Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.

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rom 'H' "''"''' ''I'op'"atf
"AsIiiN0FJNi January ", 1913 -
Ifes'ueh' harrison mas II w MS power
10 pay MS successor very high COM
pl'msnt, by failing to I'LL Tho vacancy
Ia the u D. supreme court lett Ny the
death oi Justlce Lamar. II would bo
an unpreccdented courtesy from n 10.
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W"oulu not oc poIltlcr anu thorein
| lies tho weakness Of the proposition. a
seat upon tho bench of the Bupreme
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hohor that can he paiu IAN American
lawyer, and next to the honor OF re.
ceiying A. IL that OF bestowing IL. III
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'N'S''! 'o''''"'" u9'"'' 'ns "'""
hatufe,"hich ~ rs sttohg IN frehiuehIs
~ In other people, would permit amy
| pt.si,lept 10 rrtiro louyiny such
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been elected Oy ms own pirty, 10 say
nothing o! leaving II to tnc man who
lima ,i.f,a,ed him. Thor, ia mueh taIk
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BONG raisel over the elnufmat'on OF
any nomination that MIR. Harrison
may mah, 90 this yacanoy. hut from
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hepuoIchh SENATORS VIII No" so''B
for tire confirmation Of any man that
may te chosen, aud the Populiat
senators Will probably vU,e with them,
which would make the confirmation
certain, even II every Democratic
senator opposed II, whicn IL not con.
siiered probable. Certaiu Republican
senslor, aio proDabiy willing for Mr..
Harmon to believe that they will not
be active In securing the confirmation
Of n nomination not personally agree.
nblc TO them, but that IN because they
wish O. have hand la selecting the
new Justice.
II Representative Abner Taylor, OF
Illinois, II Republican and an antl'ell.
yer man, speaks toy the card, and he
probably uOes, us to tn. position OF the
Rrpublicnns In the House, the bill for
the repeal OF the silver law IN deaGer
than "a last years bird nest. lie says
lac knows that thfee.foufths, anu bc.
lieves that four-fiiths, OF the Repub.
licana Ia the House will vote against
the Bill, II II 10 brought toa vote. This
In very eigniilcant under the circum.
stances.
Death has, up to this time, been one
OF the most important factors IN the
legislation OF this session OF Congress,
II has upon several occasions, In both
Honsc anu Senate, upset carefully pro-
pared legislative Programs, by cau0 ing
the lOss Of day through Adjournment,
and IN Congress 4 DAY lost carries
with 1t everything appointed for that
day. There has been since Congress
met an average iuss u TWO days week
by reason OF adjournment rs mark OF
respect 10 the mVmjDy OF dead men,
anu the question II being asked,
"Wherc will tnis thing stop" So FAR
AS respect 10 the dead goes these ni-
tournaments are like the closing OF the
government departments upon similar
observation-disclosures, which enable gov
ornment employees to speni . day In
search Of pleasure, ut Uncle SANS ex.
: peuss. IL would be more respectful
Tor COVER mput employees, from con.
gtessmen u laborer', TO remain at work
ihan to make picnic on the funeral
days OF prominent IN n, ns they now
do, ne a rule. The line Will have 10 be
drawn somewhere, anu many Con.
! gr,s men favor law cOnflning the
ajJouTning of Congress and closing the
Z departments Ia honor OF dead men 10
deaths VI men In oillce.
Toe Republican senatorial caucus
has In lis wisdom decided that ulah,
, Oklahoma ami New Mexico ate III
, subjects for statehood, anu That they
shall he admitted at this session, n.
Ominous il--.here be any time lett
after disposiug OF the anti'optiOn bill,
the Cherokee strip bill, the Nicaragua
, canal bill and the appropriation bills,
not u single oneoi when has yet been
doubt, amounting almost to "A certainty,
. about the Nicaragua canal bill getting
, through the House, H. IL not surpris.
Ing that representatives, OF the
Territories named should object to
! having the canal bill nut nboad of