The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-08-19
REPRESENTATIVE B. A. ENLoE.
HsENCELLENTR RECORD IN CONGRESS.
An Official Career which is Credit to
Himself and His state.

Washington correspondence Nashville Banner,
August H.
Mr.. Enloe, of Tennessee, has Writ
ually closed his official labors for
this session Of Congress since he
completed the discussion of the re-
port of the special committee to in
vestigate the management Of the
pension Office. He has perhaps
done more work in this Congress
than any other member of the
House. The responsibility of con-
Quoting the investigation was en-
tirely devolved on him, and the tes-
timony covers over 1000 printed
pages. He made a speech in the
House a few days ago reviewing
the case, which is in demand all
over the country for campaign pur-
poses. His speech on the force
bill last Congress, on the third par
ty doctrines and the pension Office
this Congress alone would give him
a national reputation aside from
the efficient work he has done as a
practical legislator.
In view of the prominence and in
fuence which Mr.. Enloe has gain
ed your correspondent thought it
might interest the readers Of the
Banner to read brief review Of
his Congressional career. Mr.. En-
loe began his career in the Fiftieth
Congress, and first distinguished
himself by breaking the celebrated
deadlock in that Congress over the
direct tax bill. For that service to
his party the Hon. S. S. Cox, of
delightful memory, who was then
chairman Of the Democratic caucus,
in behalf of the Democrats of the
House, presented Mr.. Enloe a little
gold lock and key, which he values
more than all his treasures, and he
wears it now as a watch-charm.
Mr.. Enloe secured the passage
that session of number of local
bills for his constituents, and one
general bill to punish dealers in
counterfeit money for using the
United States mails. Under this
law some of the most notorious
swindlers in the country have been
convicted and sentenced to the pen
itentiary. He took charge of the
bill to authorize the Tennessee
Midland Railroad to bridge Ten.
nessee River and had it passed
When he entered Congress the mai
service on Tennessee River haC
been discontinued. He had that re
stored, and he has since constantly
and successfully labored to increase
the mail facilities in his district.
Inthe Fifty-frst Congressional
er Reed changed his committee ser
vice and put him on War Claims
Mr. Enloe took up somewhere nea
three hundred claims of Southern
people, involving over half mil
lion dollars, which claims had beer
found due by the Court of Claims
and not paid simply because tn
money would go South. He pu
them in one bill, and after a re
markable fight against the Repub
ican majority, which lasted 70
several months, he secured the pas
sage of the bill into a law.
He was also quite successful wit
his local measures. During tina
Congress he made his name fami,
lar everywhere in the United State
by his constant fight against the al
bitrary methods of Speaker Ree(
He enjoyed the reputation Of bein
more cordially hated by Speake
Reed than any man in the Hous'
At the beginning of the Fifty
second Congress he sacrificed an
prospect of a Craftsmanship by vot
ing for Mr.. Mills for Speaker, bt
cause he believed that vote repre-
scented the sentiment of his distriC
on the Question of tariff reform.