The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1890-12-06

MeSSTS. Editors congress met on Monday ana
the session promises to be an interesting and eX-
citing one. Speaker Reed, like other Republi-
can Representatives, does not seem at all dis
mayed or discomftted by the result of the late
election. They have not been turned from their
course in legislation laid down at the last session,
and so far as signs go will move right along at
tending to the peoples business" they say, as
then marked out. Among the legislation to be
completed is the Federal Elections bill, which
passed the House at the last session and is now
before the Senate, and among the new legislation
will be an Apportionment bill, which the return
ed Republicans say they are bound to pass. From
all that can be learned from the Republican
leaders there will be no backward step taken in
legislation at this session differing from that OF
the last one, but that all that is done will be on
the same lines then pursued.
1t is evident, therefore, that these Representa-
tives do not look upon the late elections as an
unmitigated evil that should cause them to turn
from their course or lose faith in the justice of
the measures they have passed or contemplate
Tariff law. which has been made to assume per-
haps the largest share of blame for the late Re
publican defeat, did not have a fair trial before
the people, who had not time between its passage
and the election to be educated up to an under
standing of its provisions and purposes, owlngto
the length Of time it was kept IN the senate aI6er
gress from adjourning until couple OF weeks
before the election and giving the Representa-
tiveS but little time to take the stump and dis
cuss it before the people. In the meantime
while the Republican Representatives were Ia
boring under this disadvantage, unscrupulous
interested parties did not lose the opportunity
to shove up prices of all kinds everywhere, while
the law was being misrepresented by the Demo-
AS instances of the former 1 will cite one that
transpired in Mr.. McKinley's district and cou-
PIE in your own county In McR d dlstf tS
people and defeat Mr. Mckinley the Democratic
ed Them out in ali directions into the country
sections of the district with instructions for them
to be offered to farmers housewives at double
their usual price for like articles, and when the
amazed housewives asked the vendors why the
prices were so raised they were to tell them on
account of the Mckinley Tariff law. OF course
this tinware was not intended for sale but only
to brighten the people into voting against the
great protection leader.
In the cars on the way to Baltimore in your
county, on the day before the election, a leading
merchant of the county told the writer that the
articles on which the prices were strongest in
which there was no tariff at ALL But an agent of
Baltimore tea company, who travels through
your county in a two-horse wagon selling his
merchandise, attempted the most bare faced i'm
position on the people, in the name of the Tariff
4th election district to sell coffee and tea. He
was asking much higher price than usual and
said he had to do so because the Mckinley Tarln
bill had raised the price of the articles. He hap
pened to meet a lady on this occasion that was
pretty well posted about the Mckinley bill, as
well as other political matters, who Immediately
confronted him and told him that he knew he
was not telling the truth, for he knew that the
Mckinley bill did not put any duty on either tea
that he had met one who knew as much if not
more than himself about such things, immedi-
ness as well as his dishonesty.
Thus the Republican Representatives in Con-
gress believe that when the Tariff law and the
other measures passed at the late session are I'M
derstOod by the people, as they will be by 1892
and seen to be for the good and prosperity of the
country and the people, they will be approved
suffer in the election that is to take place in that
year. Hence, relying on the intelligence of the
people, that when they have had time to fully
canvass and understand these measures they
will give their approval to them the Republican
leaders are not disposed to change their course
or alter their purpose in regard to any iegisla-
ton they proposed at the beginning of the last
session. This is the opinion as derived from
leading Republican Representatives and Presi-
dent Harrison is of the same way of thinking
So if this course is adhered to no modification of
the tariff law need be looked for or very few
notifications, which will be confined to slight
errors or mistakes that were made in it during
its passage or engrossing of which there are few
The Federal Elections bill, which also has been
greatly misunderstood and shamefully misrepre-
scented, will become a law at this session. 1t and
the bill yet to be introduced for the reapportion
ment of the members of the House of Represen-
tatives among the several states according to the
recently completed census, will meet with the
strongest opposition from the Democrats OF any
already been attacking the census as false, inn
perfect and PARTISAN and they will not fail to as
vigorously as lies in their power assai the app0r,
census They will claim that the bill proposed
by the Republicans is wholly in the interest of
and for the advantage of the Republican party
and will offer every obstruction to its passage,
but yet both it and the Elections bill will
become laws unless the Republicans in the Sen
ate differ from those Of the House in regard to
the ACCESSIBILITY of the latter.
As to the incorrectness, imperfectionS par
tisanshp of the last census Commissioner Porter
has already disposed of all three of those charges
First, the appointment of the enumerators was
made with more regard TO their fitness than to
their party Affiliations. This the Commissioner
asserts himself. Second, the census was to be
taken on the first of June and the number of
persons found at home or said to be livingin Ger
tain houses at that date must be taken as the
correct census. There had to be limited time
for completing the work and it could not be car
ried on throughout the year. Hence, census
taken in September, perhaps no more perfect
than one taken in June could not be allowed to
contradict the latter official one. Third, Repub-
lican cities and centres complained that they had
not received their full complement of popula-
ton in the enumeration well as Democratic
cities and centres. And in further evidence of
the bipartisan character of the census, Repub-
lican and Democratic states Jared alike Ia illus
tration Republican Ohio and Democratic Vir-
gina each lose Representative. Thus is the
fairness of the census indicated
1t is unnecessary to say that real estate in and
around this city is booming as it never doomed
before and that business is keeping pace with the
boom in real estate. In fact the city, intended
formerly only for residences, is fast becoming
business centre of no mean proportions. UNo.