Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-02
WAsHINGroN LETTER.
Nom our resl lar corrsrponde pt !


From our reOilAr Correrponde ptI
WAsHINeToN, d. c., DEC. %, 1889.
Mr.. Blaine's boom for the Presidential
nomination in 1892 may be considered
as having already started and from in
formation Just received by our cores.
pondent from an eminently trust. wor-
thy source Il undoubtedly has The sane
ton Of Mr.. Blaine. No one knows
better than Mr.. Blaine. the danger ~
Premature boOlns, but certain icircunl-
stances made IL necessary to launch his
boom now or not atall. One OF these cir
cumstanees Is the fact that ex-senator
Tom Platt of New York duringa recent
trip to Washington took special pains
to let Mr.. Blaine know that he (Platt)
Intended TO be a candidate, and that he
comers unless Mr.. Blaine wished to
make the run again, In that case he
would give him loyal support. "A This
together with similar ihtirhations fropi
other men, In other sections, made II
necessary for the gentleman from
Maine to show his hand Consequently
the word has gone out to the trusted
Blaine lieutenants that the "Old mani
is again ia the field. Mr.. Blaine and
his family have just returned from q
trip to Baltimore and New York,
whittier they went in an alleged social
way, but the trip was in reality made
to see and fix certain Maryland and
New York politicians. Mr.. Blaine has
not yet fully decided whether he will
retire from the cabinet next Summer or
wait until the spring Of 1872. The pres
ent program is to keep the thing as
quiet as possible for the next two years.
The rest of the House committees
were announced Just previous to the
adjournment for the holiday recess by
Speaker Reed, and quite ntinlher of
Republican members are very much
disgruntled because they don't. think
their talents have been sufficiently rec
ognized, but as they have more than
two weeks in which to recover their
good humor they will probably turn up
smiling when Congress reassembles.
The fact was brought out in dis
cussion in the Senate on q bill to in
crease the compensation Of certain Of
ficials to be employed by the Census
bureau, that all the reports of the last
lSS0--census had not yet been printed.
The Senators were all unanimous in
declaring the statistics of the last census
to be inaccurate and worthless. Tax
ing the census is useless expense un-
less the statistics gathered are trust
worthy and the reports are more
promptly published. Better things are
promised ofthe one to be taken next
year.
Senator Morgan's joint resolution for
the recognition of Brazil's new gov
ernment failed in the Senate because of
the absence of . quorum. He will call
It up again after the holiday recess, and
1t will be passed. gutIi
The money that Silcott left in the
safe of the Sergeant-at-Arms, because
he couldn't get at its- about $50, ,000-has
by resolution OF the House, been de
posted with the Treasurer of the
United States until it is determined
what to do with it. An Indictment
with III counts has been found against
Siicott by the grand jury, but Silcott
HASN'T been. found. + \ xxx ..gs.-e.s
The enormous, quantity of bills intro
duced In Congress last week. than
1,50O-has excited comment here. and
momentarily, called attention to the
great waste of money in printing the
wildcat or crank bills, which from q
large percentage of those introduced.
It would be good idea for both Houses
to create the position of managing
Editor, whose duties shall be to pass on
all bills before they are introduced and
throw out the worthless ones. n
would save Uncle Sam several hundred
thousand of dollars every year.
| The House Is to havea chance of de-
Gliding whether it believes the various
ugly charges made at various times
against the Civil Service Commission
should be investigated, as 1t will have
to vote on Representative Ewart's reso-
luton authorizing the House commit.
tee on reform in the Civil Service to
Investigate these charges. 1t is almost
certain that the resolution will be
passed, and 1t is equally as certain
that some OF the charges VIII be proven
Ex-Speaker Carlisle does not /. believe
the Repu ublicans of the House will at
tempt to adopt rule giving the Speak
er authority to declare a quorum pres
| ent whenever the requisite number o
members are in the House, whethe
those present vote or not, as some Re
publicans have3state Ted they would. Mr.
Carlisle says such rule would be clear
ly unconstitutional, and that he would
fight it by every means in his power
before allowing it to be adopted by the
House, and If defeated he would carry
1t to the courts. #
Justice Brewers and lot of othe
nominations were confirmed by tn,
Senate before the recess. There wer'
I II votes against the confirmation o
4 Brewer.