Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-03-15
WASHINGTON

trip to Florida has been fully explain
ed to your correspondent bya prom
inent republican Who'll is not an admit
rer ofthe doodle republican campaign
which DIR. Morton has entered upon
to capture the republican nomination
in 1872. "Morton's object, said this
gentleman, Sin going to Florida at
this time is to hold a private consul
tation with Senator Quay, who is al.
so down there, and to ascertain
whether his support can be purchas-
ed. He is prepared to pay
a big price, and / am afraid he will
succeed, for Quay has always had a
weakness for money, particularly
when in large sums, and no man
knows the value of money In q polit-
ical campaign better than he"
There is an old fashioned game
called "the devil amonglthe tailors"
that reminds one of Frank Hatton
and the Civil Service commission,
AS soon as the testimony in the Con-
g%ressional investigation, which has
been anything else but favorable to
the present brand of Civil Service re-
form, was all in, Hatton threw an
other dynamite bomb intothe reform
sham camp by charging that certain
letters written by one W. D.. Foulke
and printed in the New York Times
and the st. Louis Republic which
charged Mr.. Harrison and his Cabi-
net with having entered into a con-
spiracy to break down the system of
civil service reform, were inspired by
two of the Civil Service Commission
ers. The two Commissioners deny
the charge. ,Ofcourse that was to be
expected ; it was either deny or hand
in their designations. But Hatton
will not let the thing stop here. If
he can convince Mr.. Harrison of the
truthfulness of his. charge somebody
will hear something drop before
long. N
The democratic members of the
House are fretting no little because
they lost a seat in the House last
week that might Just as well have
been kept. The trouble is that GER
tain democratic members of the
House refuse to s~acraice either their
pleasure or their private business tc
occupy their seats and attend to the
duties that they were elected to per-
form. There are several OF these men
who have not voted in the House
three times this entire session. In
this particular case several republi'
cans, disguised with the report of the
majority of the Elections Committee
intimated to democrats that while
they would not vote against the con
testant they would make it a poin.
to absent themselves without pairing
when time came to take the tina
vote, so as TO make it certain that thu
democrats could defeat the contestant
These gentlemen kept their words
and yet the contestant was seated b!
a beggarly majority of two votes, al
because the chronic absentees of tn
democratic side were not on hand [,
vote. W t{t .f
The House committee on Pension
seems to have gone daft. A majorit.
of that committee has practically
agreed to report bills that would, j
, they became laws, require nearl,
, 500, 00O, 900 to pay the pension:
3 These reports are only bunkum, M
sane man has any idea that NOR,
than one of the bills-the dependen
will be passed, and that is by n
means certain, as the rapidly lessen
ing Treasury surplus has alread
4 caused the republican leaders to not
: fly the chairmen ofcommittees to cul
r tail their appropriations If they ea
4 pected the bills to get through.
The House will probably take u
the bills admitting Wyoming an
Idaho this week. The democrat
will antagonize the bills with an on
nibus bill prepared by Mr.. Syringe
r providing for the admission of Wy
J.. oming, Idaho, New Mexico and A,
!. iona.
s 1t was supposed that in view of til
facts and the law, and also of the fa'
that the votes were not special
= needed, that the Senate COMMITTEE
4 on'Elections could afford to be fair i
y making a decision in the Montar
A Senatorial contest, but by a strit
2 party vote it has decided to report
3 favor of the republicans. A mo-