The Globe-republican., 1890-07-02

Special Correspondence to the GLOBE RE
PUBLICAN.


! PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. June 3Oth.
| The house has at last started on the
track which leads to flair ballot and
an honest count Honest Joe Cannon,
of Illinois. has. the matter in charge, in
place of Major Mckinley. and he will
make the election as honest. if possible.
as he is himself. Mr.. Cannon says it is
to beregretted that the necessity exists
for such legislation. but that in no section
need any results of the proposed law be
dreaded if citizens are given their full
right to vote and the votes are afterwards
honestly counted. He says his own con-
stituents are not afraid of such law and
that the only people who are scared are
those who are not honest in their own
actions.
The prospects are that the bill will pass
the House by good majority. and the
Senate will follow suit, and no apprehen-
sion is felt as to the action of the presi-
dent as he has repeatedly urged upon
both senators and members the necessity
for some legislation making elections
something more than farce 10 some
sections and tragedy in others. Judge
Cannon says that the remedy fol- avoid
ing the operations of the law is in the
hands of those who oppose it, and that
if they will not interfere with elections
the law will not interfere with them.
The situation can be summarized by say
ing that the republicans smile and the
democrats howl in anguish at the pros
pect of fair and honest elections in the
South.
The government now has in this city
the largest printing Office in the world.
wherein are employed over two thousand
men and women, the work involving an
expenditure of over S3.00O.O00 a year,
and yet this immense establishment is
not large enough. Such is the extent of
the public printing that in some branches
it is over two years in arrears, and this,
too, when working night and day. This
explains why many official publications
are not yet ready for distribution al
though authorized several years ago.
This immense printing establishment has
risen from comparatively small begin
ming, and that in private hands. but it
has always occupied the corner where
now located although it has grown much
in size and business. The man who built
it was Cornelius Wendell. appointed pub
lie printer by contract during Buchan-
ans administration. and, although he
made money rapidly, he almost wrecked
his fortune in trying to bolster up the
waning fortunes of the democracy of
that day, when the government bought
Wendell's establishment and under
public printer commenced business on
its own account. Since Wendell's time
there has been but one democratic pub
lie printer, Cleveland having appointed
L. II. Benedict. of New York. and he |
to middle up affairs after the |
exquisite fashion known only to demo-
Gratis. But from small beginning the
printing Office has OutgrOwn its clothes,
and besides. it needs more comfortable |
and modern surroundings. The building
in use is patchwork. added each year
as the necessities of the government
have increased, of no regular design and
without the means Of an economical and
thoroughly efficient management, but,
beyond all. printers, as everybody knows
are fellows of the royal blood. and have
as much, if not more right to be housed
in palace of marble than the clerical
force in the other executive departments.
The man who runs afOul of ingalls,. of
Kansas, had much better go out before
hand and hang himself. as he is pretty
certain to be tlayed alive anyhow. 1t is
l fact that senators are very much OPP
posed to encOunteling the knife as ad-
ninistered by the man from Kansas. In
he recent encounter with Call of Flor
da. another democratic senator was
thoroughly done up. Call is a man who
las the reputation of doing more talking
han thinking. reversing the old maxim
~ speaking twice before thinking once,
md it is this unlucky habit which put
lin in ingalls, path. But while his les
on has been a severe one it will prove
'fficaciOus, as Mr.. Call will from this
inc out be thoroughly convinced that
are odiOus.'' He attempt