Show washington NEWS washington 1 G jan 31 1890 from our regular correspondent the czar is the title given speaker eced bince lie in accordance with his threats ruled eliat a visible quorum was a constitutional quorum never has greater indignation been expressed by the democrats of the house than was contained in tho vigorous protests of carh ble crisp and others against this revolutionary proceeding on the part of mr reed and never was alie house in greater uproar than when it was seen thit alie rights of the minority were being so ruthlessly taken from them the only republican that possessed the moral courage to even indirectly disapprove of the proceeding was butterworth ot ohio mr reed attempted to defend his action by quoting from decisions made in alie legislatures of new york and tennessee the ruling was made for the purpose of taking up the contested case of smith vs jackson which was opposed bv alie democrats because alio house had not yet adopted a code 01 rules senators vance and II ampton have replied to the of senator ingalls on alie race question the administration silver bill recently introduced in the house is meeting lucli opposition from republicans senator teller in making argument against it before the house committee he characterized it as n wall street measure and senator morrill in introducing it inthe senate took special pains to say that io would ask to have it printed without committing either himself or any member of the finance committee in its favor the administration seems to use influence with its party in congieta Con giesa one negro is satisfied with mr biar views on the negro problem that is ex senator bruce who has been appointed recorder of deeds for aliis district A very silly rumor was current here this week to the effect that tho republicans would not pass a tariff bill at the present session because they wished the question to remain open for the next campaign they will pass a bill because they hopeton close the question knowing very well eliat the tariff is their weakest point no bill however that they will pass can close this important question tariff reform aa preached by the democratic platform the last campaign is daily making converts and in the most unexpected quarters and the fact is apparent that if voted on by the people now it would sweep the country it is rather early to expect congressmen to express themselves as to the candidates in 92 but the following shows the feeling in a portion of the south representative bioust of georgia the people of georgia ars for cleveland representative crisp of georgia cleveland and tariff reform are good enough for georgia folks representative dockey of missouri As tariff reform is to be the itsuo of 92 wo naturally look upon cleveland as alie man to lead us representative davidson of florida the sentiment of my state is now overwhelming for cleveland representative kilgore of texas texas is for cleveland against alie world the flesh and the devil the rumor eliat secretary noble was to be appointed to a seat on the TL S district bench to succeed justice brewer recently appointed to the TS supreme court lacks confirmation but the republicans who leave been working so liard to get him out of the cabinet liepe that it will turn out to be true alie district tax bill refunding about to the states that paid the direct tax levied in 1861 which was vetoed by mr cleveland passed the senate again with only seven votes against it five democrats berry call coke and vest and two republicans public ans Mes rc blair and plumb it will shortly become a law and the treasury surplus will be less the montana cases will be heard by he senate committee on election s february ath if surface indications count the two democrats have little show for getting seated the worlds fair question still drags alie house committee is engaged in perfecting a bill with alie site left blank and the senate committee is waiting for alie houpo to act alie house lias ordered alie committee on reform in the civil service to investigate the civil service commission and alie committee will decide monday alien it will begin alie publication of the newspapers of the new extradition treaty with england before the senate has acted on it lias angered the members of the Britis li legation here they should remember eliat in america the newspapers always set alie news and print it without asking permission the G A R has 1 lobby here working for the passage of a service pension hill the bill aliey want passed will cost alie government more thau a apar |