The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-10-06
Our Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, October 2, 1893
The key that will open the deadlock in
the Senate is being male, but the locksmiths
are not working in public. 1t is evident that
something of great Importance is going on un
der the surface in the Senate. The talk for
and against the Voorhees, repeal bill still takes
up the regulated am )unt Of time each day,
and will probably continue to do so until
some time next week, but Senators represent
ing all sides of the silver question are holding
consultations in private and it is confidently
expected that the result will be compromise
between the conflicting demands that, while
it will not be precisely what is desired by
either President Cleveland or the Senators
who favor the free coinage of silver, will BE-
of such nature that it will be accepted by
jhe tree-conaSe men as the best they can get
and signed by President Cleveland as the only
silver measure that can be passed by the Sen
ate. The exact nature of the compromise can
not be given, because it has not yet been de
ci,,ed upon, but that it will provide for the
continued coinage Of silver by the government
and for the issue Of bonds to strengthen the
Treasury gold reserve is regarded as certain,
as they are the two things contended for by
the silver men aud the unconditional repea
men respectively. President Cleveland has
not taken and will lake no part in this com
promise. He has made bis recommendation
in lie regular way and will have nothing more
to say until Congress sends him the bill.
While he believes that the proper Ching to do
is to pass the Nothees bill without amend
ment, leaving other financial matters to follow
in separate bill, it is til ought that he will
sign the proposed compromise.
Shouti he pSuppt3t;np Ot 1iSDO,ilr The
silver question by the 18th of this mouth be
realized it is probable hat ConsIess will take
i recess If several weeks. ryCt>, Ian easily
I've taken without regarding Legislation, Is the
House will next week pass The bill for the re.
peal the Federal election law and no ether
important bill will be reported for d while.
The committees will, of curse, co:itnue their
work during the recess, if one he taken, and
soon after Congress c0meS together again II is
hoped that the new tariff bill will be ready To
be reported 10 the House
Tie republicans in the House have mp to
this Time shown fear Of the bill! fer The re
peal OF the Fedora. election laws that is in
some respects remarkable. The attempts
that they have made to defend those laws
have been So weak tina. they practically amount
to an Acknowledgement that the laws are bad
and vicious III their tendency and ought to be
repealed. e..
Little Billy Chandler made one of his
usual exhibitions of himself in the Senate on
Saturday efternoon. while speaking in favor
Of resolution recently offered by b IN, c ding
on the Secretary of the Treasury for the au-
thority under which he appointed the Fair
child commission, which is investigating re
publican crookedness in the office of the APP
praiser OF tie port of New York. He started
out with lot of rot about tie Senate being
ignored by the unconstitutional aud illegal 2p
pontment of the commission aud wound up
by admitting that Congress had given the Sec
re- AIRY of the Treasury expl cit authority TO ex
pend not more than 500 900 year fol- The de
lection ana prevention of fraud upon the Gus
toms revenue, precisely the duty upon which
the Farchild commission is engaged.
The House committee on banking and cur
rene, is engaged in hearing arguments from
members Of the House in favor of the various
financial bills, including several for the re
peal of the tax on Stale bank currency, which
have been referred to it, and later outsiders
may be heard both for aud against these meas
ures.
Neither chairman Wilson nor anybody else
can stop the flood of outright lies that are be
ing sent out from Washington concerning the
new tariff bill. Mr.. Wilson of the latest,
c. iareing that the democrats on the " avs and
Means committee were hesLating about max
ing an attack on the Mckinley atrocity, and
that the committee had agreed that the new
tariff should not 60 into effect until January 1,
1898: Gas to hesitation, the democrats Of the
committee are now hard at work on the new
bill, which we propose to report to the House
as soon as We can get it ready. We appre ciate
the Importance of our task, and the pledges
which the democratic party has made to the
people and there will be no Sinking of duty
or of responsibility. Any suggestion to the
trary is unworthy of consideration. The
date upon which the new tariff bill will go
into effect has not yet been determined.
Mrs. Cleveland was out Saturday after noon
fof the first time since the birth of Daby Esther.
accompanied by the President she took car
ri age drive. Beyond being little paler than
usual she appeared to be i'll excellent health
and was certainly in a jolly good humor.