The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-12-15
washington Letter.

WA-Iu~arox ID. G.. Dec. 60, 1856
Secretary Carlisle has not completed his
annual report and does uul expect 60
d. core ue4t week. It Will probably he
oue 81 the longest and comprehensive
papers of It's kind ever submitted to con
ur.-ss, owing to the bad condition IN
which the Republicans left the finances
Of the country. The absence of Jhis re
port. although not the only reason, was
one Of the principal reasons for the de
lay in getting the new tariff bill before
the House. Ii would have been sutli-
cient of itself. is it is necessary FOR that
report to be in the hands of members be
fore they take up the tariff.
Chairman Wilson's present intention
is To report the tariff bill TO the House
next "Wednesday, and he hopes to be
able to make public its twin measure,
the intern al revenue bill, at about the
same time. The last named bill would
have been ready before this had not the
revised estimates of the officials of the
treasury department shown that the de
ficiency in revenue caused by the rednC-
tions in duties and extension of the free
list made by the new tariff bill would be
in the neighborhoOd Of 500, ,OOO,O 900,
which was some 50, 900, 900 more than
had been estimated 10y members of the
ways and means committee. This of
course, necessiuated a revision of the in
ternal revenue bill which is TO be made
to supply the deficiency caused by the
tariff bill. Among the new propositions
submitted to the committee this week
was one from Representative Hatch, of
Missouri. to tax the transactions of the
stock and produce exchanges, instead OF
the earnings of corporations, which had
been previously agreed upon by the com
mittec Mr. Hatch thinks such tax
would toe telt less than any yet proposed.
As there is no estimate for the eNpcn~
scs of the Bureau Of American Republics
in the figures submitted by Secretary
Gresham, for the next fiscal year, it is
safe to say that there will soon be no
Bureau of American Republics. 1t was
"A sort of side attachment to the beautl-
ful-on-paper- Blaine reciprocity pro-
gramme. Its cost has been annually
about $50. 0OO, principally for salaries,
and the benefit 1t has been to the coun-
try has been undiScovererable. Secreta-
~ Morton regards the money spent at
the forty-eight agricultural experimental
stations-one in each state and territory
as largely wasted, and having recon-
mended in his annual report that they
be abolished he left the S72O, 600 which
it would require To run them out of his
estimates for next year.
The probability of "A change in the sen
ate rules is very slight, although there
are several proposed amendments now
before the committee on rules, of which
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, Is
chairman The other Democrats on the
committee are Senators Harris, of Ten
neSsee, and German, of Maryland. The
action of the Republican caucus in de
Gliding not TO iillibuster to prevent vote
on the Wilson tariff bill when 1t gets To
the Senate has weakened the desire for
change to a noticeable extent.
Governor-elect O'Ferrall, of Virginia,
will retain his seat in the House until
the Christmas recess, as his resignation
will not take effect until the Is, inst
He will be inaugurated governor on the
first day of January and will, contrary
to custom, deliver an inaugural address,
something that has been done 10y only
one other governor of that state since
the war He has been warmly congrat-
ulated by his colleagues with whom he
is deservedly popular.
Congress got down to work very
smoothly. The regular business in the
House is the Oates bankruptcy bill
which will be disposed of late this week
or early in the coming week. The sen
ate has listened to some stump speeches
on the Hawaiian question, aud taken
up its routine work in It's usually leisure
ly manner. \ concurrent resolution
was unanimously adopted by congress
accepting the bronze statue of General
James Shields, which was unveiled 10y a
daughter of General Shields, in the
Statuary Hall of the Capitol, Wednesday
afternoon, and thanking Illinois for hav-
ing presented the statue. The cercmo-
MES attending the unveiling were i'm
posing and interesting and were partici-
pated in by "A large number OF promi-
nent people, including Governor Atgeid
whose oration in honor Of the ''warriOr.
jurist and statesman made a splendid
impression upon those who heard it,
1t is not probable that any of the reg
ular appropriation bills will be reported
until it can toe seen from the tariff and
internal revenue bills Just how much
revenue there Will be TO draw against
although Chairman SayeIS of the apprp-
priatIOnS committee has several of them
in a condition to be reported at an hours
notice. NJ