The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-08-12
Washington Letter.


WASHINGTON. u. C. Aug. 9th, 1892. |
\ Democratic caucus of members of the |
House has the flllibustering on the !
Worlds Fair appropriation, but as there |
were several friends of the appropriation !
and as many of its opponents who re |
fused to he bound and left the caucus, 1t |
is bv no means certain. The compro-
mise proposes to strike out the amend
ment to the Sundry civil appropriation
bill appropriating 81, ,0O0, 600 for the fair
and allowing a vote TO be taken Saturday
afternoon on a separate bill appropriating
81, SOC. 600. The opponents of thesap-
propriation say they can defeat this
bill, but if they do it is predicted that
the Senate will insist upon its amend
ment to the Sundry civil bill being con
CURED in. and will refuse to allow ad-
iournment to take place. The whole
situation continues TO be so full of ifs
that it is folly to attempt to say in adj
vance what will be the final result.
Southern Democrats regard the result
| of the Alabama state election as the death
| of the Peoples party movement in the
| South, so far as its controlling any cleo
| toral votes is concerned, and they think
| it will also aid in keeping number of
! congressional districts Democratic that
| might have elected Peoples party men
! if that party had carried Alabama.
At this weeks cabinet meeting the
| question of when action should be taken
| under the recently enacted law, author
izing the president TO retaliate upon
| Canadian vessels, was discussed, but as
! ONLY the two Fosters and Attorney-Gen-
| eral Miller were present no definite con-
clusion was arrived0.
All sorts of sensational stories have
been current about the disagreement of
| the sub committee which went to Home
| stead to investigate the strike in the Car
negie mills on the report written by
| Chairman Oates There is nothing SEN
! sational about the facts. Chairman
| Oates prepared the report in the usual
manner, and when 1t was read to the
| subcommittee every member agreed
that it was a fair and impartial state
ment of what the committee had learned
! at Homestead, but some Of the conclu-
sions arrived at concerning organized
labor were unsatisfactory to two Demo
Gratis and one Republican, making a
majority of the subcommittee, so the
report was rejected by the subcommittee
and referred to the full judiciary COM
mittee for final action. If the full COM
mittee suStains the actiOn of the sub
committee Mr.. Oates says his report will
be submitted to the House as a minority
report, and a new majority report will be
written 10y Representative Bynum, one
of the dissenting Democrats.
Tom Watson, of Georgia, made a
miserable failure to prove his charge of
drunkenness against members of the
House. The only member he dared to
name was Judge Cobb, of Alabama, and
against his assertion that he believed
him to have been intoxicated when he
made a speech in the House was the
positive statements of a score of prOmI-
nent members that Mr.. Cobb was not
even IN the slightest way under the in
fiuence of liquor when he made the
speech referred to. Watson refused to
name any other member to the investi-
! eating committee. What action the
| committee wall take is not at this time
| known, but il is believed that disin
clinatiOn to feed WatsOn's craving for
nOtoriety will prevent the committee
taking any action that would result in
! allowing him to pose as a martyr. At
one time il looked like the sharp langu-
age between Representative Boatner, of
! Louisiana, and Mr.. Watson might re-
suit in personal encounter between
those gentlemen, outside of the commit
tee room, but so far peace reigns.
After several prominent Republican
Senators, including Sherman and Haw
ley, had openly expressed their sympathy
for the Carnegie company, the Senate
adopted resolution providing for an
investigation of the Homestead strike,
and the following Senators were named
as members Of the committee: Calm
ger, PETER, Hansbrough, FELTON,, Sand
ers, White and Hill. Some comment
has been made because only two Demo-
Gratis were named for service on this
committee.
AttorneyGeneral Miller is said to be
mad because instead of giving him the
place on the bench of the Supreme
court which went to Mr.. Shiras as a
peace offering to Mr.. Blaine, to whose
wife he is related, Mr.. Harrison gave the
promise that he should have
the first vacancy that occurs during
his second term. Mr.. Miller regards
the probability of a second term as en-
tirely too ETHEREAL to be satisfying, but
he does not openly kick against the man
who brought him from obscurity to the
attorney-generaPs office.