The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-06-29
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHlNGToN. June p, 1871

Senator Hills fight against the income tax
was a futile one and he did not get even the
support of all those he had counted upon.
Whether it was that fact or something else he
conducted the fight with such bitterness that
he has made e,.emies among the democratic
Senat ,rs who vii! never forgive the language
he used and for the manner in which he used
it. Senat, " Hill could have made a fight
against the income tax without Ctlend!nS a
S pge democrat who favors it, but lie CHEESE 10
do otherwise, and even those who agree with
him in opposing the tax are now unanimous
in wing that he has made Il mistake that he
VIII never be allowed 10 forget. No man oh
J.cts more to be driven than lie. Yet he tried
to drive his democratic colleagues.
The end of the fight against the income taN
is The end Of the legitimate fight against the
tariff bill, and unless there is some republican
trickery the bill VIII pass the Senata and be III
| the hands of the conference committee before
the close of this week. Such republican Sen
atois as Aldricl, sherman and Teller, will do
nothing to prevent a vote being reached, the
legitimate debate being over, but there is a
| gang of gueriIlas on the republican side of the
Sc nate omen Ike "little Billy" Chandler, of
| New Hamrshlre) which may attempt TO fill
buster against vote, not with any cNpecta-
| tons of defeating the bill but Just because of
| their ''pure cussedness." Public interest, re-
cognizing the early passage of the bill, is now
centered upc the changes that will be made
| in it by the conference committee. That there
will be a a number Of changes is regarded AS
certain, and it is fair to presume that they will
| all lean towards the original Wilson bill as 1t
| was PASSED by the House, although probably
in few, if any, instances going all the way.
| The sugar schedule is regarded as one of the
| certain changes to be made, but it will hardly
| go as far as Tree sugar, because of the opinion
| that some revenue must be raised from sugar.
| Senator Brice, no is chairman of the Sen.
| ale committee Pacific Railroads, has a
| treat in store for the members of that commit
tee, which will combine pleasure with the ac-
emulation ofnseful knowledge of the proper
| ty with which The committee has to deal As
soon as Congress adjoErns he will take the
|
the entire Union Pacific, and Central Pacific
| railroads.
The Hatch antioption bill, which passed
the House by vote of $50 to 81, has been be
fore Congress III one or another shape for the
last five years. 1t was shown by the manner
in which party lines were disregarded when
| the vote was taken-for the bill, democrats 81,
republicans A, and populists 10; against, demo.
Gratis 81, republicans 2G-that politics did not
influence the members to any marked extent
The anti-option bill was originally introduced
in the Fifty-first Congress by Representative
Funston, of Kansas, who was chairman OF the
House committee on Agriculture at that time
ant. it was introduced in the present and il
the Fifty-second Congresses by Representative
Hatch, of Missouri, now at the he al of the
commit re on Agriculture.
by the way, speaking of Funston, of Kan.
Sas, the House committee on Elections ha.
decided that he is not entitled to the seat he
now holds i'm the House. because Mr.. Moore
his democratic competitor was legally electe,
| thereto.
Speaker Crisp, who was confined to his room,
nearly all of last week by a troublesome at
tack of Indigestion, is again presiding over the
House, which is once more pegsing away a
the regular appropriation bills and will proba
bly, continue at it until they are all disposed
Of, with the exception of the time that it may
be necessary to give to reports from the Il pre-
senatives of the House on the Tariff Confer
ence committee.
\ ice President Stevenson certified the case.
Of Messrs. Havenleyei and Searle, of the suga
Trust, to the U. 5. District Attorney for pre-
sentiment TO the Grand Jary, on Saturday, ii
accol dance with the majority report of the in
is that Senator Gray and Lindsay, the demo
cratic members of the committee, took the cor
rect view when they stated in 4 minority re-
port that the committee had no authority tc
compel Havemeyer and Searle to tell how
much money they had contributed to state or
CARNATIONS, they having stated that they ha,
made no contributions to the National organ
zitions. 1t was merely to gain little palt
san capital that the two republican membe.,
of the committee joined Senator Allen in or
sering that Havemeyer and Searle be certified
TO the District Attorney as recalcitrant wit
nesses. The committee is now working upor
its report of the entire investigation, but
cannot be positively stated when it will b.
ready
The SCALED industrial armies, three O
Which are now in the vicinity of W Washington
are rapidly going to pieces, the men finiin:
that the people Of this country are not qni'
silly enough to work for money and then con
tribute it to keep several hundred men Iyin.
around in idlenesS