Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.

With pleasure by thousands OF people
in every section of the country. II
makes every post office, where the
postmaster's salary exceeds $500 pei
annum, money order office. This
will within the next eighteen months
more than double the number of mon
ey order offices in the country, and
while giving SO many people this con-
venient and absolutely safe way OF
sending money through the mails, it
will add very little to the current ex
penses of the postal service, and in
the end it will probably add quite
largely to it's earnings. That is the re-
publican idea of a business like admin
istration of the affairs of the govern
ment.
There are more democrats from the
North, Including in that term all of
the states except those in the SOuth)
than from the South, in the House,
but it is now very evident that
the southern men have outgener-
aled the other fellows and cap
tured everything that will count in
the legislation of the House, and the
expression, 'the South is again in the
saddle" is literally true at this time,
SO far as the House of Representative
is concerned. The South has the
Speaker, and the South has all three
of the democratic members of the
committee on rules, which under the
new code of rules has a greater con-
troll over the business before the
House than any similar committee
ever had; in fact it is absolutely i'm
possible for any of the other commit
tees to either get business before the
House or to get it disposed Of after it
is taken up, without the assistance of
that committee, except in the rare
cases where there is no active Oppo-
sition on the floor. The full signifi-
canoe of the situation is just begin
ming to dawn upon the out witted
members, since the new rules have
gone into operation. They can do
nothing now but "grin and bear it,"
The representatives of the Canadian
government will always find this gov
eminent ready to listen courteously
to any proposition they may desire to
make concerning commercial reel
procity 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 mar
ket to them, while theirs are 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 May next;
hence the activity in congress on the
subject. There have been a dozen
bills introduced, but the senate has re-
ported in favor of a bill continuing
the present law for a period of ten
years as substitute for them ALL
A delegation from the Western Wa
ter Ways convention recently held at
Evansville, Indiana, has been explain
ing the necessity for liberal Harbor
and River appropriations to the House
and Senate committees. If the Hol-
man policy is carried out there will be
no liberal appropriation for anything.
Representative Mills dagger is no
longer concealed; it is openly held
aloft in his strong right hand while he
has served notice upon the Ways and
Means committee that he intends to
use it on the first tariff bill it reports,
that does not please him. Tnnr down
the lights and let the band play slow
music.
The House, in passing a deficiency
Dill of 100000 for the current fiscal
year for the census bureau, had
great opportunity to carry out demo-
cratic threats of attacking that bureau,
but because they knew they had no
case they made no attack, except by
general inuendo. Representative
Savers of Texas, who was in charge of
he bill, said: "Had the superintend
emit of the Census been left to operate
MS bureau without outside pressure to
put in office large number of incom-
oetent persons, the expenditures
would have been very much less"
Mr.. Savers forgot, however, to add
that the most of this outside pressure
came from democratic senators and
Representative Stone
Of Kentucky, a democrat, said of Su-
oerintendent Porter's work: cit has
been efficient, prompt and rapid, and
better than that of any previous SUI
oerintendent.'
The resolution introduced in the