The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-02-18

Iostma5ter-beneral w anamaker mas
issued an order that will be hailed with
pleasure by thousands of people in every
section of the country 1t makes every
Post Office where the Postmasters salary
exceeds 5000 per annum money order
office This will within the next eigh-
teen months more than double the nun.
Der of money order Offices in the country
and while giving so many people this
convenient 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 addquite largely to its earnings.
Thtretare more democrats from the
North, (including in that term all of the
States except tn ,se in the aSaRthjtethan
from the South, in the House, but it is
pow very.evident that the Southern men
have oatgeneraled the other fellows and
captured everything tbat.will count in
the legislation of the House, and the ex-
paessioD, '.the Sonth is again in the sad
die, us literally true at this time, so far
as the House of Representatives. is con.
cerned, The South has the Speaker,
and ,the1South has all three of the dem
ocratic members of the committee on
Rules, which under the new Gpde Of
rules has greater control over the bust.
ness Of the House than any. similar. com
mittee, syer had before, i'd fact It nab
solutly impossible for any of the other
committees to either get business before
the House or get it disposed of after it is
taken up, without the assistance of that
COMMITTEES, except in rare cases where
there is no active opposition on the floor
The fnhisigni6cance Of the situation is.
just beginning to dawn upon, the out
witted members SINCE the new rules
htve gone into operation. They can do
nothing now but ''gfin and bear it.
The representatives of the Conadian
government will always find this govern.
msnt ready to listen eourteously to any
proposition they may desire tp make
concerning eommercialreciprocty between
the two countries, but which fully
opens our market to them, while theirs
are only half open to us. The Presi.
dent and Secretary Blaine will be pleased
to sec the Canadian Commissioners, butt
is only upon one basis that they will
open negotiations with them.
The present anti Chinese law will ex-
pire by limitation May next;
hence the activity in Congress on the
subject. There have been atdozen bills
introduced but the Senate has reported
in favor of a bill continuing the present
law for a period of ten years as substi.
ute for them all.
A delegation from the Western Water
Ways convention recently held at Evans.
vile, Indiana, has been explaining the
necessity for liberal Harhor and River
appropriations TO the House and Senate
committees.
Representative Mills dagger is no lon
ger concealed it is openly held, aloft in
his strong right hand while he hasserved
notice upon the Ways and Means com.
mittee that he intends to use it on the
first bill it reports that does not please
him. r Turn down the lights and let :he
band play slow music. mt3.t
The House in passing.a deficiency bill
of 5000, 600 for the current fiscal year fol-
the Census Bureau, had great oppor.
tunity TO carry out threats of attacking
that Bureau, but because they knew
they had no case they made no attack,
except by general inuendo. Represen
tative Sayers, of Texas, who was ir
charge Of the bill said: Had the Super
intendent Of the Census been left to OF
crate his Bureau without outside pre-.
4 sure to put in Office large numbe4 o
incompetent persons, the expenditure
would have been very much less.'"..I Mr.
Sayers forgot however to add that tn
most Of this outside pressure came from
democratiq ssshstors and Representa-
tives. Ropresentive Stone, Of Kentucky
: a Memocrat, said Of Superintendent
Po,ter's work: ut has been efficient
prompt and rapid, and better than tina
Of any previous Superintendent. TIL
resolution introduced in the House b
Representative Fithian, Of Illinois, il
structing the Ways and Means commit
tee to report putting all agricultur,
} implements on the free list is a. blu
i pures apd+ihelf, and nobody knows
5 any better than its author. To put agr
, cultural implements on the free list will
out first putting all classes Of lumb,
and metal on the free list would clio,
a every mandatory of.any' class 81 agr