Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-02-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Rec ular Corrcspe naeut
WAsHINGToN. Jan. 25. 1882

thousands OF people In every sec
ton of the country. 1t makes ev-
cry Post Office where the Post
masters salary exceeds 5000 per
annum money order Office. This
will within the hext eighteen
months more than double the
number of money order offices IN
the country, and while giving 30
many people this convenient and
absolutely safe way of sending
money through the mails it will
add very little to the current ex-
pensss of tie postal service, and
in the end it will probably add
quite largely to its earnings. That
is the Republican idea of a bust
ness like administration of the af-
fairs of the government.
There are more democrats from
the north, (including in that term
all of the states except those In
the south) than from the south,
in the House, but it is now very
evident that the Southern men
have outgeneraIed the other fel-.
lows and captured everything tnat
will count in the legislation of
the House, and the express ion,
"the South is again iu the saddle"
is literally true at this time, SO
far as the House of representa-
tives is concerned. Tne South
has the Speaker, and the South
has all three of the democratic
members of the committee on
Rules, which under the new code
of rules has a greater control over
the business of the House than
any similar committee ever had
before, in fact it is absolutely i'm
possible for any of the other COM
mittees to either get business be-
fore the House or to get it dispos-
ed of after it is taken up, without
the assistance of that committee
except in the rare cases where
there is no active opposition OF
the floor. The full significance of
the situation is just beginning to
dawn upon the out-witted men,
bers, since the new rules have
gone into operation. They can do
nothing now but grin and bear
it,.
The representatives of the Ca
nsiian government will always
find this government ready to list
Ell com teously to any proposition
they may desire to make concern
ing commercial reciprocity be-
tween the two countries, hut as
long as the Republican party is
in power the Canadians need hope
for no treaty which fully opens
our markets to them, while theirs
ale only half open to us. The
President and Secretary Blaine
will be pleased to seq the Ca.
madam Commissioners, but
it is only upon one basis that they
will open negotiations with them
The present Chinese ! "
will expire by limitation in May
next; hence the activity in Con
gress on the subject. There
have been a dozen bills introduced
but the Senate has reporte! il
favor of bill continuing tire pres.
ent law for a period of ten years
as a substitute for them all.
A delegation from the Westerl
Water Ways convention recently
held at Evansville, Indiana, ha
been explaining the necessity foI
liberal Harbor and River appro
priations to the House and Senet,
, committees. If the Holman poll
cy is carried out there will be III
) liberal appropriation for anything
Representative Mills dagger Il
no longer concealed; it is openly
, held aloft in his strong right hant
. while he has served notice upo1
the Ways and Means COMMITTEE
that be intends to use it on tn,
J, first tariff bill itreports that does'n u
j, please him. Turn down the light
D and let the band play slow music
! The House IN passing a defiei
J, ency bill of 100000 for the cur
j rent fiscal year for the Censu
e Bureau, had great opportunit,
{ to carry out Democratic threats o
q attacking that Bureau, but be
6 cause they knew they had no cas-
, they made no attack, except b,
i general :nnuendo. Representativ
: Sayers, of Texas, who was il
charge of the bill said: Had tn
q Superintendent of the Censu
been left to operate his Burear
II without outside pressure to pu
e in Office a large number of incom
s petent persons, the expenditure
|. would have been very much less.
q Mr.. Sawyers forgot however tt
add that the most of this outsid,
D pressure came from Democrat
Senators and Representatives
Representative Stone; of Kentuck,
Democrat, said of Superintend
: ent Porter's work: 1t has been eff
l ficient, prompt and rapid, ant
better than that of any previou
q Superintendent"
The resolution introduced il
: the House lnstructing the Ways
r and Means committee to report {
3 bill putting all agricultural i'm
, plements on the free list is a blut