Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-08-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
The democrats and the assistant
democrats third party members) of
the House are in a wrangle, owing to
one of the latter Watson, Of Georgia,
having charged in campaign book
that he has written that democratic
members have reeled around the floor
of the House, drunk, and made maud
lin speeches on public business when
they had to stop in the middle of
sentence and ask: "Mr. Speaker
where am I at'' The charge made
the democrats very mad, and they at
once passed a resolution for an i'm
mediate investigation of the charge
by a special committee, and it did not
ease their lacerated feelings at all
when Mr.. Watson produced the fol-
lowing members Of the House before
the committee, and they unanimously
sustained the charge: Otis, Halvef-
son, White, Davis, Butler, Shell,
Glover, Baker and KEN. In addition
to these Miss Bessie Dryer testified
to seeing one member drunk while
making a speech on the floor. The
committee has not reported, but
democrats already.regret that the in
vestigation was started.
The democrats are still fillibuster-
ing against the Worlds Fair appro-
priation in the House, and, as last
years Sunday civil appropriation had
only been extended to Saturday, the
the government printing Office shut
down Saturday night at II O'Clock,
and no work can be done there until
the new bill becomes a law or a joint
resolution extending the old one is
passed and signed by the president,
the senate passed resolution Satur-
day extending the old appropriation
to August 4, but when it was at
tempted to get it through the House
there was objection. Republican
senators are firm as rocks in insisting
that no adjournment shall take place
until the Sunday civil bill, with the
Worlds Fair appropriation amend
ment, shall pass the House, and it is
expected that the flliousterers will
be knocked out within the first half
of this week.
Senator Proctor, says he regards
strikes as an evidence of prosperity,
because they would not occur if
there was not great demand for Ia
Dor. The same senator says that wa
ges of all kinds would be reduced at
least one half in this country if the
democratic national platforms decla-
ration for free trade is ever carried
out.
Representative Funston, of Kansas,
made telling hit in preparing the
minority report of the House commit
tee on agriculture, when he said that
''the fact that the democrats in the
House, having majority over the re-
publicans of 153, are to adjourn with
out having made any effort to repeal
the Mckinley tariff law should settle
the question as to whether or not in
the opinion Of the majority of the
House, the law is wrong and oppres-
sive That the agriculturist is having
hard time no one will dispute, but
we cannot, however, look back to
any better times, nor to SO good, ex-
cepting, Of course, war times" The
report also directs attention to the
decrease in the cost of living since
the Mckinley law went into effect,
and asserts that there is one single |
article on the list of American goods |
that is not cheaper to-day under a
protective tariff than it was under the
free trade of 1860.
ExSpeaker Reed says that the bat
tie cry of the democrats this year is I
t9The Prophet and the ballot box
both stuffed' This epigramatic
of the opposition has already /
caught the town, and it will probably |
catch the country during the rest Of
the campaign.
The president is suffering, like ev-
cry one else in Washington, from the
heat of the past week, which exceed /
ed that Of any other week since an
official record of the weather has been
kept. AS soon as Congress adjourns
the president will join Mrs. Harrison
at Loon Lake, remaining there until
about the 1st of September, when he
will take up his residence at his Cape
May Point cottage, where his execu
tive work will go on just the same as
if he was at the White House.