Show ONLY JUST SOSO The Two Parties in the Late 1 Congress A CONGRESSMANS VIEWS Adieu Mr Edniund TBCtr last Days of the Session Catching the Speakers Eye WASHINGTON D c Feb 281887 From Our Own Correspondent The last days of the session are here accompanied by the usual bustle and excitement on the part of those who would like to see certain measures become law Many however will experience disappointment in this respect Pet schemes of every description descrip-tion will have to go over Tons of bills will be thrown into the waste basket and the work of their consideration and passage will require to be gone over I again during the Fiftieth or some other subsequent Congress The next Congress Con-gress will contain a great deal of new material Many members who have occupied seats in the Fortyninth Congress Con-gress will have to search in another direction for a living they having beer retired by their constituents in favor of other menThe men-The record of the Fortyninth Congress Con-gress cannot be designated glorious From beginning toend much important legislation owing to the factions which exist in the ranks of the Democratic party has been shirked Much has been done that might have been left undone and much has not been done that the country has demanded ought tc be done What do you think I inquired of a prominent Congressman in he lobby of the Willard Hotel the other evening will be the verdict of the country at the next general election when the work sof the Fortyninth Congress is taken I into consideration Well he said the Democrats have had two years in which to make some kind of a showing They have had K Democratic President and a Democratic House and one would have thought that they would have tried in some shaneor form to respond to the wishes of the country Up to the present moment I know of nothing that can be set down to their credit so far as the enactment of important legislation is i concerned The Republicans are along a-long way ahead in their endeavor to do something that direction Here are the last days of the session What is the result The Senate having appopri ated 159000060 in round figures for coast defense crnisers and ordnance and shoWed themselves willing to place that amount of money at the disposal of a Democratic administration has shown that the Republicans have the good of the country at heart and are willing for the ime being to drop partisan par-tisan feeling Improve the country before party seems to be their motto Now if a Democratic House fails to respond in the most liberal mannerand meet the Republican Senate in the same 1 liberal spirit the country of course I will hold the Democrats responsible which means that the end of the present administration will witness the collapse of the Democratic party in this country The President is an honest sincere straightforward man He has shown a disposition to rise above party matters in these momentous questions The country will not hold JfrCleveland responsible because the party he represents failed to do their duty It is an open secret that the President and every member of the Cabinet are earnestly in favor of liberal appropriations appropria-tions on the part of Congress for coast defense ordnance supplies and a grand navy And so it can be safely stated are the Republican majority in the Senate Sen-ate and the Republican minority in the House Failure now on the part of the Democracy to respond to the countrys demands means certain defeat in 1888 On the contrary should the House act in a liberal and patriotic spirit nothing on earth can prevent therenomination of Mr Cleveland next year and another victory for the Democratic party The issue of 18S3 is being made up today in the present Congress and both parties will go before the country next year with a plain unyarnished I statement of what has been accom in Congress I plished Tha Republicans in can point with pride to the record they have made as > patriots in behalf of their country The Democracy must necessarily neces-sarily remain quiet because the record will show that they have accomplished absolutev nothing That is the sue and it will be fought out on that line next year If however should the bill providing such a large sum for coast defence etc pass Congress and reach tae President and he approves of it He will be condemned bya certain faction of his party If he vetoes it he will be condemned by another faction of his party but should he approve he will i make a tremendous inroad in the ranks of the Republican party and gain in every section of the country all of which means something detrimental to the Republican party I was struck with the truth of the gentlemans reply The Democrats had better lo k to their laurels and do something that will ensure certain victory in November 1883 whenone of the most determined political struggles will take place that has ever occured in this country The last days of they session make busy time for the President His taskis one of the hardest that can be imagined He is compelled to be at his desk early in the morning and he never finishes work before midnight As I have often remarked he is a great worker He trusts nothing to anybody else that he can do himself He carefully reads all the bills and writes his own vetoes and as a vetoer he may be said to be the champion The number bills he baa vetoed during the time he has beep m office s something appalling He has certainly astonishedjboth Iiouseool Coagrs in this rtspectf3 His ali ouIn vetoing the dependent pension bil was the act of a brave man Of course an attempt was made to override the veto in the House last Thursday bu the attempt proved a failure and 8 i great victory for the President Th House by a decisive vote of 175 ayes to 125 nays sustained the veto Althougl 1 the friends of the original bill bad fifty < majority they could not raise the requisite twothirds and the objection of the President therefore remain ir force After this decision It is not likely that we shall hear of any more dependent pension bills It was a scheme of the claim agents to Rat their paws on the funds of the Treasury Treas-ury and they feel very sore that their little game has failed It is not to be expected that these claim agents wil have anything good to say of the President Pres-ident in the future but their gall will not amount to much The action of the President in vetoing the bill is sustained sus-tained by the whole countryand should be renomimated in 1888 which he will be if Gov David B Hill of New Yori does not show his teeth he wi 1 not lost many soldier votes by said action There is considerable talk of the PreSident PreS-ident in the event of the present Congress Con-gress shirking its duty in regard to the matter of national selfdefense summoning sum-moning the Fiftieth Congress in extra session Nothing definite can learned upon the subject A few days however how-ever must put the matter beyond doubt one way or another If the President thinks that so and so ought to be done he will not hesitate to call at extra session but if an extra session t has to be held it will be a sad reflection upon the negligence of the Fortv ninth Congress a sad blow to Mr Randall and his faction Thus far I have not touched upqi the allabsorbing topic in Utahthg EdmundsTucker bill which passed Congress a week ago last Friday I do not know that I can say much about the matter inasmuch as before my letter let-ter can appear in TUB HERALD the people of Utah will have beer fully advised as to the fate of the bill The greatest interest is manifested here among newspapermen newspaper-men as to what the Presidents actioi upon the ° bill will be I am approached every day with the question Well do you know anything to which I can only reply I know nothing whatever The supporters and nonsupporters of the bill are naturally very anxious The supporters maintain that the President must sign the bill while the nonsupoorlers assert that there is no must in the question It the bill is vetoed I shall take some credit to myself my-self for tenacity for I have maintained main-tained from beginning to end that I would never believe that such a measure would become law until I knew it was a late I still stick to that position k few hours more and the result will be known For the present I am done with the EdmundsTucker infamy I have written against it and worked against it from its very inception and if it should be vetoed and not become law I shall feel like throwing my hat in the air On the other band if the bill should become law I shall be found cheerful and say Well it is all right Adieu Mr EdmundsTucker41 As I have already said the last days of the session are always very exciting excit-ing The scenes on the floor of the House are curious to witness Member cannot keep their seats Every nqdy wants to catch the speakers eye which is one of the most difficult things to catch in the world A motion t t suspend the rules says New York Sun correspondent and pass a bill is in order at any time now but to make such a motion one must get the Speakers eye It is hard to get Some members cannotsee it others eexx to be always within range ot its vision ad when there are forty men on the floor yelling for recognition with all the power of their lungs the speaker will look over the heads of them all and see Mr Morrison or Mr Randall who are quietly standing in their places and making no disturbance at all The only way to get the Speakers eye is through the Speakers ear He must know what his eye is wanted for before he turns it in my direction Members who want to get bills through under a suspension of rules go to the Speaker and show the bills He takes them under consideration con-sideration as a tort of committee of the whole He examines them he consults with other leaders he may take them to the White House and jet the views of the coordinate body is to their necessity or practicability Be must know all about them and the effect they will have before his eye moves in Its socket There is a lot of work to do before the eye of the Speaker can be secured and the number of jobs md schemes it overlooks during the I I losing days of each session would give I a Mugwump the shivers Speaker Csr isle is as cool as an iceberg He never jets rattled He never loses his grip on he business of the House He is not 10 alert and penetrating a man as Randall Ran-dall but is more generous and fair I lave wdndered at the coolnea of Speaker Carlisle in the midst of the greatest confusion Be ij one of the last Speakers the House ever had Possessed of a very strong voice he C San ba heard no matter the din all over he House and he keeps pounding with his gavel until he gets some kind of order at east He has a severe task before him the next four lays and in likelihood < 1 four nights iie will douhtlass hail noon of the 4th > f March with a igh of relief Wnether ie will be reelected Speaker of the Fiftieth Congress is at present a matter if conjecture Mr Cox is favorably mentioned in connection with the posi ion while Mr Randall by his reins ng to support the President in his dependent de-pendent pension bill seems to have brought himself into great disfavor The Democrats are getting tired of him and swear that he is more a Republican han a Democrat He has certainly voted with the Republicans of late He is a great man but his policy during he Fortyninth Congress has been and rill be very much criticized JOHS IEVISB |