The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1888-12-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. oath, ISIS

Before leaving to spend Christmas al his
Georgia home, Senator Colquiit said that il
General Harrison was looking for respect
able Southern Republican for his Cabine; he
could not do better than 10 select Hon. i, Z
Buck, of Atlanta.
The Repu blcan Senators, true TO the ira
ditions Of their party, played confidence
game in order TO get date set for the final
vote on the Senate BILL They held caucus
and decided against taking Christmas recess.
They then appointed com mi,tee 10 confer
with the Democrats, and instructed that con-
mittee TO offer to vote for the recess provided
the Democrats would agree 10 set 4 day for
the final vote on the tart fl BILL The Demo-
cratic Senators, not de string TO retard other
necessary legislation in the hopeless effort to
trying to prevent the passage of The tariff bill
agreed to take the final vote on that measure
January 2ls.. Then the Republicans voted.
for recess from last Friday to "Wednesday,
January End. Had the Dem ocrats refused,
the Senate would have been only nominally
in session during the holidays, as no power
on earth could have held a quorum Of the
Senate here during the Holidays. However,
the action Of the Democ ratio Senators is gen.
orally commended here. because everybody is
heartily sick and tired of ,ariff talk and the
Republicans of the Senate were fully deter
mined to pass the bill before taking up any
thing else, therefore the sooner it is over the
better.
That large proportion of the Rel publican
party known as the .'worke S" al i II e boys 5
are terribly alarmed al tie Indications which
now point TO another reign of the .'goody-
goody element in the White House Ruth
erford B. Hayes has been dragged out of The
| obscurity 'uts winch he had naturally gone
| and will. it is sail. he power W i,h Harrison
| Hayes, it is we'll known; hates Blaine with All
intensity as great as il is possible for his small
brain TO hold, and has never forgiven him FOR
alludIng to him during his occupancy Of the
| W bite House as .ihat man Hayes: there
fore, 1t is not at all surprising that Hay IS
| should be working actively against Blaine.
| Plat, of New York. is also obnoxious 10
Hayes. In fac. shout nine-tenils of the Re
publican party are in fair way to get left out
in the cold, and a scare Of the biggest sort has
| been dere loped among them by the,tews from
| indianapolis. VIII etler there is any real
cause for this scare amoug tie working Re
| publicans | m ct IN pos.ti n % say, u N
will say thai if Harrison ate mpis 10 make up
his cabinet leaving such men as Blaine and
Plat out, he will delite ra,.ly wax into the
worst hornets nest lie ever saw, and will make
himself more unpopular with his party, il
such thing be possible, than Hayes was when
he was President. This ide. Of a candidate
being better than the rank and file Of his par
| ty is all .'poppycock," and has resulted in
nothing but failure for every President that
has ever attempted to follow ii. 1t Harrison
take warning.
| Ex-senator Malone still fits through the
corridors of the Capitol, almost daily, but lie
is generally looked upon as dead cock in
the pit
Little Billy Chandler has been present
ing more petitions to the Senate from alleged
citizens of South Carolina, seltin. forth the
fact that the petitioners We're at the last cleo
ton denied the right TO vote \ curious thing
about three Of these petitions was that all of
the signatures were ia the same handwriting
Perhaps Little Billy has established pei
| ton factory Of his own.
What will be done with The Senate tariff
bill when it reaches the House is a question
tia. is exciting considerable discussion just
now, but owing to the absence Of all tie read
ers the talk is only conjecture The republi-
cans will, it is said, attemp. TO get an imtne-
date vote upon ii by moving the House con-
cur. The democrats, it is generally thought,
will antagonize this with motion not 10 CON
cur, aud send to conference. Ii the bill
gels into the hands of 4 conference committee
| that will be last of it.