The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-01
ashingtOn Letter.


WAsHINGTox, d. C, May %, 1S64-
President Cleveland on his return TO
Washington found a radical change for
the letter in the tariff situation Sena-
tor Teller. after his very sensible speech,
telling the Republican senators that they
no longer had any reasonable excuse for
delaying the final vote on the bill,
clinched his argument bv forcing a test
vote on a motion To lay the bill on the
table That motion received the vote of
every Republican present, y IN all, and
every Democrat present-among them
Senator Hills in all, voted against it,
as also did three populists. That vote
removed the last vestige of doubt about
the passage of the bill, and leaves Re
publican fillibustering without a leg to
stand on, the Republicans having
claimed that they were Justified in using
the tactics they did 10y Democratic OPP
position to the bill They will now he
given last chance to agree upon Il time
To- take the final vote. Should they re-
fuse the bill will he forced to vote.
There is a feeling of relief to know that
the end is in sight.
The senate committee has concluded
the taking OF testimony in the bribery
case. and it Is believed that the report
will state the belief of the committee to
be that BUTT attempted to hribe Sena-
tors Hunt and Kyle. The committee Is
now taking testimony concerning the
sugar trust and its alleged relations with
senators.
The house committee on naval affairs
has begun the investigation of the Car
negie armor plate contracts, authorized
by the resolution this week adopted 10y
the house. 1t will probably be a long
one. as it covers all the armOr made 10y
Carnegie companies from the beginning
of their contracts with the government.
Senator Walsh, of Georgia, was natur-
ally very much surprised when he learned
that the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineerS regarded his bill against any
stoppage or interference with trains car
rying mails as being aimed against them,
| and, after telling the senate that as a
jOurneyman printer his sympathics were
and always had been with the labor
ing men OF the country, whom he was
proud to be one, he introduced an
amended bill, which he thinks cannot
possibly he misconstrded by anybody.
| The title of the bill Is TO protect the
United States mails and it provides
| that any person who shall rob or attempt
| to rob or maiiciouSly obstruct or retard
| for the purpose of robbery the passage
| of any railroad train on which the
mails are carried shall be punished 10y
| Imprisonment at hard labor not less than
| one nor more than twenty years.
| Attorney General Onley, in answer to
a resolution adopted by the senate last
| week, asking what action had been taken
| against the trusts under the act of July
| >, 1890. has furnished the senate with
| the record of a suit begun against the
/ various firms composing the sugar trust,
which was dismissed in the L. :. court
| for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
| with costs against the government, ap
/ pealed to the circuit court, which af
| tirmed the action of the District court,
| and which Is now before the u. : su-
| preme court on appeal. Mr.. Oluey does
not say 50, bnt 1t Is inferred from his
( communication and the accompanying
| documents that he considers the much
! talked~abOUt Sherman anti trust law a
| worthless one. Other people suspicioned
| as much when it was first proposed 10y
| Mr.. Sherman as a substitute for "A more
stringent measure proposed 10y Demo
cratic senator's
Coxey, Brown and Jones are in jail
and the deluded men who followed them
are ON the verge of starvation. The les
son should not be lost.
Whether Freedom really shrieked
| when kOSciusko fell is matter about
| VIII ich practical folk have doubts, but no
| practical working Democrat should have
! any doubts about throwing up his hat
| and giving three cheers and a tiger for
| the Democrats in the house who had the
| moral courage to support the amend
| ment offered by Representative Enloe.
! OF Tennessee, to the legislative and exc
cutlve appropriation bill, striking out
| the appropriation for salaries etc, of
| the most colossal public sham of the
age-the civil service commission, Il
commission which, although authorized
with the best intentions to make it fair
| and impartial, has been operated from
| the first day of its existence to the
present time as a machine for keeping
| Republicans in office. Mr.. Enloe has
offered this amendment several times
| when this annual appropriation was be
fore the house, but never until now mas
he succeeded IN getting it adopted, and
even now 1t is not certain that i. will
stay adopted, as the vote-1O9 to IL
was taken when the house was sitting
as a committee of the whole, and the
Republicans have given notice that they
Will call for separate yea and nay vote
on the amendment when the bill is re-
ported back to the house from the com.
mittee on the whole, and they will make
a desperate attempt to get enough Dem.
Ocrats to vote with them to defeat the
amendment NJ.