The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-08-24

From Our Regular Correspondent.

FROM our Regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, August 20.-President Cleve-
land will not, according to those who ought to
know, definitely decide what action he will
take on the tariff bill until he returns from
Gray Gables, whittier he was driven by Il
troublesome attack of malaria but that only
relates to Details as it is regarded as fully set
tied that the bill shall become Il law. In fact
certified copies of the bill are now on the way
to every collector of customs, 50 that when it
becomes law it will only be necessary to tele-
graph the collectors To have it put into elect
The President will return this week.
In some quarters there is Il disposition to be-
lieve that the Murphy resolution, against FUR
ther consideration of tariff legislation, which
was adopted by vote OF - to la bare
quorum-by the Senate, may be the cause OF
the tariff bill being vetoed. 1t is, of course,
we'll known that President Cleveland is much
interested in the separate bills placing coal,
iron ore and barbed wire on the free list, and
desires to see them become laws, and it is equal
ly well-known that the Murphy resolution
was intended to kill those bills for the present
session. 1t was stated when the House Demo-
cratic caucus which resulted in the passage of
the Senate tariff bill was in session that the
Democratic steering committee of the Senate
had given a pledge that these separate
bills, and that providing for free sugar. should
be voted upon by the Senate before adjourn
ment, if the House would accept the Senate
amendments TO the Wilson bill, and it is beliey-
ed that without that pledge the House would
not have acted. These things were all known
to Mr.. Cleveland, but those whose opinions
would carry weight will not at this time express
them, as to what, if any, effect the Senate reso-
An official statement made by the disbursing
clerk of the Department of Agriculture shows
that the reduction in the expenditures OF that
department for the fiscal year ending June Sd,
1894, was slightly in excess of IA per cent,
and that nearly 100000 of the annual ap-
preparation made for the department was I'M
expended and would be covered back into the
Treasury. That's the kind of a Democrat Sec
rotary Morton is. In this connection it is well
to call attention to another official fact cacu-
lated to impress people with the idea that the
Democrats in Congress are living up to the
party pledges of economy in public eXpendl-
ture, if they haven't gone as far in some other
direction as they might have gone. The total
amount appropriated ut this session OF Con-
gress, according to the figures OF Chairman
Savers, OF the House appropriation committee,
is S2S, S35 $3.50 less than the total appropria-
tions made ut the last session of Congress. In
other words, the government has been saved
Just that much.
Representative Bland prevented the Bime-
tallic League from endorsing the Populists at
the conference held here last week. He simply
told the other members of the committee, when
the chairman of the Populist national commit
tee asked that his party be endorsed, that II
the league was TO be turned into Populist
machine he and other Democrats would draw
out The committee decided to endorse moth
ing but silver and to use its entire efforts to Sc
cure the election of silver men to the oath Con-
greSS, and issued an address in accordance
with that decision.
The old rumor that Secretary Carlisle was
about to retire from the cabinet came out as
spry as though it had not been killed dozen
times, during the last three or four days. 1t
was preceded by the rumor that Secretary Car
isles letter to Senator Harris, who is acting
chairman of the Senate finance committee on
account of sickness of Senator VOORHEES,, con-
corning the effect the bills passed by the House,
placing on the free list sugar, coal, IRON ore
and barbed wire, would have upon the reve-
nues of the government if favorably acted
upon by the Senate, had been written without
President Cleveland's knowledge and that it
had caused q GOODNESS between the two men.
Never was story built upon falser founda-
ton. Although Secretary Carlisle's letter was
written in accordance with the routine custom.
in answer to the usual inquiry made by the
chairman of the finance committee of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury concerning contemplat-
ed legislation. it can be positively stated that
President Cleveland was fully informed of its
contents before it was sent. 1t contained, by
the way, not word of argunent for or against
any bill merely an estimate of the revenue
that would be retained or lost. 1t is doubtful
whether any President ever enjoyed closer re-
Iation with his Secretary of the Treasury than
Mr.. Cleveland does with Mr.. Carlisle, and all
talk of GOODNESS between them is simply rot
not deserving any ones serious consideration
CA. S.