The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1894-07-06
DIR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGroN, JuIy ,, 1891


Chairman Wilson, OF the Louise WAYS and .
Means committee, is on hand, apparently conf I.
plaey restored II health, ready to take charge .
OF the tariff bill as soon as il gels back 10 the .
iIOIiSe. Like the skill !ull commander he has /
shown himself IT, be Mr.. Wilson declines to /
publicly express his own opinion OF the Sen
ate amendments to lhe bill ol TO say what lie |
thinks will be the result OF the conference on
those amendments. Whatever position taken
by the couiereeS Oh The part Of lhr House. who
viii, of course, be headed ~ Chairman VII
son, will be the result O! nature consideration
on the part of Speaker Crisp and the lead Ing
democrats Of the House. with whom Mt. WI
son has been i'll aln.o constant consultation
since his return to Washington. The one
prominent democrat who has been entire :
left out of these consul ations is PresdcI
Cleveland. and he has been left ont i'll accord
apce with his own W isheS. He does ltot wish
il said that he took sides with either the House
OF Senate in what may be quickly settled
controversy or may develop into 4 bitter Wra1i-
Gle. However, 10 one who is at ali familiar
not to mention his private conversations, on
The tariff question, can have any doubt as to
which of the two-the original Wilson bill Or
The amended Senate biIl-he prefers. There
are good reasons for the belief that the demo
Gratis OF the House will stand up for the origj-
nal Wilson bill, and it can be set down IS
certain that the protec ion amendments of the
Senate will never be accepted in their preseit
shape. There is no longer any talk OF even
an attempt being made to have the House
agree TO al the of the Senate amendments IN
bulk There never was any foundation fo'
such talk, beyond The imagnations Of som"
people who would like TO see the matter dis
posed Of in that way.
The Georsans in Congress are beginning to
get somewhat worked UP over the election OF
a Senator to succeed Mr.. Walsh When
Speaker Crisp declined the protieled appoint
ment to fill the uneXpired term of the late
Senator Colquit, it was generally supposed
| that he thereby secured what the boys cali ''a
lead pipe cinch' on the full term, although ii
was then known that Representative Turner
| would probably be a candidate. Several days
ago, however, Senator Walsh made manly
announcement Of his candidacy. Speaker
| Crisp has not indicated whether be will be
candidate or not, and one of his CLOSETS per
sonal friends has inst assured me that Nil
Crisp has not yet decided the matter.
Two New York bankers of prominence had
an ex pelience in Washington several years ago
that will probably make them more careful i'll
the future about believing every statement
they see in the newspapers Of the class which
make practice OF printing the sensation tirsi
aid ascertaing its truthfulness afterwards. y
newspaper of this class had a story to The eff
| feet that the President would gladly issue
another $4,000, 900 of bonds If he were GER
tain they coul1 be placed without trouble
These two bankers filled with patriotism and
a desire to profitabv invest the money OF their
| customers came at once TO Washington ana
went to the White House, where they pre-
ceeded to surprise President Cleveland by Of
| fering TO take that entire bond issue. NJ.
Cleveland assured them tkat theIe was not
| the slightest foundation FIR the bond issue
story; that the administration had not cot
templated any further Issue Of bouds and that
there was no reason in anything now known
10 expect that there woull be any necessity
| tor the question to be considered at anytime in
the future. Surely that ought TO be sufficient
to settle The matter, but all the same that bond
issue story will continue to be printed i'll one
form or another, as it has been from time
time by those who knew its fasity.
Senator Harris's program has so often been
| upset aud changed by circumstances over
which he had no control that he dies erves great
credit for not having lost heart entirely be.
fore now. Il is his present intention if the
final vote on the tariff bill be not reached on
Tuesday to compel the Senate To hold Il ses.
sion on the Fourth of July, but, of course, il
all depends on the vote of the Senate as tC
| whether his intention can be carried out. Ii
the absence of unanimous agreement as tc
when the final vote shall be taken there i.
nothing in the rules of the Senate To prevent
| a Senator getting the floor and speaking fo
the RESI- of the week, if 50 disposed. Senator
Aidrich, who has been the leader OF the Iepub
lcans in the tariff fight, said this morning that
so far as he knew no republican Senator would
make another set speech on the bill and tha
he saw no reson why vote could not b,
reached some time Tuesday. No good reason
existed that prevented vote being reachr,
long ago, but we all know that il hasn't beel
| reached.