The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-01-22
Washington Letter.

WAsHrHeroy. ID. @. Jan. 18th, 1892
Mr.. Harrison has, if high Republican
authority may be believed, relieved Mr.
Blaine of the Chilian business and taken
il entirely in his own hands. The same
authority says that an ultimatum has
been sent TO Chill snd that all of the
correspondence and the Presidents &C
companying proclamation winch were
held back because OF the ChiGan minis
ter having succeeded in hamboozllng
Mr.. Blaine rs TO his country intentions,
will go to Congress just rs soon as the
evidence of all the sailors OF the Baln-
more has been taken. This evidence,
as far ~ it hss been tetegraphed to the
eastern papers, has created a very var
like feeling in Congress- and if Mr.. Har-
rison does not hurry up and send the
correspondence in, me will find IL de
manded by resolution.
The House has adopted "A reSoutien
Offered by Representative Holmsn tfsat
has spread CONSERVATION among the
promoters of schemes requiring ~ kJtie
appropriation. 1t declares il 10 be the
Judgment OF the House that the grant
ing of subsidies or bountieS by Congress
in money, public lands, bonds 0r by en-
dorsement or by pledge of the public
credit, to promote special private indust-
rieS or enterprises, independent OF the
constitutional power of Congress, is I'M
Just and impolitic and in msnifest con-
flict with the spirit of Republican insti-
tutiOnS. And further resolves that in
view of the present CONDITION of the
treasury, and because efficient and hon
est government can only be assured by
the frugal expenditure af the public
money, while unnecessary and lavish
expenditure under any and all condi-
tions leads inevitably to venal and cor
rupt methods in public affairs, no money
ought to be appropriated by Congress,
except such as Is necessary To carry on
the departments, frugally, efficiently and
honestly administered.
The Republican party has, by its ma
tional legislation, given protection to
certain classes, always at the expense of
the masses; but ii has persistently de-
MED protection to one class, to which it
might have been given without expense
or injury to any honest man. The class
referred To is the inventors, To whom
the country owes so much, who have
vainly implored Congress to amend the
patent laws by making il a criminal of
L
Representative IIllnan, chairman of the
House committee on patents, is deter
mined that the Democratic House shall
have the honor of passing bill COM
plying with the inventions wishes and
breaking up the practice, now so COM
mon, of Intentional infringement of sue
ceSsful patents by parties without fnan-
cial responsibility.
The Senate Committee on Elections
this week heard the contested cases OF
Claggett vs.. Dubois, of Idaho, and Dav-
idsun vs.. Call of Florida. The hearings
in both cases were mere formalities, it
having heen certain beforehand that the
committee, almost unanimously, favored
the sitting members. Dubois and Call.
Owing to the fact that the articles
which Will be affected by the separate
tariff bills likely to be reported by the
House Ways and Means Committee are
few in number, and that they have been
so thoroughly discussed in the press. the
committee has decided that il will be
10 grant hearings to those
interested In them, as 1t is not probable
that single new fact could be brought
out.
Representative Harter, of Ohio, has
introduced bill to consolidate and re-
duce the number of customs collection
districts in the country, which he thinks
will improve the service and save SIS
600 annually.
The Democrats of the House have al
ready reached the why and wherefore
stage of the session. They want to know
why Secretary Foster has withheld the
payment of some $50, 600, 900 appropri-
ated for the fiscal year ending June 80
last; also why some SO, ,O0O, 900 less
than should have been paid out of the
appropriations for the current fiscal wear.
during It's first half, ending Jan. l, has
been paid. These questions and others
Government finances, may
give the Secretary more trouble than the
grip, from which he has Just recovered,
did
The Democrats also wish to know
Just what effect the Mckinley tariff law
Is having upon the country, and it is
in order to obtain that infor-
nation quickly, that the House commit
tee on manufactures investigate It's eff
feet upon the general manufacturing in
terests, the Committees on Agriculture,
Labor, Commerce to do the same for
those several interests. A Senate Com
mlttee spent a part of last summer in
making an investigation of this subject,
but the House proposal would be much
more thorough, consequently more salts /
factory.
Speaker Crisp is expected to be well
enough to preside over the House by r
next week NJ.