The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-29
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'sWhat can't be cured must be en-
dured. " is a homely adage that is about
all the consolation that the average
Democrat can get out of the delay in the
senate in passing the tariff bill. Senator
Harris as the Democratic leader, has
done all that one man could do. and he
has been ably supported by some Of the
Democratic senators. but. unfortunately.
not by all, and the margin Is too small
to force ANYTHING without a united sup
port. Some Of the Democratic senators
seem to have an idea that when they
pledged their votes TO the hill they had
performed their whole duty: as a conse-
quence, here's another week gone and
the final vote not in sight, although II
Il difficult to sec what excuse the Repuh-
IcanS vii. have tor prOlOnglug the agony
longer than next week. 4 Democratic
senator remarked in my hearing To day:
Il don't believe the Republicans will
ever consent to have vote taken on
this bill until we compel them To 90 SO. y
Whether this is true or not, | understand
that 1t Is the intention of nearly all the
Republicans to make long speech. on
some portion of the bill next week. If
that Is allowed ii * very easy mathe-
matical calculation to show the impossi
bility of passing the bill next week.
President Cleveland little salt water
trip did him a world of good. He re
turned looking new man; but the
trouble with him Is that he works just
as hard in the dehilitating weather of
summer as he does in cold weather, and
the natural consequence Is that he soon
gets run down. He knows this just as
well as anybody does, but he Is so con
stituted that he cannot stop work unless
he goes away from where the work Is.
Speaker Crisp has been confined to
his room the greater portion of this week
with stomach trouble. His physician
made him stay in the house more as
precaution than because his condition
made it necessary. Representative
Bailey, of Texas, made a great success
as speaker pro tenn.
Commissioner LOChren, of the pension
! bureau, will turn over to Uncle Sam on
the 80 inst, the snug little sum of go,
600, 900, which by economical manage
ment of that bureau he has saved out of
the amount his Republican predecessor
estimated would be necessary to pay
pensions from July /. 1898, to June 80,
wasteful and extravagant expenditure of
public money will be sure to denounce
Judge LOchren for not having paid out
every dollar appropriated, but sensible
| people who believe that public business
! should be conducted on the same princi-
| pies which govern successful private es
! adjustments will be apt to say: ''Well
done, thou good and faithful servant. "
The senate committee has about CON
cluded its investigation of the sugar
trust. 1t will hear no more witnesses,
except the two or three senators who
have not, owing to their absence, yet
been examined. 1t has already been
made plain that the report will not be
unanimous, the Republicans being de-
termined to try to make political capital
out of the matter.
In order that no inconvenience NAV
be caused 10y the failure of the
regular appropriation bills to become
laws by the first of July the house ap-
preparation committee has reported a
joint resolution extending the appropri-
atiOns for this year thirty days from
July l. This indicates that members of
that committee are of the opinion that
the appropriation bill can all be passed
by the first of August. Democrats hope
to have things in such shape that Con
greSS can adjourn about that date.
1t might toe supposed that with the
senate meeting daily at 10 O'Clock and
not adjourning before Is. or half past,
that Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
Democratic congressional campaign
committee, would be unable to find any
time to devote to the work of the COM
miItee. But he does find lots of time.
He spends something like an hour at
committee headquarters every morning
before the senate meets, returns in the
evening as soon as he gets through his
dinner and remains until II O'Clock or
later. Those who are familiar with the
work ne has already done pronounce him
to be one of the most thorough organ
Izers VINO ever directed the work of a
campaign committee. Senators Faux
ner Is too experienced political mana
ger to discuss his plans in a newspaper.
but it can he said without any violatiQn-
of confidence that he Is contidenrtbe
Democrats will control the )hErI6nse in the
next Congress.
The house LnS again put its official
endorcemSSDG on Representative Hatch's
ahti-optiCh bill. NJ.