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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Kcguliir correspondent.
Washington, D. C. April it, i8qi.
Mr. Harrison would gladly, it is be
lieved, abandon the vote hunting tour
upon which he starts to-morrow if he
could consistentlv do so. There are
several reasons for this condition of
mind on his part. When this tour was
first suggested he expected to be able
to carry with him a prominent party,
including a majority of the cabinet
and several Senators and Representa
tives, but as the time drew near to
start he has bad the experience of the
biblical character who gave an enter
tainmentall had excuses to prevent
their going. Mr. Mc Kinley, for whose
special benefit the Canadian recipro
city talk has been postponed until after
the Ohio election in October, would
have made a star attraction for the
party, but his own presidential aspira
tions are so fully developed and he has
such an exaggerated idea of his politi
cal importance that he would not con
sent to play second fiddle to Mr. Har
rison. But, perhaps, what worries Mr. Har
rison more than all other causes is his
overwhelming jealousy of Mr. Blaine,
who he thinks has already gained more
notoriety than he is entitled to though
his connection with the administration.
He fears that Mr. Blaine will do some
thing while he is away to increase that
notoriety, and although he has Mr.
Blaine's promise to stand aside and
allow him to be renominated if he can
be, he doubts his sincerity and is afraid
of him. It is believed that Mr. Blaine
is fully aware of the state of Mr. Har
rison's mind, and that he enjoys it.
The evident intention of Mr. Blaine
to surround the present condition of
me Italian question with an mpenet
rable air of mystery is having a bad
effect He refused to give out any in
formation, even to stating whether he
had sent the answer to Rudini's last
dispatch. From other sources it- is
learned that a draft of that answer
was read at the cabinet meeting last
week and appro ed by those present,
but if it has been sent it went by mail
. to our minister at Rome, because, if
it had been cabled over the Italian
papers would not persist in saying that
Rudini had notified Mr. Blaine of his
attention to break off all diplomatic
relations with the United States if he
did not get a satisfactory answer by
Tuesday of this week. This last of
course is a bit of buncomb that is
feared by nobody.
Nevertheless, Mr. Blaine's refusal to
make public that dispatch of Rudini's
has caused many people to believe
that it was not of such a conciliatory
nature as we had been led to believe
it was by the cable synopsis of it that
came from Rome, and which, by the
way, is all the information we got con
cerning it Americans are not fond
of mysteries either in their public or
private affairs, and Mr. Blaine would
better take them into his confidence.
Mr. Harrison's attempt to placate the
disgrunteled negroes is not a brilliant
success He appointed a negro, H.
G. Parker, of Missouri, to alternate
Commissioner at-large for the Colum
bian exposition, but the negroes are
worse than ever, because, at the same
time, he appointed a white man, R.
W. Furns, of Nebraska, to be a Com
missioner at-large. They say that if
Mr. Harrison wished to recognize the
negro he should have appointed him
Commissioner and the white man al
ternate as the negroes had no repres
entative on the commission, and the
alternate is simply a fifth wheel, un
less for some reason the Commission
er for whom he is alternate becomes
unable to move.
Republicans wink knowingly when
anybody says anything about Secretary
Tracy's declared intention of conduct
ing the working forces at the various
navy yards without regard to partisan
politics. Mr. Tracy may be perfectly
honest in his intentions but either the
republicans do not believe it or they
think they can out-wit him. They
certainly do not anticipate giving up
the Navy Yard patronage.
Secretary Foster has gone to New
York to take a hand personally in
making a Harrison machine of the
Federal office holders in that city.
That's one of the things he went in
the cabinet to do. I
Aeain it is thouorht th.at
,to U. S. Treasurer Huston has been
orralled. This time it is Mr. E. N.
fedecker, of Indiana, a gentleman
upposed to be influential with the Ger-
nans in the State and able to off-set
iny adverse influence which Mr. Hus
ton may be disposed to attempt to use
against Mr. Harrison's renomination.
SENATOR HERRING SPEAKS.
HE ANSWl'.US THE MISGUIDED CRITICS
OF GOV. TATTISON.
"Quite an unnecessary alarm pre
vades a portion of the republican press
of this state at the present time, as to
what action Governor Pattison will
take as to the commissions of the
state librarian, superintendent of pub
lic instruction and factory inspector."
Thus spoke Senator Herring, of Col
umbia county, last Monlay night, and
then he continued :
"The appointments for these ofllces
were made by Governor Beaver and
their nominations were confirmed by
the senate on the 20th day of January,
iSot. In their anxiety the republi
cans are charging bad faith upon the
governor or upon the democratic sena
tors. This is very unjust as well as very
unkind. Trior to the inauguration of
Governor l'attison the republican
senators were apprehensive that the
democratic senators, composing more
than one third of the senate, would
refuse to confirm Governor Beaver's
appointments for these offices. This
apprehension of course arose from
their guilty consciences in this matter,
they knowing full well that it was an
attempt to take from the incoming ad
ministration its just rights. So a long
discussion was had upon the matter as
will appear fully upon pages 126, 127
and 128 of the Legislative Kecord,
on the speeches of Ross and Green on
the democratic side and Robinson,
Gobin, Penrose, on the republican
side. Not a word is said or even
hinted at as to any action but that of
confirmation of these appointments.
There was not the most remote refer
ence to the commissions nor to the
action of the governor after confirma
tion. In no part of the discussion was
the action of the governor referred to.
The upshot of the discussion was the
adoption of the following resolution
offered by Mr. Penrose :
"Resolved, That the senate will
hold an executive session on Tuesday,
January 20, at 8 o'clock p. m., for the
purpose of acting on the appoint
ments of the governor ; and all such
appointments shall be acted on in such
order as they have been sent in, by
the senate."
In this discussion a regular love
feast was developed and indulged in
and all appointments confirmed.
This question was precipitated by
the republicans and they were im
perious in their demands and all were
conceded by the democrats. During
all this time it never entered the head
of any democratic or republican sena
tor that anything but a confirmation
was needed. Now the republican
senators are demanding that these
officers be commissioned by the gover
nor or they will refuse to confirm cer
tain appointments that he has made
or will make. This is either a bluff
on the democratic senators or a bull
doze on the governor. We are assur
ed that no arrangement directly or in
directly was made by the democratic
senators that involved the governor
nor was any requ red. We are also
convinced that the governor was not
consulted by them in any way nor at
any time in the matter.
Republican hindsight, is now more
comprehensive than their foresight.
To excuse their ignorance, stupidity
or lack of foresight the republican
senators and press charge bad faith on
the democrats of which they are in no
wise guilty. These officers have com
missions now, and are acting under
them and they are good until the
close of the session. They do not
need two for each one. The re
publican senators invited the situation,
let them accept it. No democratic
senator plead guilty to the charge of
bad faith nor yielded an inch.
I his is neither the time nor the occa
sion to discuss the right or the duty of
the governor. He can and doubtless
will take care of himself and promptly
act when the time comes."
It is fair to presume that the Phila
delphia & Reading R. R. Company or
any one connected wun it, is not re
sponsible for the article that appeared
in last week's Catawissa Ktna Jtom
concerning the law suit between that
company and the D. L. & W.
about the grade crossing below
town. The statement that the case
would likely go to the Supreme Court
before final settlement is tak en hv
the Item as the occasion for opening
the vials of its wrath against the D.
L. & W. Co. for exercising the riirhtQ
which the law gives it. There has
scarcely ever been a similar case that
has not been taken to the Snnrcme
court, and probably never will be.
A .1 it 111 1 . , 1 n
inu ine rniiaueipnia x Heading has
taken just as manv cases there a any
body else. The Item has nrnnnimr.
ed its judgment that there is no just
ice in the delay, but it is more than
likely that the parties would prefer a
judgment of the Supreme Court ; it
would probably be more binding. It
may further be said that the D. L. &
W. has nothing whatever to do with
the trouble between the P. & R. and
the B. & S., which shut off the former
from Main street Altogether the
Item was somewhat hasty.
Count Lowenaupt, son-in-law of ex
Secretary Bayard of Delaware, died in
Wilmington on Monday. He was
married to Mr. Bayard's daughter
only ten days before. He was a na
tive of Sweden, and a member of a
noble family. His illness was brief
and his death unexpected.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Hpectnl Correspondence of Tn C'oi.vmiiian.
Hakrishurc; April t5, 1891.
The Legislature is again hard at
work that is they have gotten down
to three sessions a day, or rather, it
should be said, the House has, because
the Senate was not in session last
night. It can be remarked, however,
of the upper branch, that it is always
ahead of the popular, or lower, body
in its work, and yet the present Sen
ate has not so far accomplished much.
I have never known any Legislature
so far behind in its work at this stage
of the session as the present. To be
sure, the Senatorial and Judicial ap
portionment bills have been presented
in the Senate, but they will be torn from
stem to stern before they are passed,
if ever they will be. It has come to
be a question whether any Apportion
ment bills will be passed at all by the
present Legislature. It is hinted that
the majority do not intend there shall
be, in the hope that an extra session
will be called by the Governor. But
I think they are "counting without
their host." Governor Pattison 'will
hold them to the strict line of the
Constitution, and, if they fail to ob
serve its provisions, upon their own
heads must rest the responsibility, not
upon his. He is a man that they have
Lamed is not to be trifled with.
STII.L HANGING FIRE.
The Philadelphia appointments of the
Governor are still hanging fire in the
Senate. The republicans think they
have the Governor on the hip, but in
this will find themselves much mistak
en. The Republican Senate in 1887
played a shabby trick upon him in re
fusing to confirm his appointments of
State Librarian and Supreme Court
Reporter. They never imagined that
their invention then would return to
plague the inventor. Scarcely had
Beaver become seated in the guberna
torial chair before he sent in the name
of Dr. William H. Egle as state Librar
ian, in place of Mr. Edward Stuck,
editor of York Press, who had only
served about a year and a half, and
whom the Senate refused to confirm.
More than this, after Egle was in
stalled, his term was lengthened and
his salary increased in direct contra
vention of the provisions of the Con
stitution, Then, too, when Governor
Pattison wished to get rid of the then
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
who became badly mixed up in the
Soldiers' Orphans scandals, the Re
publican Senators again interposed.
They must not suppose that the Gov
ernor has a short memory. These in
sults are keenly remembered. He
will not commission either Egle or
Waller. When the Legislature adjourns
the commissioners to Philadelphia ap
pointees will be issued, and he will
find other equally competent men to
take the places of the present State
Librarian and Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
THE FINAL ADJOURNMENT.
Some people are credulous enough
to think the hnal adjournment will
take place on the 10th of May. But
there are more who believe that it will
not occur before the last of May, and
even that the roses of June will be in
bloom when the day of dissolution
comes. There is, as was before re
marked in this correspondence, much
important legislation yeto be enacted,
and even with the three sessions a day
inaugurated not much he dway is be
ing made. It is generally in the clos
ing days of the session that hurried,
bad and indifferent laws are engrafted
upon the statute book. Now, it oc
cures to me that no Legislature
since the adoption of the Constitution
of 1873 is so far behind in its work as
this, and it does not seem possible that
an adjournment, without detriment
to the best interests of the State,
can take place before 1st of June. I
am only giving an individual opinion
but in this feel sure I am voicing the
sentiment of all the newspaper people
here as well as many others who
are posted in matters on the Hill.
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
The House has been tueeine awav
at the appropriation bills, and so far
has passed on second reading enough
to aggregate anywhere from $11,000,
000 to $15,000,000. No sane per
son believes that many of these will
be passed finally, and if they are, the
Governor's veto will be sure to be
exercised. States as well as individu
als must live within their means. If
they do not, bankruptcy is sure to fol
low. SOMEWHAT OF A SENSATION.
Senator Hall, of Elk, created con
siderable of a sensation Monday night
by introducing a resolution which has
for its purpose the placing of a pa
rochial school under the control of the
school boards of the respective dis
tricts of the State. The idea is to
permit these schools to be given the
uenent ot taxation which accrues to
the common schools. The general
impression is the resolution will never
emerge from the committee on Educa
tion to which it was referred, in fact
never be heard of again.
Columuia.
A bie fire at Chicago Sund.iv niirht
burned up $1,000,000 of property.
It was the worst since 1871. It began
in a stable.
The Supreme Court has reversed
Judge Metzgar's decision in the case
01 me r. ic k. K. Co. against the W.
& B. R. R. Co.
L0WEN8ERCS CLOTHING !
SPRING ANNOUNCEMENT!
BLACK
AND
BLUE
CHEVIOTS.
LADIES
SHOULD SEE
THE PRETTY
SUITS
FOR
CHILDREN.
Call and examine and see for yourselves that
LOWEITBERG'S
is the right place to buy your Clothing.
That Italian Affair.
BUT TWO MORE FACTS ADDED TO THE
ENTANGLEMENT GROWING OUT OK
THE NEW ORLEANS TRAGEDY.
Washington, April 15. But two
facts could be added to-day to the
public stock of information respecting
the diplomatic entanglement with
Italy, growing out of the New Orleans
tragedy. One of these was that the
state department has not received any
intimation from the Italian Govern
ment that their last note must be ans
wered before a given date, nor is such
an intimation expected, for the depart
ment feels that it is acting properly
and seasonably and it would be a very
unusual course for the nation to en
gage in diplomatic negotiations with
another to question the motives upon
which the correspondence proceeded.
The second fact is that Secretary
Blaine's answer to Rudini's last note
has not yet been forwarded. It was
probably the secretary's purpose to
accompany this reply with an official
statement touching the nationality of
the New Orleans victims and other
corroborative facts that were expected
from the officials of the department of
justice in New Orleans. These re
ports have not yet reached Washing
ton. When they are received great
care must be exercised in reducing the
facts contained in them to a form use
ful for diplomatic uses so that unless
the secretary is prepared to send his
letter without these facts, it is not
likely to go forward immediately.
Secretary Blaine had a short talk with
the president to-day but as the latter
was very busy arranging other im
portant matters before he leaves
Washington.it is not probable that
even this subject in which he has
shown a particular interest could be
discussed with any result.
AHHA DICKINSON'S TROUBLES-
It is a source of great regret to the pub
lic that a breach has occurred between
Anna Dickinson and her sister Susan.
A few weeks ago Anna was taken from
her home in Pittston to the Danville
Asylum. Her sister alleges she be
came violent and tried to choke her.
Dr. Shultz says that she was insane
while at Danville. From there she
was removed to Goshen, New York, in
care of Dr. Seward, and she had no
sooner reached there than she was
pronounced sane, and legal proceed
ings were instituted against those who
had anything to do with sending her
to the asylum. She charges Susan
with ill treatment, with using her
money, and with a great many other
acts not becoming a sister. Susan de
nies all this, and the weight of evi
dence is largely in her favor. There
can be but little doubt of Anna's in
sanity.
At one time Anna Dickinson was
the strongest woman intellectuals, be.
fore the public. Her lectures and
. .1. . . Ml 1 It
speecnes wiu De rememDerea Dy many
of our readers. She made monev.
and lost some of it by bad investment
ments, and more of it by going on the
stage and trying her skill as an act
ress. She is now in want and her
mind is affected. Both she and her
sister are entitled to the sympathy of
the public.
The epidemic of I-a Grippe seems
to be more fatal and alarming this
season than 9 year ago when it first
made its appearance. In the larger
cities the death rate is greater than
from any other disease ; while thous
ands of people are unable to attend to
business.
SPRING
LA.SOZLST
1891.
THE LATEST
COLLARS,
NECK TIES,
DRESS SHIRTS.
NIGHT SHIRTS
&c.
Tao Presidential Train-
MR. HARRISON AND HIS GUESTS WILL
TRAVEL IN ROYAL STYLE.
Washington, April 15 The presi
dential special train which will carry
the White House party across the Con
tinent and return is standing side
tracked in the yard of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company. It is an
object of much admiration, and in its
appearance and appointments combines
in the highest degree elegance, good
taste and luxurious comfort The
train consists of five coaches, besides
the engine and tender. The forward
coach, the combination baggage and
smoking car -'Aztlan" bears on its
panels in letters of gold the inscrip
tion "The Presidential Special." The
smoking compartment of this car is
upholstered in olive plush and the
chairs and sofa are of the same color.
Two desks and a library of choice
books complete the equipment of the
smoker. A barber shop and bath
room ocupy the rear of the "Aztlan,"
and electric dynamos and the baggage
occupy the forward end.
The dining car, the Coronado, is a
thing of beauty. The curtains are of
green plush, the lamps and fittings of a
silver shade, and all the appointments
as elegant as those of a first-class rest
aurant. The President's car, New Zea
land, is next the dining car. The
general effect of its decorations is
most pleasing, The main part of the
' car is upholstered in blue plush, with
white curtains, but the double drawing
room set aside for the sleeping apart
ments of the President and Mrs. Har
rison looks as dainty as a bridal cham
ber in its white and gold woodwork re
lieved by plush of a rich terra cotta
color.
The other sleeping car, the Ideal, is
made up of six drawing rooms, all
finely furnished, and each drawing
room decorated in a distinctive tone
from that of the others. One is sal
mon and white, another saffron, a third
green and the others strawberry and
olive and electric blue. The "Vacuna,"
which is the last coach of the train,
combines the double advantages of a
library and observation car. It is up
holstered in blue and all the metal is
of highly polished biass.
The illumnation on the train, even
to the exterior lamps, will be electric.
In addition to the electric lights there
is an ample supply of oil lamps to be
used should the current give out.
Electric fans throughout the train as
sure the party of relief should the heat
be oppressive on the great plains of the
Southwest.
The Presidential party, as uow ar
ranged, is as follows: President and
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs McKee, Mrs.
Dimmick, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Har
rison, Postmaster General Wanamaker,
Marshal Ramsdcll, Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Boyd, E. F. Tobett, the
President's stenographer, and repres
entatives of the press associations.
Private Secretary Halford will remain
in Washington, on account of illness
of his wife. George W. Boyd, of the j
Pennsylvania Railroad, will be with
the party throughout the trip, to in
sure the perfection of all arrangements
for the Presidential visit.
The Richmond and Danville Rail
road system has detailed two of its
officials, Mr. Taylor, the head of the
passenger department, and Mr. Hard
wick, of the Georgia Pacific division,
to accompany the President from
Washington to Birmingham, and they
have been instructed to place all the
resources of that great system at the
President's disposal, to insure the
pleasure of his journey through the
South.
DOUBLE BREASTED
SACKS
AND
CUTAWAYS.
THE
FINEST
LINE OF
SPRING
PANTS
IN TOWN.
Reciprocity Will Gome
Reciprocity with all the countries of
the Western Continent will surely
come. Sooner or later and soon at
the latest, there will be practically free
trade with Canada, Mexico, and Cen
tral and South America.
The great oattle will be over reci
procity with Canada, but it will come
with the others. We have no intelli
gent statesman who view reciprocity
with Canada in any other light than as
a necessity and therefore inevitable, ex
cept those who can't entertain the
idea of knocking the very foundation
out of the McKinley tariff law.
Canadian reciprocity and the Mc
Kinley tariff are as irreconcilable as
are free trade and protection as nation
al theories, and that is why there is
delay in Washington about even con
sidering reciprocity with Canada.
Ex-Congressman Butterworth, who
voted for the McKinly bill after hav
ing given the very best reasons for
voting against it, now declares that
"reciprocity or commercial union with
Canada will come if it has to wreck
both parties." The chief objection to
prompt reciprocity with Canada is in
the fact that it would be a public con
fession of the mockery of protection
to the farmer in the McKinley bill.
The high taxes on hay, barley, pota
toes, hops, wheat, vegetables, lumber,
butter, cheese, etc., all of which bring
no substantial benefit to our farmers,
who export more of most of those
articles than the country imports, were
the chief hope of the champions of the
j McKinley bill and the chief fraud up
j on the farmers, and how can they now
coniess the deceit t
It is obvious that reciprocity with
Canada is to be postponed for purely
political reasons, and it is more than
probable that it will not be disposed
of before' the next November elec
tions, no matter when the actual ne
gotiations may begin. It would not
only be a dangerous confession of the
studied deceit in the professed pro
tection to farmers, but it would offend
the farmers on the Canadian border
from Maine to the new State of Wash
ington, But with all these obstacles, reci
procity will come and come at an
early day, and there will be practically
unrestricted commerce and trade be
tween every people on the American
continent. It is, after all, only tariff
reform under another title, and practi
cally free trade without calling it by
that name ; but it is just the tariff
reform that our varied industries
clearly demand. Reciprocity will
come. Times.
Senator Edmunds has resigned his
seat in the United States Senate after
representing Vermont in that body for
more than a quarter of a century. Sec
retary Proctor is announced as a can
didate to succeed him.
Mr. Huston has resigned as United
States Treasurer, and the President
has appointed Enos H. Nebeker of
Indiana as his successor.
At the homestead, in Madison town
ship April 9th 1 89 1 by Rev. H. C.
Munro, Mr. J. E. Bunting of Knox
ville, Iowa, and Miss Anna M. Run
yan. Mr- George Sterling and Miss El
anora Neyhard were joined in holy
matrimony on Tuesday evening at the
bride's home on Third St., Rev. P. A.
Heilman performing the ceremony.
A number of guests were present and
many friends join in wishing the hap
py pair "Bon Vcyn