The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-03-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


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WARRINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington, March 8, 1898.
No man who entered public life with
the Harrison administration has gained
the esteem of the people to greater ex-
tent than Levi P. Morton, who has
given the Office OF vice president dignity
and influence it never before possessed.
No other retiring Vice President was
ever rendered and given banquet by
the entire Senate, regardless of politics.
In political affairs Mr.. Morton is q strong
partisan, because he belieyes'as firmly
as he does in his bible in the principles of
the republican party, but no democratic
senator has ever complained or been
given cause to complain OF any deci-
sion made by him when presiding over
the senate. One ofthe largest receptions
of the year was held at his residence
Wednesday night in honor OF his success
sor and Mrs. Stevenson. Mr.. Morton
has large property interests in Washing
ton, and will probably keep up winter
residence here.
There may have been congresses that
accomplished less than the Fifty-second-
they all appropriated less money-but if
so they were further h ck than your cor
respondent remembers. The closing
hours of the present congress do not
differ from those of its predecessors, ex-
cept that there are about ten times as
many Office seekers crowding the corri-
doris of the capitol as were ever here
before. In 1889 it was thought that
the army of Office seekers which marched
upon Washington was large, but it was
only as regiment to corps when COM
pared with that now here. The excite
ment and turmoil in congress has been
great all this week, but there has been
but little business of general interest
transacted, as the appropriation bills,
which were in an unusually backward
condition, have taken up most of the
time in both House and Senate. The
hot fight which was expected over the
Sherman bond amendment was avoided
by the friends of the amendment agree
ing not to press 1t; that being regarded
as the only way to prevent the failure of
the sundry civil appropriation, as the
silver men had announced their intention
to fillibuster against it to the end of the
session.
One of the very few mer:torious laws
enacted by this congress is that provid-
ing for the use of automatic car couplers
by all interstate railroads, which was
forced through the house and signed by
the President this week. 1t is probable
that no bill signed by Gen. Harrison dur
ing his term gave him more pleasure
than this one, which he was SO largely
instrumental in bringing to the front, by
persistent recommendation in his an
nual messages to congress.
By the way, speaking of office seekers.
some of them have introduced new
wrinkle. They carry around-not all of
them-printed cards bearing their
names and places OF residence, followed
by candida e for chief of the sinecures,"
or whatever the office is that they are
after. A collection of these cards would
make theinteresting souvenir that would
recall the beginning of this administra-
ton, in the after years when the dose of
democracy shall have proven too much
for nauseated country. asst will in 'e6.
In any democrat who held prominent
office under the last democratic admins
tration is absent from Washington at
this time he must be too i'll to come or
unable to raise the necessary cash. But
they all seem to be here, and every man
of them is anxious to get his old place
back or better one. Every democratic
member of the house who Jailed to get
reelected is candidate for federal Of
fee, Notwithstanding the report that
Mr.. Cleveland had said he would APP.
point no man to Office who had been
repudiated by those who knew him best
his own constituents.
the anti-option bill, which has occu-
pied so much of the time of both the
house and senate during the Ffty-third
congress came to its death because it's
friends in the attempt to get the house,
under a suspension OF the rules to concur
in the senate amendment could not mus
ter the required two. thirds vote.
Republican senator's are responsible
for the failure of the senate to act on the
annexation treaty.
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