Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-02-10
MORNING APPEAL
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY IL
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON Feb. 8. 1892

enuS huOMn d. tHo OculoSAdelS par
has been etfecturlly disposed by the
Hill-Gorman- Brlce-Tammany CONS
bination, md this week this once
mighty mogul passed through Wash
ington on his way home from the
South, spending nearly an hour at
the railroad station, and not one
single individual took the trouble to
90 there to meet him, although his
coming was well known. Such in
cidents as this, small though it be Of
itself, tell more than columns of la
bored argument. Had the Demo-
Gratis in Congress not regarded MIR.
Cleveland as political back number
they would have crowded that rail-
road station to pay him their respects.
Secretary Blame was CONSPICUOUS
figure at the diplomatic dirner given
this week by the President and Mrs.
Fl rrison, aud his cordial greeting of
Senior Montt, the Chilean Minister,
who was one.of the guests, was an
answer to the sensational stories
about the personal relations existing
between the two men.
The gag rule" of the last House
which the Democrats for two years
exhausted the vocabulary Of abusive
epithets in describing. has been nm
der a d ferent name adopted by the
Democrats of the present House as a
para Of the code OF rules under which
the house will DO business, or judg-
in5 b. the p 81 two months, DO moth
Ing, until March 4, 1898.
Postmaster General Wanamakor
holds every morning short consul-
tation with the four Assistant Post
master Generals for the purpose OF
discussing matters pertaining to each
of their d lsions and giving each
other the benefit of their mutual ex-
perience. 1t is an innovation which
Is highly spoken of by postal Off
Gals
The Democrats in the House are
as much afraid Of caucus as they
are Of the truth. The caucus which
was last week called to meet tonight,
for the purpose of discussing and
deciding. if possible, the Democratic
policy towards the numerous bills
which have been introduced FIR the
free coinage OF silver, has been aban-
doned, the leaders fearing to hold it
lest the threatened split in their
party should become stern reality.
Reciprocity with Germany was
formally proclaimed by the Presidents
proclamation issued this week. The
Democrats continue to publicly sneer
at reciprocity and privately admit it
to be a boon to the commercial and
interests of the United
States.
The committee to decide upon a
site for the proposed equestrian statue
of Gen. Sherman has selected the
lot Just south of the Treasury de-
The committee with the
money on hand will make sum
sufficient to make the statue one of
the finest in the city.
Postmaster-Ge General Wanamaker
and all the rest Of the postal officials
regard the decision of the Supreme
Court in favor of the constitutionallty |
Of the anti-lottery law as great help |
to them in the fight they have been
making upon various lottery men
for the violation of that law.
Silver and the tariff are not the
things about which there are serious
of opinion in the DEM
ocratic ranks in Congress. Represen,
tative Bowers, of California, gave the
"peanut D .mocracy scoring on the
floor of the House this week and told
them some disa9reeable truths. H.
said the people of the West wanted
for the Improvements
of their rivers and harbcrs, for the
erection of necessary public buildings,
and for the survey of the unsuryeyed
lands of settlers He warned the
Democratic party that its present
policy, if PERSISTED it, would certainly
result in defeat at the coming Presi-
Dental election and the party which
took a cent nickel as the measure
Of the American people, as the Dem
ecrats propose to do, would certainly
ret left. The advice was thrown