The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-18
Washington Letter.
From III Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. 1894.
When Senator Faulkner, in response
to Il characteristic slur Of %"little Billy y
Chambers about the tariff bill being at
the White House said: Il will say to the
Senator from New Hampshire that al
though the tariff bill is not at the
White House now, it will be there very
soon I" receive the signature of the
PRESIDENT" there was a deafening
round of applause from the crowded
galleries OF the Senate which showed
In a manner not to DO mistaken the
trend OF public sentiment, and which
should not have been lost upon certain
democratic Senators whose actions have
brought the tariff bill to the most criti-
cal stage OF its existence.
Had the action taken during the
past week by the Governors of Mary
land and Virginia, in breaking up the
camps of the Coxeyite tramps in their
respective states, been taken by Gov.
Mckinley last March the fool move
ment would never have started.
The House decisively put itself on
record as favoring the appropriation of
100000 to aid the exposition at Atlanta,
Ga, and it is 10Y certain that the ap-
preparation will get through all right.
1t pleased the S%outherners in the House
to tnd Representatives Pence, of Col
orado and Everett, of Mass, among the
most earnest advocates of the appro-
priation.
In addition to being a common nuis-
ance, Senator Chandler, Of New Hamp-
shire, will get himself widely knows as
resolutions like the one proposing that
the Senate committee of Elections and
Privileges should investigate the recent
Alabama State election, so as to ascer-
tain whether it was full, free, fair and
honest, and whether it resulted in the
choice Of a legislature entitled to elect
a U. s. Senator. 1t is generally admit
ted that the new Alabama law under
which the State election was held,
makes fraud very difficult, if not abso-
lutely impossible, and that there is no
stronger reason for the cry of fraud"
raised by the Kolbites than a desire to
let down easy the eastern republicans
who contributed their money to the
campaign fund. But even allowing
that the election had been as full of
fraud AS Chandler is Of "gall," there
would still be no authority for an
investigation by a committee Of the U.
5. Senate. 1t was a state election and
the Senate has no more to do with it
than with an election for members of
Parliament in any part of Great
Britain.
Public Printer Benedict is out in
another appeal to Congress insisting
that something be done towards lessen
ing the dangers which surround the
5000 employees of the Government Print
ing Office before adjournment. He
reminds Congress that even if the
troublesome question of the selection
of a site for the new Government Print
ing Office were settled at this session,
which it isn't likely to be, it would re-
qnire four or five years to build a new
office, while there is urgent necessity
for some immediate relief. He suggests
that this may be had by purchasing
ground aud erecting a building along
side of the present Office that will meet
the requirements until the entire new
building is put up, which must be in
the near future.
The Senators are glad that the
Chinese treaty, which has been before
the Senate SO long, has at last been dis
posed of. There has been little doubt
at any time of what the final result
would be. Still it is a satisfaction to
the democratic administration and the
Senators that it has been officially
settled.