Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-17
WASHINGTON LETTER


The President seeksano War ewIth
Great BrItiansor any other powefs b1t
like the, patriotic American 4thatiiht
Is, he Is determined that "A inerieaIi
rights shall be tnaintained.a letths con-
Sequences be what they may. All OF
the correspondence up to date togeth.
er with the recently signed .-arbitra-
tion treaty, is before the Senate.
which judging from opinions expressed
by Individuals is OF about the same
mind az the President, and it isenoi
probably that the treaty will be fatifi.
ed, unless Lord Salisbury on behalf oi
his government, shall agree to a re-
inSwal of the modus videndi In Beh.
nhgs Sea- Should he persist In fehlsl
ing IL isprobabIy that the treaty swill
be rejected and sufficient naval force
sent TO. Behring's Sea to siaze all Illegal
sealers, and If need be to fight any
British vessels that may Interfere,
And that Is not all. Canada may ex-
A d. ~. t. Il b
pect to find all the favors she now en-
joys by courtesy of this government
withdrawn. Lord Salisbury would
better think twice before acting upon
the last communication sent him. He
certainly would If he knew how very
popular war with Great Britain
would be in this country.
The opinion of the tariff debate In
the House was very tame compared
with similar events in the Fiftieth and
Fifty-First Congresses, The galleries
were empty and not one half of the
members were in their seats. Mr.; Nc
Millin made the opening speech, sup
posedly in favor of the free wool bill,
but in reality a rambling defeuse=of
the alleged policy of the democrats as
far as 1t relates to appropriations and
the tariff. Mr.. Dingley, of Maine, in
his reply easily demolished the free
trade champion. ~ s,.r.e .,s,sgf4 fAs-
Representative Harter, of Ohio, is
about the only man in Congress who
expresses any doubt ofthe House pass
ing the Bland free coinage bill by n
majority anywhere from 80 to rs
when it is taken up under the resolu-
ton adopted on Monday last, MIR.
Harter believes, or processes to obe-
lieve: that between now and the 22d,s
inst, he can convince enough demo
Gratis of the danger attending the. pass,
age of the free coinage bill to defeat
it.
The democrats are. getting seriouslM
alarmed over the outlook for their
party in the next House of Represen--
tatives, which some of them acknowl-.
edge TO be anything else but ,encour-'
aging. In spite of their big ma
jority in the present House they see
defeat staring them in the face, in the
next Congressional election. Repre-
sentative McCreary, who wants to be
chairman of the Congressional com
paign committee, has obtained enough
signatures to have. democratic eau
cus called for the purpose of naming
the House members of that commit
tee, and it will be issued at snce.
Ex-speaker Reed was given a grand
reception on Tuesday evening by the,
National ublican'Auxiliary .Associ- |
alton. an. organization composed of
from the various State
existing here, and more
enthusiastic crowd has never assem-
bled III Washington. The ex-SpeakerI
to congratulatory addtessi
delivered by Representative Burrows.
ofMichigan, in his best vein, not for
getting the shortcomings of the demo
cratic majority in the present House,
the ,economizine- by cutting
down the appropriation for school
books fpr the poor children in the Dis.
-rict of Columbia public schools, and
closing with: Meanwhile the republ-
IAN party, emerging from its temper
ary disaster, turns its shining face TO +
he future, now as ever, the one hope
If progress of the people of the United I
States". aat "a fH'e
The Commissioner of Patents, has
ssued the following circular letter to
III having business before or with that
,ffice: '''Phe Patent Office regrets
hat, in consequence of want of room
or the storage and arrangement of
'rinted copies of patents, it will be i'm
'ossible to fill your order in current is
ues until additional room is provided
y the proper authorities, This will
ntail great hardship on thousands OF
inventors and owners
{ patents and create much confusion.
congress has persistently neglected to II
appropriate the money for the neces-
airy room for the United States Pat
mt Office, in the face OF the fact that !
he Patent Office has $4,000, 600 of its |
wn earnings lying idle in the public Fl
treasury. One fourth of that amount {
'ould provide ample accommoda- /
ons H& W eng &c
The Senate has passed the Paddock | e
ure Food bill without division. ~ 10
The retrenchment ideas of the DEM Z
.rats on the Honse River and uarho. | n