The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-08-11

They all declare for free trade, and no
other possible construction can be placed
upon them.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Aug, 5, '92.
The President is deeply interested in
the preparations that are being made
for the entertainment of the veterans
| who will come to the 6. A. r. encamp-
ment, and it is no secret that it was
hint from him which caused the sudden
revoking of the order issued by Col.
Ernst, superintendent of public grounds
and bull 1ings, refusing to allow the
committee the use of the white Lot"
for holding reunions during the encamp-
ment. No better indication of the warm
feelings towards the old soldiers held by
the people of Washington could have
been given than the wave of Indignation
that swept over the community when
the order refusing the use of the "White
Lot" was made public. On all sides
were heard such remarks as 'every foot
OF ground in Washington belongs to
these men, bought by their blood on
many hard-tought battle-felds, and this
absurd order must be revoked" The or
der was quickly revoked, and prepara-
tions are merrily going ahead to make
the coming encampment the grandest
affair in the history of the G. Ar
Therepablican Senate, unlike the demo-
cratic House, is fully alive to the necessi-
ty of new government printing office,
and 1t has passed resolution authoriz-
ing the committee on printing to sit
during the recess for the purpose of TAX
ing testimony in regard to the selection
of site upon which to build it.
Secretary Charles Foster left here to-
day for Sandusky, Ohio. where he goes
to make speech tomorrow at a grand
Harrison and Reid ratihcation meeting.
When he made this engagement he ex :
pected that congress would have
adjourned before this; but he was UNIV yill-
ing to disappoint his Ohio friends, so he
went away.
Republicans wisely kept out of the dis
graceful scenes daily enacted b. fore the
committee which pretended % inyesti.
gate the charge that demo,c ATTIC repre.
sentatives had been on the floor drunk
during the present session, made by
Representative Tom Watson, peoples
mem Der from Georgia. The committee
las not submitted its, report, but from
the evidence taken it will have to render
the Scotch verdict, mot proven, in the
case of Representative Cobb of Alabama
| the only member unfortunate enough to
have his name brought out during the
so-called investigation, although no
names were mentioned in the original
charge, but as nearly every man who
gave evidence testified that he had seen a
member or members on the floor while
intoxicated it is difficult to see how the
committee can do otherwise than to re-
port the charge true. Representative
Dingley of Maine, was the only republi-
can member Of the House summoned to
appear before the committee, and he de-
clined to obey the summons.
"The result of the Alabama election"
said northwestern member OF the re,
publican national committee, Twill be
worth hundred thousand votes to the
republican party in my section, showing
as it does that the peoples party move
| ment is nothing more than a scheme to
prevent Harrison and Reid getting tie
electoral votes OF States which naturally
belong in the republican column, while
the South remains solidly democratic.
Republicans who for one reason or
another went into the third party moye-
ment have been gradually seeing the
error of casting their votes in the air in
order to weaken the republican ticket
sufficiently to throw the election into
the House, which would mean the cleo
ton of Grover Cleveland, who let no
| opportunity to injure the interests of the
northwest go by while he was president,
] and this Alabama election will open the
eyes of the rest of them, and 1 consider
that it has made the carrying of every
State in my section as a certainty"
The Senate passed the resolution
authorizing select committee to inyes-
tigate the Homestead labor trouble and
report at the next session. The House
subcommittee has got so tangled up on
account of its report that it has been
compelled to cal, on the full judiciary
committee of the house to try to straigh!
ten out things. The report that was
written by chairman Oates was so mani
testify prejudiced against organized labor
that majority of the subcommittee de-
clined to sign its and another will, it is
said, be prepared by Raum of Indiana.
/ The hypocrisy of those democrats who
pretended to oppose an appropriation
for the worlds fair on constitutional
ground was fully exposed when the
House democratic caucus agreed to
allow vote to be taken ona separate