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Show f Washington LuIIgiv- a, - , . The Usual Budget of NcwstfrOm i . the Nation's Capital. tl'roiu Our Itegulnr Corrcttf 44.leit.l Waililiigton, Jimimry 1H, 18(6. Tlieiillverinciifii ConyrLBHvrqnmlerii ol the fiiiftncliit situation to the extent nl Vtliij? nblo to prevent legislation they do notwt, lint tliero in little prolmlillily ot their power cxtontllnfr, nny further; hence, tho certnlnty that tliero will be no llnnnclal IcKlslatlou nt tlilfl kcmIoii. Tliero in n Hellenic on foot-lp let tlie holo question reel until n few ilnjp ilieforo tlio clone of tlio ertmlon nml then nttempt to null n Mil through the lIouBOiuiJ the Bcnnto authorizing the i"ue of bondM nt tin) discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. Thin Bclieme la tlio result ot a oumblnntion of those democrats nnd republicani) m1k think noarly xillkeupon finauciol qui hIIoiib, and will, as n matter of couice, be opposed op-posed by tlio silver men Somebody bns cither been very ahrend or very careless. It Iirh just become known Unit n clauso In the bill regulating tho publication and distribution of public documents, known whllobsforoConRrcfi" ai tho "printing bill", which this week received tho President's signaturo nml wont into effect nan lnw, partially to-vlvra to-vlvra franking privileges. Tho Vice President nnd inenibcrii-eleit of Congrcn being allowed lo frank jotters not exceeding ono onnco in weight. Not a word was said nlioiit this clause when tho bill was before cither tlio llouro or the Senate, nnd uvery Senator nnd Uenirecntatlvi- wIioko attention lias lcen cnllnl to it exprcaPes Ignorance of it having been in the bill, but It la not likely Hint any of them will on that account fall to take ndvhutjtgo of 11. i ' Senator Morgnn made ,a specch'ln. the I evntyeighlU nniiual ineellnu "6 the" h , f American Colonlzatloli Bocitty that has ' M . Attracted considerable attention, inlcw Vv of bis position in Alabnmn, where many If ' linvo liiklstcd Hint tho negiolnliyierft I i wtro n necessity. Ecnnlor Morgnn nd- W vanccd ttio opinion ih lilrf speech that the most beneficial solution of the- negro W problem, so far as the nrgro hlmeelf Is . concerned, is to bo Juiind in their emi- grntlon to Africa, wlilch Is declared to be. tlio richest lounlry, in leeourccB, on K' earth. The Senator urged theiormation M by negroes of a line of steamships to run . between Charleston or New Orleans and X Africa, and pledged himself if that were H done to seenro commercial treaties with H Liberia and the l'reo Congo State iilluvv- H ingfree trade lietween them and (ho H Daitcd States H It is said Hint moro Vullman car miw I have bccndHlrlbutod'iuCon.rcHdduiiug H,,, present session than t-vir before. It if Wt ' net surprising that people should coii- M ncct this liberality with the proposal to H pot legislative rcatrlctIouKOiituchnrg.n H niado by sleeping and .parlor tnr H companies junto with the failure to push H thoso proposed leg'slathe netrlctions. m If Senator florinim was couect In say- H irg that only onco In the history of the H Senatoliaaallll having'nv'majorlty in its favor in 1850, whon Hobert Toombs, H of Georgia, defeated n'n approprintlon B - bill bo holding the lloor during the hist two hours of tho session been dofcatid B by failure to reach a vote on it, some B mistnkeH li.ivo been made by thoso who fl have assumed to-say In ndvanre how nl H' tlio Semilog would vole. Measures H linvo certainly failed to reach iM&te whicli were gu posed liy the fiuliliff to be faorcdbyn majority; but. Mcourto, Senator Gorman ought to know more about it than tho public. W Tho House Jodjciary coinmlttoo has m tlccldcd by a vyto of 7 to tl to report a an ' rejolutlonoflmpeachinentngalnilJudgo M , Kicks, of Ohio. Tho seven votes of Im- I pencliuient were nil cast by demount M - except ono, ltepriwcnttttho Updegrjff, M' of Iowa, who is n republican ; und the JB six otea against impench'menl were nil K cast by republicans, exenpt that of Itup- 9 leBontatlvo Goodnlglit, of Ky., who la a ft democrat. Itcpiceentutlvo llailey, of I Toxas, will draw up the lebolutlonof 9 impeachment. It begins to look as though tho 1 Nicaragua cuual bill js dead bo fame W tliia sesBi.in of Congress is- louierned. Bj Tho bill hasbceu steadily losing ground, 1 1 even In the Senate, eer sine. It wns f pointed out that no ollliual guxornmont I investigation had over been made, cither U of tho feasibility of tho proposed chiibI, the money already spent by tlio Canal Jr company, or of what has actually been U done tottiirds building tho ennal. Theio ' r0 plenty of statements as to these things, but. they ull emanate fiom thot who aro Interested in the Oaiiul com- I pauy. Tliero Is much moro probability thnv Coii.tcca will merely wutlioriw n I wwnWBmwwwwiiwmMmimi jjtTk'htl incsllgatIou to Iks mado than that It will pnsiilho raunl bill. If such an Investigation was thoroughly made somo'vorv interesting things would be found out. Tim Income tax appropriation wort through the f-'efiatc without n division. |