The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-08-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


President Cleveland has not charged his
mind about the desirability of admitting free
Of duty sucn raw materials as coal and iron
ore; nor have the democratic mtiorty OF the
House which voted t. put them on the free
| list in the original W ilson bill; For have The
democratic voters of the country Who were utt-
der the impression when they put a democrat
ic Congress and Administered ion iii POWER that
| free raw materials were assured NotWi;h-
standing this overwhe lining democratic SENT
ment in favor of free raw materials, coal and
iron are not to so on the fee list. 1t is both
unnecessary and Improbable to enter into any
explanation at this tine as t. The why's and
wherefore's of this. 1t is sufficient to say that
| the fact has been made plain that no bill put
ing iron and coal on the free list can pass the
| Senate. Therefore the democrats ofthe House
| ale brought face to face with the cho &c of
leaving the Mckinley law stand, or, of allow
ing the Senate to have its way about coal and
iron, and getting new tariff law Oh the statue
| DO oks, Which contains many most excellent
| features and which is, even in the iron and
coal schedule, big reduction from the duties
| imposed by the Mckinley law.
| This is the situation that confronted the
| democratic House conferees when they met
the Senate conferees to-day for their first for
| nj meeting in their second effort to reach an
| agreement on the tariff bill. In addition they
were met with the tie vote of the Senate re-
| fusine to instruct its confarees to recede from
| the ditferential duty of one eighth ola cent a
pound on refined sugar, thus indicating, one
| might say official, that any change i'll the
sugar schedule would not be accepted by the
Senate.
Notwithstanding al this chairman vii on
and the House confert es are not disposed to
give up the fight; thei ef,re call is being CT
culated for caucus of The democrats of the
House, to be hel if no agreement is reached
| on the bill by TUESDAY. 1t is believed that
the copferees will endeavor to reach an agree
ment upon every thing except the iron, sugar,
and coal schedules of the bill before the eau
Gus is held, and that chairman Wilson will
then ask the caucus what shall be done about
| those schedules. 1t is, of course, impossible
| to say what action the caucus will take, but in
view of the fact that the democrats of the House
are practically un anlmou. in the opinion that
| tariff b II must be passed at this session Of
Congress, and that bill cannot be passed I'M
| less those schedules are accepted in accordance
| with the demands of the Senate, it is believed
! that the caucus will instruct the conferees to
agree, knowing that the responsibility has
| been placed, by President Cleveland's letter,
where 1t belongs.
There has been much t Xix here about the
probability of President cleveland vetoing the
bill if the House agrees to the Senate iron,
coal and sugar schedules, but do not think it
at all probable that he will. In fact, | have
excellent reasons for the b, lief that he has al
vised chairman Wilson and other prominent
democrats of the House to get ali the reduc-
ton possible in the Senate bill and then II ac-
| cept it as the best that eau be had. Mind, |
do not state it for fact that President Cleve-
| land has given such advice, bat t'lat | have
excellent reasons, which cannot be told with
out violating confidence, for believing that he
has. II is also known that prominent demc-
Gratis. outside of Congress, have given Mr..
Wilson and the other democratic conferecs
similar advice.
The commission appointed by President
Cleveland to investigate the causes Of the re-
ceIt railroad strike met for the first time, tC-
day, tn the office of Hon. Carroll ID. Wright,
U. S. Commissioner of Lator. who is eS-ofli
clio chairman of the Commission. No time is
TO be lost in making the investigation.
The House committee on Labor, after al
extended examination of the various bills or
the subject, decided by unanimous vote in
favor of representative Springer's bill for the
creation of a national board Of arbitration
which has been favorably reported to the House
and will, il the commit ee CAN succeed in Sc
curing day for its consideration aim ,st GER
t. lnly be passed at the present session. The
bill Is drawn in accordance WITH Tie recon-
mendation col lined in President Cleveiand's
1887 message to Congress.
The Senate Investigation committee is hay
ing considerable trouble in locating witness
MIR. Battershall, who is all aged to be {
walking encyclopedia on just the things the
committee wishes to find out about the al.
legeG dealing OF Senators in stock OF the sugar
trust.
There is little disposition in either House OF
Senate to take up any other general legisa.
ton of import ,nce, as the belief is genera
that the business of the session will be rushed
to close as soop as the tariff bill is finally
disposed of.