The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lrrom our rcgular correspondent.,


 WASHINGTON, July 20, 1892.
 Tho House by vote of 1ls to 107 decided in favor of the Worlds Fair appropriation. but the opponents of the appropriation declined to give in, and moved for reconsideration, and then began fillibustering to prevent a vote being taken on that motion. It | is claimed that about fifty members of the House have agreed to keep up the tillibustering until a majority of the entire House shall vote for the appro- priation or the Senate shall agree to adjourn without its being passed, A majority of the entire House will not vote for the appropriation, because many of them are away and will not return for that purpose, and the Senate will not agree to adjourn until this appropriation is agreed to by the House. The fillibustercrs are bluffing very bravely, but it is not believed that they will have the backbone to actually carry out their threats, and the prediction is made that before this letter is in print they will have weak ened, and the appropriation have been made.
 As if 1t was not already hot enough, with the thermometer 100 in the shade, the Senate, a body which usually takes things cool and easy, resolved itself into political debating society, with the report of Senator Aldrich's com mittee on the effects of the tariff upon earnings, cost of living, etc., as the subject for discussion, and the Senators spouted away just as though the ses- sion had just began aud the weather was perfectly comforts able. Senator Aldrich opened the ball with a long speech, and an able one, too, in favor of protection, aud pointing out the de- crease in the cost of living, as shown by the report of the committee, which he said had made it's investigation free from partisanship, and the greater earnings of Americans, as compared with Europeans. Senator Vest was the next 10 make 2 set speech. His speech consisted of general attack on the protective system, rather than an answer to Senator Aldrich's statements, Senator Carlisle having announced his intention to reply to so much of it as referred to the investigation by the committee, Of which he was member The feature of Mir. Vests speech that attracted the most attention was his assertion that under the protective sys- tenn agricultural lands had steadily de- creased iu value, an assertion which was denied, so far as il concerned their states, by q number of Republican Senators, including the two Republic ans who voted against the Mckinley bill in the Seuatc-Paddock, of Ne brasks, and Pettigrew, of North Da- kota, The other Senators taking more or less prominent parts in tho discus sion were Allison, Palmer, Hale and Davis.
 Senator Cameron, finding that he could not defeat or hang up" the nomination of MT. Shiras, of pennsyl- yania, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. withdrew his opposi- tion and allowed the nomination to be unanimously confirmed by the Senate.
 President Harrison's nomination of Mir. A. B. Hepburn, who has been Ma tional bank examiner at New York city for several years, to be Comptroller of the Currency in place of Mir. Lacy, who in becoming president of Ma tional bank has followed close in the footsteps of several other comptrollers, was not altogether satisfactory to any one but Mfr. Hepburn's personal friends not because of anything known against that gentleman, but because the pecu- liar circumstances surrounding the cx- aminations of several of the big Ma tional banks of Philadelphia and Bos- ton, which failed year or so ago--a Congressional committee is now inycs- tigating their failures - had caused conservative people to think that a change in the method of examination would prove advantageous, and they know that such q change is not likely to be made by one of the old force of ! lnx.p,inora