Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-05-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspo ndeut
WASHINGTON, APRIL. l6, 92. :

| hO iSoidSlt, SSltl u uleilUtl
of the Republican National COM
mittee, "is to my certain knowl-
edge much more concerned about
the success of the ticket to be
nominated at Minneapolis than
about who shall head it. He wish
es the convention to be harmoni-
GUS, and would like to see the
nomination made by acclamatlon,
whoever may be selected to head
the ticket. Whatever his friends
are doing, and some of them are
doing harm, both to him and the
party, l know that he Is doing
nothing to bring about his own
nomination, and further that he
has fully made up his mind that
he will not enter struggle to OBJ
tain the nomination.
Another sudden death; another
funeral in the Senate chamber
and another Senator's seat shroud-
ed in black. The sudden death of
Senator Barbour of Virginia, who
went to bed Friday night in excel
lent spirits and in apparently
good health, and died of heart dis
ease at an early hour Saturday
morning, has fallen like pail up
on his colleagues in Congress,
among whom he was deservedly
popular by reason of his many
endesring personal qualities. His
funeral took place this afternoon,
and the remains, accompanied by
a committee from the House and
Senate and numerous friends
were taken to Poplar Grove, Md.
for interment. Already the Vir-
ginia democrats in Congress have
! begun wire pulling to name his
successor.
This week will probably close
the Pension Office investigation
which has been from the first
nothing but bitter attempt to
break down the personal charact-
er of General Kaum, and attempt
, which has most mlsersbly failed
as all such attempts ought to fail
The few witnesses yet to be heard
? are those named bn Gen. Raum.
> Senator Germans defense Of
, the expenditures authorized by the
: Fifty-tirst Congress, while per.
haps entirely unintended, was a
, practical acknowledgement that
the charge of extravaganza upon
} which the democrats, aided by
! tariff misrepresentation, obtained
, control of the present house OF
Representatives was false. He
: said there had been an increase in
, the appropriations made by each
, succeeding Congress since the
, Forty-ffth, with the exception Of
the Forty-eight, and called atten.
ton to the fact that The total ex,
penditutes under the Cleveland
J administration were greater than
under ArtLurs, just as those OF
the present administration will
exceed those of the Cleveland ad.
; ministration, and he closed with
these words, which certainly have
| a strange sound, coming from a
man who may be the democratic
candidate for President: "And, ne
the country grows and you 60 on
with the construction of your navy
and open the harbors and deepen
the rivers and make great guns
for the Army and Navy, these ex-
penditures must increase
If you wish to hear a choice Sc
lection of "cuss words" you have
, only to ask the average democratic
member of the House when the
; astounding exposures of republi-
) can crookedness, are to be made
A very shrewd scheme is being
worked here to get the support OF
Western Republican Senators for
a combination bill placing binder
twine and refined sugar on the
} free list has already been passed
by the House, and the present
scheme is to get a Republican
Senator from the West to offer as
an amendment thereto, when it
comes up in the Senate, section
placing refined sugar on the free
| list.
Senator Mills is responsible for
a revival of the chestnut about the
bankrupt condition of the y. S.
Treasury. Claims upon that insti-
tutlon are, however, still worth
one hundred cents to the dollar,
and are promptly paid upon pre-
sentation. just as they will cor
tinue to be.
The selection of Justice Harlan,
of the the U. S. Supr. me Court,
and Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
as arbitrators to represent the
United States in the Behring Sea
arbitration gives general satisfac-
ton.
The veteran campaigner, Hon.
Edward Mcpherson, of Pennsyl-
vania, is again IL his old place as