The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1890-12-13
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Satisfied with the Message-The Presi-
dent Faithful to the Laws-Federal
Elections and Reapportionment
Bills-Farmers' Alliance and
the Old Parties etc. ETC.
WAsHINGroN. ID. G.. Dec. atl

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 9th, 1890.
Editors Union The Presidents late message
have the Democrats been able to criticize it to
any great extent unfavorably. 1t has been ac-
thoughtfui document and commended itself to
the approval of all thinking people, whether OPP
posed to the Executive in politics or not. The
most striking feature about it was its courage
business and then its cean-cut Republicansm. 1t
did not show a shadow of turning" on the part
be deferred by the late elections from taking the
positive grounds that he and the party occupied
on all the, important political or economical
questions that were before Congress at the last
session, he was mistaken.
One fact is very patent in connection with the
message and Mr.. HarrisOn's administration and
that is that he is perfectly honest and will carry
out faithfully all the laws he has sworn to exc
cute, whether he fully approves them not.
This is shown in connection with the civil service
here He will allow none of the heads of any of
the departments to discharge any employee on
political grounds or because the employee is a
Democrat, Notwithstanding that same employee
may have displaced Republican under the last
administration who would like now to get his
position back. This is going much further in the
execution of the spirit of the civil service law
than was done by the last administration and has
created no little dissatisfaction among many Re-
publicans with the administration but yet they
know that President Harrison has sworn to ex-
ecute the laws and is only carrying out what he
conceives to be their spirit we'll as their letter.
both of which it is asserted by some who expert
enced the rigOr of an apparently opposite policy
not quite half a decade ago were not then SO
On the first day of the session of Congress the
Senate took up the Federal Elections bill which
been the order of the day ever since, its consid-
Grafton being resumed daily at the conclusion of
the morning hour. So far there has seemed no
disposition on the part of the majority to limit
discussion on the bill, although it was said early
last week ana even before the session began that
a rule would be brought in in the nature OF
cOture to cut off debate, and Senator Ho9f, of
Massachusetts, who is in charge of the bill, said
this week that he hoped the discussion would
end and vote be reached the coming Friday,
but it is not likely it will.
In the House a Reapportonment bill has been
nnpwher Of RnnrnSentafWoS oftar isc at All the
present number being 332 The number agreed
upon causes no state to lose REPRESENTATIVE,
although those gained are most favorable to the
Republicans. That is the states which will gain
the largest number of Representatives under
TINS app6rtionment VIII De those MAJ nave mere ere
Northwestern states Democratic states-those
that have been surely Democratic heretofore
gain out of the increased number of "a.
The eyes of both Democrats and Republicans
have been fixed with no little degree of interest
upon the farmers assembled in convention at
Ocaa, Fla, for week past. The Republicans
have been watching them with an eye of rather
digniied if not disdainful and Indifferent cast,
for it was these farmers that knocked them out
in the West on the 4th of last month But the
Democrats have been watching them with rather
beseeching gaze, hoping, like the proverbial
subtle or accidental mien. they would be induced
to come into their parlor." They said great
many fiattering things about them and went so
far as to aver that the principles of the Alliance
were almost precisely the same as those of the
Democratic party. with one or two exceptions
only. And thus they waited and watched for
their prey. But at last accounts they must find
themselves wholly disappointed. The Sub
Treasury bill, as proposed by the Alliance, was
one of the measures on which the Democrats and
farmers differed, but it was thought that if the
measure was modified and only weak dose of it
given the Democratic party might swallow it.
But the Alliance seems to have been Indifferent
to the wishes of these pseudo Democratic friends
and demand the administering of the dose in its
full strength. Then also their demand for the
abolition of the national banks and other finan-
cial propositions will not be likely to strike all
the Democrats favorably, especially those of the
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