Show IS DONE FOE SOME republicans THINK THAT HE IS but the knight will doubtless his point correspondence of the blame is done for now said a well known republican that I 1 met at the door of the hotel where the man from maine has quarters why upi api eagerly asked oh said the politician hea hood oed again by that confounded burchard whose three Rs settled him in hes now in this hotel and blame might as well pack his gripsack and SO back to maine I 1 stepped into the hotel and glancing over the register discovered that rev dr burchard was really a guest of the house however I 1 am not as superstitious as the man I 1 met besides I 1 have the best reasons for believing that mr biagino has already accepted the secretary shin of state evidently a revival of the era of goad stealing is expected under the harrison administration if one may judge by the character of some of the applicants for positions that arc already in the field chairman mccrary and a majority of the house committee on foreign affairs are said to bein be in favor of the adoption of the monroa doctrine resolutions which have been passed by the senate they will be reported to the house in a day or two secretary bayard says the newspaper accounts of insults to the american flag in samoa are greatly exaggerated and that tho administration has taken all necessary stops as far as it could under the law to protect our interests in that country the republicans havo succeeded in passing the senate tariff bill by a strict party vote though it required some very hard work to doscas several republican senators are opposed to several sections of the very one sided measure and only supported it because they felt certain that thero was no prospect of its ever becoming a law senator blair openly stated that if his vote could have defeated it he would have voted against it the democratic senators to choir honor be it said voted solidly against it it now goes to the house whore it is to be hoped it will be buried beyond the hope of a resurrection it is a mistaken idea to suppose that women aro not the equals of men in what is known among horsemen as staying power this fact was fully proven this week when the rational comans womans suffrage association held first annual convention if twenty one years steady hammering away on one thing does not prove their staying power then I 1 am no judge of such qualities the judiciary committee of tho house will report a bill amending the naturalization law it provides that an alien shall live five years in the united states before he can become a citizen and does away with the present requirement of declaration of his intention of becoming a citizen senator vest is a dear lover of i joke and he was this week the author of one which caused a titter to go around the senate that was joined in by the republicans although the laugh was on them mr vest presented a memorial purporting to be signed by a number of dentists asking a bounty of 1 per tooth extracted be allowed to american dentists in order to encourage an honest industry lower the cost to patients and encourage the immigration of dentists from other parts of the world thereby making a belter market for the agricultural and other products of this country A very clever parody on the amendment the republicans adopted to the tariff bill allowing a bounty of ono cent per pound on sugar produced in this country about every republican congressman that was defeated at the last election is a candidate for office under harrison republicans never willingly retiro to private life they seem to think that the U S government owes them a living it is now understood the appropriation committee of the house to which the separate bill containing the internal revenue features of the mill bill was referred will take no action whatever on the bill the democratic party leaders have decided that it would not be good policy to pass the bill there are many members however that if anyway can be devised to get it or a similar bill before the house it will almost certainly pass tho sudden death by paralysis of representative bums has cast a gloom over the hoube he was attacked wednesday while in the house and died thursday morning his colleagues think that the hard work consequent upon membership ot the house appropriation committee is responsible for his death washington jan |