Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-28
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON Ian % 1900

/ the right time and IN Just the right
way. Therefore. although there is
some disappointment because the send
ing of the Gillian CORES pondence to
Congress has been again deferred, just
as verybOdy was expecting it TO 90 in,
there is a general feeling hat there are
good and sufficient cause for the de'ay.
which cannot be made public just yet.
1t is impossible to get the smallest scrap
of information from official sources, but
there arc reasons for believing that the
Gillian minister has made some definite
promises of reparation by his govern
ment, and that the English and German
government have. though their minis
ters here, requested the administration
to hold the correspondence until there
is time given for their fulfllmen'.
Secretary Blaine and the President
are in perfect accord, as they have been
from the first, notwithstanding sensa-
tional statements to the contrary. Mr.
Blaine's attack of nausea at the cabinet
meeting, which necessitated his leaving
before the meeting closed. and which
prevented his attending the Presidents
first state dinner of the season to his
cabinet. that night, was made the basis
of lots of stories even more senseless
than those usually told by the men who
are trying so hard to STIR up strife
between these two friends, and they
were all exploded by the fact that Mr..
Blaine entertained the President aud
several members ofthe cabinet at dinner
the very next night.
The democrats of the House again
showed how insincere they are in pre-
tending to be in favor Of real economy
in running the government when they
defeated the bill to reform many abuses
now existing in the printing, binding
and distribution of public documents.
This bill was far from being perfect but
if enacted into law, it would have put
an end to some of the most fagrant
abuses which have gradually crept into
the present system, and would have
saved the government something like
half million dollars q year, now
wasted in the printing OF superfluous
public documents which eventually find
their way into the hands of the junk
man.
Gen. Palmer. COMMANDMENT Chief
g. A. r. has been here this week. He
says that he believes that every post in
the country will oe here at the encamp-
ment this year.
Never before have so many bills on
matter pertaining to finance and the
tariff been introduced in an entire sess-
ion of Congress as have already been
introduced at the present session. 1t
looks as though all the cranky ideas of
the period have been turned into bills
and poured into the Congressional
hopper. OF course. everybody. lnclud-
ing their authors. knows that about
ninety-nine out of every hundred of
these bills will never again be heard
from.
The National Democratic Committee
met here this week for the purpose of
ratifying the choice long ago made by
bosses Mill, German and Brice of the
place for holding the democratic noIni-
mating convention. There is lots of
kicking among the delegations from the
cities turned down and several members
of the National committee have had the
nerveto protest against the rough-shod
manner in which these bosses override
verybodies wishes but their own, but
they will 90 right on following these
same bosses.
1t is already evident that the policy
of the democratic majority in the House
is to do as little as possible at the pre-
/ oSAt cSooiph VI NubsA CcS. 4 ht Wills
men charged during the Speakership
campaign that such would be the policy
OF the majority if CRISP was elected
Speaker The Senate is away ahead
of the House, having already passed a
number OF bills, but with the most inn
portqnt business of the session-the
appropriation bills-It can be nothing
until the House has passed the bills,
which must be origiHated in the House.
The only thing that Senator Hill has
done since he was sworn in was to head
a faetious opposition againt the confr.
nation of republican postmaster al
Elmira, New York, to succeed one OF
his henchmen.
Senator Hoar's bin providing that
every article Of wearing apparel offered
for sale shall bear tag giving the
name and address of where it was made
is highly commended as being long
step towards breaking up the sweat.