The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-03-23
OR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, March 70,

age, now in his hands? Their is more anxiety
among democrats t. have this question an
swered than has been observable for a long
time. II involves great deal more than the
mere coinage Of 55,000,00G silver dollars, for
which it provides. 1t will decide whether the
attempt now being made to unite the DEM
Gratis i'll Congress and the administration on a
basis Of let by -gones-be-by cones shall be
failure or a success that will enable the purity
to 60 into the the Congressional campaign
with reasonable hope OF retaining control of
The House. 1t may also decide the fat Of the
taritfbll, as there are many democrats in both
House and Senate whose constituents are
more directly interested in silver than in the
tariff. A number of eastern dem ocra's who
did everything III their power to prevent Con
gress passing the b and bill are now advising
the President to sign the bill, or at least to al
low it TO become law without his signature
if he feels that he clnnOt conscientously sign
it, and silver democrats who have not been to
the White House since the big silver fight al
The extra session have gone TO Mr.. Cleveland
and urged as a matter Of party policy that the
bill be allowed to become law. The silver
democrats of the west and south-'low num-
erous they are in Congress nay be seen by re-
ferling to the vote on this bill in both House
AMI Sanate-many of whom supported the adj
mnistration against their own convictions in
securing the epea' of the purchasing clause of
the Sherman silver law, say that the veto of
this bill will be accepted as proof positive by
thousands of their con stituehts that President
Cleveland is nnalterahlJ opposed to silver, AMI
that the result would certainly be disastrous
in the Congressional elections. Three mem
bers of the cabinets ocret lres Gresham,
Smith and Herbert-!lave advised Mr.. Cleve-
land to sign the bill. It is believed that the
delegation of New York bankers who are here
asking that the bill be vetoed are ad ling to
its chances OF becoming a law. II fact, there
has been change in pablo opinion within a
week. and a majority now believe that the bill
will become law, with Or without tie Presi-
dents signature.
The revised tariffbi will DE reported to
the Senate this week, and the debate will be-
Gin Monday, april 2. This is authentic and
official. No one can possibly regret the unex
pected delay in getting the bill before the Sen
ate more then the democratic members of the
Finance committee do. They have worked
until they are almo5 in st tie of exhaustion,
bat fresh obstacl IS have constantly confronted
them, and as they could not be avoided they
had t. be owe rcome. Since the bill has been
before the full committee the republicans have
taken advantage of every opportunity to add
10 the dcllY and owing to the absence of Sen
ator Vance, these opportun es have been fire.
quent. The fact should not be forgot IN by
critically inclined democrats that when all of
the members Of the Finance committee are
present the democrats have only one majority
With one democratic absentee the committee
is tie politically. 1t was the absence Of Sen
at II Vance that enabled the republicans on
debate until April 2.
Unless all indications are at fault the adj
minstration will soon start a programme that
will cause the working dem ocrat, to entert
Congressional campaign with enthusiasm. l
cannot without viol ting conf lence enter into
particulars, but if this programme be carried
ont the republicans who st;l Il remain in feder-
al Offices, outside the classified service, would
better be looking around for new jobs, unless
they have money enough to spend the summer
in idlenesS. Those democrats who believe
that the offices under democratic administra-
ton should be filled by dem ocrats will be
pleased with some things that will occur in
The near future, unless my informant is
wrong.
Representative Tucker, of Virginia, although
not yet Al years old has a right to feel proud
of the part he has taken in shaping the legis-
latlon of the present Congress. Although
there were several other bills providing for
the same thing 1t was Lis bill for the repeal of
the federal election laws that was reported,
passed an d which became law. Another
compl melt has just been paid the skill Of Mr..
Tucker by the House committee on the 81 oct
ion Of President and Vice President and Il .p-
resenLatives in Congress, which selected his
joint resolution providing for Constitutional
amendment for the election of senator's by d.
rect vote of the peope, although there were
several Others of a similar natlre before the
committee. TO be favoratly report ID to the
House.
The House has beon working faithfully on
the regular annual appropriation bills and it
has been making good recold, both in the
quantity of buSineSsLi one and ini he amount of
money appropriated-averya ppropriat on has
been reduced materially.