Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.

ably add quite largely to its earnings
That 10 the republican idea Of a business
like administration of the affairs OF the
government.
There are more democrats from the
North, (including in that term all oil the
States except those in the South) than
from the South, in the House, but 1t Is
now very evident that the Southern men
have outgeneraled the other fellows ana
captured everything that will count ID
the legislation of the House, and the ex-
preston. "the South is again IN the
saddle" is literally true at this time, so
far as the House of Representatives is
concerned. The South has The Speaker,
and the South has all three of the DEM
ocratic members of the committee on
Rules, which under the new code OF rules
has greater control over the business oil
the House than any similar committee
ever had before, in fact it is absolutely
impossible for any of the other committees
to either get business before the House or
to get it disposed of after it is taken up,
without the assistance of that comnittee,
except in the rare cases where there is no
active opposition on the floor. The 1ull
significance of the situation IS just begin
ming to dawn upon the Out-v titled mem
hars since the new rules have Como into
operation. They can do nothing now but
"grin and bear it,"
The representatives of the Canadian
government will always find this govern
ment ready to listen courteOusly to any
proposition they may desire to make con
corning commercial reciprocity between
the two countries, but as long as the re-
publican party is in power the Canadians
need hope for no treaty which fully opens
our market to them, while theirs are
only half open to us. The President and
Secretary Blame will be pleased to see
the Canadian Commissioners, but it is.
only upon one basis that they will open
negotiation with them
The present anti-Chincse law will ex
pire by limitation in May next; hence the
activity in Congress on the subject. There
have been dozen bills introduced but
the Senate has reported in favor of bill
continuing the present law for period of
ten years as a substitute for them all.
A delegation from the Western Water
Ways convention recently held at Evans
vile, Indiana, has been explaining the
necessity for liberal harbor and River APP
preparations to the House and Senate
committees. If the Holman policy is
carried out there will be no liberal ap
preparation for anything.
Representative Mills dagger is no long
er concealed ; it is openly held aloft in
his strong right hand while he has served
notice upon the Ways and Means COM
mittee that he intends to use it on the
frat tariff bill it reports, that does not
please him. Turn down the lights and
let the band play slow music.
The House in passing deficiency bill
of 500, COO for the current fiscal year for
the Census Bureau, had great oppor-
tunity to carry out democratic threats of
that Bureau, but because they
knew they had no case they made no at
tack. except by general inuendc. Rep
resentative Sayers, of Texas, who was in
charge of the bill said clad the Super
of the Census been left to
operate his Bureau without outside pres
sure to put IN Office a large number of
incompetent persons, the expenditures
would have been very much less" Mr..
Sayers forgot, however, to add that the
most of this outside pressure came from
democratic Senators and Representatives,
Stone, of Kentucky, a
democrat, said Of Superintendent Portcr's
work: at has been efficient, prompt AMI
rapid, and better than that of any pre-
Yious uperintendent."
The resolution introduced in the House
by Representative Flthian, of Illinois, in
structing the Ways and Means committee
to report bill putting all agricultural
implements on the free list is bluff, pure
and simple, and nobody knows it any
better than its author. To put sgricul-
tural implements on the free list without
first putting all classes of lumber and
metal on the free list would close every |
of any class of agricultural /;
implements in the United States, and the !
democratic party would not dare to do
that even if it had both branches of Con-
gress and the Presidency.