Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-11
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lFrom Our Regular corespondent-l
wAsHrseros, D. o.. Aug. 20. 'ss-


made for the entertainment OF the
veterans who will come to the GA. X.
encampment, aud IL Is no secret that
Is was hint from him which caused
the sudden revoking of the order issu-
ed by Col. Ernest, Superintendent of
public grounds and buildings, refus-
ing TO allow the committee the use OF
the white Lot" for holding reunions
during the emcempment. No better
indications of the warm feelings to-
wards the old soldiers held by the poet
pie of Washington could have been Civ.
en- 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 be-
longs to these men, bought by their
blood on many hard-fought battle
fields, and this absurd order must be
revoked. The order was quickly re-
voked, and preparations are merrily
going ahead to make the coming en-
campment the grandest affair in the
history of the q. A. r.
The republican Senate, unlike the
democratic House, Is fully alive to tile
necessity of a new Government Print
ing Office, and 1t has passed resolu-
ton authorizing the committee on
Printing to sit during the recess for
the purpose of taking testimony In re-
gard to the selection of site upon
which to build IL.
Secretary Charles Foster left here
to-day for Sandusky, Ohio, where he
goes to make speech tomorrow at
a grand Harrison and Reid ratifica-
ton meeting. When he made this
engagem ent he expected that Congress
would have adjourned before this;
but he WAS unwilling to disappoint
his Ohio friends, so he went anyway.
Republicans wisely kept out of the
disgraceful scenes daily enacted be-
fore the committee which pretended
to investigate the charge that demo-
cratic Representatives had been on the
floor drunk during the present session,
made by Representative Tom Watson,
a peoples party member from Geor-
gia. The committee has not submit
ted 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
n member, or members on the floor
while intoxicated it is difficult to see
how the committee can do otherwise
than to report the charge true. Rep.
resentative Dingley, of Maine, was the
only republican member of the House
summoned to appear before the CON-
mittee, and he declined to obey the
summons.
1.-THE result of the Alabama election"
said a 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 movement is nothing more than
scheme to prevent Harrison and
Reid getting the electoral votes of
States which naturally belong in the
republican column, while the South
remains solidly democratic. Republi-
cans who for one reason or another
went into the third party movement
have been gradually seeing the error
of casting their votes in the air Ia or
der to weaken the republican ticket
sufficiently to throw the election into
the House, which would mean the
election 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 l consider that it has made the
carrying OF every State in my section
certainty"
The Senate passed the resolution
authorizing a select committee to in
vestigate the Homestead labor trouble
and report at the next session. The
House subcommittee has got so tan
gled up on account of its report that It
has been compelled to call on the full
Judiciary committee of the House to
try to straighten out things. The re-
port that was written by chairman
Oates was so manifestly prejudiced
against organized labor that a ma
jority of the subcommittee declined
to sign 1t, aud another report will, IL
is said, be prepared by Bynum, of
Indiana.
The Hypocrisy of these democrats
who pretended to oppose an appro-
priation for the Worlds Fair on con-
stitutional ground was fully exposed
when the House democratic caucus
agreed to allow vote to be taken on