Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-01-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular CORRESPONDENCE
Washington, Jan. s, 1892.

| washington, j an. ., 1917.
While no official announ cement has
been made it is apparent that the ad-
nlinistratiOn is in pOssessiOnofgO good
reasons for believing that all danger
of war with Chill is over, and the
general impression is that a settle
ment entirely satisfactory is now un-
der way and will very shortly be an
nounced This is well: While we
could eaisly have thrasl1ed Chill, we
would have gained little, aside from
satisfaction: and owing to the dis
lance from the United States that
! would have been very costly.
For an hour, on Wednesday, Wash
ington was thrown into great eN-
element by the rumor that Secre
tary Blaine was i'll. Fortunat ly
there was little basis therefor, mere
ly Il slight attack 81 nausea.
Representative Xii gore, of Texas,
whose only claim to statenlership was
obtained by kicking open one OF the
doors to the Chamber of the House
OF Representa- tives, during the fifty
first Congress :. has become temporarily
prominent again through an action
just about as cre.itabie as the first
one. When the joint resolution att
tOhrizing the Secretary OF the Navy
to charter Il steamship to carry
the grain which has been contributed
to the starving people "f Russia by
warm hearted Americans had been
passed by the Senate and an attempt
was made to get unanimous consent
to take it up in the House kilgore up
ended himself and shouted II object.
TIE next day. when the resolution
came before the House again KilgOre
was joined by the numerous members
OF the peanut wing OF tie democratic
party in opposing the resolution and
in spite Of II solid republican vOt, and
the assistance OF some democrats tn:
resolution was defeated thus MAX
lag the CHART, anI humanity o.
"A
amOung the nations of the world
bills, bills every here. but not Il lay
! enacted. Perhap, that Will not e.
actly describe the career of the pres II :
House, but it will come near cnoug i
for all prac teal purposes There h rs
been Just On,, bill daS, but $,
heavily lOa lei were the m ,.lb rs
with, bad snI in;liffcre III bills, NOS :
| ly the two latter, that it bee 4me
necessary tOsuspen1 the CAL OF States
when Ohio had been called, in ORDER
to give the clerks IL chance to get the
avalanche OF bills recorded. The
duplica ton of bills, particularly those
aimed at the present tariff law, were
SO numerous that awagslgges ted the
appointment OF Il tariff editor by the
democratic caucus before the" next
bill" day. The same might also be
said about silver. *.
Representative Otis, of Kansas, is
evidentally Il man moi. easily ratified
by the immensely OF an under taking
or he WOULD not havesO nOnclalent IT,:
! introduced his bill to change the
monetary system. t. IL luce interest,"
and to provide for making loans on
land. Perhaps Mr.. Otis thinks the
system of q country can be changed
as a man: coat. He will know
! better when h has lived longer.
Jerry Simpson is more modest. lie
nitro lu.pi II bill to prohibit usary,
VIII CHI won Il be a mighty good thing
| If co I'd only b, mt into effect, but
alas for pcog, frail hu nan nature,
Yer prone to lo wro IN. oil the
efforts of the lawmakers since there
| | wmakers have been un lvalinG and
usery has existed and will continue
tOexist. Why? Because when Il man
is compelled to get money to avert