The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-15
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON. d. c., June s, 1904
President Cleyeland told a Democratic
member of the house who asked him
his opinion of the senate amendments
to the tariff bill that his opinion on the
question of tariff reform should be well
enough known without any additional
expression at this time, and intimated
that he considered prompt action on the
subject hv both house and senate of far
more importance to the country than
the mere details of this or that schedule
in the bill, provided. of course, than the
bill as a whole Is kept in line with Dem
OcratIc promises of tariff reform. That
strikes me as the proper position for eve>
ry patriotic Democrat to take at this
time.
The Republican senators are acting on
the old legal maxim" when you have
no case abuse the opposition" Find
ing that they were defeated on the su-
gar schedule of the tariff bill. which
they had been for weeks claiming to be
confident of defeating with the aid of
Democratic votes, they have resorted to
the cry of ''Sugar trust, thinking to
blind the country to the fact that the
sugar schedule this week adopted by the
Democratic senators only gives the SUI
gar retinerS about halr of what they are
getting under the Mckinley law SEN
atOr Jones Is confident that all of the
amendments will Toe adopted and the
tariff bill passed by the close of next
week, and Republican senators privately
| admit as much.
The Southern Democrats in the house
were dOubly disappointed by the defeat
| of the bill for the repeal Of the tax on
state bank currency. They had conf
| IDENTITY expected 40 votes in favor of the
| bill, hut ii only received 1O2, while the
! opposition mustered Il. They claim
that men who had allowed themselves to
be counted in favor of the bill voted
| against it.
Secretary Carlisle waited until the fake
story that he was preparing for another
issue of bonds had advanced to the stage
of pretending to give all the details
| down to the exact amount of bonds tu
! be issued, before he took the trouble To
undo the work of the gifted writers of
Washington fairy tales by officially an
nOuncing that he was not preparing to
issue bonds, had not considered it even.
and knew no reason why he should con
future. Secretary Carlisle has been dur
ing his entire public life known as a
man who believes in the open and
above board method of doing things, and
| the DIbIici may rest assured that
should the necessity for another issue of
bonds arise it will be duly and officially
announced by the treasury department
and not by fake newspapers. 1t is not
believed that it will be necessary to issue
more bonds, as there is no probability of
the cash IN the treasury reaching an
embarrasSingly low condition before Au-
| gust, and by that time the increase in
I the government receipts under the new
tariff law will probably be great enough
to furnish relief.
The claim for $15, 900, 600 against the
estate of the late Senator Stanford
which was filed in California this week
by direction of attorney General Oltney.
has been much talked about in Wash,
ingtOn. The claim is made to protect
the interests of the government involved
in the Indebtedness of the Central Paci
tic Railroad to the United States. This
step is in line with a resolution intro
| duced IN the house sometime ago by
| Representative BOatnCr, of Louisiana.
providing for the employment of coun.
| sci to bring suits against the original
| Central Pacific syndicate, composed OF
Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, Crock.
er and Cotton for money diverted by
them for their own benefit from the
earnings of the railroad. Mr.. Boatner
claims that the government can get al
least SIT, 200, 900 by bringing these suits
The bonds upon which the railroad owes
the government this money are not yet
due, but the claim Is put IL now so thai
the statute of limitation cannot b,
pleaded should the suits be entered af
ter default III the payment Ot the bonds
1t is expected that this congress will leg
islate upon the Indebtedness of all of The
Pacific railroads TO the government, ant
Z. L. Huntington Is now in Washing
ton looking out for his end of the mat
ter.
Nothing startling has been brough
out this week by the senate committe,
that Is investigating the charges con
corning the alleged sugar trust scandal
The more apparent it becomes that thes
charges were based upon the fiimsiest q
foundations, helped out by conjectur
and partisan politics.
The senate will haye select commit
tee of five to hearings to the representa-
tives of all the industrial armies an,
other cranks who have wild scheme
to air, a resolution to that effect havin
this week been adopted. NJ