The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-09-29
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, September p, -

WASHINGTON, Septe'nbe %, 50
Tie Senate is practically III dead lock,
AID unl IS it can be broken all of the demo-
craft c legislation which has been promised the
| people will fail. This my appear to be
strong statement, bu it is strictly true. When
| the agreement was reached between those
who favor and those who oppose the Forh eeS
repeal bill to prolong the debate until all who
had expressed a wish to speak thereon shall
have all opportunity 10 do so-two weeks or
more--the acknowledgements was made that
/ he Senate was in deadlock over that bill;
that it was impossible to force vote. Ii
| majority larger than that which the bill for
the repeal of the laws authorizing Federal in
reference with elections or the tariff bill will
have cannot force a vote, how can vote be
forced upon those measures, or indeed upon
any Others that may be passed by the House
andopposed by the solid republican vE4:n
theSenate. That is the siuation in a n ut =
she'll, and dsagreeable as it is to tie demo-
Gratis it is better to face il than to pretend not
TO see It. Senators pretend to believe that
a vote viii easily be reached on the Voorhees,
bill in two or tire. weeks, but it should noi
be forgotten that the same men protested to
be certa n that the same bill would be law
before the 18th of September.
A way out of the present deadlock and a
preventative of any future deadlocks has
been placed ready made into the hands Of the
democratic Senators by Senator Plat, of Conn.
That democrats should feel repugnance to-
wards the adoption of Senator Platt's resolu-
ton providing for cloture rule, which is now
in the hands of the committee or Rules, is per
fectly natural. S ill, it would be we'll for
them to keep that weapon where it can be
used, if all other methods of proceeding with
business of the people 81 Guild fail. The dem l.
ocratlc party expects the democratic Senator g
to pass the relief measures III. party has pledg-
ed itself to pass.
The House by the very decisive voc If l42
| to 81 decided against allowing clerks at 50 a
day to each of sixteen House committees
| which rarely ever hold meeting or trsnsact
any business, and thus put itself on record as
favoring economy in public expenditures 0
matter where the money is spent, and also put
| itself in line with the administration which de
clared war against sinecures from the first day
of its existence.
Representative Holman since he became
| chairman of the House committee on Indian
| Affairs has gone into the subject of Indian ex
penditures with his usual thoroughness, and
| he now announces that material reductions
may be made IN every direction without nju-
| ~ to the interests of either the Indian or the
government, and further that he intends 10
see that they are made, in the appropriation
| bill to be reported from his committee.
1t is fashionable to derlde Mr.. Holman and
his economical IDEAS but it is to such men as
| he that the honor will belong of keeping the
democratic party from falling into the ex'rav :
aeant habits which played SO important part
in driving the republican party from power.
| As President Cleveland has truly said: "The
people of this country must learu to practice
economy, and the example Must be set by the
government"
Representative McCreary Is losing no OPP
portunity TO convince the members of the
House committee on Coinage, to which was
referred his bill providing for the appointment
| of a joint Congressional and Commercial
| monetary committee to investigate our entire
| financial system aud report where and how
Improvements may be made, of the necessity
committee is still considering The bill.
Representative Bynum has bill provided
for graduated ircome tax. which he propo'e s
to use his best efforts to get reported to the
| II Sc and passed
The House will tomorrow take up the Tuck
er bill for the repeal Of the Federal election
| laws and the debate thereon will be continued
until October 9th, when a vote will be taken.
| The majority in favor Of the bill will be pre-
cisey that of the democrats on the floor the
| day the vote is taken, as it will receive every
| democratic vote in the House, and it is proba-
BILE that any democrat will be absent that day
unless necessarily compelled to be.
Secretary Gresham, who is now in Indiana,
| is not enjoying his usual good health, and he
| proposes going to California shortly to remain
| six or seven weeks, hoping that change will
/ be beneficial.
| As though enough fakes could not be man :
| ufactured in " ashington concern ing the in
| tention of the administration one was cabled
| over from France day or two ago, saying
| that an agent of this government was negoia-
| ting a s50,GO0,0O0 gold loan in Paris. Very
naturally Secretary Carlisle regarded it as too
preposterous to require official denial.