Show OUR lettell correspondence of the hon samuel J bandall made a few remarks in the house on wednesday which secured him a round of hearty applause from the democratic side and from the galleries it was during the discussion on mr mills resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to purchase bonds with the surplus which discussion by the way was the most interesting thus j far of the session the tenor of mr f bandalos Ban dalls remarks was such that little doubt remains that he will support the tariff bill which has been proposed by the majority of the ways and means committee ho closed by saying that he hoped and believed that the democratic party would at the proper time be found acting together mr breckinridge of kentucky maae an excellent tariff speech on wednesday in the house he argued that revenue reform was necessary to tho prosperity of the country and that it was the duty of tho demo cratic majority of the mouse to pass a i bill looking thereto leaving the be publican senate the responsibility of defeating the will of the people if they dare do it by rejecting the bill that has been so carefully drawn by the majority of the ways and means committee the tariff bill upon which the democratic members of tho ways and means committee have been faithfully working since tho beginning of the session is now complete it has been placed before the full committee and any further delay an fn presenting it to the house will bo fairly chargeable to the republican members ot that committee the government printing office investigation is still on every day offers now proofs of the many benefits derived by that office since it has boon under democratic control many thousand dollars have been saved for the government while the quantity of work turned out is larger than over before the fricky junior senator from new hampshire wm ja chandler introduced a very innocent looking bill in tle senate the other day it authorizes authorises autho rises the purchase of albert Op ertis two paintings the farthest north and camp clay or the rescue of licul greeley and party this bill will bear watching as both secretaries whitney and endicott have refused to recommend their purchase the artist claims that senator chandler who was then secretary of the navy ordered the paintings for tho government if he did so he exceeded his authority and congress should not help him out of his dilemna the anco of tho two paintings ia which is generally to be much more than they are worth by the way a biu to create a national art commission here has just L passed the senate something that is greatly needed art connoisseurs will say the commission is fo consist of fourteen persons to be appointed by the president and serve without compensation their duty shall be to pass upon all works of art which the government proposes to purchase andio supervise the preparation of plana and execution of contracts for art work under government direction I 1 will just mention in this connection that the washington philanthropist choso whoso obsequies jcck I 1 this week mr W coran bequeathed another to the corcoran art gallery W M another boomerang will be remembered that early in the present session of congress a can member introduced with a great blast of trumpet a resolution in the the commissioner of pensions to show cause etc why be had exceeded his authority by issuing what is known as the one hundred day circular to pension claimants the house committee on pensions has made an adverse report on this resolution the commissioner did not exceed his authority and in issuing the circular the interests of no claimant were injured on the contrary many were benefited thereby senator vest made a speech on the dependent pension bill wednesday in which he fairly clayed flayed that class of statesmen who are always ready to pose as the special champions of the soldiers interests he said they were turning tho nations legislative legisla tivo halls into auction rooms in which they could bid for the soldier vote in the coming contest partisan or nonpartisan my convictions require me to vote against the bill and 1 hope it may die the death in the other branch of the national congress and if not there at the hands of tho ex if that be make the of it washington march ad 1888 |