The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-03-06
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS.
Especial Correspondents I, the Sentinel

lSpectIt correspondence 10 me Senttnef.j
WASHINGTON, D. c., March s.
The Supreme Court of the United
States is to be given an opportunity
to decide whether Speaker Reeds
new method of counting quorum is
Constitutional or not. The democratic
leaders have mapped out program
me with that end specially in view.
Mr.. J. o. Pendleton, of the first dis
trict of West Va, who was unseated
last week by the votes of less than a
majority of the House, which is a con-
stitutional quorum, proposes to claim
his salary as a member of the House
of Representatives, and if the Treas
ury officials refuse to pay him-and
they ~ill-he will enter suit for it in
the court Of claims and appeal it from
there, if decided against him, to the
Supreme Court. And if the Republi
cans show any disposition to delay the
case in either court he will sue out a
mandamus to stop the Treasury Off
Gals from paying the salary of the
man who has been illegally given the
seat belonging to him. 1t is well that
this question is to be legally decided,
and the sooner the decision can be
gotten the better.
How circumstances alter cases was
never made palmer than by the auc-
tions of the election committees of the
two Houses of Congress. In the
House where the Republicans need
every vote they can get there has been
an indecent haste in reporting con-
tested election cases, while in the SEN
ate where no votes are needed there is
a dignifed leisure in the way contests
are treated. On the 18th of February
the evidence was all taken and the
arguments heard in the Montana SEN
atorial contest; Saturday, March 1,
the committee met and appointed a
sub committee to collate the facts to be
reported at the next meeting, which
will be next Saturday.
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The question of railroad to South
America has been much talked about
since the Pan American Congress
adopted resolutions recommending the
appointment Of a commission to 90
over the proposed route and report as
to its feasibility, etc. A joint 'resolu-
ton has been introduced in the House,
by Mr.. Buckalew, authorizing the
President to appoint suitable parties
to examine and report on the advisa-
bility of a railroad to South America.
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A New York syndicate, of which
D. o. Mills. the father in-law of
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the Tribune,
and ex-senator Tom Plat, the re-
publican boss, are leading members,
has been awarded, by Secretary VIM
dom, the exclusive right to catch seals
in Alaska waters for twenty years
from the first of next May. This is a
combination of politics and business
that is quite characteristic of the Re
publican party.
The Worlds Fair bill is pow in the
hands of the House committee await
ing the decision of the representatives
of Chicago as to what changes they
desire made in it. AS soon as this is
determined upon the bill will he re-
ported to the House and there is little
or no doubt of its being promptly
passed by the House. The doubtful
part of the business will be reached i'm
the Senate.
Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son is telling his friends that he can.
not possibly remain in Office longer
than the first of May, and that he may
resign earlier, but he does not tell
them that he has received a very
pointed hint from the President, in :.
timating in the most unmistakable
manner that his resignation would be
acceptable.
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Mr.. Blaine has become so disguised
with the administration that he re-
fuses to see any applicants for office
even in his own department.; he turns
them over to one of the assistant Sec
retaries of State
The urgency deficiency appropria-
ton bill-$23, $50, 00O-has been pass
ed by the House. $21, 100000 of it
is to pay pensions of the war of 1912,
and Of the Mexican war.
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