Show SMART BABY akef he Is the one who eims the white house wendom AND HIS silvela DILI alie secretary has got mini self into hot water bis alaskan contract tu le investigated from our regular correspondent washington april 25 1890 mr harrison lias no right to blame the people of alie countey for not believing bim in mis talk about reform so long a he continues to be hale fellow well met w senator quay thiis week he sent for mr quay to come to alie white house and received lim with effusion when he got there mr harrison should remember that no line of battle ie aringer than its weakest part and list no political party is purer than its recognized lenders alie house lias been quito lively on several occasion this beek the civil service law came in for some liard knocks from both parties and hu marons morons criticisms of alie administration by mr alien of mississippi wad seemingly as lucli enjoyed by the republicans as by the democrats among alie stories was I 1 the following which lie stated was a republicans public ans reply to the question of he thought of tifft administration wanny runs alie sunday school levi runs the bar baby runs alie house and it hero we abc after the uproarious laughter had subsided mr A leu said that baby recently bieard some one say that mr harrisod Harri sou had been elected because liia bad been a great man after thinking it over a few minutes baby mckee said well well what is to of me the worlds fair 1511 went through the senate without any ur delay and alie senate amendments acre promptly agreed to by the house the bill is now in the hands of alie president and will probably be a law before this is printed secretary windom lias got himself into the hottest kind of hot water by what several republican senators call his meddling with congressional legislation on the silver question and lie is getting abuse very freely from members of his party and it will not be surprising if the feeling against him results in in a congressional investigation of his recent letting of the contract to take seals ir alaskan AJ askan waters for twenty years about which there are some ugly rumors if such an investigation should be held and the right witnesses summoned mr russell harrison the presidents si son would not be in an envia ble position to return to the silver question the republican caucus corn have at last i cached an chent lipon a silver bill senator teller i who was a member of alie committee has given notice that he will oppose the bill senator mitchell demoted the greater part of his speech in favor of the election of senators by the people to criticism of alie secret executive session the abolition of the secret session and the election of the senators by the people are both rood ideas and will probably come in time but it will be a long time first speaker reeds quorum and all are to be imposed upon the senate unless the democrats in that body can defeat a resolution providing for the change which senator chandler haa introduced alie introduction of this resolution is believed by many to be only the preliminary step toward the passage of a federal election law and other obnoxious laws your correspondent has not been inclined up to the present time to believe that a federal election law would be passed but this move makes it look very much that way now we have got along for more than a a hundred years with plain ministers at the courts of foreign countries but now the senate at the request of secretary blaine proposes that th e title of our principal representatives in europe shall be ambassador this country is too big and too great to be adopting monarchal customs of europe and it seems all the more absurd just at this time when every throne in europe is tottering sir carlisle haa declined the proposition submitted to him by the republicans of the house to limit the debate on the tariff bill to six days it has not been definitely decided when the bill will be taken it will probably be about may the bill according to so good republican party between the devil and the deep sea the demo cratic leaders are perfectly satisfied to go before alie people this fall with this bill as alie issue and have no fears of the result the republicans of the house tried to make a little campaign material this week based on alie treatment of republican postmaster in the south but failed most ignominiously secretary traca declined to allow the marine band to visit richmond on may 29 when the lee statue is to be ed secretary rusk has issued a long let tor to alie farmers giving his idea of the cause of all their troubles and how to remedy them |