Fair play., 1894-07-14
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Washington Letter.

10 extend Their holiday over the rest
OF the week. For the tcu davs pre-
vIou- 10 the passage of the tariff bill
the Senate certainly had a hard time
with daily sessions from 10 TO s
u'r.,cH r inter and lt,r li.rr"m"nlr-
Ter constantly III touching proximity
to ninety degrees. 1t is not surpris-
ing that The passage OF the bill, few
minutes before the beginning of Inie-
pendence Day, by vote Of SO to 81
should have been followed by All
exodus 10 the mountains and sea>hore
and that the wilted Senators should
be IA little slow in returning 10 their
duties. However, no time is really
being lost on account of their absence,
~ the work of preparing the oppro-
priatIoa bills for action Is gong
right along in the Senate Appropria-
ton Committee, and the confcrees on
the part of the Senate on the tariff
hiil-Senators voorhees,, Harris, Vest.
Jones, Sherman, Allison and Aldrich
will be on hand as soon lis wanted
by the confe:ees on the part of the
House. No surprises were connected
with the tinaf vote on the tariff bill,
unless the vote of Senator Hin against
ii can be so considered. The popu-
ii-fc li..ilal llo,, and In
for the bill and Petfer aud Stewart
against it.
Every body is speculsting on wha,
the result ot the conference on the
bill will be, and every body is agreed
tina; many changes will be made, bu,
there is no agreement as to the nature
of the changes, further than they are
likely to be mostly towards the ori-
ginial Wilson bill. Representative
Holman says on the subject: 1T is
an almost invariable rule that if there
is an overwhelming sentiment in the
House for particular line of action
1t finds expression and Overcomes all
delays and obstacles of parliamentary
procedure. feel certain that in the
issue between the Senate and House
the latter will carry the day" Mr.
Holman also says that his Congress
sional experience has taught him to
expect considerable delay in tariff
conferences between the Senate and
the House. Let impatient folks make
n note of that.
Representative Bynum, of Indiana,
is at the head of the subcommittee
of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee that is charged
with compiling text book to be
used by democratic speakers in the
Congressional Campaign. The work
is progressing, but cannot be compiet-
ed until the tariff bill has finally
been disposed of by Congress. The
choice of Mr.. Bynum to direct this
work was a happy one. He will be
certain to include in the b oOk every
thing that eau help the stump speaker
in his arguments, as he bel ieves that
the stump speaker Is away ahead of
the literary bureau as vote getter,
because the average man will listen
to clever speech while he will not
read pamphlets, however cleverly
they may be prepared.
Representative Springer, chairman
OF the House committee on Banking
and Currency, says he considers it eX |
tremely doubtful whether the sub
recently instructed TO pre-
pare the report to the full committee |
a currency reform bin will complete
its work at this session of Congress
One reason for the delay is that Rep.
resentative Cuibertson, of Texas,
of the SUBJ b-committee, has |
been detained at home by the serious
illness of Mrs. CuibertsOn.
The Grand Jury tins week indicted |
the two newspaper correspondents
Who declined to give the Senate in
committee the sources OF
their information concerning the al
eyed sugar trust scandal, and, like
The two stockholders previously in
iicted, they gave bail for their APP
pearance when wanted for trial. The
Grand Jury has yet to act upon the
cases of liayemeyer and Searies, of |
the sugar trust. who were also cer.i
fed for refusing to answer questions
1t is expected that the Constitution
atty of the law under which these in-
lictments were found will be argued .
.ome time in August. and if the law /
IS upheld by the local court the case
will be appealed to the L 5. Supreme
Court. as it is of the utmost impor-
lance that the question should he /
passed upon by our highest court.
Representative Catching>. of Miss.
W ho is member of the House COM
miiice Oh Rules and therefore IN a po !
sitiou to know SAYS he does consider /
il possible for Congress to adjourn a.
early as the first of August. hut j. .
certain that i, will DO so very shortly .
after that date,
President Cleveland ia commanded /
Oh all sides for the promprnes- with .
which he decided and orderef: that
Federal troops should be used ro pre-
Vent the mail service Of the cGnurr, .
being iniertcred with bv railroad
strikers aud to back up the authority .
nf L. 5. Court Off iais. The Pre.i-
dent is kept thoroughly posted. ,
through Attorney General O,uev.
General BissclI and Sec
reiary Lament. upon every phase of
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