The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-08-05
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON. ID. C. July 30th, 1892.
The Worlds Fair appropriation Is now
struggling in the House with the intense
heat and the obstructive tactics of those
opposed TO it, The first is driving some
of its friends away, and the last Is being
engineered by Representative Outhwalte,
of Ohio, who claims to have the pledges
of fifty-one members to stay here until
December, if necessary, to defeat the ap-
preparation. \ number of those who
opposed the appropriation are opposed
on principle to the tilibustering against
it after. 10y n vote OF lis to lOI, the
House had declared itself in favor of 1t,
and few people believe that the tilibuSter-
ers can succeed. 1t is, of course, posi-
ble that a dead lock may ensue and the
5, sSiC be indefinitely prolonged, but
the impression is general that the con-
test will be short and that Congress will
adjourn next week.
The Republican Senate, feeling some
what ashamed of not having taken any
action on the House bills for the ad
mission of Arizona and New Mexico to
the Union, has adopted a resolution
authorizing the committee on territories
to visit those territories and Utah and
Oklahoma during the recess in search of
information. This is humbug. Sena
tors can obtain no more information
by IA personal visit than is already in
their possession.
Mr. Harrison has, am informed by
good authority, sent confidential mes
senger to Andrew Carnegie to come to the
rescue of the protective tariff and the
Republican party by ordering settle
ment of the Homestead strike. Mr..
Harrison's man Carter who was at the
| the White House this week told him
that some arrangement must be made
that would be satisfactory TO the locked
out men, or organized labor would hold
the Republican party responsible for the
whole affair.
Senator Vest seldom fails to start the
heavy roarers of the Republican menag-
erie when he opens his batteries, and his
mastery. although hastily prepared, an
swer to Senator Aldrich's 5 long and care
fully studied out defense of the Republl-
can policy of protecting favored classes
at the expense of the masses, was no eX-
ception in that respect. He cited the
Homestead carnage as proof of the
truthfulneSS of Senator Aldrich's state
exist between employers i'll the United
States, and to show that the Rhode Is
land Senator's remarks about the agri-
cultural prosperity of the country was
no nearer being true, Mr.. Vest stated
that the price of farm lands, which was
the test of agricultural prosperity, had
steadily gone down in Missouri and the
other largely agricultural states. and the
Gta oh nf
satisfaction from Paddock, Davis, Petit
| grew and Allison, on the Republican
side. Mr.. Vest then compelled Senator
Allison to admit that he had made a
speech once III which he said that the
| Iowa farmers had not been benefited by
the duty on wool, and the only explana-
ton Allison could give for his change of
front was that he had changed his mind.
| He made a strong point on the question
| of who pays the tariff tax by quoting
a letter written to Mckinley by an Irish
car-drivcr in Washington, who had to
pay So duty on dozen pairs of socks
sent to him by his mother in Irland, say
ing that he had read Mckinley speeches
stating that the tariff tax was paid by the
foreigners, and asking to what foreign
government he should apply to have
that S3 refunded. "Will the Senator
read Mr. McKinley's reply?" asked Sen
ator Pasco. '.If it ever comes, l will, d."
replied Mr.. Vest.
Senator Carlisle replied to that portion
of Senator Aldrich's speech which at
tempted to turn into Republican cam
| paign material the facts brought out by
! the Senate committee, of which Aldrich
was chairman and Carlisle and Harris
| the Democratic members, in a manner
which convicted the Rhode Islander of
intense partisanship, not to give it a
! worse name.
In view of the criticism of the manner
| in which the examinations of national
banks has beer conducted under this
| administration, Mr.. Harrison's selection
| of \. b. Hepburn, who has been the
examiner of National banks for New
| York city, to be comptroller of the cur
rency vice Lacey resigned to become
| president of a Chicago national bank, is
not regarded as a movement towards re-
, form.
Representative Coombs, of New York
| is chairman of a subcommittee, of the
| House, which has has been authorized
| to investigate the Reading railroad coal
| deal during the recess. The other mem
bers of the committee are Patterson, of
! Tennessee, Lind, of Minnesota, STOPPER,
of Ohio, and Wise, of Virginia, ex officiO
who is chairman of the commerce COM
| mittee.
Mr.. Harrison might be excused for
chuckling a little when Senators Quay
and Cameron were compelled, by lack OF
support in the shape of votes, to with
draw their opposition to the confirma-
| ton of Mr.. Shiras as a Justice of the
Supreme court, thus acknowled ging
themselves to be knocked out