The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-11-23

From Our Regular Correspondent.

| WASHINGTON. November 19.-The Demo
cratic Senators and Representatives who have
| been in Washington since the election have with
| one two exceptions talked in ii manner that
| indicated the proper spirit Their grea test de
sire, they have said, is to allow the past to rest
| and to have the Democratic party take fresh
| start by getting together in Congress and
| adopting some legislation that will help the
| country and incidentally the Democratic party
| i'll 1895. just what legislation shall be acted
upon is a question that will determine very
| soon how deep this anxiety for party harmony
| goes. The idea have heard most generally
expressed by Democrats is that Senators and
| Representatives should not commit themselves
to the support of any particular tariff or finan-
cial legislation until after the recommendations
on those subjects contained in the Presidents
annual message to Congress are made public.
That would leave them free to accept the
Presidents recommendations, should they be
| of such a nature as to be acceptable to the
Democratic party as u whole, which they are
almost certain to be. With the Democrats in
Senate and House acting in harmony much can
be accomplished in Il legislative way during the
three months of the short session without har-
mony there is no hope of accomplishing any
thing and would not beeyen if the session were
to be three times three months long.
Since President Cleveland announced that his
annual message to Congress would contain i'm
portant financial Recommendations, based upon
Secretary Carlisle's annual report, Democrats
have been greatly interested in learning the
nature of Secretary Carllses report but it is
as yet a secret confined to those who have
promised TO keep 1t until the report and the
Presidents message are made public. Secre-
tary Carlisle has not been at his office for sew
eral days, preferring to work upon his report
at home, where he is free from interruption.
1t is said that the system proposed will supply
the elasticity so badly needed in our present
financial system. Although Secretary Carlisle
has always been known as friend to silver no
one, who will tell, has found out what part sill
yer is to play in the proposed new system.
A laborious attempt is being made by certain
parties to have it appear that President Cleve-
land has exceeded his constitutional authority
in dealing with the proposed mediation of the
trouble between Japan and China. Their
whole story is built upon false foundation.
They say that President Cleveland has
offered to act as mediator He has done moth
ing OF the kind At the request of the Chinese
government he directed Secretary Gresham to
ask the japanese government if it would favor
ably consider u proposition to nave the United
States act as mediator in order to put an end
to the war. 1t will be difficult to make sensible
people, who are upon principle opposed to war,
believe that the President exceeded his author
ity i'll thus trying to end Il war between two
| nations with which on friendly terms
How friendly we are with Japan may be judg-
ed from the fact that new treaty has just
been concluded with that country.
There is little danger that the Republicans of
the next House will carry out the threat made
by some members OF their Congressional cam
paign committee, to throw out the entire Vir-
ginia delegation, which is solidly Democratic.
The Democrats would not ask anything better
than such action by the Republican House. 1t
would not only keep Virginia solidly Demo-
cratic but it would bring out thousands of
Democratic votes in other States. The leaders
OIL the fepuDllcaH party are 100 SnfeWu TO put
such Al club that would be in the hands of
the Democrats, however much the Republican
contestants from the Virginia districts may
beg.
Democratic newspaper correspondents, who
are as rule great admirers of Secretary Car
Isle, have been in hot water with their editors
ever since that bond issue was announced, be-
cause they had on the personal authority of
Secretary Carlisle sent out the positive state
ment that there would be no immediate issue
of bonds. That Secretary Carlisle had good
reason for throwing the boys off the track by
telling them up to within forty-eight hours of
the issue of the call for bids that no bonds
would be issued is certain, but to date none of
his newspaper friends have been able to find
out to a certainty what it was. Speaking of
the bond issue, present indications are that the
amount to be issued-S50, 900. 000-will be SUBJ
scribed for two or three times over. This is
gratifying to Democrats, whether they approve
of the issue of bonds or not as it indicates in
indisputable manner the confidence felt by
capitalists in the administration. Some Demo-
cratic members of the Households bly, Hooker,
of Miss, and Bailey. of Texas, are criticlzing
the administration for issuing bonds. but the
general impression is that no formal action will
be taken on the subject by Congress. C. A. S.