The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-06-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Signs are plenty that the republican Senators
are ready to give up their useless fight against
the tariff bill, and limitations have been given
to Senator Harris by their leaders that if he
would not carry ont his announced lilent'on
of compelling long night sessions this week an
agreement might be reached upon date Tor
the taking of a final vote upon the bill AS
the easiest way is always the best way Senator
Harris will defer for few days the holding OF
night sessions, in order t. see whether an
amicahl, arrangement can te reached with
the republicans Ifso, all right and good; if
not. the democrats are all prepared to endure
any amount of pers onal hardship that may be
necessary to force a vote. It. is the eXpetta-
ton of the democratic Senators that the bill
will be passed in time fol the conference COM
mittee to act and get their work endorsed by
both House and Senate and the bill signed by
President Clevt md before the first of July.
Only one democratic vote is in doubt-.hat of
Senator Hill, and after he fails to get the IN
come tax struck out of the bill it is believed
he will fall into line and vote for the bill.
The Senat, investigation commit ee found
Butz guilty of having attempt ID to bribe Sen
ators Hunton and Kyle, but no st ps have
been taken towards criminaIly prosecuting
him. The committee is now engaged III in
vestigating The charges of crookedness on the
part of the sugar trust and Senators in con-
nec;ion with the preparation of the sugar
schedule of the tariff bill, and, Judging from
the evidence already taken: hose charges are
likely to be shown up as outright fakes. For
instance, it was charged t'lat the sugar sched-
ule was prepared in the Handwriting of Secre-
ta'y Carlisle, who carried it to a meeting Of
the Finance committee, and demanded that it
be adopted because of obligations the party
owed TO the sugar trust, and the man who
made the charge declined to give bis authority.
The story was read to Senator Jones, of Ark. :,
arranged the amendments to the tariff bill,
which included the sugar schedule. and he
was asked by Senator Gray, chairman of the
investigating committee, what truth there
was in it, 'sNone, whatever" he replied en-
phatlcally; 81 think | have attended every
meeting of the tariff sub committee this sess-
ion, but no such scene was ever enacted, nor a
demand made by Mr.. Carlisle for the protect
ion of sugar. With reference to the charge
thai Secretary Carlisle prepared the sugar
schedule, would say that my recollection IS
that prepared the sugar schedule in the bill
as first reported; the schedule in the last bill
reported was put in shape at the Treasury de-
paltment at my request, in order that the
administrative features of the schedule should
be in correct form, the suggestion of the rate
and all of the essential details of the schedule
were from me-" There is about the amount
of truth in the charges mentioned as in all
the rest. The schedule was prepared at the
Treasury department at Senat )r Jones request,
and some republican clerk employed therein
probably I'D it outside the rest was imagined.
The committee may ask the Senate t. order
the arrest of the correspondents who refused
to give their authority for the charges, but that
will accomplish nothing, as they would be
certain to continue to refuse. The Senate has
Several times tried, but never successfully, to
compel correspondents to tell where they got
information from. Every Senator whose
name has been connected with these charges
has expressed Willingness to appear before
.he investigating commit re with out the form
alty of Imm )ns.
1t seems hardly necessary to say that the
stories printed in republican papers about the
great cost to the government of the little vaca-
~, -,
les Carlisle and Gresham, on the light house
tender Violet, Were eIt rely false. The pres
ence OF those gentle -ne.l on the | tile boat did
not cost the government one cent. The Vio-
let made her regular trip, supplying the light
houses with oil, ETC., and the passengers t .ble
was supplied at President Clevela nd's personal
expenses. The Violet was not even del iyed,
Mr. Cleveland insisting before the start that
the fishing and hunting should only be done
while the boat was transferring supplies to the
lighthouses and that rule was adhered TO dur
ing the trip.
Representative Bryan, of Nebraska, is just
as enthusiastic in his advocacy of the building
of the Nicaragua canal, as Senator Morgan, of
ALABAMA, Dut he promises In bill now be-
fore the Commerce committee of the House,
to do it in different way. His bill calls for
an issue OF $7O,OOO,O00 in greenba,ks, to be
used TO purchase a controlling interest in the
stock of the company and for the building of
the canal under the control of board of
eleven directors, eight of them to represent
the United States.
The House has laid aside the regular APP
preparation bills temporarily and will this
week try TO decide VIII. Their the tax on state
bank net, shall be repealed or not. Both
sides 81 lin majority.
Senator Jones' of Arkansas who has cha noe