Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-08-11
From our regular Correspondent
Washington Letter.


WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. /. 1899.
The Democrats and the assistant Demo
Gratis third party members) of the Hous,
are in wranglc. owing to one of the la,t
Watson, of Georgia, having charged il
a campaign book he has written that Dem
ocratic members have reeled around tn,
floor of the House, drunk, and made
msudlin speeches on public business wher
they had to stop in the middle Of sen
tence and ask: "Mr. Speaker, where am
at?" The charge made the Democrats very
mad, and they at once passed resolution
FOR an Immediate Investigation Of the
charge by special committee, and it did
not ease their lacersted feelings at all
when Mr.. Watson produced the following
members of the House before the commit
tee, and they unanimously sustained the
charge Otis, White, Halverson, Davis,
Butler, Shell, Glover, Baker and KEN. In
addition to these Miss Bessie Dwyer testi-
| fed to seeing one member drunk while
making speech on the floor The com
| mittee has not reported. but Democrats
already regret that the investigation was
started
The Democrats are still hlibustering
against the Worlds Fair appropriation in
the House, aud. AZ last years sundry civil
appropriation had only been extended to
Saturday, the Government Printing Office
shut down Saturday night at IL O'Clock
and no work can be done there until the
new bill becomes law or Joint res
olutfon extending the old one Is passed
and signed by the President The Senate
passed resolution Saturday exteu. .
the old appropriation TO August I, bat
when 1t WAS attempted to get 1t through
the House there was objection. Republi-
can Senators are hrm AS rocks in insist
Ing that no adjournment shall take place
until the sundry civi! bill, with the Worlds
Fair appropriation amendment, shall pass
the House, and 1t is expected that the
tlibusters will be knocked out within
the first half of this week
ht htP!erehLatife odle- OF Alabama, auI
his Democratic associates on the House
sub committee. which so precipitately
rushed OF to Homestead, acting under a
House resolution adopted months before,
expecting TO obtain evidence that would
crush the protective tarih, are now playing
towards. All Of the evidence taken by the
committee, having any bearing whatever
on the tariff, having been decidedly favor
able 10 protection, the committee has
decided not TO make any report until the
next session Of Congress. on the professed
ground of wishing 10 continue the inves.i-
CATION during the recess Il was known
from the first that the committee proposed
continuing its investigation during the
recess; but its chairman, Mr. oates,
announced with great flourish Of trum.
pets, when he expected 10 make a big haul
OF Democratic campaign material, that a
preliminary report would be presented at
once to the House, and the only reason
the programme has been changed i that
no honest report can be made without
directly or indirectly endorsing the protec-
tive tariff and condemnins free trade
Senator Proctor says he regards strikes
as an evidence OF prosperity, because they
"~,.'Ll . = 4Ns.."r ~ th.ra was not a pr.at
that wages OF all kinds would be reduced
al least one half in this country II the
Democratic national platforms declara-
,f f,Nr 10 Ia L.I,
Representative Funston of Kansas, made
a telling hit in preparing the minority re-
port of the House committee on agrcul-
ture, on the effect of the present tariff law
upon agriculture, when he said that the
fact that the Democrats In the House hav-
ing majority over the Republicans of
ljj, are 10 adjourn without having made
any effort TO repeal the Mckinley tariff
law should settle the question a. 10 whcth
er or not in the opinion Of the ms jorty Of
the House, the law Is wrong and oppp -
siye That the agricuturi>t is having a
hard time no one viii dispute, but We can
not, however, look back to any better
times, nor 10 80 good, excepting, Of
course, war times" The report also d.
reefs attention to the decrease In the cost
Of living since the Mckinley law went in
to effect, and asserts that there is not one
single article on the list Of American goods
that is not cheaper to-day under protec
tive tarih than it WAS under the free trade
of 800.
Ex-Speaker Reed says the battle cry Of
the Democrats this year is: The pro-
phet and the ballot box-both stuffed"
This epigrammatic summary of the oppo-
sition has already caught the town, and 1t
will probably catch the country during the
rest Of the campaign
l. The President is suffering, like every one
else in Washington, from the heat of the
past week, which exceeded that of any
| other week since an Official record Of the
weather has been kept. As soon as Con-
gress adjourns the President will join Mrs.
Harrison at Loon Lake, remaining there
until about the lst of September, when he
will take up his residence at his Cape May
Point cottage, where his executive work
will go on just the same as if he was al
the White House.