The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-04-06
" ashingtOn Letter.

W ASHINGToN, ID. c.. April ., 1854
President Cleveland, after hearing every
thing that could be said on every side of
the question, and after deeper study than
he has given to any single measure passed
by this congress, has finally disposed of
the Bland bill for the coinage of the
seigniorage. His disposition of the bill
Is necessarily unsatisfactory to many
prominent and influential members of
the party. That could not have been
avoided. 1t would have been precisely
the same, only 1t would have been diff
erent set OF Democrats who would have
been disappointed. had his action
been reversed. The situation was not
unlike that which preceded Mr.. Cevle
land : celebrated tariff reform message,
and heacted just as he did then, taking
the course he believed to be right and
proper. believing that time will, as it did
with the tariff, bring the dissatisfied
Democrats around to his way of think
ing. Some Democrats in congress are
allowing their disappointment to run
away with their discretion, and are say
ing things that they will regret when
| they see their words used by Republicans
Probably no more representative gath
| ering of prominent Democrats ever IS
sembled in Washington than that which
| attended the hOusewarming of the Dem
Ocratic Congressional Campaign commit
tee, held in their new headquarters this
week. The committee which received
| the guests was composed of Senator
| Faulkner, chairman of the congressional
committee; Hon. W. +. Harrity,
| chairman of the national committee;
| Hon. Chauncey F. Black, president of
| the national Association of Democratic
| clubs, and Mr.. Lawrence Gardner. sec
retary Of the congressional committee.
The committee Is now ready for business,
and a quorum of the executive commit
| tee will be at headquarters daily until
| the close of the congressional campaign.
Representative Sayers, of Texas, be-
lieves with his great Democratic pred
ecesSOr at the head of the House com
| mlttee on appropriations, the late Sam.
uel j. Randall, that the system OF per
manent or continuing appropriations is
wrong and should be done away with,
| leaving all appropriations to be made
annually, and his bill providing for the
| change will probably be favOrably re-
| ported to the House at an early day, and
he believes it will pass. The late Sam
| uel j. Randall introduced a similar bill
in the Forty seventh congress, and it
| passed the House, but not the senate
| The amount of these continuing appro-
! priatiOns over which congress can, un-
| der the present system, exercise no de-
! tailed supervision, Is $3.50, 900, 600 a
year. Some of these continuing appro-
prlatlons are nearly century old and
are SenSeleSS and in some cases wastefu.
| Chairman SayerS' bill is thOrOugly Dem
| ocratIc and ought to become law. 1t
will save money and reform a bad sys-
| tenn.
| Senator Morgan believes that his Mic
| aragua canal bill will become Il law and
! that the canal will be well under wav
| before the close of the Fifty third CON
| greSS. The bill Is now being considered
| by the senate committee on foreign re-
| lations. 1t provides for the guarantae ae-
| ing of the bonds of the canal company
| to the extent of 500, 600, 900 and gives
this government practically the control
| of the canal, both while being built and
after 1t is i'll operation.
The opposition to the new treaty with
| China, this week favOrably reported
without amendment by the senate COM
rnlttee of foreign relations, has been
! greatly exaggerated. No Democrat so
far as known has any serious objections
| to the treaty, except several from the
| Pacific coast, and they say that with
| slight modification the treaty would be
acceptable to them.
The Pollard Breckenridge trial reached
| its dlrtieSt stage this week, and notwith
| standing the request of the Judge that
the filthy details be suppressed. several of
the local papers published them in full.
The end of the trial is not yet in sight.
The seat in the senate chamber that
was occupied by the late Senator Colquitt
Is still draped IN mourning. Not much
interest Is expressed in who will fill out
his unexplred term, because the new
senator will have less than a year to
serve and it Is understood that neither
of the gentlemen known to be candidates
for the full term-they are at least two
, In the HOuse-will be appointed by the
governor of Georgia to the vacancy. Al
though it could hardly be considered in
the light of a promotion Speaker Crisp.
friends are urging him to declare him
self candidate. Representative Turner
is understood to have entered the race
The unexpected resignation of Sixth
Auditor Brawley, of the treasury de
partment, to take effect upon the ap
| pOlntment of his successor has made 2
lot of gossip. The position is an i'm
portant one, and Mr.. Brawley has helC
1t less than a year. NJ.