The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-23
WASHINGTON LETTER
Fnam oar Regalar corn.innaent.

frln orr Regular Correspondent
WNsHsSsroy. Jmse +. IsS5-You may h.
inclined To- think that with the leng1hening
days AMI strengthening beat Of summer.
times are gnowing dull at rhe Capital a. else
where such Is not the ease. Grand re-pr
lions, otfeial and pubiic are being held II
tie White House III iNnor of the hrtd1
some distinguished travellers an IA the city.
who are receiving much attention one al
them being a royal visitor. a seritable prince.
the grandSonof Emperor Dom Pedro, Of Bra
iii. Prince Leopold is not, however, a royal
looking parsonage. His face Is of in min
t~ereSting type, his figure If medium size, and
his yeice is ~ efieminafe, small, ~hrill and
DESCENDANT as 10 occasion amusement FOR
those who hear ii. He j. stopping at the Ar
lington Hotel, and occupies the r,onls thar
President Cleveland had when he first arriv-
elin the city previous to his Inauguration.
And then the strike is at last over here.
Work has been resumed on a nine hours
compromise. Houses partially erected, on
which work bad been suspended for six
weeks. again echo with the sound Of hammer
and saw, and building viii boom until next
winter. And hast. though first III Importance.
Congress i still al work. without any imme-
diate danger Of suerumbing Ia the summers
heat. II l. discussing Appropriation and
Land forfeiture bills and questions relating
To the District of Columbia. Scarcely a day
passes hut some Congressman gives his opin-
ion of the civil service law. and no subject
connected with finances can come Up for de
bate without provokinga fight on the Tariff.
While the House was discussing a money
bin. the able Republican leader from New
York. Mr.. Hiscock, announced that be had
figured ont a large deficiency in the Treasury,
the appropriations being largely in excess of
the receipts. He made an argument, which
might apply 10 the ~tariffto show that no re-
ductian was possible, and he held democrat
ie cxtravagance responsible for this. He ex-
planned where the next fiscal year, would. on
the most conservative estimate, see q deficit
Of Sl4U0W0. The House was on the exc of
an attempt to reduce tariff taxes and he
thought it was an occasion on which to call
its attention 10 these startling figutes.
Thi> reminuS me OF what Representative
Boutelle. Of Maine. said in regard 10 the dc
fects ofthe pr,Scnt administration, Instead
Of the retrenchment and economy that was
promised. the estimate- for expenditures
have been largely Increased, until the Demo
cratic state Convention Of Maine, Is found
~denouncing, in it, platform, a Congress in
which its larty has u large working major
ity. for having devoted six months of is la
bors in deyising ways and means To deplete
the Treasury Of IL surplus millions To the ne
glect of important legislation
~ To the manner in which the party has
fulfilled it, Civil service Reform promises, the
same gentleman from Maine says. that that
law has been used a. q d,-,r mat by thar dis
tinguishcd office broker, Eugene Higgins,
and ha~ been tramYled under the muddy
boots OF the hungry and thirsty until a
Democratic Commissioner OF Pensions j. en-
abled to testify that under the rules, as now
applied, he obtained 14S Democrats out Of
i52 appointments. and the Democrats OF the
House are asking 10 amend the law 80 that
the reform party can get the other four.
Political Attain, are 50 much mixed in diff
fcrent states that the Democratic membcr> of
Congress who have not already gotten the
sanction of their districts and yet have not
given up the fight, are very anxious about
denomination. Even Mr.. Holman. OF Indi-
ana. the treat oi%jector. has felt cou,'rain-
ed 10 go home in the interest Of hi, fcncc>
Hell q man who probably could mol he ea>-
ily beaten, but the Republicans are SURF OF
gains in many Democratic districts. and Mr..
Holman fclr that the siIgajiou was such that
even he had hettor not be ~ far from the )s,-
SONS OF his constituents.
TIE Injury II leisure which the President
enjoved during his ain days OF honeymoon,
i his no longer. The mass 81 legislation
which was dumped upon his desk during his
ab>ence, Ter hi. approval or veto, requires
his examination Of fourteen or fifteen bills a
day. There has just been published from
the White House another official romon-
STRANGE against q too sociable public, asking
il to respect the hour, for official business, 10y
calling to pay respect, only on the day, and
~ the hour- s~Ietifei for that puTTe~e
RAILROAD News.
\ telegram to the Pittsburgh Coa-
B,eo-.at Gazere from Philadelphia say~ The
recent purchase of the Beech Creek railroad
by friendly Interests Of the Reading Com
pany and the purchase Of the Clarified BIZ
luminous Coal Companys mines by the
same friendly interests, il j, stated, have for
ever DESTROYED the possibility of either Of
these properties going INTO the hands of The
Pennsylvania Eilroad Company. This NJ
carried a. determining positively the accom-
plishTncnt ~ ~,nlc day If the plan, Of tom
petition arranged by President Gowen and
uthe-s against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.
An officer of the Reading company stated
tp Your correspondent that the completion Of
the south PENNSYLVANIA railroad would be
the next step taken in the original plans. II
viii Of course, be necessary, he stated. in IT.
-Ic,t To the supreme Court before which the
question Of the right OF the Pennsylvania
railroad To purchase i pending, to wait the
decision Of thai body before taking any fur
thes action. In the meantime. however.
prominent capitalists who are interested in
the completion Of the property are not dc.
They have purchased valuable timber and
coal tract, along the line Of the South Penn
~~yiyania which will he developed NJ thc
proper time. and il i further stated that one
of the ultimate lurpsseS of the coal lands wiil
De the formation Of a coke syndicate which
viii operate in opposition 10 those who are
now sending their tonnage over the Pennsyl-
vania Railrsld ~Company'- lines.
President trnwon. of the Recalling. when
seen by your correspondent and questioned
upon these matters. stated that lac deemed it
advisable not to talk upon the subject until
the Recalling property had been r~corganized,
but he would say that all his original plans
including the SOUTH Pennsylvania would bc
carried out. and that the Reading r-eorganiza-
ton accorling to hi> plan would be accom-
pli,hed in les than sixty days.
The Return Judge, Of the Democratic pri-
maTies held throughout Cambria county ON
Saturday last, met in Ehen>bur. Monday IL
the votes cast for the various eandi-