The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-08-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, August 20,

| WASHINGTON, August ~, 1854.
| President Cleveland will not, according to
those who ought to know, definitely decide
what action he will take on the tariff bill I'M
til he returns from Gray Gables. whittier he
was driven by troublesome attack of malal la;
but that only elates to details, as it is regard
ed as fully settled that the bill shall become a
law. In fact, certified copies of the bill are
now Oh the to every collector of customs, so
| that when it becomes law it will only be
| necessary to telegraph the collectors to have
it put right into effect The President will
return this week.
In some quarters there is a disposition to
believe that the Murphy resolution, against
further consideration oftariff legisl alton, which
was adopted by vote of p to ia bare
quorum-by the Senate, may be the cause Of
of the tariff bill being vetoed. 1t is, of course
well-known That President Cleveland IS much
interested in the seperate bills placing coal,
iron ore and baIbed wire on the free list, and
desires to see them become laws, and it is
equally we'll known that the Murphy resolu-
ton was intended to XII those bills for The
PieseIt SeSslou- II was sIdleu "ueu iLe hottSe
democratic caucus which resulted in the pass.
age of the Senate tariff bill was in session that
the democratic steering committee of the Sen
ate had given pledge that these separate
bills, and that providing for free sugar, should
be voted upon 10y the Senate before adj urn
ment, if the House would exce.t the Senate
amendments to the Wilson bill. and it is be-
lieved that without that pledge The House new
er would not have acted. These things We're
all known to Mr.. Cleveland, but those whose
opinions would carry weight will hot at this
time express Them, as to what, if any, effect
the Senate resolution may have on the fate OF
the tariff bill.
An official staten ent made by the disbursing
clerk of the Department of Agriculture shows
that The Iedut on in the expenditures of that
department for the fiscal year ending June
Sid, 1894, was slightly in excess of IA per cent.
and that nearly 100000 of the annual appro-
priation made for the department was unex-
pended and would be covered back into the
Treasury That's the kind of democrat
Secretary Morton is. In this connection it is
well to call attention 10 another official fact
calculated to impress people with the idea that
the democrats in Congress are living up to the
party pledges of economy in public expendi-
ture, if hey haven't gone as far in some other
amount appropriated at this session of Con-
gress, according TOT the figures of Chairman
Sayers, Of the House appropriation committee,
is $2S $50 less than the total appropr ations
made at the last session of Congress. In other
words, the government has been saved just
that much.
Representative Bland prevented the bimetal-
lie league endorsing the populists at the con-
ference held here last week. He simply told
the other members Of the committee, when
the chairman of the populist national commit
tee asked that his party be endorsed, that if the
league was to be turned into a populist ma
chine he and other democrats would draw ont.
The committee decided to endorse not hing but
silver and to use its entire efforts to the
election of silver men to the 54th Congress,
and issued an address in acc ordance with that
decision.
The Old rumor that Secretary Carlisle was
about to retire from the cabinet ca me out as
spry as though it had not been kill ed a dozen
Or more times, during the last three or four
days. 1t was preceded by the rum Or that SEC
letary Carlisie's letter to Senator Harris, who
is acting chairman of the Senate finance COM
mttee on account of sickness of Sen ,tor Voor-
hees, concerning the effect the bills passed by
the House, placing on the list sugar, coal, iron
ore, and barbed wire, wouli have upon the
revenues Of the government if favorably acted
upon by the Senate, had been written without
President Cleveiand's knowledge and that it
had caused coolness between the two men.
Never was a story built upon falser founda-
ton. Although Secretary Carlisle's letter was
written in accordance with the routine custom,
in answer 10 the usual inquiry made by the
chairman of the finance committee of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury concerning contemplaL
ed legislation, it can be positively stated that
Presi dent Cleveland was fully informed OF its
contents before it was sent. 1t cont lined, by
the way, not word of argument for or against
any bill; merely an estimate of the revenue
that woul be retained or lost. 1t is doubtless
whether any President, ever enjoyed closer re-
lation with his Secretary of the Treasury than
Mr.. Cleveland does with Mr.. Carlisle and all
talk of coolreSs between them is simply rot
not deserving any ones serious conditi on.