Nevada County picayune., 1891-01-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 2, 1891.

Senator Stewart spoiled hiS Christ mas dinner by his speech against the Force bill and his appetite for hls dinner yesterday was killed by grand triple attack upon his scheme for getting even with the South by Senator's Wolcott, Teller and Hale. The first named Senator fired broad side into the Force bill an unanswer- able argument; the groundwork of his logic being opposition to enact ing law for the purpose of placing an acknowledged ignorant and in- competent majority over an intelll- gent minority. He stated plainly that if there were majority of igno- rant negro voters in the State of Colorado, solidly opposed to the un- ited intelligent white votes, that in some way and by some method the white vote would govern. That he is broad guage man the following words from his speech fully demon strated: "For a quarter of centu- tury, out; from poverty and despair, the South has been reaching forth in efforts to plant it's foot on the rock of material prosperity and in view of the marvellous growth and transformation now taking place in the Southern States, l believe it would be unwise and unpatriotic for us to interfere in the conduct of it's internal affairs Senator Teller's speech was a ringing demand for the shelving of the Force bill and the enactment of the financial legislation demanded by the people of the coun- try, which he described as being on the very verge of a financial panic. Senator Hale's remarks, which pro- bably hurt the would-be-leader from Massachusetts more than all the rest, was an attack upon MT. Hoar charg- ing him with being responsible for the months time which has been wasted in consideration of the Force bill, and demanding the speedy dis posal of that measure in order that other and more necessary legislation might have change. Mir. Hale al so took occasion to give the cloture, or gag rule now pending, which he says is altogether needless, few hard raps. Take them all and all they were three of the most remark able speeches ever made in Congress outside of secret caucus against a party measure by members of the same party.
 And yet, there is a we'll grounded fear by the use of the party whip and the administration patronage the bill may be passed, if it ever reaches a vote, which it will not do if the dem crats can by any means prevent It. In order to defeat it upon vote, assuming that every Senator will be in his seat or paired, it is necessary that eight republicans should vote against it, and only three have yet openly announced their intention of so voting, although there are dozen or more who have privately express ed themselves as being opposed to it.
 One thing is evident it will have to be passed or laid aside within the next ten days; other legislation, par ticularly financial, is crowding it, and Senator Hoar is reported to have said today that if it was not passed next week it would never pass. The administration has all the detectives of the Post office department work ing on the recent killing of the postmaster at Carrollton, Mississip- pi, in order to try to make capital to help push the bill through, notwith- standing letters in the possession of Senator George from the leading cit izens of the town, including its most influential minister, stating that poli- tics had nothing whatever to do with the killing.
 Treasury department officials are now preparing the annual deficiency bill. It will be the largest in the his tory of the country, aggregatlng about s7j, ,000, ,000, nearly half of which is for pensions. These de- liciencies were deliberately made by the Republicans in Congress at the last session for the purpose of blind ing the voters of the country to the amount of money that was being spent by that party.
 The Civil Service Commission has jumped on Mir. Wanamaker to the extent of several newspaper columns because of his criticism of it's meth ods in his annual report. This is re- garded by many as an attack upon MT. Harrison, who approved the re- port of the Postmaster General or it would not have been made public, and some people think that there may be vacancies in the commission before long. The country could get along if the whole business was abolished.
 Democrats are by no means anX ious for an extra session of Congress, but if, as now looks almost certain, one be made necessary by tue failure of the Republicans to pass the regu- lar appropriation bills. they will not complain. They are ready to do their duty, but they wish the rcspon- siblity for an extra session to be placed where it rightfully belongs on the RapuhEcana