Washington Letter

Trom our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, May 31, 188-1. The Democratie party would stand bet;cr before tlie country if, instead of makng more Democratie rcpresentaüves by iet of congress, those nembers alrcady ííected would deal witli someof the man y important tneasures that demaud attcnabn. They spent three days of last week nd two days again of this week, in ?fibrts to enlargo thelr majorlty by seating their fiiends in contested districts. The Ohlo contest was the last disposed of, and the sitting Republtóan inember, Mr. JIcKinley, was dlsmlwed, of eourse, mid the Democratie contestant, Mr. Wat lace, admitted to the place. Half the Republican members of the House have departed for the Chicitgo convention, but business will not be interrupted by this absence as non-polltlcal questtons only will be before the body. The pending measure is the bil] making ¦ppropriátions for tlie leglsHtive, executive and judicial expenses of tlie Government for the fiscal year of 1885. In the Benate, the Mnrmon question came up, and Senator Boar procceded to advocate hls favorita measure. Senator Brown, of Georgia, next made a long speech on the Utah bill in which lie contrasted what lie called tlie "polyiramy'" of New England with the polygamy of Utah. The Slassachnsetts Senator replied to this attack in caustio tenns. Senator Brown had spoken of the high standard of moi-ality of the people of the South. Senator Hoar said, 110 power on eartli could induce him to say a word about the mulatto. He conld not draw the southern social skeleton from the closet. He would not talk ahout hisneighborsor sow the seeds of distrust in Southern morality. The Mormon problem was then crowded aaide to give place to the bill forpensioninc the Mexican veterans, which is still under consideration. Senator Beek ñid not want to pension the widows of those soldiers who had married since the war. He satd like all other old men the Mexican soldiers had married and would marry the youngest women they could get, and the Government would be asked to pension these young widows as long as they live. Senator Logan raised a laughbysayinghc thought a young woman ouglit to be peusioned for msrrying an old soldier. She deserved a pension more than lf she were an old wotnan. Senator Beek said he would not like to give her a pension of $96 a year to do it. Senator Logan made an earnest speech against the bilí granting a railroad eornpany right of way through a portion of the Yellowstone Park. He said an attempt was made to gobble up everything in the park by railroads and hotel companiesand herders. Xo Government bul our own would allow it to be used for anything but a resort for the people . He had been lobbied more this session in behalfofthis railroad by an offleial of the Government than ever before in bis Ufe. He did not mean to say whether lobbying has any effect on him or not; but this, at least, had none. The gentleman who asked for the destrnction of the Park received a salary of $5,000 a year In the department in which the Park had been placed for preservation. Senator Don Cameron appeared in the Sonate chamber on Wednesday for the first time since nis return from Europe, and was warmly greeted. He has the appearance of improved health. The Good Templara and Peacemaker3 have both been in convention here during the week. The former body s the Rlgtat Worthy Grand Lodge, the highest in the order of Good Templars, and delegates are present from several foreign countries, and from every state in the Union. The Peace meeting was attended by 3ome of the men and woroen who have for years been opposiug war, and trying to secure peace all over the world through arbitration and without resort to arrns." Both bodies called on the President, who, of course. spoke words of encouragement to each. Some of the delegates to the Peace Union appeared before the Senate committee on foreign relations and made addresses In behalfofthe principies they advocated. The mustang looking bangs, which tbc Clarksvillc Standard says make a woman look like au unruly cow with a board tied over her eyes, are to be changed now for a mop of fri.zes, to be set high upon the liead a la crow's nest. "Why does the train run so mueh f aster than yesterday ?" asked a passenger on a brancli of the Wubasli railroad, of tlie : conductor. ''We are in Missouri to-day," was the reply, "and we always get out of