The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-12-29
oJR WASHINGTON LETTER.

~ IL y 3SHlNUIUN LEI Inn
" uINGToN, December 25, 1898.
pl,siden. 9 ievelaud and every member of
his cabinet, except Attorney General Olney,
who IS III Boston, spent Christmas day in |
Washington with their families. The day has
been quiet one at the White House, a large |
par. 81 it devoted to the children and their
Cars, mas tree which was Put up Saturday
evening, although Mr.. and Mrs Cleve md in
formally entertained several personal friends
both at lunch and at dinner. The idea of go
ing to Lakewood. n j., for few days has
been abandoned, but the President hopes to
GET little recreation this week on a short
huting trip.
In view of the msstatements which have
been made concerning the attitude of Com
missioner Loheren toward the pensioners the
following from speech he made in the case
of Judge Long, of Michigan, whose pension
was suspended by him, which is pending in
Washinet N cout is worthy of attention: IL
am not anxious t, worry or to cut off my old
comrades with whom fought and carried
all thei! due. Yet at the same time, as an
officer of the law, | have sworn duty to per-
form, to s. that they do not get more than
they are entitled to-
| BY the way, speaking of pensions, it was
! lattl decided by Commissioner Lochren that
no retiring offica OF the pension office could
| do business As a pension attorney b-fore that
| bureau Until he had been two years out of
| office Had Cen. Rauu made a similar de-
| cision the bank account Of "C"rp,ral" Tanner,
who was SO unceremonou /. kicked out of
| that office by Mr.. Harrison and who Is said
to have made fortune pension attorney,
| would be very much smaller than j. Is. 1t is,
| how ever, a wise decision and it would be well
| if it were made rule IN all branches of the
| government service, as it is we'll known in
| WASHINGTON that many officials make use of
| their positions to accumulate information
| which they turn to valuable use as attorneys
! after they leave the government service; and
| cases have been known in which they have
| undertaken as attorneys to have decisions
wrougfully made by them officials reversed
by their successors in Office, the inference be-
| ing that the decisions were in Intentionally
made WRONG in the first place.
Secretary Lamont scotched sensation story,
| that he proposed compelling the clerks OF the
Record and Pension division of the War de-
| partment to again take up their quarters in
| Ford's old theatre, by making the following
statement: 'sThere is no purpose or disposi-
T:, -, nfo offio Of
ment to..quarter any of its clerks or employees
! in any building not determined to be perfectly
! safe. On that point there is no question for
uueasiuess. The $4,000 appropriated by Con-
gress for repairs to the old Fords theatre build
inc has been expended under the direc ion to
/ The Chief Of Engineers of the Army, as direct
! g, by ia, and the building has been restored
! 70 me coalition it was in before the CON-
me- cement Of the improvements in progress
! at tie time o. the accident, with some conse-
| nuent I engthins of its foundations While
| i is probable that it would serve its former
| purpose, the commission of experts appointed
| BY the department to examine and report of
the safety of the building find that certain ad-
ditional wo:b should be done before it shall
be occupied 10y clerks. This report will lie re-
| ttrred back for an estimat, of the cost of this
new work, and when returned the matter will
be snbmilt I'd to congress for its directions as
| to tutler alterations Just before the Sen
ate adjourned for the recess senator Voorhees,
offered res olution against the qIartering of
clerks in this building again.
The number of Congressman who went
home to spend their holiday was unusually
| large fhs year: consequently there is just now
decided lull in the talk about the tariff, Ha-
| wall, etc, which has been constantly going on
for months and which will take fresh start
next week when the absentees vii again be
| on hand prepared for the hard and long srus-
| gle that is before them.
\ sub committee of the House WAYS and
Means committee will spend most of their
holiday in working upon the Internal Reven-
ue BILL which it is hoped will be ready to be
| repoit:d to the House when it agains assemblies
| Several democratic members of the Senate Fl
| nance committee are also at work on the tar
| riff 50 as to Oe prepared to receive the WI son
| bill when it is sent over from the House. The
work It the Sena or. has been so far mostly
confined to the ga,herin. OF information which
VII be useful Liter on.
Speaker Crisp, who is still in Washington,
| is confident that the " ilson tariff bill will
! be passed by the House before the first
OF Fehruar7 and that it will not be nece,s ,ry
to deny am mand the right to be heard lher -
on il order to get it through by that time