The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. O., Aug. 31.

much shrewder politician than he gets credit for being For instance, look at those two tariff letters. People rot in the habit of looking beneath the surface regard those letters, parlicu- larly the one to MT. Wilson, as bad "breaks' or errors of judgment on the part of Mir. Cleveland Now, on the contrary, they were shrewd moves, the full force of which had been care fully calculated long in advance of the writing of those letters. That last let ter has made it certain that the tariff is to once more be the principal issue in the congressional elections, and that is just what Mir. Cleveland wants. It will prevent the financial question be- coming paramount, as Mir. c. has feared it would, particularly in the south and west, and will enable Mir. Cleveland and his party to gain two years time in which to get together on financial policy before entering the presidential campaign" While this senator's opinion of MT. Clevcland's object may be correct, it's success may not be so certain as he thinks. The populists are doing their level best to make the money question the principal one in the congressional elections, and they are being aided by the Bimctallic league.
 The clese of the long session of con gress was very tame. There are few who are proud of the work done by the lifty-third congress, aside from those interested in certain trusts which have been largely benefited, and many of its members have gone home with the cer- ainty of being condemned by their constituents for ncglectiug Opportuni' ies they had to assist in obtaing-legis- ation which they knew was desired by those who sent them here.
 For the first time the bronze statue ,f Freedom which surmounts the dome of the capitol was this week ilumi- mated by electricity, in honor of the visiting Knights of Pythias. The statue is nineteen feet and six inches high, measured from its pedestal which rests on the dome, and to fit the figure with the wires necessary for its electrical illumination was such q dangerous job that no electrician could be found who would undertake it. However, the man has been found and the work done, and since Wednesday night eighty eight 100-candle electric lights have nightly glittercd around the statue of Freedom, which, by the way, is crro- neously called the goddess of liberty by about ninety-uine out of every hundred persons who speak of it.
 The special sub committee of the house judiciary committee charged with thc duty of Investigating the charges affecting the integrity of Judge Kicks, of Cleveland, Ohio. who will not meet until after the congressional election. The delay is primarily for the benefit of the members of the con- mittee, but it would not hasten mat tcrs any if the investigation was started at once; the report of the committee cannot be made until the next session of congress begins.
 The senate rules will hardly be changed during the fifty-third congress. Senator Blanchard's persistent objcc. tions having prevented action on the resolution authorizing the committee on rules to sit during the recess for the purpose of considering and reporting whether any changes arc necessary, "'N' IT SOJ "ht'O thVD EDtll- ator Blanchard isu't in love with the old rules, but he is with the protection given the sugar planters of his state by the new tariff law, and he fears that a change limiting debate in the senate would be but the first step towards the repeal of the sugar duty; hence his ob- jectious.
 The Uniformed Rank Knights of Pythias have been in possession of Washington all this week, and right royal tune they have mad, as do all the organizations that come to the national capital. They barely got glimpse of congress, but they have seen many other things m ire interesting and en- joyable. The encampment has been from every point of view a great suc- cess-the greatest in the history of the order, which was started in Washing