Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-09-03
WASHINGTON NOTES,
The News From the National Capital as it
Effects the interests Of the Vest
ern Farmers.
Our Correspondent Tells What Our Of
fciais are Doing in the Capital
City.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. Especial
Co,resp0ndence: Ex-Representative
Hare, of Texas, is in town and he is full
of interesting talk about things Of natl
onal Importance. He says Governor
Hogg is afraid. to call an extra session Of
the legislature on account Of the senator
ial situation, although the people are
mostly in favor of one. He says also
that Representative Mills cannot be elect
ed to the Senate because Of his having
too many bitter enemies in the State and
that, he thinks, Judge Culbertson would
be the next Senator from Texas, if3he
wants the place, whether the election
be at an extra or the regular session Of the
Legislature. This, if true, puts a spoke
in the wheel of the scheme which has
been much talked of here to gel Mills
elected to the Senate at an extra session
Of the legislature, in order to get him out
of the speakership fight.
By the way, speaking of the Speaker
ship, Tammany democrat who is credit
ed with knowing whereof he speaks, says
that the twenty three democrats Of New
York have been poled on the Speaker
ship, that one Of them is for Mills, six
for Mcmillan, and sixteen for Crisp. AS.
the unit rule will be observed in the
causes, with the exception Of Representa-
tive Tracy who refuses to be bound there
by and who will vote for Mills, Crisp
will get twenty-five of the votes. @
Secretary Noble is again on hand, and
he is kept busy in denying that he has
resigned or that he intends to resign.
Whatever: he may have been several
months ago when the report got out that
he intend to resign on account of bad
health, he certainly isn't a sick man now.
The American Association for the
Advancement Of Science, which has been
in session here since last Wednesday, has
about concluded it's business and the
members are now engaged in enjoying
themselves by sight seeing and other
|
methods just like ordinary folks.
| Can lager beer be taken legally into
Indian Territory and be sold there? The
question has been raised by somebody,
and the Treasury, War and Interior de-
partments are all interested in it's answer.
"Ardent spirits or '.spirituous liquors.
are prohibited by Statute from being
taken into or sold in the Indian country,
but Judges having jurisdiction of the
Territory have differed in the construc-
| ton of this Statute. some holding that it
included beer, and one, the other day,
that it did not. Secretary of the Interior
thinks it is a violation of the spirit, if not
the letter of the law to sell beer in the
| Territory, and he has requested the com
missioner of Internal Revenue to prevent
the admission of any more beer into the
Territory, but that official has not vet
decided what, if any. steps he will take
in the matter. The Secretary has direct
ed that all packages of beer in the Ter
ritory be seized.
Washington now wants everything
that is going. The delegates from the
District of Columbia department of the
Union Veterans Union carried hearty
invitation to the national meeting of the
Union which convenes at Cleveland Ohio,
tomorrow, to hold its 1892 meeting here
encampment will be here, and notwlth-
standing that yesterday was Sunday
many of our leading citizens were doing
missionary work in the ranks of the
departments of Massachusetts, Maine,
New Hampshire, and Vermont, the mem
bers of which stopped here enroute to
Cleveland. Washington is also after all
the political conventions next year.
1t is stated that determined effort is
to be made, to get Mr.. Harrison to ap-
point successor to W. L. Bragg, of
Alabama one of the Inter State Commerce
Commissioners who died last week, a
Farmers Alliance man, if not member
of the order, one who is known to be in