Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-06-07
Washington Letter.
tFrom our Regular Correspondent,


WASHINGTON, ID. c., June !, 1884,
Cuckooism was ANONYMOUSLY routed
in the Senate this week, by a clever
move of Senator Hoar which compelled
the Senate to vote on the principal in
volved in the question of the annexation
of Hawaii The news from Hawaii,
that the royalists were 10 circulate re
ports of the intention of the admins
traiion TO restore the Queen as soon rs
Congress adjourned, caused the anti
cuckoo Senators to determine that the
Senate should take action, either on
the resoluti on reported from the COM
pli,tee on Foreign Relation or upon
some other. Senator Kyle had agreed
to withdraw a resolution he had offered
IN favor of the committee resolution.
but Senator Vest. who has been a
cuckoo on this subject, but not on 9th
org, offered substitute resolution, de-
claring against annexation now or in
the future. Senator Hoar saw the OPP
portuniiy to put the Senate on record
on annexation. free from any outside
complication, and promptly took ad-
vantage of it by moving to lay Vests
anti-annexation resolution on the table,
and the vote was SO TO IS in favor of
his motion. In other words. sc Sena-
tors favor annexation and believe it will
come sooner or later, while only Is
stand by Mr.. Cleveland's anti-annexa-
ton policy. II was great victory for
benjamin. Harrison's Hawaiian policy,
and the republican Senators were per-
fectly willing to let the administration
and the cuckoos down easy by agreeing
TO the adoption of resolution declar-
ing the Senate TO be opposed to any
outside interference with Hawaiian af.
ia lis, and not mentioning annexation.
No time has been set for the closing
OF the debate on the repeal of the tax
on State bank currency. which has
been going on in tha House all the
week, and it may last two weeks long
err. The vote will DO closed, but il is
believed that repeal wi be defeated
Representative Black, of Georgia,
whose only distinction previous to tins
week came from his having defeated
Tom Watson, tho loud mouthed popu-
list, whose antics in the last House
made him ridiculous, made a speech in
favor of the repeal of the tax on State
bank currency that has given him the
belt for idiotic oratory. Among other
absurd statements he said that the u
s. Supreme Court had no more right TO
bind the House than the House had to
bind .he Supreme Court, and that the
general government had no right 10
enter state and interfere with its in
ternal business affairs under the guise
of regulating commerce.
In statement made TO the House
immigration committee this week DR..
Senner, commissioner of Immigration
al Ellis Island, New York harbor. said
the departures of aliens now exceeded
the arrivals, and that the falling off in
immigration was due to the operation
of the new laws. "Due To tiddlesticks."
remarked gentleman who happened
TO hear the statement. The falling
oil in immigration is due wholly and
solely to the falling off in prosperity Of
the people Of the United States. When
men cannot better themselves by i'm
migration they prefer 10 stay ut home. "
Ii seems to be enough for this admin
istration TO know that anything was
favored By any previous administration
for it to oppose it. A specimen of this
spirit Of contrarineSS is shown in the
letter of Postmaster General Bissell,
opposing the bill tor a Government tel
egraph in connection with the Post
Office department, which was this week