Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-05-29
Prom our regular Correspondent.
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON ID. C.. Nav 10. 1890

Representative Mckinley has had a hard
task to keep the republicans of the House
up to the scratch on the various amend.
ments, which have been proposed and
voted on, to the tariff bill, aud on two oc-
| casious verbal amendments which origi-
mated from the majority Of the Ways and
Means committee have narrowly escaped
defeat hen the vote vas taken. As rule
though the republican members, who have
any cause for complaint against the bin.
have contentcd themselves with offering
amendments 10 correct the cause OF com
| plant from their constituents. but every
/ amendment SO far offered except those
1 which came from the committee. has been
/ defeated only two days more of debate
| remain, and there are all sorts OF rumors
a 70 what dissat SIZED republicans may Io {;
| IL is perfectly safe 70 say that when the
( vote Is taken upon the bill a. u whole,
next "Wednesday, the republicans will sup
port the bill solidly.
| The Senate is still discussing the Jone ;
silver bin and there i little probability
that a vote Will be reached upon it this
week II Is believed that 1t will finally be
passed although on the republican side
Senators Teller and Stewart are openly
that he viii vote for 1t very unwllingly. If
al all
The delegation from the Farmers Alt
ance which has been working upon Con
grcss in favor of the bill establishing Gov
| ernment store houses which shall receive
on deposit agricultural products, issuing
certificates therefor which shall be accept
able as currency, is not meeting with sue
cess in making converts among the law
makers. on the con srary their idrs is being
vigorously opposed by Congressman.
There Is little chance Of such Dill getting
through this Congress.
The election Of Representative Carlisle
To be Senator gives general satisfaction
here among the members of both parties
There Is probably no democrat in the
country whom the republican Senators
would sooner have as colleague.
At | O'Clock Saturday, Secretary Blaine'>
daughter was married 10 Walter Damrosch
of New York. The affair was as quiet as
1t could oe made considering the prom-
neuce of the contracting parties. The
young couple have gone to Europe where
they will remain until the fall Their
future home will be in New York city
The Committee appointed by the repub-
lican House caucus TO examine and report
which was the better to adopt, the Lodge,
or the Rowell Federal election bill, has
reported in favor of the Lodge bill divested
of the Australian ballot feature Opinion
still differs widely a. to what Congress
will do in this matter. 4 large majority
OF the republicans believe that Federal
election law should be enacted al the pres
ent session of Congress, but there l.
powerful minority Of influential republi-
cans, in and out of Congress, headed by
no less parsonage than James q. Blaine,
who believe that the enactment. OF such a
Law at this time would be very poor poll
tics, and that the republican party would
lose much more elsewhere than it could
possibly thereby gain in the South.
The House and Senate having agreed to
disagree on the pension question, the mat
ter is now being considered by confer
ence committee of the two houses There
Is not particle of foundation for the re-
ports emanating from democratic sources
in this city that the present deadlock had
been Intentionally gotten up by the repub-
licans in order to prevent any pension
legislation at this session. The present
difference of opinion between the House
and Senate is an honest one, but the re-
publicans in both houses are fully deter
mined upon the passage of pension bill,
and it only remains to adjust the details as
to how far it shall 20 and what it shall
| cover and this will be done soon.
Secretary Proctor will make an official
inspection of the military posts at Willet's
Point Sandy Hook, Fort Hamilton and
Fort Wadsworth, New York. this week.
Senator Plumb will accompany him if he
| can arrange his Senatorial duties so as to
| spare the time.
| Ex-Civil Service and Indian Commits
| sioner Oberly has become the business
manager of daily democratic paper here.
| He will find decided difference between
hustling for the printers and paper makers
and drawing So 900 year from Uncle Sam
while the other fellows hustled.
Ex Senator Plumb of Michigan, United
| States minister to Spain, has placed his
resignation in the hands of Secretary
Blaine. He proposes to return to Detroit
to live, and says that he will not under
any circumstances be candidate for gov
eruOr.
Many democrats will never forgive Mr..
Mills for having stated on the floor of the
House that he did not believe the majority
of the Ways and Means committee had
been improperly approached or influenced
while preparing the tariff bill. Such q
statement destroys the political ammuni-
ton of the two-for-a-cent style of demo-
Gratis, and they hate Mills for having made
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