Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Written and compiled for the Herald.


Written and compiled for the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, May l6.-"The Prcsi-
dent" said member of the republican
national committee, sis to my certain
much more concerned about |
the success of the ticket TO be nominated
at Minneapolis than about who shall head
it, He wishes the convention to be
harmonious, and would like to see the
made by reclamation, whoever
may be selected to head the ticket. What
ever bis friends are doing, and some Of
them are doing harm, both to him ana
the party, know that he is doing noun
lug to bring about his own nomination.
and further that he has fully made up his
mind that he will not enter struggle TO
obtain the nomination, because OF his
belief that the lll-will left by such
struggle would have tendency to en-
danger the success of the party" Tie
President is now on the Chesapeake Bay
with his invalid wife. He will return 10
Washington the middle Of the week.
Another sudden death another funeral
in the Senate chamber, and another Sena-
tors seat shrouded in black. The sudden
death of Senator Barbour of Virginia, who
went to bed Friday night in excellent
spirits and IN apparently good health, ard
died of heart disease at an early hour
Saturday morning, has fallen like pail
upon his colleagues IN Congress, among
whom he was deservedly popular by rea'
son of his many endearing qualities. his
funeral took place this afternoon, and the
remains, accompanied by a committee
from the House and Senate and numerous
friends. were taken to Poplar Grove, Nd,
for interment. Already the Virginia
democrats in Congress have begun wire
milling to name his successor.
This week will probably close the Pen
sion Office investigation which has been
from the first nothing but bitter
attempt to break down the personal
character of General Raum, an attempt
which has most miserably failed, rs all
such attempts ought to fail. The few
witnesses yet to be heard are those named
by Gen. Raum.
Senate Germans defense of the ex
pendItures authorized by the Ffty-iirst
Congress, while perhaps entirely unintend-
ed, was a practical acknowledgement that
the charge of extravaganza upon which
the democrats, aided by tariff misrepre-
sensations, obtained control Of the present
House of Representatives, was false. He
said there had been an increase in the APP
propriations made by each succeeding
Congress since the Forty-ffth, with the
execution of tie Forty-eightb, end called
attention to the fact that the total ex-
penditu.es under the Cleveland admins
traton were greater than under ArthuFs,
lust as those of the present administration
will exceed those Of the Cleveland ad-
mlnistration, and he closed with these
words, which certainly have a strange
sound, coming from man who may be
the democratic candidate for President
"And. as the country grows and You go
on with the construction of your navy
and open the harbors and deepen the
rivers and make great guns for the Army
and Navy. these expenditures must in
crease"
The Congressional prophets have been
in "hard luck" for a long time. The
prompt reporting of the river and harbor
bill to tho Senate was directly contrary
to their prediction that it was to lie held
back IN order to force the House into
agreeing to Senate amendments to ap-
propriatlon bills. The Senate committee
increased the bill little more than
million, making it carry total of ST.
470,11s. 1t will be taken up as soon as
the naval bill is disposed of, and there Is
no reason to believe there will be any
unusual delay in disposing of it. The
Senate Commerce committee in its re-
port on this bill gave notice that it would
report no river and harbor bill next year
If YOU wish to hear a choice selection OF
"cuss words" you have Only to ask the
average democratic member of the House
when the astounding exposures of re-
publican crookedness, promised by TIE
numerous House investigating committees,
are to be made.
A very shrewd scheme is being worked
here to get the support of western re-
publican Senators for combination bill
placing binding-twine and refined sugar
Oh the free list The bill placing binding
Irvine on the free list has already been
passed by the House, and the present
scheme is to get a republican Senator
from the West to Offer as an amendment
thereto, when it comes up in the Senate,
a section placing refined sugar on the free
list.
Senator Mills is responsible lot IT,
ylval of the chestnut about the bankrupt
condition of the U. S. Treasury. Claims
upon that institution are, however, still
worth one hundred cents to the dollar,
and are promptly paid upon presentation,
lust as they will continue to be.
The selection of Justice Harlan, of tie
L. s. Supreme Court, and Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, as aIbitrators to repre-
sent the United States in the Bebring Sea
arlitration gives general satisfaction.
The veteran campaigner, Hon. Edward
Mcpherson, of Pennsylvania, Is again in
his old place as Secretary of the Republi
can Congressional Campaign committee.
Deer Park and Oakland.