Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-08

The PRESIDENTS HEALTH ALL
THAT CAN BE DESIRED.

Growth Had Been Removed From
His saw Canard-The senate
Sill Ji>cussing Finance Crisp
Gives Reed "a Nhake-CoI. Lincoln.s
Plan TO Wake Political CAPITAL.
From our Regular Corrcsrondeucc.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. -, 1893.
President Cleveland. in accordance
with the announcement made when
he lett Washington. Just after the
extra session met, is back at his desk
III the White House, and his appear
ance Is the best rciutation OF the many
silly sensational stories that haze
been published within the last week
about the dangerous condition he was
IN. lie probably never dreamed
when he was having those trouble
some teeth extracted and their ulcer
ated roots cut out, two months ago.
that 1T would by and by grow into an
operation in which the greater portion
OF his jawbone would, in the mind of
the sensational writer, have to he cut
away IN order to remove the terrible
eancerous growth. In short, it was
another version of the familiar old
story OF the man who vomited three
black crows. President Cleveland is
not sick, and he has not been sick
since he left Washington. IN fact
there were few days while he was
away that he did not perform some of
his public duties, as the records in the
office of the private Secretary will
show.
The passage OF the bill for the I'M
conditional repeal of the purchasing
clause Of the Sherman silver law bv
the House has focused public atten.
ton upon the Senate, where financial
speeches are now the order OF the day.
How long the Senate will talk before
voting is question that will be an.
swered differently by nine out of every
ten men in Washington. Two weeks
is the shortest time given by anyone.
and the longest goes away up in the
months. An agreement of some sort
will have to be reached before a vote
can be taken, and the silver Senators
declare they will make no agreement.
unless the Voorhees, bill, which has
been reported as substitute for the
Wilson bill that was passed by the
House, is amended in manner salts
faccory to them. The Democratic
leaders, however, are confident that an
agreement will shortly be reached
Procrastination may be the thief OF
time, as the old school adage saws. but
it isn't getting chance to steal much
from the House Ways and Means
Committee, which has buckled right
down to the tariff question with
the determination to report re-
form tariff bill at the extra SEES.
sion, or very early in the regular
session. While the committee is not
disposed to encourage long-drawn-out
hearings of every Tom, Dick and
Harry who may think themsel
tariff experts, it will grant proper
hearings to all parties who by reason
Of their prominence in lines of bust
ness that may be affected BY a change
in the tariff have a reasonable right to
be heard. The hearing will begin
Monday and end September 20.
Speaker Crisp did a very unusual
although not unprecedented thing
when he called Representative Rich.
ardson, of Tennessee, to the Speakers
chair and descended to the floor of the
House to reply to the unjust and un-
attack which ex-Speaker
Read made upon the new rules of the
House. Mr.. Read was surprised, and
before the Speaker got through dis
gusted to find himself Justly held up
to the scorn OF the House and the
country for having falsely claimed
that the new rules were in the line of
the notorious rules with which he
gagged the House of the Fifty-first
Congress. 1t is not the first time
Mr.. Crisp has proven himself more
than match for the Maine blusterer.
and it will not be the last The
difference between the new rules of
the House and the notorious Reed
rules is precisely that between the
Government of the United States and
the Government of Russia-the new
rules put the authority for shutting
off debate in the hands of the majority
OF the House, where it alone belongs,
and the Reed rules put it into the
hands of Reed, making him more of
an autocrat than would be tolerated
in any legislative body OF the world.
1t is queer how some things work.
1t is now said that Col. Charles P.
Lincoln, who was Deputy Pension
Commissioner under Raum, and who
has lately gained some notoriety by
publicly announcing his intention to
test in the courts the right of the
Commissioner of Pensions to suspend
pensioners, except in cases where
fraud is proven to have been used
in securing the pension, got the scheme
up for no other purpose than to boom
his candidacy for Commander-in-chi
OF the g. A. X. at the coming encamp-
ment OF that organization at Indian.
apolis.
1t is regarded as significant that
Speaker Crisp should have attach ed
:" If l am in Washington or that date"
to his acceptance of an invitation to
deliver short address at the centen-
NAL celebration of the laying of the
cornerstone of the Capitol, to be held
on the 18th Of September. 1t is taken
to mean that the Speaker thinks the
extra session may adjourn before that
date, and consequently that the Sen
ate will be prompt in acting on the
Voorhees, bill. Dem.
DIR. /. r. Herrick, the victim of a |
street quarrel, at Port Angeles, with
Judge 5. p. Carusi, died at IL 80 |
o'clock Tuesday night, from internal
hemorrhages. He was conscious to
the last, and was surrounded by his |
wife, physicians and friends. The au-
topsy shows the course of the bullet |
was downward from the right breast, |
lodging in the hipbone. The Coroner's |
Jury rendered the usual verdict, with |
The addition that the jury found that
The shooting was done by the Judge |
under great provocation; that DR.. |
Herrick had repe atedly struck the
Judge on the head with an iron wrench,
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