The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-03-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Corresp

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Mar. ?, 1901
Senator ingalls, is making the effort
OF his life to get Mr.. Harrison snub
bed by the republican Senate, and tc
get even with an old personal enemy
at the same time, by getting the nomi-
nation Of Representative Anderson, Of
Kansas, to be Consul General tc
Egypt, which Mr.. Harrison sent to the
Senate with that of Senator Blair to be
minister to China, rejected, or chung
up, which would keep Anderson out OF
the Office until next December.
If an extra session is to be avoided
Congress will have TO crowd more
business into these three last days than
it has ever done before, for everything
is in much mixed and backward
condition at this writing, and it would
certainly cause no surprise here should
several of the regular appropriation
bills fail to get through.
There would have been no proba-
bility of failing to pass the appropria-
ton bills if the republicans in the
House had not voted to spend two
days on the shipping bills, and if they
were not constantly trying to leave the
appropriation bills for the purpose of
pushing through something to help
the decrepit old republican party.
Representative Cannon had the sub
lime impudence to make the threat
that unless the democrats would vote
for the suspension of the rules so as to
allow the majority to pass such legisla-
ton as it might see fit, the majority
would lay aside the appropriation bills
and proceed unde-- the rules to dis
pose of such business as it might be-
lieve ought to be passed.
The shipping bill in which the lobby
was mostly interested, the one grant
ing tonnage subsidy to all American
vessels engaged in trade with foreign
countries, was defeated in the House,
and the least Objectionable bill, that
authorizing the granting of subsidies
to steam vessels, IN the guise of pay
ments for carrying United States mail,
was passed. with an amendment re-
duclng the amount to be so paid. In
principle one of these bills is just as
Objectionable as the other, but | call
the one that passed the least objection
able, because it will require a great
deal less money-nobody could tell
how much the other one would have
taken had it become law.
Through the Vaccinations of that
enterprising lobbyist, ex-senator Ma
hone, all present hope of a new Gov
ernment printing Office in place of the
tumbledown structure now used as
such, has gone glimmering, and it is
much to be regretted that two such
eminent democrats as Senators Cor
man and Butler should have allowed
themselves to be used as instruments
for the accomplishment Of Mahone's
purpose. Finding it impossible to sell
to the Government as a site for the
new printing Office, for $25o,ooo, a
piece of land entirely unsuited for the
purpose, Malone, through his '"pard."
Senator Cameron, the man who
couldn't see any harm in speculat-
ing in Silver while a bill affecting its
value was pending in the Senate, set
to work to prevent the site recon-
mended by the committee being pur-
chased by the present Congress. The
scheme was well worked. Waiting
until the closing rush of the session be.
gan, when members are glad to post
pone anthing, resolution was offered
to lay the whole matter aside until
next December. and it was adopted.
This is all right for Malone, but it's
rather tough on the more than two
thousand men and women who sacri-
fce their health and endanger their
lives in the old building. The ques-
tion naturally arises; do these demo
cratic Senators propose trying to help
Malone sell his ground to Uncle Sam
through the democratic Congress |