The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
from ,'ur REGULAR corresponding
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2, '93.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, '93.
Upon What meat doth this our Cesar feed,
That he is grown so great?
Well may this question be asked
concerning the man who at this
moment thinkest himself an Ameri-
can Caesar, and whose dreams are
doubtless filled with pictures of his
future greatness and power. The
most autocratic royalty of Europe
is not surrounded with more rigid
exclusiyeness than Mr.. Cleveland
now cloaks his most august pres
ence with. He deems it beneath
the dignity of the American Caesar
to touch the hands of plebians;
therefore he has abolished the long
established custom of holding pub
lie receptions in the White House.
Being applauded by the Fitznoodle
press for that step towards royalty
he has now gone further and issued
a ukase that no person, excepting
members Of his cabinet, shall be az
mitted to his presence until they
shall have stated their business to
his private secretary and secured
the consent of that functionary.
Think of dignified justice of the
Supreme Court, Senator or R1p-
resentative who was prominent be-
fore Grover Cleveland was heard of
outside the circle of his Buffalo
chums having to state the nature of
his business to the office of the
President. Could funkeyism go
farther under a republican form of
government? Some people say that
this sudden exclusiveness on the
part of Mr.. Cleveland arises from
the morbid fear that he is in danger
of assassination. Fear is not a
thing which Americans are IN the
habit of attributing to theft Presi-
dents, nor is it quality they adj
mire in any man.
The intense excitement over the
bill for the repeal of all sub eryision
of elections, which Democrats ex-
pected to accompany the debate on
the bill IN the House and relied
upon to unite the factions of their
demoralized party. has rot mater
ialized, owing to the good sense of
the Republican leaders in the
House, who wisely decline to assist
the Democrats to "get together
contenting themselves with oppos-
ing the bill upon high legal and
constitutional grounds, and taking
advantage of the debate to visit the
Worlds Fair.
Senator Chandler made one of
his slashing speeches-he isn't an
orator, but he is an almighty plain
talker-in .avor of his resolution
calling on theSecretary of the Treas
ury tor his authority for appoint
ing the Fairchild commission, now
engaged in an alleged investigation
of the Appraisers Office of the port
of New York. After showing that
the appointment of this commits
sion, as well as numerous other acts
of the administration, was uncon-
stitutional Mr.. Chandler remarked
that it was entirely fitting that its
members should receive their pay
$40 day and expenses-from what
is known as the "fraud fund" of
the Treasury.
The truce in the Senate over the
Voorhees, bill is to be continued
under the present arrangement
seven hours talk day-for another
week, unless a compromise is sooner
reached. Nearly everybody has
now settled down to the belief that
it must be compromise or nothing,
and if the compromise isn't reached
by the 18th of this month that it
will be nothing, as it is regarded as
probable that Congress will take a
short recess about that time.
No Legislative body was aver more
sensitive to anything having the
appearance of outside dictation or
even interference than the U. S.
Senate, Even if the proposition of
Mr., Wharton Barker, which has
been endorsed by many prominent
Pennsylvania business men to make
a combine, between the friends of
silver and those of protection, met
with the approval of any consider
able number of Senators, which it
does not, the manner in which 1t
has been brought to the attention
of the Senate would almost GER
tainly have been fatal to its pros
poets of adoption. Mr.. Barker is a
man of wide political experience
and it is surprising that he did not
proceed differently. Had the prop
osition come from some Senator
first and then been endorsed by the
Pennsylvanians Mr.. Barker's trip
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