Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-10
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Essular corrs.p ,ndsnt.

Afon our hsgular Corresp ,ndent.
WAsHIsGToS, May 2, 1892.
A Democrat accusing the Demo.
cratic majority OF the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs Of parsimoni-
business and meanness was odd IN
deed, but that is precisely what Amos
Cummings Of New York did, referring
to that committees action in consoli.
dating the mission to Denmark with
that to Sweden. In short speech
IN favor OF an amendment OF.
fered by Representative Post, OF Illi-
nois, Mr.. Cummings said: 81 want
to rebuke this House for the spirit of
parsimony exhibited in the endeavor
to consolidate the DANISH and Swed-
ish missions. This bill, so far as it
concerns those nations, is an insult to
100000 of our Scandinavian citi-
zens. The Committee on Foreign
Affairs has done an injustice not on
ly to the people of Denmark, which
nation IS monarchial, but to our sister
republics of South America. Again
l want to rebuke this parsimony. 1t
means, really, virtually legislating in
favor of the rich against the poor.
For, by reducing the salaries of min
listers and consuls, the offices are
placed in the hands of plutocrats and
taken from the educated, honest, la
boring or professional men. Iappeal
to the House not to place this govern
ment in a position where it will be
regarded by all countries as the one
national miser of the world" The
House then, to the CONSERVATION of
cheese-parerin-chief Holman, and his
followers in the peanut ring of the
Democratic party, adopted Mr.. Posts
amendment.
The misunderstanding concerning
the Congressional appropriation to
aid the citizens of Washington to en-
tertain the members of the G. A. r.
encampment is being cleared up, If
the letters apologizing for having op-
posed it which are coming to the
committee in charge, from all sections
of the country, reflect public opinion.
No intelligent person who sees or
reads the proceedings of Congress
will fail to agree with ex-Speaker
Reeds statement that the present
House is laughing stock for gods
and men.
Some people are hard to please.
Frank Hatton has discovered that in
agreeing to the arbitration of the
Behring Sea question 1--WE have been
partly bullied, partly cajoled, and al
together over-reached." The discov-
cry comes little late, but it shows
Mr.. Hatton to be, In his own eyes, a
greater statesman than the President
or any member of his Cabinet, which
approved the arbitration treaty with
out dissenting voice, or any men,
ber of the Senate, which ratified the
treaty by unanimous vote. 1t is, of
course, possible that Mr.. Hatton may
see deeper and know more about this
question than any of those who Off
cially approved of arbitration, but it
is more probable that his digestive
organs have been working badly and
have caused him to look upon every
thing, life included, for the time be-
ing, as failure. He has had similar
attacks in the past.
Mrs. Harrison is well enough to sit
up a portion of each day, but she has
not vet been able to leave her room
The Democratic members of the
House number just 67 more than a
quorum of that body, but SO many OF
them are constantly away from their
seats that the cry of "no quorum" is
becoming very common, and of late
it is no exaggeration to say that far
more time has been wasted in SEALS
of the House" than has been consum-
ed in transacting business. And the
worst of the matter is that a majority
of the Democrats, when some of their
more sensible colleagues have pro-
posed ways and means of putting a
stop to the absenteeism, seem to re-
gard the whole matter as o serious
joke. Perhaps when they see the re-
turns of the next Congressional elec-
tions they will find that the people
who sent them here to attend to leg.
islative duties have put the joke on
them by electing a Republican ma
iority to the next House.
| Senators Mauderson and Paddock
addressed the Nebraska State Repub.
lican Association of this city this