The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-08-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER,
WASHING TON, AUGUST p 1893

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Speaker Crisp has completed the commit
tee assignments, and he will announce them
early this week. Owing to there being nc
committees to which they could be referred
no Dlils have been introduced in the House
with the exception Of that for the repeal Of
the purchasing clause of the Sherman law
which was taken mp for consideration under
an agreement, without having been referred
TO committee, but food of them are ready
10 be introduced as soon as The cnrn,rittecs
are ready for them.
No speech made in the silver debate in the
mousse "nlch Is now drawing to / close. was
more carefully listened to than tba, Of penrc-
sentative McCreary, Of Ky. Coz. arC,nsry
is good talker upon almost any s.Ili.c. an3
The knowledge gained as enc Of lie :. .Ia}
e&etes 70 the International nnuciery confer
n added TO the interest of what he had n
about silver. lie began By STATING u a,
voted against the Sherman law which had
eeen a failure and colossal curse, and tba,
ne favored the unconditional repeal of lis p,,r
chasing clause and the adoption of other ,egjs
latlon afterwards IN separate bill; and he i'm
pressed II upon the House that he was speak.
ing as friend of silver and not as its enemy
He said he favored international bimeta llism
and believed the repeal bill the best wav tn
bring it about, and that the cn,v safe nath N
free coinage was through ar international y
grsemeht. In reply to a question frcyl Mr..
Bland, he stated that he was as much in favor
Of silver as that gentleman was. He also
stated that to change the ratio Ho I'D be Ia de
stroy every prospect Of an international agree
nens- 1t was plain to all that the .reech
made an impression on tie members. The
general belief here, even among the radical
silver men, is that the repeal bill will rsss
ha ola
majority it will get.
II any one has the idea that prasfda,,
Cleveland is idle while at GRAY Gables an cav
}y hi rnng visit 10 the Office Of mis- private see
Rotary, in the White House. will show tcvv
erroneous such an idea is. Az regular as the
morning mail comes big batch of official
documents, representing the Presidents work
Of the day before, and just as regularly does
private secretary Thurber send a big PACKAGE
to the President.
Every body is laughing al the neat mannt r
in which.Senator German sat down upon the
representative of New York paper which
has lately been very bitter in its abuse of him
for 90 better apparent reason than that he de
clined to take the aforesaid paper into his con
hdence. The other day, just after an un,Isr-
al bitter criticism Of the Senator had been
printed under Washington date lire, the
Washington correspondent of the paper sent
a msD to ask Senator German if he had any
answer to make to the TRADE. "Realy," re
piled the Senator, With one Of his most beam
ing smiles, II seldom see that paper. an
have not heard OF the article you refer f.. :,
Nth some confusion the man began TO ex-
plain the nature Of the article, but he Was in
terrupted by Mr.. German who carelessly re-
marked Is he turned to speak 10 one of his
colleagues: "The matter is not Of the slight
fivs,Ho RI T To- oh
se say that the interview with Mr.. Go man
was not wired to the paper.
Neither Secretary Hoke Smith Cor Commits
siener Lochren are worrying even little bit
over the resolution introduced into the Senate
by Mr.. Ga!linger, Of Y. n, providing for an
investigation Of the legality Of their actions
in suspending pensioners shown by the records
not to be entitled to the pensions they have
been drawing. In fact, an investigation will
be welcome, and the more thorough it is made
tho better it will be liked. Meanwhile the |
saspshSops continue at an average of about |
$50 day. Al The close Of business Saturday |
the total number OF pensioners who had been |
suspended 1884.
4 report { t : bill from the Senate Commit |
5ee OF Finance for the unconditional repeal
Of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law
pat . stop to the silly talk about that commit
'es Intentionally delaying report on the bill.
fAe minority OF the committee reported a
dbst,eute bill, providing for the free coinage
3 silver at a ratio of 20 to /.
The bill authorizing the National banks to
Increase their circulation is having many
meadments offered to it in the Senate.
oHs of them. by Mr.. Butler OF 5. C., is for
be repeal Of the tax on State bank currency,
nd it is reported that one will be offered
rovId ng for free coinage at 20 TO !, in order
o test the sentiment ofthe Senate.