Show NATIONAL QUESTIONS president hammons Ham sons trip to boston discussed SPEAKER HEEDS he to needed appropriations alie jus handled aill heart swollen I 1 from our regular correspondent D C august S 1890 clr IL is in boston where he hoida to make himself soliel with the G A 11 at its annual fail but pe imps A named alger may have something to say about that alevera members of ahe cabinet are to help ther chief the eier bill by previous agreement displaced the tariff bill in the sen te to day speaker will leave many to account for in the general day of reckoning which comes to all men but if lie persists in his efforts to prevent au appropriation being made to eielt a new government printing prin tiny office and an accident occurs and it is liable to any time in the present death trap resulting in the loss of many lives that will be the most terrible of all the old building now used lias been pronounced dangerous lo 10 and ife by every competent architect who hs examined it and there have been a number of them its floors sell ie aa macli as three inches heavily loaded as they are almost con staidly stai uly its walls have cracks in them big enough to put baseballs into and the whole structure beakes and shivers at every revolution of the machinery and yet more than 2000 men and women engaged in working for this great and wealthy government are compelled to take their layes in their hands by working daily in this building the senate passed an amendment to an appropriation bill providing for a new building but by order of speaker red the house refused to concur the su eject of moat interest before the lower house of congress at present is alie codo of rules for the government of that body the of mr breckinridge to geo henderson canned quite a sensation iu the house not only for what he said but by his ability to attract ones attention he said that between the speaker and the members of the house had been predicted when the new code of rules was adopted lie was not now surprised when the speakers partially was called in question but the judgment of ohp country would be that however well the rules might produce political legislation they had failed as to eliat great domain of legislation which lay outside of the fierce contest of party they might carry through a jug handled tariff bill but they did not carry through the general appropriation necessary for the sustenance of the government the majority under these rules might put upon the statute books a fone fon e bill iniquitous in its provisions and infamous in its object but it could not obtain the commendation of the people for its action on the general legislation of the government tho force bill could not escape the fierce criticism of alie people for on account of the absence of discussion of all matters of general importance in congress kliore was necessity for discussion elsewhere in the oresa at the fireside and alie assemblages of the people of alie bills which biad passed under the rules ot lie house few had become laws and lew of those which had would in his opinion remain long upon the statute books there was great laughter in the houe when lie the difference of the ruling by speaker iteen and triode of mr Uarl ible and iia said that lie had no criticism lo 10 upon the speaker if the gentlemen on lie other side were satisfied with that officer heaven forbid that he remove that satisfaction if they v ere willim to accept the speaker as a fair type of party ho would enter no desent the speaker had won liis supremacy he biad exercised that he hait been the republic cin c in leader on alie floor the republic cans had made liim leader in the chair and lie had exercised shi p mr peters also against disturbing old issues and bringing and creating a state ot irritation in that deliberative body among kotlier things alii i representative said why stir up these s why bring up these unpleasant questions that divide parties and separate the alie north from the toute as if the democrats did it HB was followed by mr boutelle in an effort to fawn like a liouns before alie speaker and pi ebend to defend him but everything he said was too sickly too he scattered too tiresome too write about and was exen too weakly delivered to listen to it is said that the star eyed goddess looks seventeen years younger than she did before secretary blaine wrote his reciprocity letter mr heart is swollen and sore and his epiglottis sinks down with a pop when he sees mr blaine comin tho handwriting is on the wall in kansas iu letters six yards high and not haeher than they are thick and it has been observed by senator plumb after the people of that state took him by the nose and turned his eyes in the direction of the awful inscription |