Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-02-03
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.


this session that the adjustment OF the
custom is being seriously talked of in
circles. Said ex-Speaker
Reed on the subject: at strikes me
that this adjournment business is car
ried too far. 1t is all we'll enough in
certain instances, but in others it is sim
ply hollow mockery that takes the
form of an excuse to shirk work. Re
preventative Burrows, OF Michigan, said,
Tile meaning of these frequent ad
journments is that the house does not
intend to do any business at this SEES
sion. But they do no harm, for the
democratic party Is always safe when it
is going to a funeral" Representative
Stewart, Of Illinois, asks this conun
drum: III we adjourn twice a week on
account of somebody's death when the
population is only 6000O000, how many
days will we be in session when there
are ten times sixty million and the
prominent men increase in proportion"
The question may be shirked now, hut
sooner or later it will have to be met
and settled, and there is only one com
mon sense way to settle 1t.
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah
may come into the Union as full tledged
states. So said caucus of republican
senators he'd this week 1t has not
been fully dec ed whether the three
territories will be admitted in ono bill
or each have separate bill. The mat.
ter is to have he right Of way in the
senate after the Anticipation and the
Cherokee Strip bills, now before
the senate, and the Nicaragua bill, yet
to be taken up, are disposed of. This
will throw it quite late in the session,
and may result in its failure, as the
senate will be bound to give lots of its
time to the appropriation bills, none Of
which it has yet acted upon.
Cooler than the recent cold weather
is the proposition, seriously advanced
by the democrats, that the President
shall not fill the vacancy in the Supreme
court caused by the death of Justice
Lamar, but leave it for the democratic
president to fill. The principal argu-
ment advanced In support Of this unique
proposition is that there are too many
republicans already on the bench Of the
Supreme court II the President really
held doubts about the wisdom of filing
this vacancy this argument would de
eide him in favor Of making the APP
po'ntment, for there never was period
when it was more necessary to have a
majority of that court made up of men
who have republican ideas of oonstitu
tional law than for the four years be-
ginning the 18th of next March. There
is no telling what the democratic ad
ministration and congress might be
tempted to do if they knew there was a
states rights democratic Supreme court
to pass upon the eonstitutionality Of
their actsI Your correspondent violates
no confidence IN making the positive
statement that the President will
promptly fill this vacancy, and from
talks with republican senators it is evi-
dent that the man nominated will be
promptly confirmed, no matter how
much kicking the democratic senators
may do, Providence has given the
President the opportunity to make 1t
reasonably certain thst the Supreme
court will remain republican, and it will
not be neglected
Representative Abnor Taylor, of Ill
inois, pr minent republican member of
the house coinage committee, said con
corning the present agitation for the
repeal Of the Sherman silver law: II
know that three, fourths, and believe
four fitths, of the republicans in the
house are opposed to any repeal at this
session and will vote against it. Moth
ing can be done The matter will go
over for the new administration to deal
with"
Four states Indiana. Montana, Wis
consin and Oregon to send by
messenger duplicates of the official cleo
toral vote forwarded by mail, 1t was
thought at first that in order to comply
with the law the secretary Of tate
would have to send messenger for the
duplicate returns, but after a conference
with Attorney General Miller, and care
full examination OF the law it was de
cided TO be unnecessary, as one set Of
returns had been received from each Of
the states by mail. Under similar cir
cumstances in the past messengers have