The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-07-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, July 16, 1891


Now that the strike excitement is happily
over public attention Is centered upon the
daily meetings of the democratic conference on
the tariff bill There is soma disappointment
among democrat that a ter an entire weeks
work no agreement has been reached. How
ever, considerable progress has been made,
and it Is hop,d that putial if not complete
epolt can be IN I'd t. tn, II ,usa ana Senate
this week. Democrats are m )re worried over
the failure to reach an agreement than over
| the bluff m lde by Senator ii lie in introduc
ing resolution calling for information as to
why the republican contrrees had not been IN
vited to at end the meetings. In their anxiety
to get to work the democratic conferees nesl 'cs-
ed to follow the usual COURSE, and invite Inc
republican conferees TO the first tomal meet
ing. but it was merely form th.t was over
looked. 1t is democratic disagreement and ii
must and will be settled among democrats
without republican il reference 1t is not to
aid in ST ling the disagreements that the re-
pull Leans wish to attend the conference, but
to prevent their being settled.
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tlat will be ratified 10y the House and Senate
| Congress can adj urn, as the Senate, By an
| unusual squirt, has p used nine of the appro-
| priat on bis and has the other five in good
| shape be passed this week. That will leave
| the decks clear for action on the conference
| report on the tariff Ii, and everything now
points to an adjplIrnmel by the first of August,
| The only thing that can upset these calcula
| ton is the failure of the conference tt reach
an agreement that wi he accepted by botn
Senate and House, and that is not expected.
| A strong effort is being made to get The Mic
aragua canal bi passed at this session of Con
gre s. bat it may be crowded out. The House
| Commerce committee is trying to get the com
| mittee on Rules 10 set aside t NO three days
| for tie discuss ion of the canal bill, which
Chairman Wi e, of the first namea committee
considers one of the most important bills that
have been before Congress fol years. There
| are a number of democrats in the House, who
are on principle opposed to governments en-
gazing in any such business as proposed Ly
this bill, and while they are not probably nll-
merous enough to defeat the bill on vote
they are numerous enough to prevent vote
being taken unless special rul, is reported
limiting debate.
SO many request come to Selrgeant-at Arms,
Snow, of the House, from edit ,rs and poll
,icians, asking whether certain members have
drawn mileage for both the extra and regular
sessions of Congress and whether this or that
member has drawn full pay since the law to
dock members for absence was revived, that
he has had circular tier prepared which
politely declines to furnish the informatio ion
asked for unless instructed to do by the
House A considerable number of members
of the House have reason to feel grateful TO
| Col. Snow for not opening the books of his
Office to the men who are tying to fad reasons
for leaving them at home.
| 1t seems come natural To some people to
| misunderstood things. A case in point was
| the unanmity OF certain labor aaders in an
nouncing after recent interview with the
| Pre- sid"Dt that Mr.. G 'veland had agreed to
appoint commission t, arbirate the dispute
which brought about the late disastrous and
|
| directly concerned-ra'i Dad strike. 1t is moi,
tiatteriDg to the INTEL .ct of the before mer-
toned labor leaders if this misunderstanding
was not intentional. The law under which
President Clev,l md agreed to appoint two
commissioners to act with the U. S Commits
sioner of Labor in making an investigatio
does not give him authority t. appoint arbitra-
| tors, except under conditions not sting in
this case, and the commission to be appointed
will only have authority to investigate the
strike which occurred upon intestate railways.
| 1t cann' t investigate the strike at the Pullman
car works any more than it could investigate
a strike of the farm hands of John Smith
President CT 'velant. will appoin. this commits
sion because he wishes to secure authentic in
| formation to be used basis for recon-
| mendations he intends to make OH the subject
III his next annual message to Congress. lie
recognizes it as subject that needs national
legi>l ltion, not in the interest of the corpora
tons, nor of the labor organizations, but of the
whole country, which is incommoded and in
the end has to pay the bills for the periodical
| strikes
! Although there ate reports to the contrary
| there is no reason to doubt that President
Clevel md will sign the bill for the admission
of Utah to statehood, which is now in his
hands.
Senator AL IN of Nebraska told the Senate
on saturday that it was untrue as stated in the
newspapers that he had been downed i'll a
wrestling match " it'll John Birleycorn