The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-08-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, August Is, 1894

| WASHINGTON, August b. 1894
When Senator Faulkner, IN response to a
characteristic slur Of ''httle Billy Chandler
about the tariff bill being at the White House
said; 81 will say ia the Senator from New
Hampshire that although the tariff bill is not
at the White House now, it will be there very
soon TO receive the signature of the Presi
| denl," there was a deatening round of applause
| from the crowded galleries of the Senate which
| showed in a manner not to Ge mistaken the
trend of public sentiment, and which should
not have been lost upon certain democratic
Senators whose actions have brought the tariff
bill To the most Cit cal stage of its existence.
1t is now, according to the ideas of some Of the
best democrats in Congress, no longer 4 les
tien of what sort of tariff bill we sha get, but
whether we shall get any tariff bill at all
1 will not repeat the scandalous charges of
bad faith made by democrats against demo-
Gratis in connection with the failure of the con-
ferees TO reach an agreement, but if the al
tempts to defeat all tariff legislation, now being
either directly made by democrats OF Indirect
ly assisted by them, shall succeed those charges
will be shout ID from the housetops in every
section of the country until they become so
familiar that certain men will find it ,iiffiulty
| to show themselves upon the most lonely coun-
try road without being pointed out as ira ors
TO thei: party. 1t is impossible for the present
crisis to continue much longer. The tariff btll
will either be passed or permanently hung up
this week
Had the at on taken during the past week
by the Governors of Maryland and Virginia,
in breaking up the camps of the Coxeyi.e
tramps in their respective states. been taken by
Gov. Mckinley last March the foo,- movement
would never have been st ,rt I'd.
| The House decisively put itself on record as
favoring the app opriation of 100000 to aid
the exposition at Atlanta, Ga, and it is now
certain that the appropriation will get through
all right. 1t pleased the Southeners in the
House TO find Representatives Pence, of Colo,
and Everett, of Mass, among the most earnest
advocates of the appropriation.
In addition to being comon nuisance, SeL-
tor Chandler, of New Hampshire, will get him
self widely known as a fool if he introduces a
| few more resolutions like the one proposing
that the Senate committee ON Elections aud
| Privileges should investigate the recent Ala
bama State election, so as to ascertain whether
it was full, free, fair and honest, and whether
it resulted in the choice of legislature en-
titled to elect U. S. Senator. l. is generally
| admitted that the new Alabama law, under
which the State election was held, mades fraud
very difficult, if not absolutely impossible, and
| that there is no stronger reason for the cry of
fraud" raised by the k"lbtes than a desire TO
| II down easy the eastern republicans WHO con-
| tribut ed their money to the campaign fund
| But even allowing that the election had been
as full of fraud as Chandler is Of gall there
| would still be no authority for all investigation
by committee Of the T. $. Senate. 1t was a
st ate election and the Senate has 10 more to do
with it than with an election for members of
Pertinent in any part of Great B.ilan.
The House very properly refused to agree to
the Senate amendment to the Sundry Civil ap-
preparation BILL providing that $3.50 600 be ap
propriated for the purchase of what is known
as .lhe Malone lot," owned by ex-senator
Malone, of Virginia, as a site for a new Gov
erment Printing Office. There two good
and sufficient reasons for the action of the
House-the Malone lot is unii ted tor a sit 4.
and the price asked is excessive.
Public Printer Benedict is out in another
appeal ID Congress insisting that something be
done towards lessenng the dangers which sur
round the 5000 emrl yes of the Government
Printing Office before adjDurnm mt. He re
| minds Congress that even if the Troublesome
question of the selection of site We're settled
at this session, which it isn't likely to be-, it
woull require four or five years to build new
Office, while there is urgent necessity for some
immediate relief He suggests that this may
be had by purchasing ground and erecting Il
building alongside of the present office that
will meet the requirements until the ei.tre
new building is put up, which must be in the
near future.
The Senators are Gu that the Chinese
treaty, which has been before the Senate 50
long, has at last been disposed Of There has
been little doubt at any time of what the final
result would be- Still it is a satisfaction TO
the democ. attic administration and the Sana
tors that it has been officially setted.
Clergymans Wife, | cannot sleep fry as |
may. Take pity on me and read a sermon.