Show AMONG THE SOLONS I The Speculations on State Making N MEXICO LADIES INSULTED ldllll1 and HU BillNext Census eabie liulklny Territorial Legislation J5tc WASHINGTON April 17Spccial to THE H UALD The Senate and House are playing at cross purposes again This time it is over the admission of new States The Democratic caucus of the House has decided to support sup-port wha is known as the Springer omnibus bill which has been reported re-ported from the com nittee on Territories Territor-ies That bill doe not propose to makeany new States this year but to pave the way for action at tho next session It is simply AN ENABLING MEASURE And authorizes Dakota as a whole Montana Washington and ftew Mexico to frame constitutions to be snbmited to Congress for its approval preparatory to the final admission to the Union Undur the programme no Territory would ba a factor or a State in tho next Presidential election The Republican majority in the Senate has I a scheme by which a part of Dakota could vote for the next President It proposes to split that Tenitory in two admit the southern partas a State to be known as South Dakota and organize organ-ize out of the balance ofit a new Territory Terri-tory to be known as North Dakota The Republican Senators would do this in order that the new State might vote for PRESIDENT CLEVELANDS SUCCESSOR It is Republican and would be entitled enti-tled to three votes which might be as handy for them as were the three electoral elect-oral votes of Colorado which was admitted ad-mitted in 1876 and voted in the electoral elect-oral college of that year But it will not work The Democrats will not admit ad-mit any new State in time to take part in the election next November The Senate has other ideas also in regard to Territories Its committee on Territories has reported favorably enabling acts for Washington Territory and Montana The difference between what the House and Senate would do in regard to this matter is it will be seen sufficiently I radical to prevent any thine being done at this session besides passing several enabling acts The Democrats have the better of the positions in regard to Dakota for they hold that no action taken by a Territory LOOKING TOWABD STATEHOOD is valid until such action is authorized author-ized by Congress The Republicans propose in order to get southern Dakota into the Union in time to vote next fall to recognize the premature action taken by it last year when it without Congressional authority went ahead and adopted constitution An interesting feature of the general subject of the admission of Territories is that of woman suffrage and it till come to the front when Washington Territory is going through its preliminaries prelim-inaries to Statehood By the present constitution of the Territory the women resident of it are entitled to the ballot That feature will have to be eliminated from it befora Congress will give its approval Congress will not vote favorably when any measure committing commit-ting it directly or by implication to the constitutionalityof the right of women to vote Representatives Sfcmble Baker Warner War-ner and Dorsey who made the minority I minor-ity report from the committee on territories I terri-tories I i AOAINST THE ADJII6SIQJJ OF NEW MEXICO as a State are catching it by mail if ever four men did In their report these gentlemen said la effect that the Net Mexicans were n polyglot people of Indians Mexicans and Americans ignorant superstitious given to the worahip of images and cst role licentious The maritaltrelation was a rarity and general looseaess of morals the rule The costume of the majority of the men was the report said very I simple consisting simply of a blanket with thole in the centre for the head to go fihrough The peasant vamen were said to costume themslves tin a chemise and a petticoat while toe women whose status is better as a ule endeavorad to dress according to the fashions ef Paris and Xew York iut are four or live years BECISD THE STYLES This sweeping denunciation of ttw people of New Mexico has stirred up thenatives the newspapers ga Ion the authors of the minority report in the 1 most approved wild robustious and western manner and copies of the papers pa-pers are promptly sentto the offenders tfrom them they learn that they are many things that they never Suspated themselves of being Meetings are be ing held throughout the Territory at which they are denounced in reao lutions as strong rs Samson The secretaries of these meetings kindly send the framers of the report that has stirred up a whole Territory copies of I thoso resolutions The women bavo also entered the fray Messrs Struble Baker Warner and Dorsoy know this They get letters from New Mexican women and resolutions too Though their language is not as drastic as that employed by the male citizens yet it I bears a more bitter sting it is sup j posed that the statement that they are years behind the styles ADDS TO THEIR AOBIMOXV However that may be it is pretty safe to say that if the minority members mem-bers of the House committee on Terri tories had their work to do over again I > K 1O > ji j1 1 5L report against the proposition to confer con-fer Statehood upon New Mexico but they would not by any means use the I same language in doing so THE CENSUS The new bill which Mr Cox chairman chair-man of the census ojmmittse has reported re-ported to the House providing for the taking of the next causua is practically the same as that under which the census of 1880 was taken with a lopping off of those subjects of special inquiry that were found to be practically aloe less and at the same time very cumbersome cumber-some It will still however necessitate necessi-tate its employment in this city of a large clerical force under the superintendent of < the census cen-sus There will be between 700 and 900 of such employees As tne census bureau will ba an independent one those employed unless it shall be specially RO designated will not come within what is known as the classified service and will not therefore be subject sub-ject to a civil service examination before be-fore they can be appointed There is no such special designation in Mr Coxs bill and it is for that reason sub jeotto criticism by Republicans When the bill comes up for consideration an amendment to bring the census bureau within the civil service law It will not pass that body but it will be renewed re-newed in thc Senate with much better chances of success The Republican will not be consstent in this but it will not be the first time that they hare shown that consistency is not one of their virtues The civil service law was enaced after the last census bureau was already organized and consequently none of its employees had been subjected to examination When the work connected with the census began be-gan to fall off the Republicans adopted a very shrewd scheme by which to lookout look-out for their friends who were discharged dis-charged from the census bureau because be-cause of a lack of work Being already in the service of the government they were simply transferred to other departments de-partments or vacancies occurred there and thus escaped the civil service TIlE TARIFF TALKEES Speaker Carlisle a short time ago began the making of a list of the members mem-bers of the House who desired recognition recogni-tion in order that they might deliver speeches on tho tariff bill when that measure came up for disousEijn Tue very Qrst day that it became known that the Speaker was making up such a list he received fifty odd subscribers Since then other names have been added until now Mr Carlisle has the names of 150 members on iiis list with the prospect of daily additions to it Every leading member of both sides is down for tariff remarks and of course many members who are not leading and who never will oe but in a freeforall talk no in idi ous distinctions are possible The present dimension of the I Speakers list shows very well what we I may expect in the way of tariff discussion discus-sion as regards quantitybut the speeches themselves can only develop their quality It is not thought however that all of the gentlemen who dfsire tji be heard will bo board for that would oonsuroo too much time But those who do not got their views orally before the country will be consoled by that great soothing agent the Congretsional Record under the convenient privilege I of leave to print THE BES3IE B0LKLEY SUICIDE The death the other evening of Mrs Bessie Bulkley the wife of young De Grossie Bulkier of this city is still the topic of conversation ia Washington social circles owing to the mystery which tho family has seen fit to surround sur-round it with And the more that there is found about all the circumstances circum-stances of her recent marriage and her separations from her husband the more unfavorable is the light in which her father appears It was he who epa rated her from her husband immediately immedi-ately after her elopement with voting Bulkley and who again induced her to leave him when she had rejoin1d i her legal protector after his efforts to get a aivorce on the ground of undue influence had poved fruitless The general gen-eral now is that it was the father who wa morallv responsible for his daughters death He is a wealthy man who as a lawyer made money in California and then came here Peo pie from California say it would not be healthy for him to go back to that State He is tyrannical overbearing and seems to possess none ot the virtues which might render companionship with him agreeable Many stories are told of the brutal manner in which he has treated his family He drove both of his sons from home by hfa condect tow irds them One of them went to Wurk on the canal and along the wharves here The other went to New York and secured a position in the Bellevne Hospital Hos-pital and leaving there went to Sonth America When he was about to leave his fathers elegant residence his mother gave him 10 The father learned this took the money from him and forcibly put him out of dooru Once when he had consented to his daaghters giving a social entertainment entertain-ment he after the invitations were out and accepted refused to allow her to preside any refreshments This was of couMehumilutmgtoherand the rest of the family Many other examples could be given of his boorish and brutal conduct He is now no JUuger egarded as tne martyr rattler but people regard him In his trao light All tIts pathetic things which have been said about his political devotion will have to be revised if truth is to havo any chance He is no longer held to be n thriving exampe of political politi-cal devotion And the young husband is being benefited in public estimation by the revelations which flare been Dade He it is now conceded acted throughout the whole affair in a very honorable and upright manner He said to THE HEIIALO correspondent whoa his trouble first became public I cannot say anything to ba printed and will not I will say to you however how-ever that I desiro my wife and my wife wants to come to me We ara simply prevented from being together to-gether and that is all His wife frequently fre-quently wrote to him after the tinal separation saying that she still loved feiru and wanted to join him Their letters were intercepted TEERITOBIAL LEGISLATION The great deadlock has given Territorial Terri-torial a decided setback and it is within the bounds of possibility that the House committee on Territories Territor-ies will succeed only to a limited extent in getting a fresh grip Chairman Springer has succeeded in securing a special order setting apart two days last week on which to consider some of the more important measures brought before his committee The directtax and now Dr Springer is inconsolable for he may not obtain even one day during the remainder of the session The principal sufferers by this combination combi-nation of circumstances are those who wanted to see the Territory of Okla homa opened up for settlement and of these Dr Springer is chi f To a certain cer-tain extent he was to blame for hie own downfall tor tm worked incessantly for three deys with the filibusters and it was not until he realized that a continual of the deadlock would deprive de-prive his committee of its spcial order that he retreated from the pub lio gaze When he reappeared he was on the other side of the fence but it was too late and he will probably have to taust to uck during th last days Of the session for no opiiortutjitv to brine up sJ11P of the bills under a suspension sus-pension of the rules CIJIHMN MJLr ot the ways and means rotumitlee returned re-turned yesterday morning from Fort Monropvery much improved in health He is still weak however and he is uncertain as yet as to whether he will make a long or a short speech on the tariff bill which he will call un in two or three hours from now If his remarks I re-marks should on account of his ailment ail-ment have to be brief he has half a dozen able assistants who can set the tariff bal a Tolling at a pretty lively rate of speed The opposition in a physical sense is strong Judge Kelley I the father of the House being In the lead The debate will be a lengthy one and no member would be surprised if at least six weeks tiire was consumed in discussing the measure Night sesSIOns ses-sions have been broadly hinted at as probabilities in the programme and such inconveniences will have to be borne patiently by the lazy ones of the House As things look now the Mills bill seems to have the advantage and the tariff reformers re-formers are in a correspondingly jubilant jubi-lant mood Mr Mills himself believes that the measure will pass tho House without serious amendment A CONGRESSMANS SONS Congressman Martin cf Texas has among his numerous progeny two small sons respectively three and five years of age who have of late had several sev-eral lively disputes which other people had to settle for them The old Texan is a fighter but Mrs Martin inclneu to peace and she had instilled selfrespect and honor into their little heads as well as she could 1 bat finally came to the conclusion that the next time they quarreled they should be Iff to settle It for themselves The occasion was not long in coming nor for that matter was the end The result was that the younger lad fnUy as large as his brother got his Head punched They were parted and put to bed When they were ready for sleep their j i young mamma paid them a visit and administered a Kcttira to each The elder meekly took his snare He could afford to for ho bad come out of the fracas victorious but the younger one was rebellious My son said Sirs Martin do you know how wrong it is to quarrel with your brother Have you asked God to forgive you f I I No t havent sobbed the fallen foe Ive asked Him not to lemme forget for-get to lick him in the morning |