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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1887)
“A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, AND BY THE PEOPLE." WASHINGTON LETTER." l o i ï f o r 11 n rc n - i«i5 isti prompt confirmation as associate justice when his nomination Aall W ashington , Dec. 10, 1887. have been reported back from the The general drift of democratic judiciary committee. Many sub comment on the president’s brief ordinates in* the interior and poet- and practical message to congress, offioe department are now some bestows the highest praise 6n that what concerned about their uncer document. Indeed, Mr. Cleveland’s, tain tenure of place, as it is known wannest admirers in congress ex- there will be a ntimber of changes ultingly declare that it is the most in ths force. pithy and courageous state paper The supreme court, in sustaining issued since tho days of Jackson. the position of Virginia in the There is naturally a chorus of dis coupon bond cases, and of Kansas cordent notes uttered in. an under in the prohibition^cases, has at once tone, but that tho president’s views settled two important constitutional are those of the democratic masses, questions, and asserted the reserved there is little reason., to sepously rights of the states in a-manner that doubt. With .the president and doubtless delights the shade of the speaker of the house cordially con great Calhoun. The decision in the- curring upon the absolute necessity' latter cases will have an important of tariff reform, that question dwarfs bearing politically, adverse to the all others and .becomes the chief po republicans, as it gives the prohibi litical issue of the times. Demo tion party a constitutional existence. crats differ as to the particular Washington là1 now crowded with methods of reaching the desired fe» visitors *— churchmen, politicians, Bult of reducing internal taxation, and statesmen, attracted by the but all agree that a reduction is the meeting of the American Evangel country’s only chance of financial ical alliance, the presence of con redemption. h ’ gress, and the session of the Nation And here in Washington, it is the al republican executive committee. universal opinion of all the politicians SPECIAL WIRES. that the tariff question will be the The San Francisco Examiner’s chief factor in the presidential con latest improvement is working-to test of 1SS8. perfection. Arrangements were com The organization of the fiftieth pleted recently for connecting itg of congress was effected in a decorous fice with the rest of the world by manner, despite the anticipation of special telegraphic wires. The Ex a deadlock in the senate, which aminer now has its own instru failed to materalize, although the public thronged the corridors of the ments and its own operators on its own premises. It no longer bas tò capital in the hope of witnessing take the chances of important news sensational scenes. The centennial congress will cer being delayed at the,telegraphic of fice through a press of other matter; - tainly be memorable for the sweep or of its special dispatches being in ing changes in the personnel of the advertently carried to rivals. What house. Not since 1874, when the ever of moment occurs in any part tidal wavo of democracy over 87 Washington St. whelmed republicanism, has there of the world up to the instant of going to press is now telegraphed been such a revolution in the mem directly to the Examiner office. It bership of that body, for of the 825 can speak directly to Los Angeles, who were in the last congress, 130 Chicago or New York, and other failed to- return. Among those re dispatches may swamp the central tired are many prominent men, as office without interfering with its fully twbthirdB of the chairmen of service. - '. committees were numbered with the It is needless to say that no other defeated. Of the familiar faces missing from the senate are Cam San Francisco journal has this im 1888—EVERY LADY SHOULD TAKE IT—1888 provement. It has been the part of den, Jones, of Florida, Mahone, Har the Examiner to introduce every im- rison and Whitthorne, and from the house, Morrison, Bragg, Barksdale, provement of importance into San Warner, Brady, and O’Hara and Francisco journalism. - OF Smalls,—the two latter being colored The superintendent of dead letter and hailing from North and'South bureau, with the approval • of the Carolina. Thia leaves “our brothers postmaster general, has prepared a Sketches of Noted Pieces and People, Splendldl£lllustrated Articles, in black’’ without a race representa circular letter, which will be sent Tales and Novelets by Famous Authors, _ __ . tive in the present congress. shortly to all postmasters, directing Speiker Carlisle enters upon his enforcement qf_ section 590 of the third term as presiding officer of the postal laws and regulations. This house—a distinction only conferred1 section makes it imperative upon upon five of his predecessors—the the postmaster to advertise, in a last of these being Mr. Blaine. newspaper or post manuscript, a There is much doubt as to whether list of non-delivered letters. It also or not Mr. Carlisle will be able to requires the “charge and collection’ appoint his committees before the of one cent in all cases where a let holiday adjournment, as, in addition ter has been advertised in a news to the” usual pressure for desirable paper, either gratuitiously or at one places, the speaker has much new cent for each letter, or less sum, or material with which to deal. Capi whether publication was merely by tal gossip has assigned the following' written list posted in some public members to chairmanships: Mills, place.” ________ ways and means; Randall appropri- I am pretty well posted on these • ations; Turner, elections; Culbert matters having read every docu son, judiciary; Bland, coinage, ment of such a nature from the • weights and measures; Blanchard, Fong Wong & Sing Gee Props. time of • Henry Clay down to the rivers and harbors; and Herbert, Washing and Ironing dona in a Firat Claaa present, and I can safely say that manner. Price« cheaper than any laundry in naval affairs. Rumor, apparently MERCHANT TAILORS. this, last message is the best.— Yamhill county. «-Give tie a call.-** 13 ly well founded, has it that these chair Thos. L. James, Garfield’s post manships are as good as settled. master general. For once at least, the political Gov. Bodwell, of Maine, died De f prophets were correct in forecasting the late cabinet changes- There is cember 15th, of congestion of tho not the least doubt of Mr, Lamar’s lungs. (From oir regular correapondent.) rwiTB. — bï - RANK S. HARDING subscription bates . |DT per year, in advenes.................. »S ®¡> mv six months in advare................ 1 00 ___ —___A—--------------- ■ jredat the postoffice in Lafayette, i as second class matter. OFFICIAL directory . ÜNITBD 8TATI?S. ............Grover Cleveland k. ......... w&ywvtau2 # ““cewrai*1 H. (iarlang (•¿¿J,"' *. M’fri.«! B. Wait. C0KBBX8M0NAL. (J H Mitchell ............... ..........................IJ-N. Dolph . 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