Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-02-19
From Washington.
Washington, ID. c., Feb. 6.

the unpleasant experience AT
he hands of the press of having all
The mouldy chestnuts In the shape OF
stories Illustrative of western oddities
and peculiarities fastened upon him.
The Idaho delegation had no exemp-
ton from this infiiction. The same
stories Ct slapping the presiding officer
of the senate on the back and calling
him "a dandy of addressing in terms
of gross familiarity old senators, OF sit
ting up late at night holding phenom-
email hands at poker and raking in inn
possible pots which were told of the
Nebraska senators when they first ar
rived here, which were imposed upon
the Colorado senators when they first
reached Washington, which were re-
counted of North and South Dakota
and Wyoming senators when they
made their earliest appearance in the
Capitol, have been dug from obscurity
and located npon Senators Shoup and
Mcconnell. The active correspondents
in Washington, who are paid by the
line for filling up space, must look up
matter from some source and an old
story once considered good is consid
cred good enough to he revamped as a
new one and to be applied to the cas-
lest person which it is supposed to fit.
BY the time this reaches you, Idaho
will probably have made up her mind
as to whether she will be satisfied with
three senators or must have fourth.
There have been daily dispatches in
the eastern papers for week past
which seem to indicate that the legis-
lature is inclined to send another SEN
ator from your state to contest the seat
which Senator Mcconnell will vacate
on the fourth of next March. The
general impression here is that Dubois
credentials will stand. Senator Ed
munds, who has looked up the matter
carefully, seems to be satisfied, and
several other members of the Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections take
the position which was taken by the
Judiciary Committee in the Gilbert VS..
Hart case in Florida in the year 1870.
This was a case singularly like the
Idaho case, where two senators We're
elected on the second Tuesday after the
meeting of the legislature, where sew.
eral days afterwards third senator
was elected for the short term, the leg
islature meeting in general assembly tc
make the election, and where subse
quently the Florida legislature, de
claring the election of Gilbert invalid
sent Hart with new credentials tt
Washington to contest Mr.. Gilbert!
seat. The report, which was made b.,
Senator Lyman Trumbull, was signet
by Senator Edmunds, Senator Steward
and all the other members of the Com
mittee, threw Hart out of court an(
declared that Glbert's election was il
ievery essential feature in accordance
with the law of 1866 regulating thu
election Of U. S. Senators. The Com
mittee laid down the rule, which
would doubtless be applied in tn
Idaho case, with the Florida case as
precedent, that the object of the law o
1865 was to provide that Il majorit,
should elect and that the proper lcgis
lature should select senator. Othe
details of the law the Committee hell
were explanatory and simply intended
to carry out more fully its main pur
pose. AS the senate is body whicl
banks very strongly on presidents,
, is more than probable any contestan
, for the seat, which Mr.. Dubois think
he is entitled to, will have his journc
to Washington for his pains.
. We have had another Senator's
caucus in which north Idaho's brain
and business-lke Senator put in som
rafting strokes for the Nicaraugu
$ canal bill. In his speech advocatin
{ that the bill should be placed high o
f the calendar of measures to be acte
t upon during the present session, Sen,
r tor Mcconnell called attention to til
e fact that one hundred million bushe
4 of wheat were sent around the hor
;. annually in sacks destined for foreig
y ports, and that the construction Of til
e canal would enable the grain of IL
e Pacific Coast to be shipped in bulk O
IS account Of the shortened voyage wit
/: Il resulting saving to the farmers
v four and one-half cents bushel or
e more than four and one-half million
It dollars annually in the mere matter
It cost of grain sacks.
e The Senator has been stirring up Il
= animals in another direction during Il
IS past week. His bill for the improv
v ment ofSnake river contains an unu
). ual clause which provides that the wor
v shall be done under the charge of
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