Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-02-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrOm our regular corrsspoBdsst.I !

lErom our feHulAr ArOoTeaIOuoett-l
WASHINGTON. d. c.. Feb. 2. 1891.
Mr.. Harrison has rs hard q task be-
fore him In the selection OF q successor
to the late Secretary Of the Treasury as
! his worst enemy could possibly have set
for him; 1t Is a task too In which the
country at large Is more directly inter-
ested in than anything he has yet un-
dertaken. IL will be very difficult TO
find q man willing 10 accept the place
who possess the ability combined with
the conservatism Of the dead Secretary;
and what will add no little to Mr.. Har-
rison's trouble Is the fact that all the
prominent republicans In both Houses
and Senate who have been recently
repudiated by their constituents will
be, IN fact are already clamoring for the
place for themselves. Whoever he se-
lects he Is bound to make new enemies
In his party, and being q candidate for
denomination that Is just what he
cannot afford to do. Besides this, the
man selected will have to be satlsfacto-
ry to the business men Of the country,
or q financial panic my be precipitated.
So far the men, who are mentioned
for the vacancy, are just those who
should not be selected. Representative
Mckinley can, 1t Is thought, have the
place IL he wants 1t, but he has high
protection on the brain to 80 great an
extent that his appointment would be
verv great mistake, and one that
would be certain to bring trouble. Sena-
tor Spooner Is talked of, but he Is q
lawyer and lacks the financial expert
ence and executive ability which Is alb
solutely necessary. The others may
be punched in one bad, very bad lot,
which includes Senator ingalls,. ex-
Gov. C"Calico Charley") Foster, Repre-
sentative Cannon and that ex-boss,
particularly known for ways that are
devious, Stephen E. Elklns.
II has been q long time dying and
numerous false reports of its death
have been given out, but this time the
Force bill really is dead, dead beyond
all hopes of even partial resurrection,
owing to the action of twelve republi-
can Senators in deciding that they will
Gals as Senators Hoar, Aldrich, Ed
munds and Spooner to give up the idea
Of intimidating the South, but even
they acknowledge that the thing Is
dead and that no further attempt will
be made to revive 1t. In consequence,
the legitimate business of the session
the annual appropriation bills-is fairly
humming in both House and Senate.
The Senate by party vote refused to
amend the apportionment bill, granting
what was so clearly the right of Arkan-
sas; Minnesota and New York-one ad-
ditional member to each. and passed
the bill just as it left the House. Sena-
tors Davis and Washburn, of Minnesota
voted with the Democrats for the
amendment, and strange as 1t may
seem Senators Evarts and Hitchcock
of New York voted against it.
Brother Johnny Wanamaker will
have to get himself new hobby. His
postal telegraph scheme, in spite of the
amount of Government money he spent
in the publication of his views thereon,
is as dead as door nail. The House
committee on Postoff1ces will not even
report it.
Representative McCreary, who is re-
garded as one of the most conservative
men in the House paid his respect to
Gar Reed on Saturday in a manner
that was quiet but sever. His commit
tee-Foreign Affairs-having been re-
fused day for the consideration of its
bills; he said: "Never before in my ex-
perience on the committee on Foreign
Affairs, has that committee been re-
fused o day for the consideration of
bills reported byit. The refusal to give
committee day is but another error
in the comedy of errors which has
marked the Fifty-first Congress-"
It seems that the republican Senators
will never finish making personal ex-
plantations of their course regarding the
Force bill. Saturday Senators Blair
and Teller had their turns. Next!
Cured here today. All of the Govern
ment departments, the local offices and
the public schools we're closed. There
was considerable growing among that
large class who make 1t point to at
tend every prominent funeral they pos
sibly can, because admission to the
church was by ticket, and the tickets
were only furnished to prominent peo-
pie. The remaining members of the
cabinet acted as honorary paiibearers.
The resolution to discharge the House
Coinage committee from further con-
sideration of the free coinage bill is lia-
BILE to make the largest sort of rum
pus in the House at any time, If that
committee persists in its present efforts
to kill the bill by delay.
How not to investigate the silver
pools seems to be the real object of the
House committee, which is ostensibly
engaged in investigation. Ifthis COM
mittee alurs over its work the Demo
Gratis in the next House will try their
hands at probing 1t to the bottom.