| Show washington LETTER washington v feb 13 1888 the weeks doings in congress congre ss have been of a varied and interesting character the senate lias has talked tariff education coins discussed tile the nuisance of f tile iho vast ac of public buildings of washington 0 and made inalle repeated attempt al to discuss the british extradition treaty behind barred doors but in this was thwarted by t ie wayward senator from virginia i who pres presided isted in his efforts efforts to do away with the farce ef secret sessions the house of representatives is getting ready for the bomin coming tariff fight it is cl oaring the decks as unset sunset cox said by passing a great many minor and private private ri vate bills which are scarcely worthy of mention today it will consider the admission of dakota to the sisterhood of states and on wed nesda yat three the senate will call for a final vote on the long pending blair educational bill senator plumb of kansas wants t 0 make a speech on the blair air bill before it is voted on as joes docs also aho another senator and for the sake of these two the vote has been de 1 berred until the day named senator caa of Pl florida orida made a speech rather in favor of the measure ile he said s d if lie he could believe that the evils foretold by the enc enemies inies of ef the bill would follow its enactment lie would vote a against Z ainest it but he did riot not so believe As to the constitutional objections mad to it he said tile the quotations from Jef jefferson lerson and madison and the early fathers of the republic liewert were nearly near lyone one hundred years ow old and ha devery one of them been overridden by the practice of the government with the acquiescence of the people mr car carliels Carli 1 1 inia elc shows rio no traces of Z i nr n r his bis recent afi iness illness one 0 of f hi his s fi first t acts on oil resuming res his oll official acial duties at the C capitol abit ol 01 was to order the private telegraph wires liveres removed from the ha corridors corri Jores of the iio is win tile the western union telegraph rAe graph company bad leased for stock jobbing purposes put poses private wires wires communicating muni cating directly between tile the capitol arid certain stock brokers offices in washington and N new eay york the Sp ciker not only 0 dered the western union to cut off every wire that was not for public use but lie ordered those who who had bad established themselves in little telegraph or telephone offices of r own to clear out in instantly bantly tant ly and in ill ordered ur dere the architect of the capitol to pull them down dona and have them removed when last questioned as to alie progress 0 made on the coming tariff ull lull by the ways and means committee chairman mills replied that they were going slow for the reason that it was buell lucli an important import int subject there is danger of treading on some forne committeemen committee men mens S toes at I 1 t every turn and they are determined so they say not to do any anything thin rash not to report a bill containing an attack on any special industries for that might defeat the very object lie majority hope to attain tin every body must be conciliated said the chairman we arant the work cf this committee to stand tile as assaul saull of tile the ene enemy fily arid and we arc our structure accordingly it was on friday that the president of the central pacific railroad company mr huntington appeared before the house corr coir to give his views upon pene pend ing legislation touching those roads lie ho informed the committee that he had nothing 7 to apologize c for nothing to take back lie only wanted to see an arrangement by which tile the government would get its money without crippling 0 the road lie he stated that the organizers 1 leland eland stanford mark hopkins charles crocker Crock erand arid himself built the central pacific by borrowing money on their own individual names not on oil the credit of the government ern ment the road vis poor and always had been A committeeman Committee nian asked if the four men were poor trie four gentleman have grown rich sir mr huntington replied but they owe it to themselves we have taken nothing 0 we have created values we vc all a I 1 1 be began an poor lie ile said eaid that restarted be started back ona on a connecticut farm at 7 a month and at atthe the er end id of the month ha had nd the tha 7 ile he thought that all the central pacific owe owed the government should be put into semiannual semi annual payments which would bring it into a shape the road could meet ile he said his company would like to pay all they owed now but they were poor arid and could not do it ile he did not think it advisable to throw the road on the market mark et arid and s sll 11 it no other civilized government would do such cuch a thing but 1 that united states government w s a peculiar one it exacted every t ling and paid nothing 0 at acol lr er time lie he said in a burst of confidential passion that in fact the central pacific did not owe orte ort e the government anything |
