The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1892-04-22
NAgRTERT0N LETTER.
,Tom our TagaIaT eoreaponlenE..I

tf0m our regular correaponuentsl
WAsHNeToE, April 10, 1859
/ Mr. Harrison is confronted by q very peeIl
liar situation. He must choose between vic
lating pledge made TO one Of his few per
sonal friends and keeping that pledge and
/ 1eopartlizinE his Ehance Of being renpminatel
by antagouiztDg the most powerful senatOri
Ia his party lie has this week iDtimated 5tl
senator Quay, vino claims the right To maine
the successor to the late Justice Bradley, 81
the United States supreme Court, as the
price 81 hts support, that be Intended to keep
the pledge made 10 Attorney General Miller
when he was taken into the cabinet, and nom
mate him 10 the vacancy Mir Quay told
HIM. II Is said, that be could control enough
VOTES IN the senate to defeat the nomination,
and more, that II 1t was made he would use
al Of bis influence to have the Minneapolis
convention nominate an anti Harrison man.
! This is not the first time that Mr. Harrison
has intimaten his intention to redeem that
promise made to his old law partner; but 10
the cases Of the other vacancies on the SUI
pTeme court he was RqnaTely bnildozed out
1oihis Intentions by senators and Uthor prom
lineflt men ia his party, and he may be again,
but those near to him say that he fears TO al
loW!this opportunity TO go by of providing
for his friend Tor lie, as tits hardly probable
that there will be anothervseancyd during his
term 81 office, and be fears 'thathe cannot be
Feresseted, even II he is accumulated still,
ne Fyiil probably think some time before he
deliberately invites fight with the senators
who could be controlled by Quay, as he
knows very well that many OF them orlyWish
an exeuse 10 fight him, anyway
IEhRs often been stateu that ANYTHING was
possible in Washington, provided enough
money was put ppi and the purchase of a
site Tor The neW Washington .postoiilce, by
authority OF the billion dollar congress, 10
The disrepntable locality on the south siietof
Fen syiYanla AVenpe, where the ground Is
only abopt two feet above Ordinary high
tide In the Potomac, and Whe3e the engineers
are now driving forty foot piles 10 search of
foundation firm enough to build upon,
certainly furnished q convincing argument
that the statements in close proximity to
thetrnth, and the high price paid for the
ground makes II certain that the money
spent by the real estate lobby in mauipulat-
ing the deal, all came back with several
hundred per cent increase.
The same gang Is laying the wires to IN
load another section ~ this swamp land.
which IT either OWNS Or holds options on, at
nominal price, on the government as site
FOR a new patent office, AZ a ilriee that wpuld
purchase site ID good location. Already
bill has been introduced apprOpriating
s., ON, 9OU Tor q new patent Office, and spec
Ideally providing that u shall be located on
the sonth side of Pennsylvania Avenue, and
the two daily papers, both of whiyh own
avenue property, will help the lobby to get
| tt through, and some of the senators and
members who pushed The post office bin
! through will also help Democratic senators
and members should refuse to aid these
spectators, and they doubtless will, when
the real status Of the matter is brought to
their attention, they have been misled by.
Washington newspapers
Chairman gO1BsFrall, of the house election
committee has given notice that be Will call
up.the report OF the committee in the conf
tested election case of Moves VS.. Rockwell 4
next lnesdsy. This 8 lie case IN which
sssasssF liii1z saa1=le liss slsssii sisg fafss,
mixed mp, beeaEse Of his belief that the COM
mlttee'u DID wrong IN reporting in favor of
| Moves, the Republican CONTESTANT m "a
eYyRected that a. lively debate will take place
when the rePorti5 taken up. aHll III win not
surprise mauy If the house votes against. the
reporter lheeommittee and retains Rockwell
IN his seat.
| The bouse census committee has reported
1taVQfapy the resolution instTncting shat.
eoaiilnltsee 70 lpqnire into the XpedisDey of
q. apnshlng q permanent census bureau,
! The house has been working very IDtus-F
tIloasly on appropriation bills this week.
HE Democrats are determined to push the
work OF the house, SO that the Fesponstbilitv
~ ProloDging the session beyond the middle
e inne 81 NE hrsttof Jalg will have to bel
The senate committee o. foreign relations
has Turned down The Chinese exclusion Bin
passed by the house, by reporting the senate
bill extending the present ti-ChiDese Jaw
therefor.
The statement Is made, but It lacks official
nhFmation that the state department has
reached an agreement with the Italian an
tberifies on TIE question OF 4ndamnityto the
famtlies Of the Italians lypahed at New
SlFleans and tll05. 900 francs Il The sum
which Mr Blaine has promised, subject 10
ne approval Of congress, TO pay.