The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-06-04
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 80, 1890.

w ASHlNGION, ~ ", MtJ oO, lCVN'
The President accompanied by the
Vice President, Attorney General Mill
er, Representative Mckinley and sew
eral other gentlemen, left here We'd
nesday night on special train for
Cleveland, Ohio, where they are to
take part in the ceremonies attendant
upon the unwilling of the Garfield stat
ne to-day. The President expects to
get back to Washington tomorrow
night Mr.. Morton will go from Cleve-
land to his country residence in New
York, where he will spend two weeks
with his family, who have already gone
there for the summer.
The House, owing the fact that many
of the members desired to sped Me-
mortal day out of the city, adjourned
from yesterday to Monday, June I'd.
A party of Congressman have gone to
Gettysburg to take part in the memoir
ial ceremonies to-day, and many of
them were at Arlington cemetery,
where the e. A. K. held interesting
services.
Speaker Reed did an excellent thing
in issuing an order prohibiting the sale
of liquor in the House restaurant, and
now if similar order is issued and
disgraceful spectacle of two openly
conducted bar-rooms, one in each end
of the Capitol building, will be seen no
more. The sale of drinks to any and
everybody who chooses To purchase by
the keepers of these restaurants has
gone quite far enough to disgust people
who are not prohibitiOnists.
The House Ways and Means COM
mittee has set down on the Farmers
Alliance very heavily by unanimously
agreeing to make an adverse report
on the Alliance bill, providing for sub
treasures for the deposit of agricultural
products. The members of the com
mittee refused TO consider politics in
this matter, hence the unanimous vote.
1t was courageous thing for some of
them to do, because they had received
notification that unless they supported
this bill the Farmers Alliance would
oppose them i'm their districts.
The Senate bill subjecting imported
liquors to the laws of the states has
obliterated party lines in the Senate
for the time being, and the dignified
Senators are indulging in speeches pro
and con on the constitutionality of the
bill
The river and harbor bill has not yet
passed the House, but that it will, is
now certain.
1t had to come at last. New York
City, the wealthiest city on this CONT
nent, confcsses, through one of her
representatives, who is himself a
millionaire, her inability to raise the
money necessary to erect q monument
to Gen. Grant, and asks Congress TO
pass a joint resolution, which has been
introduced by Representative Flower,
appropriating $3.50, 900 to help pay for
monument. This is generally regarded
as a piece of monumental cheek, and
the impression is that Congress will re.
fuse to appropriate money for the cree
ton of a monument to Gen. Grant at
any other place than at the National
Capital, where if the e.. A. Il. can have
its way, his body will ind its final rest
ing place.
A meeting of the Republican Nation
al COMMITTEE was held at the resi-
dence of Senator Quay here to-day, but
nothing has up to this writing been
made public relating to its action.
A reunion of the surviving members
of the Thirty Fourth Congress, which is
memorable for the sixty day contest |
over the speakership, which resulted |
IN the election OF n. L. Banks, who is |
a member of the present house, was
held here yesterday. Among those
present were Ex-Speaker N p. Banks,
Senators Sherman and Morrill,, Ex- Req |
resentatives Sidney Dean, Edward
Dodd, T. l.. Hagler, Will Cumback,
John A. Bingham, James Bishop, Jas.
III. Campbell and A. G.. Cragin.
The members of the Republican Con-
gressional campaign committee have
been selected, but they have not yet
elected the chairman and secretary.
The Senate has decided to go into
the whole tariff question in detail, and
il is not expected that the Finance
committee can report the bill TO the
Senate before july.
The conference committee on the
pension bills passed by the House and
Senate respectively has not yet reached
an agreement.
Senator Blair, from the Committee
on Education and Labor, has reported
favorably to the Senate the bill recent