Washington Letter

From our Ktular Correspondent. Washington, D. c, April ;ü, lSSi. Money for the riKTy, peusiaii appropriatious, bureau of statisücs, tenure office, privileges of the Pénate floor. bankruptcy, pleuro-pneuinonia, and the tariff are some of the queetions that Congres has met, fought, fuvoreil and killed duritig the week. ïlie House of Representativos asaeinbles now at eleven a. m., instead of twelve, and another hour per day is devoted to talk. Tliis chango was necessary iu view of ttie tarül' speeclies that are demandiug utterance, and, in order to expedite the debate still more, niglit sessions are heli] for tariflf talk. It rnijrht have been as well if a few speeclies by representative men on either side had made up the Issue, and the superfluous oratory had tieen eonfiiied to the pages of the Congressional Record, bilt everv member thinks hls taiiff speech too good to be lost, in that way, and each has equal rlghts. The veteran Pennsylvania protectionist Representative Kelly, made sorae reinarks in a tariff speech that called forth prolonged ipplause. He was speaking of having epent three tnonths la.-it year in "proeperous merry, free-trade England," and of haviug visited the manufacturing towns around London, where he found wotnen making nails, traec-chains, fire bricUs, and gulvauizing hollow ware. He said he obserred among those who did him the honor to be present hls friend from Kentucky, Mr. Turner, who comes to each succeeding Congress on the doctrine of free trace-chains, n bill to transfer which article to the free Ifett lie never fails to introduce. Mr. Turner replied, "Yes, I never weary in well doing, and after awhile I hope you wil] grant us that reasonable request." You oujrht to have free trace-chains continued Mr. Kelly, for we learned that tlie woraen who niake theni, if they are quiek, can earn twenty-live cents a day. Free tracechains ! exclaimed the orator, God forbld ti.atany Kentucky girl or woman shall ever work at suoh starvatio wages, and unwom:inly employment, even though it be to furnish cheap tracechaiüs to my friend and lus oonstituents. Wliile the House was dbotiwlng the Senute ainendments to the naval appropriatlou the other day, a question of veracity was sprung between two Democratie brcthren, Messrs. Ramlall anti Dorsheimer, over time yielded by the former to the lutter. Mr. Dorsuelraer, said hc understood It to be tenoríifteen minutes instead of five. Mr. Randall replied "you did not so understandit?" Mr. Dorsheimer rejoined, "It it comes to that I say I did. and I put my words arainst yours iu the presence ot this House." At thia poiut Representative Henly veritied 5Jr. Randall's statement, and danser was aveited. Dunng the same debate Mr. Randall letilropthe hint that he was steering the House to an early adjournment by rushirg the appropriation bilis tliiough. His wishes in this re speet are well known, but if they are carried out, the serious matters which only have a chance lor attentiou during a long session of Congress would be neglected. Congressmau Reed, of Mainc, was making a spech over the dead-lock between the two Houses on the naval and postoffiee appropriation bilis. Alluding to the paralysis of the navy and the determination of the House to do nothing liberal for it, he said the Democratie party intend to go before the country simply disclaimiii": responsibility as to the past, hoping theieby to shirk its responsibilityas to the present. He thought the position of hiding itself everlastingly behind what had already takeu place was not the best policy for a great party enlisted in the interest of "general reform." He addressed his remarks to Chairrosn Randall, ''becausé," he said, "in Üiatgentleman's (locket is the wholeof this situation." Considerable elorjuence was expended in bclialf oí ïlie laboring man, before the bill for colleeting labor statistics pateed the Hcnise. The negative votes werë all cast by Democrats. Representative Blout, of Georgia, objected to the measuie on I the ground that the information acquired I unJer its provisionsmight not bereiiable. To tli is Mr. Hopklns replied, that information gathered by experienced, thorough, and methodical means would be more accurate thau inforoiation caught on the wlng.