tysburg to take part in the Memorial ceremonies to day, and many of them were at Arlington cemetery, where the G. A. K. heii interesting services.
 Speaker Reed did an excellent thing in issuing an order prohibiting the sale of liquor ir the house restaurant, and now if similar order is issued and strictly enforced on the senste side, the disgrace ful spectacle of two openly conducted bar-rocms, one on each end of the capi- tol building, will be seen no moro. The sale of drinks to any and everybody who chooses to purchase, by the keepers of these restaurants has gone quite far enough to disgust people who are not prohibitionists.
 The house ways and means committee has sat down on the Farmers Alliance very heavily, by unanimously agreeing to make an adverse report or the Alliance bill providing for subtreasuries for the deposit ofSagricultural products. The members of the committee refused to consider politics in this matter, hence the unanimous vote. It was a courageous thing for some of them to do, because they had received notification that un- less they supported this bill the Farmers Alliance would oppose them m their districts.
 The senate bill subiecting imported liquors to the laws of the states has ob- liberated party lines in the senate for the time being, and the dignitied senat- ors are indulging in speeches pro and con on the constitutionality of the bill.
 The river and harbor bill has not yet passed the house, but that it will, IS now certain.
 It had to come at last. New York City, the wealthiest city on this contin- ent, confesses, through one of her repre- sentatives, who is himself millionaire, her. inability to raise the money necessa- ry to erect monument to Gen. Grant, and asks Congress to pass joint resolu- tion which has been introduced by Re presentative Flower, appropriating S250,- 600 to help pay for a monument. This is generally regarded as a piece of mo- numental cheek, and the impression is that Congress will refuse to appropriate money for the erection of a monument to Gen. Grant at auy other place than at the National Capital, where, if the G. A. R. can have its way, his body wills find its final resting place.
 A meeting of the republican national committee was held at the residence of Senator Quay here to-day, but nothing has up to this writing been made public relating to its actiCn.
 4 reunion of the surviving members of the thirty fourth congress, which IS memorable for the sixty day contest over the Speakership, which resulted in the election of N. O. Banks, who is a member ot the present house, was held here yesterday. Among those present were Ex-Speaker N. P Banks, Senators Sherman and Morrill,, ExRepresentatives Sidney Dean, Edward Dodd, T. l.. flag Ter, Will Cumbach, John A. Bingham, James Bishop, James H. Campbell and \. G. Cragin.
 The members of the republican con- gressional committee have not yet elect ed the chairman and secretary.
 The senate has decided to go into the whole tariff question in detail, and it is not expected that the finance committee can report the bill to the senate before July.
 The conference committee on the pen sion bills passed by the house and senate respectively, has not yet reached an agreement.
 Senator Blair, from the committee on education and labor, has reported favor ably to the senate the bill recently pass ed by the house providing for the ap- pointment of commission toinvestigate the liquor traffic in all its branches.
 The good work of carrying out the re- commendation of the Pan-American Congress goes brayely on. This week the president sent to congress the draft of bill to incorporate the International Amendment Bank, and naming the fol- lowing commissioners: John B. Hen derson, of Mo-; Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York; w. H. Prescott, of South Ca rolina; T. J. Coolige, of Mass; A. Carne- gle, of Pa; c. Stakeholder, of Ind; J. E. Hanson, of Ga; H. G. Davis, of w. Va. c. R. Flint, of N. Y. and M. M. Este of California.