The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-07-14
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington Letter.


Republicans in the Senate and
House to 4 man support Mr.. Cleveland
in the stand he has taken against
anarchy and in favor of law and order,
but, to their shame be it recorded,
there are quite a number Of Demo.
Gratis in Congress who stand with the
protesting Democratic and Populist
governors against the action of the
administration. Among his opponents
are, of course, the most of the extreme
states rights Democrats, and the Pop
ullsts, whose public utterances have
done more to encourage the spread OF
anarchy in this country than all other
causes combined. The question OF
the rightfulness or wrongfulness Of the
original strikers against the Pullman
company became a secondary consider
alton with everybody the moment the
free passage of the y. S. mails was
obstructed and the authority of the U.
S. Courts dehed.
The U. S. government has nothing
whatever to do with the strikes of
employees against individuls or corpora
lions, but it has everything to do with
the rights of the people of the several
states to communicate with and 10 do
business with each other at will, and
Mr.. Cleveland would have neglected
his sworn duty had he done less than
he has done 1t isn't the rights of the
strikers that are at stake, but the very
life of the Republican institutions in
America. Fortunately the number OF
men in Congress who are opposed to
the position of the administration is
too small to be factor in any Con.
gressIonal action that may become
necessary, and as long as Mr.. Cleve
land stands for the preservation of law
and order and maintaining the dignity
and authority Of the U. S. government
he can count upon the support of Con
gress and OF nine tenths Of the people
regardless Of their political opinions.
There is no politics in the present
situation; it is Americanism against
anarchy.
Senator Call would better have
allowed that little episode of pulling off
his shoes in the Senate chamber while
that august body was in session to die
of Itself, as 1t would soon have done.
Then he would have been considered
merely as a man of questionable taste.
But since he made that SO called per-
sonal explanation, and attack upon the
Washington correspondents, he is COZ,
sidered as BLACKBOARD and a-well,
call ii little unbalanced.
1t is clear that the Democratic
members of the Senate committee that
investigated the sugar trust scandal are
in no hurry to get their report before
the Senate, having failed to get either
Senators Lodge, Davis or Allen to
agree to meaningless support that
would practically dismiss the whole
matter. The Republican Senators
propose making report that will be
in keeping with the evidence taken,
and owing to the extreme nature of
some of the conclusions drawn by
Senator Allen, he will probably make a
separate report devoted largely to
showing that The money which the
sugar trust people admitted having
contributed to Democratic state COM
mittees was actually used to help the
Democratic Senators in one thlng-it
will exonerate Secretary Carlisle from
any blame tor having, at the request of
Senator Jones, written that sugar SEIZED
ule. Ii will then show that the sugar
trust controlled the making of the
sugar schedule of the tariff bill and the
passing OF the bill. The report will
make the most interesting sort of cam
paIgn document, and the Republican
Congressional Campaign committee
will see that it gets widely circulated.
The conference committee on the
tariff bill held its first meeting today,
in the Senate finance committee room.
II the applause which the Democrats
of the House gave Mr.. Wilson, chair
man Of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, when he attacked the 643 Senate
amendments to the tariff bill, meant
anything, it meant that the House is
going to make hard fight TO knock
out every one OF those amendments
which raises the duty or which puts a
duty upon articles which were put on
the free list by the original Wilson bill. |
Upon the result of that fight depends
he fate of the tariff bill. fit is sue.