The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-06-22
Our WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, June Is, 1874.
Secretary Carlisle, in common with many
prominent democrats, thinks the passage OF
| bill introduced by Representative COMBS, OF
New Y ork, and now being considered by a
sub. committee of the House committee on
Banking and Currency, would be very de-
sirable thing. The bill provides for the al-
pointment of non-partisan currency commas
Sion, which shall devote the rest OF this year
to investigation and study of the subject and
then report t. Congress bill for a complete
banking, coinage ard currency system which
shall come nearer to meeting the demands OF
the country than what We have at present.
The authors Of this bill are G. n. Jordan, U.
S. Subtreasurer at New York city, and w. l.
Trenholm, who was Controller of Currency
under the first Cleveland administration, both
of whom haye appeared before the committee
to argue in favor of its being favoraby report
ed to the House. In view of the difi,.re ICE of
opinion on this subj ect among democrats in
Congress, so radical that it has to far defeated
all alt ,mpts at financial legislation, it would
seem that this bill is one upon which men of
all opinions could unite. 1t could certainly
do no harm, and if the commission was prop
erly made up, might do much good.
Senator II lrris has to grit his teeth and bear
the unexpected delay in reaching final vote
Oh the tariff blil as best he ctn, being unable
to get aul keep forty-.hree senators on tie
floor continuously in order to force things "a
long ia ter. The republicans took advant ,ge
of this to street ,h the debate on The wool SEIZED
ule out of al proportions and at this writing
they are threat sning to fiiibu ,ter against taxi
ing vo:e upon it until wool is taken from the
free list, and the charge is made, but 1 will
not vouch for its correctness, that they have
been iLf)lmed by several democrats of their
willingness, it it eau be done by agreement,
inste ad of recorded vote, to help them get a
small duty on wool.
The attempt of local paper TO get little
notoriety by insinulting that Representative
Richardson, OF Tennessee, had engaged in
real estate transactions that were not entirely
right and proper, with represent ltives of a
street railway synd icate that is seeking Con-
gressional legislation, was a failure even be-
fore Mr.. Rich irdson had taken the unneces-
sary trouble to make an explanation to the
House.
The man or newspaper which attacks the in
tegrity IF men like Mr.. Richardson must pre-
sert ABSOLUTE proofs not vague insinuations,
before the public's attention can be secured.
If the evidenced taken by the House COM
mittee on Naval Affairs can be substant ated,
the government should at once cancel the con-
tract with the Carnegie companies for armor
plate for our war ships, and begin suits for the
recovery of every dollar that has been paid to
these concerns for plates that are not what
they purport to be. This would, of course,
result IN delaying the completion Of those
ships yet to be armored, but it would be let
tel that they never be completed than that the
crookedness which has been testified to should
be allowed to so unnunishel. The committee
is st II taking testimony. 1t will probably be
necessary to remove plates from mum Der OF
the ships in order to ascertain whether wit
nesses have oold the Truth or not, and that
impossible for the committee to conclude tn e
investig ,tlon in time to report during the pre-
sent session of Congress
Every Senator at present in Washington, ex-
cept Quay, of Pennsylvania, has declared M
der oath that he neither specialized in nor gave
information to others to be used in specializing
in the stock of the sugar trust. Quay says he
has been Specializing in the sugar stock when
ever he felt Ike it and that he is going to con-
t;nue. The evidence did not surprise any
sensible person, but all the same it was wise
in the investigating COMMITTEES examine all
the Senators beginning with themselves; it
closes the mouths of the buncombe speakers
and writers who have been continually asking
''whv not swear the Senator's The only
feature in the examination Of the Senators
that varied from the stereotyped denial of the
eight leading questions asked enough to arouse
any special interest were the confession of
Senator Quay and the statement of Senator
r lnsom, that he had day or two before learn
ed that his son had during the month of April
speculated in a Washington bucket shop to
the extent of SIS, and that $40 of it had plac
ed upon the stock of the sugar trust. 1t was.
of course, a foolish thing for young Mr. Ran
son to have done, but the amount invested is
of itself sufficient to clear the young man of
any suspicion of having acted upon any infor-
nation beyond his own desire to bet his own
money upon bis own judgment. When a
man goes into speculation on inside inform l.
ton he puts up m ore than $40. Senator Ri
som has never bought share of speculative
stock of any kind since he became member