Fergus County argus., 1890-04-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Ifrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 2S, I $50.

WASHINGTON, March ~, IS:ND.
committee has yielded :" the New England
| shoe men and stored hides To the free list
On the new schedule. The pressure was Il oo
great and the hide men were driven off the
field. The busy scenes sf last week con
tinue. Yesterday ~ delegation of OswegS
brewers aud maI.ter- appea rel te object
to an increased duty ON Canadian barley,
while a New York city delegation filed its
objection against an increased duty IN fine
linen. The glove men were also heard from
in protest. The fight over the sugar ques.
tion promises to be most vigorous. The
duty on jute bacgine has been Increased.
The Republican senators held brief eau.
Gus Wednesday. ut which the report of the
committee on order Of business was re.
ceived and approved. This programme in
cludcs the land forfeiture bill. the Jones
silver measure, the bills ON administ rative
customs and on the admission Of the sew
eral territories applying for admission to
the union of states. Besides these il was
agreed that the debate on the Montana
elections should he called up next Monday.
An attempt was also made to put the
worlds fair hill On the progra Mme. but as
the committee had only arranged for the
consideration Of measures now pending in
the senate. the effort failed. Noconclusion
WAS reached as to n national election law
bill. though the senators were una nimously
in favor Of legislation on the subject. Some
belicve. il better policy to await the action
Of The house before moving in the matter.
it being easier to criticise after the house
shall have placed before the country some
sort Of measure. This was hardly nc.
ceptable to the Massachusettss s senat or with
his election hobby, but il is good news to
his rival for such hopors, Representative
Lodge.
Washington IL something fearful +" con
template Baked If great prize by the
faiIur. Of congress to locate the world s lair
here. they have turned to their old plan Of
creating II park in the Rock Creek region.
to- the northwest of the city. They only
ask a million dollar appropriation as a
starter knowing full we'll that once begun
congress c.ul. not abandon the scheme.
The band they have pirked upon for n site
oi it consists sf n valley, or rather "a nnr-
row gorge about which are the hills that
they own aud are holding ~ suburban
building sites. The narrow valley is use
less. save for farming. as IL has been inun-
dated several times, notably twice during
a.. 1t Tho ..st ..f tlruiup this Low
la nj. with the adjoining steep hill sides,
into a park can hardly be imagined. u
would lie simply enerneus. On. inun,la-
tion would he sufficient to ruin ten years
work in landscape gardening. Every one
seems to have u finger in the pie. as ten
Spinola .f New York told the house this
week. Even the local newspapers are sw
Ii.ted in the sche,ne. and they believe that
the house will pass the hill on the next dis
trict day.
| The only persons to be benefited are thu
owners of adjacent property, who could in
deed afford to give the district outright thu
land suggested fer the park. The tene
ment house class and the crowded denizen
Of large cities like New York have ~" eoun
terparts in Washington. II they had, he
side the many reservations at the yer.
elbow are number of small parks and th
entrarcing and extensive grounds III tn
Soldiers home, free to all.
Speaker Reed has transferred the spac
reserved for ladies who send in their card
to- congressman to Statuary hall, wher
they have chance to compose their beaut
with that Of the marble reproductions G
colonial heroes. The ladies do not appr'
ciate this privilege, but the former coz
lobby is needed by the ways and mean
committee, and they must needs submit
IL il hoped that the change will drive SON
Of the most notorious visitors away, IL
well known female lobbyists and the di
car,led mist resses, whose faces have bee
altogether too familiar. But IL is mol
likely that il will only give discomfort
the really modest ladies who are driven
dire necessity to urge their claims Tor co
gressional influence.
Another order Of the speakers IL direct'
against the presence ON the house ho"r
certain ex-congressmen who are witho'
, visible occupation except as lobbyist
This is "a well-meant but oft-repeated .
d.ayor that has always en.led where it !