The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-04-18
Letter from. Washlnaton.

WASHINGTON D. c., April 14t6s1s
Senators Conkling and Fenton are very impress
sive in their opposition to increase of the cur.
rency The former yesterday presented resolu-
tions of the New York Legislature anG Governor
Dix's message expressing apprehensioi at thepro-
posed increase of currency, and the latter stated
that it is the wish of the people of that State to
return to specie payments. Boston is also grow
ing insane in its opposition to currency extension
Mr.. C0burn, of Indiana, in latespeech, pointed
out the fact to the House that ell the localities
which cry out so loudly against imitation have
an undue proportion of National Bank facilities
and Of the national currency, while in the West
the producing classes including farmers, are suf
fering sacrifices for small and necessary debts and
the sale of their hardearned homes under the
sheriff's hammer daily occurs, because banking
facilities not fairly distributed, and the debtor
class have no means of borrowing on the ampest
assets at anything but ruinous rates that the
money centres of the East absorb the circulation,
and ruin threatens the West and South because
they have not the same facilities enjoyed in the
East for getting the reasonable financial accom-
mediation which their business demands. Free
banking under proper RESTRICTIONS with its dis
tribution of currency and accommodation where
it is needed, is thought by many to be the pana-
cea for all these ills. Surely the capital and
wealth Of the older sections can afford to allow
the enterprising business men and producing
classes in other parts OF our common country to
share the required means of prosperity, which
they have hitherto monopoliZeA. S1fs No d ire
full consequences will follow the additional issue
of 81 to So per capita in a country whose bust
ness is shown by the census to double itself in a
single decade, whose resources so sadly need all
the facilities for development.
The temperance people of this District are ask
ing Congress to pass more stringent avs regard
ing unlicensed liquor shops OF which there are
said to be from 300 to 900 in iul blast. Major
Richards, Superintendent of Police, concurred in
the views Of Rev. E. II Gray, who Yesterday
presented an argumen before the District Com
mittee, in stating that under present laws un-
licensed liquor dealers could not be convicted -
Several of the clergy favored stringent legisla-
ton, and two Germans represented the Lionor
League in opposition to it. One Of these pub
fishes weekly paper which is supported on ac
count of its advocacy Of the liquor interest here
chiefly by the Germans
Every year or two extensive changes are made
in the books used in our District Public Schools
School-book drummers and lobbyists from differ
ent publishing houses are again infesting the city
with their efforts TO change the school books
which must be paid for by those who send to
these schools. The nuisance should be stopped
by the Trustees.
The Independence Beige, of Brussels, one of the
Oldest and most influential papers published on
the continent of Europe, pays very high tribute
to the administration of General Graut-particu-
larry to the evident earnestness and good faith
displayed in his endeavors to preserve peare-
SIT will never be forgotten" says this excellent
journal, cha; under the administration of this
soldier President was practically inauguraed the
humane policy of international arbitration as a
substitute for war; the question between the
United States and Great Britain, growing out Of
the depredatons committed on American COM
| merce by the Alabama, having been under his
administration settled by arbitration. The ex-
ample, thus set by two powerful nations, has
been recently followed By Spain. The Island
Of Cuba has been several times invaded, during
the last past thirty years, by armed men from the
United States; the latest occurrence of that kind
being the well-known case of the VirgiRius -
War between Spain and the United States SEEM
ed inevitable Twenty years ago nothing could
have prevented it. But General Grant, Secretary
Fish, and the Spanish Minister, Admiral Polo,
one of the most enlig hened statesmen Of the age,
agreed to turn the whole case in dispute between
the two nations over to tribunal of statesmen
whose decision should be final. These tlree gen.
tlemen will be honored by posterity."
The country press will no doubt feel better to-
wards Congress when the law doing it justice,
by giving it free exchange and free distribu-
uon III Tue COUNTIES VI puollcduOu, Suail oe again
enacted. In the House yesterday bill for this
purpose was passed by vote of l7S to Al Let
the Senate take prompt favorable action, and
there will at once he manifasiad-a helIar iealing
makers. LIFE.
There seems to be species oflegerdeman
now a-days that rises by force of its surround :
ings into semi-dignity. That is the dexter
ity with which law can be made to mean
something entirely different after it is passed
from what it was in the operation of becomin g
such. We have been reliably informed that
the new registration bill when passed had no
provision in it stating when it should take eff