Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-10
VERGE OF CIVIL WAR.
Yet 1t Will be out Of Mind in Two
Months or So.
An Easy 0ptinIsa Politicians for Revenue
OAiy-1he Feasian Problem.

bia has Ill bills before it and only one
light On its hands. Several Of the bills arr
the same old chestnuts which provide 70,
radical change in the system of govern
ment and will follow the usual course
that is, few friends OF the District, as the,
call themselves, win be allowed to make
addresses before the committee, and then
the bills will sleep the sleep that know
no waking. The average Congressman has
a deep seated distrust Of the average talkei
for the District of Columbia, and the rack
ct Of the latter is usually effective in the
reverse order. One member of the houss
puts il thus. These fellows who call
themselves District Democrats or Distric,
Republicans are mostly looked on as claim
agents, SPECTATORS, all around sharks anG
politicians for revenue only. just now
they are considerably stirred up about the
trial of Colonel T. C. Ainsworth for hi;
alleged responsibility in the matter Of the
Forl's theater disaster, and that is NOR,
important to them than all the great con.
Germs OF the nation.
Local Washington Matters.
The bill, however, on which there is
fight is that TO allow the Washington, Al.
exandria and Mount Vernon railroad tC
cross the tract recently reclaimed from the
Potomac mud flats The Washington board
of trade was originally very much opposed
To the bill, but has lately divided on the
question, and there are the usual Charge
OF improper influences. Other railroad.
arc seeking other routes across the city and
are, of course, anxious To have this bill &c
through and establish a precedent. Ant
So, with the fight of citizens against the
railroads, the factions III the board oil riade
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Things Quickly Forgotten.
1t gqcs without saying that recent news
from the Pennsylvania coke regions has
excited great interest in the rooms of the
committee on labor and the general talk,
both of the committee and of other mem
hers most interested in such subjects, en-.
phasizes the growth of the opinion tina.
the relations of government to labor ques-
tons must Gro long be matter Of national
political concern. In recent converse,
tion one member said: 1T is the strangcst
point in American character that trou.
bile Is so soon forgotten when it is gone.
Our people seem to glide along with an
easy, happy go lucky optimism which
makes them believe that whatever bad has
happened once will not happen again.
And yet it is n fact that we have civil war
or something very near to it in some states
oil this mon about half the time. People
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