The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-08-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
ON our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, August 21.-Speaker Crisp
has completed the committee assignments,
and he will announce them early this week.
Owing to there being no committees to which
they could be referred, no bills have been in
troduced in the House with the exception of
that for the repeal of the purchasing clause of
the Sherman law, which was taken up for
consideration under an agreement, witho ut
having been referred to committee, but a
flood of them are ready to be introduced as
soon as the committees are ready for them.
No speech, made in the silver debate in the
House, which is now drawing to a close, was
more carefully listened to than that of Repre-
sentative McCreary, of Kentucky. Governor
McCreary is good talker upon almost any
subject and the knowledge gained as one of
the U. s. delegates to the international none
tary conference added to the interest of what
he had to say about silver. He began by stat
ing that he voted against the Sherman law
which had been failure and a colossal curse,
and that he favored the unconditional repeal
of its purchasing clause and the adoption of
other legislation afterwards in a separate bill !;
and he impressed it upon the House that he
was speaking as friend of silver and not as
its enemy. He said he favored international
bimetallism and believed the repeal bill the
best way to bring it about, and that the only
safe path to free coinage was through an in
ternational agreement. In reply to aquestiOn
from 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 would be
to destroy every prospect of an international
agreement. 1t was plain to all that the speech
made an impression on the members. The
general belief here, even among the radical
silver men, is that the repeal bill will pass the
House, although opinion differs as to the ma
jority it will get.
If any one has the idea that President Cleve-
land is idle while at Gray Gables an early
morning visit to the Office of his private Secre-
tary, in the White House, will show how erron-
eous such an idea is As regular as the morn
ing mail comes a big batch of official docu-
ments, representing the Presidents work of
the day before, and just as regularly does
private secretary Thurber send big package
to the President.
Every body is laughing at the neat manner
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
no better apparent reason than he declined to
take the aforesaid paper into his confidence
The other day, just after an unusually bitter
criticism of the Senator had been printed un
der Washington date line, the Washington
correspondent of the paper sent man to ask
Senator German if he had any answer to make
to the TRADE. Really" replied the Senator,
with one of his most beaming smiles, Il sell
uOlu see tudb paper, L nave uOI utdTu VI
the article YOU refer tor With some con-
fusion the man began to explain the nature
of the article, but he was interrupted by Mr..
German who carelessly remarked as he turned
to speak to one of his colleagues: The mat
ter is not of the slightest Importance, assure
you" 1t is needless to say that the interview
with Mr.. German was not wired to the paper.
Neither Secretary Hoke Smith nor Commits
sioner Lochren are worrying even little bit
over the resolution introduced into the Senate
by Mr.. Gallinger, of n. H., 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
the better it will be liked. Meanwhile the
suspensions continue at an average of about
$50 day. At the close of business Saturday
the total number of pensioners who had been
suspended was S,254
The report of bill from the Senate COM
mittee on Finance for the unconditional re-
peal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman
law put stop to the silly talk about that
committee intentionally delaying report on
the bill. The minority of the committee re-
ported substitute bill, providing for the free
coinage of silver at q ratio of 20 to /.
The bill authorizing the National banks to
increase their circulation is having many
amendments offered to it in the Senate. One
of them, by Mr.. Butler of S. c., is for the re-
peal of the tax on State bank currency, and is
reported that one will be offered providing for
free scoinage at 20 to l, in order to test the
sentiment of the Senate. Z. A. S.