Show INGALIS scurrility GOOD JUDGMENT IN THE A new bill to the interstate commerce law correspondence of the president cleveland has th happy faculty of making good appointments his latest popular hit in this line was the appointment of mr melville atul ler the eminent chicago lawyer for chief justice of the united states the appointment is universally con ceded to be an excellent one even the republicans join in praising mr cleveland for the judgment shown in making the selection he will be promptly med by the senate and it is that the vote will be unanimous mr fuller has always been a consistent democrat he was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1864 and 1880 the president has been anxious to give him an office ever since the beginning of his administration and has offered him successively the positions of solicitor general now filled by mr jenks the civil service Commissionership which mr oberly accepted the pacific railroad commissionership Commissio to which mr littler was afterward appointed and the interstate commerce commission worship which hon W R morrison afterwards received he declined all of them but the last and greatest he has accepted had hada a foreigner stepped into the senate chamber on tuesday last he I 1 would doubtless have been of the opinion that the cibil war was in full blast the occasion was the delivery of a speech by senator ingalls of kansas in reply to one by senator voorhees of indiana made last week mr ingalls reiterated his attack of some weeks ago on gens hancock McClellan and pitched into the south M a much more reckless manner than he did when the war wag actually going on and finally made a vicious personal attack on senator voorhees making all sorts of unfounded charges against the gent lemans conduct during the war the unfortunate part of the affair was that mr hees became so maddened by these attacks that he allowed himself to be goaded into using language unsuitable to the chamber of the united states senate the provocation was great but all good democrats would have preferred that mr had remained imperturbable if mr ingalls and the republican party can afford to go into the present important presidential campaign with these old and exploded arguments of a quarter of a century ago the democrats need not object As for the latter they propose making the fight on the issues of today to day revenue reform and an economical administration of the government the war is over and a new generation of voters have been born and havar grown up it is to these that the democratic party appeals for support the senate committee on foreign relations has made a favorable report on he chinese treaty recently negotiated by mr cleveland it will probably be ratified by the senate in a short time another triumph for the democratic administration speaker carlisle will it is understood make the closing speech on the democratic side in the general debate on the mill tariff bill which has some ten days to run yet the president has been compelled in the interest of tho public to put hia veto upon quite a number of small bills of late it is thought that the blair educational bill is dead so far as the present session of congress is concerned the senate committee on interstate commerce has decided to report an entirely new bill to take the place of the present interstate commerce law A bill has been introduced in the senate to increase the pensions of soldiers and sailors who contracted heart disease in the service and one in the house giving a pension to all soldiers or sailors who served ninety days and over at the rate of one cent per month for each day of actual service should this last bill become law it is estimated that it would require 1500 extra clerks for one year to make up the roll which would be absolutely necessary the house committee on territories are trying to get the committee on rules to report a resolution providing for an evening session of tho house on monday to consider tha bill organizing the territory of oskaloosa the passage of the bill is considered at this time A democratic caucus of the members of tho house will probably be held next week to decide upon a line of policy to govern the acceptance of amendments to the tariff bill evidently tho republicans of the senate would like to BOO the house in another deadlock the dired tax bill which was tho cause of the recent trouble has been hitched on as an amendment to the Sundry civil appropriation bill which will probably pass the senate washington may |