The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-08-31
ashingiOn Letter.

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President Cleveland has been a very busy
man since his return to Washington,
as this Is the first opportunity he has
/ had to confer with members of the cab
/ met and prominent Democrats in con
/ gress since the tariff bill wass sent to him,
/ ne having been compelled by sickness to
| leave the white house soon after that
measure was sent there At the cabinet
meeting held yesterday the tariff bill was
thoroughly discussed in all its hearings,
and ii Is understood that the cabinet was
practically unanimously in favor of al
lowing the bill to become a law. and sew
eral of the members advised the Presi
| dent to sign it at once Members of the
! Cabined will not. of course. talk for pub
| licatIon, but from others | learn that the
president made no definite announce
ment and that it was inferred from his
talk that he had not mapped out his ac
| ton to his own satisfaction.
Chairman Wilson had an extended
! conference with the president after the
! cabinet meeting, and his reticence when
! asked to express an opinion upon the
| probable fate of the tariff bill WAS made
| the basis for rumOrS OF veto. Chair
! man Wilson had several days previously
| expressed the opinion that the bill would
! be allowed to become law without the
presidents anG that Is still the prevailing
! opinion in Washington; but your cor
respondent has an idea, based more
upon "A long study of the character of
| President Cleveland than upon any deti>
/ mite information, that the bill will eth
| er be vetoed or signed and that which
ever it NAV be the bill will he returned
| To congress with a special message that
! will be read with delight by all real tariff
| reform Democrats.
! Representative Bryan, of Nebraska,
| who has more than a fighting chance of
| being Senator Bryan in the near future.
! is an ardent admirer and disciple of
| Thomas Jefferson, the great Virginia
! Democrat. During recent pilgrimage
| to Monticello Mr. BRYAN conceived the
! idea of presenting the quota of plants
| allotted To him as Il member of the
! house from the L Botanical Gar
| dens. to be used in decorating jefferson :
| grave. Among the plants to be sent TO
! Monticello is a Sprig Of ivy from plant
| grown from SprIg cut from the grave
! of Robert Burns, the great Scotch poet.
| BY the way, pigrimages to the grave of
Jefferson are becoming quite popular
with Democrats Vice President Steven
| son and senator Hill were among the
weeks pilgrims The hospitality of
| Hon Jefferson NJ. Levy, the present
proprietor of Monticello, makes the pill
| grimage as pleasant as the surroundings
make it patriotic.
| Considerable surprise was felt by Col
| Stump, superintendent of immigration.
when he found that several Democratic
members of the house objected to his
bill for the prevention of the coming of
alien anarchists into the United States
I and for the deportation of those already
here. The bill was passed by the senate
without objection and the attempt was
made to rush ii through the house by
unanimous consent, in order that II
might become a law in time to prevent
| the landing of the 500 French and Ital
| ian anarchists who have been driven
| out of those countries by adverse legis
| Iation and are said to be now on their
way to the United States. But action
was prevented upon it by the objection
of Representative Warner. OF New York
! City, and in the absence of a quorum
| his objection was effective. Mr.. War
ner objects to the bill because it does not
| define an ''aiien anarchist" and be
cause it gives the superintendent of i'm
! igration too much authority. Col.
! Stump is now trying to get enough rep
! reSentatives to return to Washington to
make a quorum, and if he succeeds will
endeavOr to get the bill put through the
! house under a special rule. If he can
! get the quorum the rest will be easy.
Senatorial courtesy" was badly
| strained when Republican senators re-
| fused to answer TO their names to make
quorum to pass the bill correcting the
error in the tariff bill, for which Re-
| publican senator-Hoar. Massachusetts,
is responsible, making alcohol used in
the arts free, unless the Democratic
| senators would promise not to make any
| speeches while the bill was under CON
| slderatlOn. 1t was certainly taking an
unfair advantage of the fact that the
! Democratic senators could not possibly
! have a quorum of their own on the floor
1t also looked as though the Republican
senators feared the effect upon the
country of the speeches that might be
made 10y Democratic senators. 1t is un-
fortunate that all of the Democratic
senators could not have been kept in
Washington until the end of the session
1t was certainly their duty to remain,
but duty doesn't outweigh pleasure or
convenience with some of them. NJ.