The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-06-13
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON.


logger heads over the crazy quilt hodge
podgc known as the Mckinley tariff bill,
and Senator Allison Is reported to be pre-
pairing speech to be delivered against the
bill on the hoor OF the senate, should he |
fail, as now seems probable, to carry his
point In the Finance Committee. In the
meantime the party leaders seem 10 have
gotten the whip hand OF the kiekers, Ger
tainly 90 far as the republicans of tie com.
miuee are concerned, and the majority OF
the committee are working like beavers to
get through with the bill, and up to date
they haye made no changes of Importance,
Some republicans say the bill will be re-
ported In week, but 1t Is more probable
that It will take four weeks to get through,
allowing that harmo y continues in the
committee, witch Is Wy no means certain.
Speaker Reed is getting good deal OF
cheap notoriety because ne issued an order
prohibiting the sale of drinks In the House
Restaurant. The only effect of the order
has been to stop the sale Of drinks over
the bar, and to put the proprietor to the
trouble of serving liquor to his guests
seated instead of standing, In the good old
fashioned way. Sitting at table 10 take
your whiskey is a Boston idea,
The fiery 6 a II crater, whose feelings
suffered exeruciatlngly because the peop'e
at Richmond chose to enjoy harmless
bit of sentiment by exhibiting the hag OF
Coniederscy, was In his glory In this vicin-
itv on Decoration day, lie was quite
numerous but also perfectly harmless. No
sensible person does anything but laoeh at
/ him.
Wnen Senator Stewart stated on the
floor Of the senate that Major Powell, di
rector OF the Geological Survey, was AT
the head Of "a lyiEg-in hospital for lame
ducks" he struck the nall square on the
head. The Geological Survey oeeuries
large and luxuriously fitted up quarters
here, and no man has ever been able to put
his hand upon anything tangible performed
by that bureau, and 1t has long been
standing joke that only work performed
by Major Powell and his assistants was In
the nature of lobbying to get fancy aP-
preparations through congress for them
selves. These fellows cal themselves
scientists, and perhaps they are. They
have certainly learned the science OF living
In style ut the expense of the government.
An investigation would amount to moth
ing unless the ''pull" whi-h Major Powell
has so long and successfully had upon con-
gress should fail to work.
Assistant Post. master General Clarkson.
who has of late been posing as the special
champion Of the anti.civil service legion,
has disgusted many of them by proving
himself to be as greata humbug as the civil
service law. Mr. Clarksou recently dis.
covered that just as his official life was
| nearing its close, the postal service on the
Pacific ccast was needing an official Ia
spection' BY him, ana yesterday, having
previously made arrangements with an
obliging railroad official for the use OF
private car, Mr. Ciarkson started on his
farewell junket. At Des MOines his tani-
ly will Join this model official who is doing
his level best to reduce the treasury sur
plus. AS soon as Mr. Clarkson gets tired
OF travelling over the Pacific tloPe he vii |
return to Washington, and resign.
Senator Carlisle Is the latest democratic
states to give the Farmers Alliance some
good advice. In reply TO letter from a
gentlemen in Alabama asking his views
of the bill, which has been reported ad-
versely by the House Commi,,ee,on Ways
and Means to providing for the establish
ment of subtreasurers for the storage oi
agricultural products, Mr. Carlisle says
''The farmers have been taxed so long fo'
the benefit of other classes and have seer
so much legislation for the aggrandise'
ment of corporations and syndica,es that
their patience is exhausted, and finding Il
impossible, for the time being at least tc
abolish the system which has oPPressee
and despoiled the greatest Industrial inter
ests OF the country, they are now demand
ing that the very policy, which they have
heretofore denounced as unjust and ruin
ous shall be applied to the, or rather Par'
of them, for no scheme has yet been sug'
gested that will operate alike upon al
foreigners. But no evil eau be corrected,
no wrong can be ighted by increasing its
magnitude and extending the scope of its
operation. There Is but one efectua
remedy for the evil which undonbtedl,
exists, and tina, is to reverse the policy
which produced IT,"
Post master General Wanamaker !
earning the I'LL will of all the small Wash
ington pension agents, because he is allow
ng one large firm, which publishes paper
violate the posta! laws in sending on
Copies of that paper. Like Mr. "anamaker
the head Of teefavored concern was large
! contributor to the republican campaign
fund, which excuseth many things.