The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-07-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(rrom our Regular Correspondent.

committee to inquire Into the ACCESSIBILITY
OF regulating the charges made on parlor
and sleeping cars. he voiced an over
whelming majority, both In and out OF
the senate. In conversation concern
Ing his resolution after saying that 1t
had no connection whatever with the
present strike against the Pullman COM
pany, Mr.. Sherman said: II regard the
Pullman Company and the sugar trust as
the most outrageous monop0les of the
day. They make enormous profits and
give their patrons little or nothing In re-
turn In proportion. 1t is perfectly clear
to me that there Is way to reach the
sleeping car problem with ease through
government action. A bill OF dozen
lines would suffice, fixing the rate per
mile to be charged by these companies
aud providing penalty for overcharging.
The government has through the inter-
state commerce law regulated railway
fares. and the law has been, l believe,
easily enforced" Mr.. Sherman proposes
to camp on the trail OF the Pullman
Company until this matter is disposed
Of.
"All signs fail In dry weather." and 1t
has been very dry and excessively warm
In Washington OF late. At any rate the
signs which said that the tariff bill would
be disposed OF by the senate last week
were all false. 1t is not disposed of yet.
although 1t has been finished in commit
tee of the whole and reported to the
senate, and 1t Is now said that II the final
vote cannot be reached on Tuesday te-
fore adjournment that the senate will
sit on the "glorous Fourth In order TO
get II voted upon; but the same men said
last week that it would certainly be voted
upon then. There are few certainties
connected with the bill, except that 1t
will pass, and even that looked little
shaky for d while a few days ago. by
reason of the attitude Of the populist
senators ard one or two democrats.
Queer things happen in politics. AL
term as speaker OF the house as an anti
Cleveland man, 1t is now said that he can
have all the administration influence be-
hind aim II he decides 10 become candi-
date for the senate to succeed Senator
Walsh, who Is By xubernatoria appoint
ment filling the unexpired term OF the
late Senator Colquitt, and who has an
nounced his candidacy to succeed him
self. Mr.. Crisp is not yet an avowed
candidate
There is difference Of opinion as to
the wisdom of the authorities in having
President Cleveland followed by police
men In citizens clothes every time he
pokes his nose out of the White House
for drive or walk. Those who think
1t silly are not willing to admit that the
body guard is any protection, even If
protection were needed which they
deny. They say, and YOUR correspondent
agrees with them, that il would be well
nigh impossible without radical change
of customs az old as the White House 10
so surround the person OF the president
as to make it impossible for a murder
ously inclined crank of the Guiteau or
Booth brand 20 get to him, and that the
present alleged precautions are merely
an advertisement to remind some crank
OF things he would never otherwise think
OF. IL the time ever comes when our
presidents need body guards In time OF
Of peace to follew them around. 1t with
be closely followed by time when we
shall need no president.
Whatever may be the cause 1t uuques4
tionably looks little queer-yes, and
suspicious, too-now that the members
OF the house are about 10 get the oppor-
tunity to put their talk into acts that
there is cessation Of the antl-sugar
trust talk among them. This may signify
nothing. 1t may be merely coincidence
that members of the house who were
making themselves red in the face-some
OF them don't have to make themselves
so-by shouting their intentions as to
J the sugar schedule OF the tariff bill, when
IL was first adopted by the senate, are
now saving nothing In steen languages;
II may be that the very slight modifica-
lions In the sugar schedule proposed by
the majority OF the senate finance COM
mittee has auieted the very loud mouth
ed opposition, or, IL may be that the
arguments" OF those very slick takers
who represent the poor, downtrodden
sugar trust In Washington have been so
convincing that they have destroyed the
opposition. In these days OF threatened
grand jury indictments 1t isn't wise for
poor, swelte:ing, Washington cores
pendent to decide such things. lie
merely gives you the facts you 40 the
rest.
The commonwealers' benefit entertain
ment announced for Saturday night was
postp oned until this week when 1t viii
be given out Of doors, because the money
to pay for the hall could not be raised
There is much jealousy and pickering
between the two camps. and the depart