Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-06-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nav 81, 1892

WASHINGTON, May ~ 1897.
Presidential politics was logged
into the House this week by the Har-
rison and anti-Harrison Republicans.
Representative Henderson, of Iowa,
made a buncomb speech criticising Mr..
Harrison for not having given the
negroes representation on the board
OF managers OF the Worlds Fair,
which was replied to by Representa-
tive Johnson, OF Indiana. who is known
to be very close to Mr.. Harrison. Mr..
johnson created some excitement by
letting the cat out of the bag concern
ing the infamous Force bill, which
Mr.. Harrison is still intent upon hav-
ing enacted into a law, if his party
can secure control Of the House and
elect the President again. Mr.. John
son INDUCED in the stock abuse OF
Democrats in the South for their
treatment of the poor negro, which
Mr.. Harrison doubtless hopes will have
good effect upon the negro dele.
gates to Minneapolis. Democrats
were delighted at this open avowal of
a close and confidential friend of Mr..
Harrison's that the Force bill is not
dead, but only sleeping-it will be
worth thousands of votes to Demo
cratic candidates for the House, as
well as to the electoral ticket.
Since the arrival of Commander-in-
Chief. John C. New, early this week,
the Harrison army has dropped its
meek, by-leave-of-M Mr.. Blaine air, and
from this time on it will fight sor
Mr.. Harrison's nomination. The
anti's also, under command of Boss
Clarkson, have their fighting blood
up, and the wounds left by the battle
royal that is to be fought at Mime
apolis will make it all the easier to
elect the ticket nominated at Chicago.
Mr.. Cleveland's friends are anxious for
the Republicans to nominate Blaine,
as they believe his nomination will re-
move all doubt as to the nomination
of Mr.. Cleveland at Chicago, and they
are confident that he could beat Blaine
worse than he did in 1884.
The action of the Democratic caucus
in deciding to push the regular ap-
preparation bills, in the House, ahead
of everything else, and to secure an
adjournment at the earliest possible
date, was disappointing to many
members interested in legislation
which they had hoped to have dis
posed OF at this session, but the very
large majority by which the caucus
adopted it demonstrated that it was
deemed the proper action to take.
There can be no doubt that the sooner
the House can pass all Of the neces'
sary appropriation bills and demon
strate to the country that it is ready
for an adjournment, the better it will
be for the Democratic party.
The refusal of Secretary Rusk to ask
Congress for an appropriation to be
spent by the alleged rainmaker, Dyren-
forth, had no affect upon that cheeky
and slick-tongued individual. He
has talked with such good purpose to
the Senate committees on Agriculture
that Senator Pettigrew offered an
amendment to the Agricultural bill
appropriating $4,000 for rain-making
experiments. That is just SIS 600
more than Dyrenforth asked for, and
he is correspondingly happy; but his
jubilation will be short, as the House
will not allow this money to be thus
thrown down a rat-hole, so to speak,
whatever the Senate may do.
Teddy" Roosevelt is again after
Mr.. Wanamaker, whose testimony re.
lating to the violations of the Civil
Service law by employees of the Balti-
more Office he says contained "slan-
derous falsehoods." This is the second