Milford chronicle., 1892-02-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, February s, 1892.
Postmaster General Wauamaker has is
sued on order that will be hailed with pleas
ure by thousands of people in every section
of the country. It makes every Post Office
where the Postmasters salary exceeds 5000
per annum a money order office. This will
within the next eighteen months more than
double the number of money order Offices
/ in the country, and while giving so many
people this conyenient and absolutely safe
way of sending money through the mails it
will add very little to the current expenses
of the postal service, and in the end it will
probably add quite largely to its earnings,
That is the Republican idea of a business
like administration Of the affairs of the gov
eminent.
There are more Democrats from the North,
(including in that term all of the States ex-
cept those in the South than from the South
in the House. but it is now very evident
that the Southern men have ouigeneraled the
other fellows and captured everything that
will count in the legislation of the Heuse,
aud the expression, 'the South is again in
the saddle, " is literally true at this time, so
far as the House OF Representatives is con-
cerned The South has the Speaker, and
the South has all three of the Democratic
members of the committee on Rules, VIII ich
under the new code of rules has a greater
control over the business of the House than
any similar committee ever had before. in
fact it is absolutely impossible for any of the
other committees to either get business be
fore the House or to get it disposed ofaiter 1t is
taken up, without the assistance of that COM
mittee, except in the rare cases where there
is no active opposition ON the floor. The
full significance of the situation is just be-
ginning to dawn upon the out-witted men,
bers, since the new rules have gone into
operation. They can do nothing now but
"grin and bear it"
The representatives of the Canadian gov
ernment will always find this government
ready to listen courteously to any PROPOSE
ton they may desire to make concerning
commercial reciprocity between the two
countries, but as long as the Republican
party IS in power the Canadians need hope
for no treaty which fully opens our market
to them, while theirs is only half open to us.
The President and Secretary Blaine will be
pleased to see the Canadian Commissioners
but it is only upon one basis that they will
open negotiation with them.
The present anti Chinese law will expire
by Limitation in Nav next; hence the activity
in Congress on the subject There haye
been dozen bills introduced but the SEN
ate has reported in favor of bill continuing
the present law for period of ten years as a
substitute for them all.
A delegation from the Western Water
WAYS convention recently held at Evansville
Indiana, has been explaining the necessity
for liberal Harbor and River appropriations
to the House and Senate committees. I'll
the Holman policy is carried out there will
be no liberal appropriation for anything.
Representative Mills dagger is no longer
it IS openly held aloit in his
strong right hand while he has served no.
tice upon the Ways and Means committee 1
that he intends to use it on the first tariff |
bill it reports. that does not please him. |
Turn down the lights and let the band play |
slow music.
The House in passing a deficiency bill of /
s2oo, 900 for the current fiscal year for the |
Census Bureau, had great opportunity to
carry out democratic threats of attacking |
that Bureau, but because they knew they |
Tod a., caea fIa,r ,,oda 80 attact. avca,,f f,,,
general inuendo. Representative Sayers, of
Texas, who was in charge OF the bill said
Had the Superintendentaof the Census
been left to operate his Bureau without out
side pressure to put in office large number
of incompetent persons, the expenditures
would have been very much less" Mr..
Sayers forgot, however, to add that the most
Of this outside pressure came from Demo
cratic Senators and Representatives. Rep
resentative Stone, of Kentucky, a Democrat
said Of Superintendent Porter's work: 1T
has been efficient, prompt and rapid, and
better than that Of any previons Superinten-
dent"
The resolution introduced in the House
by Representative Fithian, of Illinois, in
structing the Ways and Means committee to
report bill putting all agricultural imple-
meuts on the free list is bluff pure and
simple, and nobody knows it any better
than its author. To put agricultural imple.
ments on the free list without rirst putting
al classes of lumber and metal on the free
list would close every mandatory of any
class of agricultural implements in the
United States, and the Democratic party
would not dare to do that even if it had both
Of Congress and The Presidency.
Why torture yourself, with sprays ,douches,
and what not, to only relieve
your catarrh, when a IS cent package of Old
Saul's Catarrh Cure will cMle Won Whv7