Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-02-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9Th. 1892

pdtCHcu up tuclI TeCenC very seTlOu
differences and renewed the compae
concerning the Republican nomins
ton, i. e., that the name of only one G
them should be presented to the Min
neapolis convention. Mr.. Harrison
took the first step towards making
friends when he learned from mutua
friend that Mr.. Blaine had said tina
whatever his personal preference
might be, he was perfectly satisfies
that it would kill him to go through
another campaign as a Presidential
candidate; he knew that believing thi
Mr.. Blaine would not be candidate
and he wished to make friends, even i
it was necessary to swallow q little O
his dignity to do so, before the willy
man from Maine should take up some
other candidate.
The manly denial of Senator Voor
hees, corroborated by the Republican
Senators from Pennsylvania, was no
needed to convince anyone of the un
truthfulness of the silly statement al
leging that a bargain had been made
between the Indiana and Pennsylvania
Senators to exchange votes against the
confirmation OF Judge Dallas of Penn
sylvania, for votes against the confirm
alton of Judge Woods of Indiana
The Indiana Senators opposed the
confirmation of Woods because they
believed him unfit for judicial posi-
tion, and not because he was Repub
lican, and all of them favored the con
firmation of Judge Dallas, not because
he is Democrat, but because of his
fitness for the position.
Ex-President Cleveland passed
through Washington this week, en-
route to New York. His train only
stopped for few minutes, and he did
not leave his car.
In answer to a resolution of the
House asking for information, Mr.
Wanamaker has submitted his estimste te
OF the probable deficit in the posta,
revenues for the fiscal year beginning
the first of next July, should letter
postage be reduced to one cent and
postal cares to one half cent each
He says the deficit would be $25 900,
600; but admits that the probable in
crease in the number OF letters woult
reduce that amount considerably
Not few OF the longest-headed Dem
ocrats in the House are of the opinion
that it would be good politics as vel
as an act of justice to grant the people
this boon, which was promised by the
last Republican National convention
but refused by the Republican Con
gress, which spent all of its time legis
lating for the favored classes.
Representative McCreary, of Ken
tucky, is entitled to the thanks Of the
people for introducing the amendment
to the House rules, which was prompt
ly adopted by the House, which com
pels the several committees having
them in charge to report all of tn.
general appropriation bills to tn.
House within eighty days after the
committees are annouced at the lon,
session, and forty days after the be
ginning OF the short session. Thi.
makes it certain that the appropria
tion bills will all be reported by thu
middle of March, which will give thu
House plenty OF time to carefully con
slider each and every item in every on,
of them.
The House Committee on Ways anG
Means has, in pursuance of its adopt.
ed policy of reporting a number o.
separate tariff bills, referred the sub
jects of binding twine, cotton ties, salt
lumber, wool and tin-plate to sub-com
mittees, with instructions to prepare
and report to the full committee bill.
dealing with each of the articles men
toned at as early date as possible
AS soon as the bills are approved by
the Democrats of the full committee
they will be, one at a time, reported tc
the House.
Representative Enloe's bill to repea
the ocean mail subsidy act of the las
Congress will be favorably reported te
the House in few days, the Demo
cratic members OF the Postoffice Com
mittee having by unanimous vote sc
decided.
The House Judiciary Committee
has decided to favorably report q very
important bill, that providing that &
corporation shall be held to be a citi
zen for all judicial purposes of the
State in which it may carry on its bus
iness. The big corporations will op
pose this measure.
Now that the House has adopted it.
rules, some of those who have had &C
much to say about its doing nothing
will probably soon be complaining O.
its doing entirely too much. As 9
matter of fact, the members of the
House have done a great deal of hare
work, necessarily of preliminary ma
ture, studying up the various appro
priatian bills, etc. No actual legisla
ton of Importance could take place
until the rules were adopted.
The Democratic caucus called for to
night to consider the silver question
will not be held, it being deemed bes
not to hold it at present. Dem.
JOHN Buss, a chopper engaged il
clearing land on the Mrs. Furnel
place, in Squak valley, was dangerous