The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-04-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

from our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, April 1S-The anti-Harri-
s3 the pend Of ther %s T6e Trouble
that they can find no one to fight
Harrison with. After the withdrawal OF
Cullom some of them thought that Alger
might fill the BILL and he was sent for to talk
the matter over. He has been here several
days, but he hasn't made much progress on
as he has been told that after mature consider.
alton it has been decided that the little episode
concerning bis war record has made him an
impossibility, and that the best thing that he
could do would be to withdraw. This has al
most broken Ayers heart, but he has promis-
ed to withdraw. Ex-CZar Reed could have the
support of the ant-Harrison men, if it were
not for Mr.. Blaine's opposition to him; it has
been rendered to Mckinley but he would not
accept it. Secret conferences are being night
ly held, but the indications are not favorable
to the ants, ut least not from the outside.
'1Teddy" Roosevelt made a ten-strike when
that resolution authorizing an investigation OF
the violations of the civil service law Charged
by him in report made last year to Mr.. Harri-
SOM by Federal officials in Baltimore was intro
duced in the House. He has long been trying
to find out why Mr.. Harrison pigeon-holed that
report. The House committee ON rules will let
Mr.. Harrison say why no action was ever tax
en- on that report, and then, if the answers not
satisfactory, the resolution for investigation
will be reported to the House and adopted.
Hon. Hugh s. Thompson, the Democratic
Civil Service Commissioner, has rendered his
resignation to Mr.. Harrison, to take effect May
10.
Every attempt made by the House to give
the Government more power over the national
banks, thus adding to their safety as depositor-
les of the peoples money, has up to this time
been thwarted by the Senate. The bill which
was passed by the House q short time ago, pro-
hibiting the borrowing of money by officers of
national banks, except by authority of major
ity of the banks directors, which every person.
familiar with the inside histories of the big ma
idea, was promptly saddled with an hmend-
ment in the Senate, which it was known that
the House would not accept, authorizing the
banks to increase their circulation to the full
amount of bonds they have deposited in the Q.
s. Treasury. Which body legislates for the
people, and which for the corporations2 The
House and Senate fairly represent the parties
which respectively control them.
| Senator Daniel, of Virginia, has introduced
an amendment to the Naval appropriation bill,
/ appropriating $4,000 for the expenses of
| the proposed international naval review to be
held in New York harbor and in Hampton
Roads in April, 1898, in honor of the opening
of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The
President is directed, as soon as the appropria-
ton becomes law, to invite foreign nations To
participate in the review.
Somebody is doing some very reckless swear
ing in the Pension Office investigation. ASsiS-
tant Secretary Bussey fatty coutradicted a
statement made by Green Il. Raum, Jr., and
called upon the committee to judge which OF
them had lied.
Secretary Foster undertook the very difficult
task of bolstering up an illegal act-the spend
ing of money received as head tax on immi-
land-with an opinion from the Attorney Gen.
eral, clearly made to order, and as might have
been expected, he made u failure of the job.
The alleged opinion is but n lawyers plea; it
justified the authorizing of the expenditure by
Assistant Secretary Nettleton on the ground
that the late Secretary Window had contem-
plated il he had not actually done, the same
thing and Congress is asked to accept this as u
vindication of Nettleton, but it will not do so.
If Nettleton has not resigned before the joint
Immigration Committees conclude their inyes-
tigation of this matter, it is believed that they
will recommend his removal and also that of
Superintendent Owen.
Mr.. Harrison may find himself in very awk-
ward predicament on account of his very re-
markable assumption of power in paying an
indemnity of S2l 900 to Italy out of the State
department contingent fund, without consult
ing Congress at all. This abuse of authority is
absolutely without precedent, and Congress
the
sular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill gets
before the House. c. A. S.
The Late James w. Cole.
The mention in The Egis of the following
well-deserved tribute, from the editorial col
umns of the Baltimore San, to the memory of
Mr.. james W. Cole, will be, no doubt, most
gratifying to his many relatives and friends in
Hartford. Mr.. Cole was born in Abingdon, i'm
this county, where he resided until he went to
Baltimore to enter the employment of The Sun.
I'm the death of Mr.. James w. Cole, the fatal
termination of whose illness was mentioned
yesterday, The Sun has lost an employee who
had been connected with it since his early man
hood, and who has devoted to its service his
best energies and intelligence. 1t is not small
thing to say of any man-indeed. is it not the
highest tribute that can be paid even to the
greatest-that he did hiSduty well in the sphere
of life in which he was placed; that he was
faithful and true and loyal TO the interests en-
trusted to him and to the work which he had to
do. All of these things may be said with truth
of The Suns empoye who has just passed
away, and he and thousands like him who have
labored quietly and conscientiously in the in
conspicuous fields of human effort could wish
for no better epitaph than their own lives have
written. Faith, loyalty, duty are too often
missing in the lexicons of life from which those
whom the world calls great teach the lessons of
existence. Old-fashioned and obsolete in many
revised editions of human progress, they yet
form the highest trinity of virtues, and often
speak with most eloquent voices from their
abiding places with the obscure and unknown
of earth. The honest, faithful toilers who act
well their parts need not envy the laurels of
the great. Fidelity confers a title of honor SUI
perior to the heraldry of kngs-a title which
fame has not the power to give or to withhold,
and which every man, however lowly, may
win for himself.