The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-05-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
T--s--GroN So. 1858.

Speaker Crisp. after spending a week il
| Washington, left for home Saturday night
| He was III a glorious good hunor, rs he ha'
| right to be. for il is how certain as any
| thing in the future eau be that he vii! bc e.
lected Speaker of the next Hnus". PreSIden
Cleveland informed him u, fne he fl that 1t
| had fully decided. not wi. standing the argyll
| meuts presented by prominent members @
| the party III favor Of an carrier date. not Il
call an extra session of Congress let re- Sep
TENDER.
The leadeis of the democratic party have j
is stated agreed upon four things to he p"esse,
when ConSieSs meets, aud 1t is probable tina
President Ceytland's mess o to Congress
and may be his proclamation Ealing The eN
| ira session. Wi DE largely devoted to areu
ments for speedy action upon them-ttie re-
peal of TIE obnoxious Federal election laws
the levying of an income lax: the repeal O
the Sherman silver law and the tax on the EN-
rencv issued by state bal.ks, and complete
revision of the tariff, lowering the duties.
Seer cary Carlisle deird the high muck-a
mucks of mug vumpery Who tried to bulldoze
him Into retaining the republican chiefs of di-
visions in his departm INT, and is proceeding
to replace them with democrats, just as he al
first intended to do, a work II; democrats
admire him more than eveH.
Reforms in keeping with demo, ratio ideas
are being quietly introduced into all of the
Government departments as fast as Their heads
have an OPP, ortunty to investigate abuses
which have grown up under republican rule
Secretary Herbets order that no more naval
officers should be granted leave of absence t.
enter private employ WAS followed by Sacreta
~ LamOnt'S Geterni ation to stop similar
abuses in the army, aud not only TO refuse to
fr,tI,t htitt fl,p ni
all those officers now engaged IN other Cc.u-
pationS, except those granted by special acts
of Congress- Secretary Lamont has also an
nounced his intention 10 make almost a reor-
ganiZation In that important branch of the
War department known as the division OF
records and pension. This division is closely
associated with the Pension Bureau. as il has
to verify the army record Of every applicant
for pension. Some forty or fifty changes
have already been made in this division.
1t may be true that Comptroller of Curren-
cy Eckels has had no experience in the actu-
al details of banking, but the promptness with
which he has acted during the past few days
when the suspension of national banks for d
time we've frequent enough to be alarming,
has convinced the Treasury officials and the
banking world that he is thoroughly posted
upon the laws thai govern banks and that as
a superior in that office. Il. has proven him
self TO be valuable assistant to Secretary
Carlisle and his prouptness in dealing with
sus pended banks has had no little t. o viii
restoring that public confidence without which
banks of 10 kind can long exist. Mr.. Cleve-
land made TO mistake i'll selecting that young
II a for Comptroller.
Commissioner L0chren is already finding
his place very hard one to fill, but he is not
disappointed; he did uot suppose that he was
sell Cted to take charge of the Pc On Is ireau
merely to draw salary. Already series OF
frauds all put through by one pension attor-
ney, located at Norfolk Va, have been discov
cred and force of expert examiners are now
engaged in investigating every case that this
attorney has anything to do with, the Com.
missioner being determined to get to the bot
tom, and to punish the guilty. The worst
thing about the crooked work done by this at
torney is that it was called to Commissioner
Raum's attention last year aud he declined tC
prosecute him, because it might iriure the re-
publican party. The amount OF money OBJ
taineG 6y these fraudulent pensioners cannot
be exactly st ted until the examiners have
concluded their investigation, but i: is already
known That it is more than 100000. But
there is one thing that can be positively stated
and that is, that the frauds will be prosecuted
To the full extent of the law by Commissioner
Lochren, just as fast as the necessary evi.
ience can be gathered, regardless OF who OF
what may be I'M ured thereby. Ju ICE Loeb
ren has abrogated the notorious s.compl:ted
files" rule, which was made by Raum &c
please the pension attorney who Endorsed his
notes for tw enty odd thousand dollars soon
after he took charge OF The Pension Office.