The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-10-16
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
wAsurNnroN Ont 18th 1895.

WASHINGTON Oct' lStn, 1000.
Congress will assemble in six weeks and the
election of speaker and the organization of the
committees will probably be accomplished with
less trouble, than at any previous Congress for
thirty years. Mr. Carlisle will be elected without
opposition, and, have no doubt, has already on
paper the arrangement of the principal commit
tees. There is no reason why Congress should
not transact considerable business before Christ
mas. Ii 1t shall succeed in getting good start it
will have time for more elaboration and debate
on the appropriation bills. The appropriations
to be asked for by the different Cabinet officers
will be considerably less than has been asked by
previous Republican administrations, Much has
been accomplished in the direction of economy;
useless employees have been discharged, leaks
have been stopped, and thousands of dollars have
been saved in every department There Is no
reason why the debates on the appropriation bills
should consume more than two or three days
week or more and then hurried through half
made up In the closing days OF the session. The
delay in the passage of the bills has been on ac-
count of Democratic opposition 10 their extrava-
gance and the jobs with which they were loaded.
But the Republican minority in the lower house
the coming appropriations, for they will be for
smaller amounts than they have often advocated
and voted for.
All signs point to a smooth, business like ses-
sion, as far as the lower House is concerned.
There is probability of considerable agitation of
the tariff question, and possibility of surprises in
the springing of new issues. The Chinese ques-
tion is still unsettled, and the labor question in
its different phases is sure to come up for discus
sion.
The Senate will in all probability. be a centre
of greater interest at the Capitol than the House.
Several Republican Bourbon Senators have re-
Gently shown their incapacity to learn or forget
The delirium ShermanS has also firm hold on
Logan and Hoar. They will doubtless rave and
humble in the Senate this winter Not even
time can teach old Senators new tricks. The Re-
publican party is absolutely without an issue.
Sherman and his imitators know that the old sec
tional bloody shirt romance is more easily re-
hashed and is more convenient for their party
than the hopeless task of defending its long re-
cord of official rottenness and corruption.
The even and conservative policy of the Presi-
dent has left the Republicans without even the
sembiance of ground for objection, and has abso-
lutely forced them to take up again the bloody
shirt.
The President and his Cabinet afford but little
material now for newspaper gossip. They are
ceaseless in their application to their special
Duties and are giving all their spare time to the
preparation of their annual reports President
and it is new at the White House. Hays was
smiling and insncere, Garfield was gusher,
profuse In promises, Arthur was dgnifed and ex-
elusive, but Cleveland is what some one has call
ed "brutay candid" During the last week sew
eral delegations have been told that it was use
less for them to visit the White House their
wishes could not be complied with, and COM
mittee OF Dakoa Democrats were very bluntly
informed that man whom they came to oppose
would receive the appointment he sought.
But the most remarkable illustration of the
Presidents candor is found In the correspondence
that has just been published, regarding the tele-
phone suit.
Under previous administrations such mistske
as the Department of Justice was led into would
have been corrected without publicity or buried
in silence, but the President not only required
the Attorney General and his solicitor to recon-
slider their action but gave the corresponding
about IL to the press. There is something to adj
mre in this act of his as well as in the prompt
ness with which Mr.. Garland and Mr.. Goode as
sented to his wishes, but they will receive no
credit from the partisan papers, which are always
on the alert for subjects of criticism, but never
see anything to commend.