The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-04-13

Our WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsuINGTON, Apfll Q, 1894.

WASHINGTON, April Q, 1894.
The result of the first weeks debate on the
tariff bill in the Senate is not encouraging TO
those who wish for speedy action on the bill,
and Senators HILL Murphy, Erice and lrby,
who, Intentionally or unintentionaily, aided
the republicans in their effnts to delay the
debate, have been sharply crit cised by demo-
Gratis. Senator Hills speech to-day has also
brought additional dem ocratic criticism upon
his head. 1t was, of course, expected that the
republicans would resort to f clustering when
the democrats began to take step; to bring the
debate to close, but to the surprise of every
body they began flibustering for deliy almost
at the beginning of the deb ate, and it is clear
that they intend t. keep it up to the end.
Senator Harris, who has charge of the bill,
proposes to force show Of hands this week,
by asking that the sittings of the Senate be
prol ,nged two hours day and that the tariff
bill be taken up earlier each day. He intends
to put the Senators on record in order that the
country may see who are in favor Of pushing
the debate to conclusion and who are the
INSTRUCTORS, and he doesn't believe that when
the issue is squarely raised any democrats will
be found in the latter class.
Hon. Patrick Walsh, the new Senator from
Georgia, met with cordial reception from his
future colleagues most Of whom have l,ng
been his personal friends.
Senator McLaurin doesn't fancy the idea OF
being COMPOUNDED with Repre- sentative Nc
Laurin, of South Carolina, who has been talk
ing ofleaving the dem ocratic party to form a
silver party in the south ard ives. The Sen
ator is opposed to any such movement. To
use his own words: 81 am silve man, but
believe in the mission and the sue cess Of the
democratic party, and think that we can set
tie these disputed questions wit hin our party
organization" That's about the way most o.
the silver democrats feel about it, too.
The ,rgest number of democratic signatures
ever attached to a request for a call to be issu-
ed for caucus were on that addressed to Mr..
Holman, chairman of the caucus. asking that
a caucus be held Tuesday of this week to de-
eide what should be the policy of the party in
the House towards that plank of the National
platform which declared that the tax on state
bank currency should be repeaed Represen-
tative Swanson, of Virginia, circulated the re-
quest for a caucus, as a result o f his making
the question of the repeal of the tax He
found that nine-t enths of the democrats
favored repeal, but all except 129 of them in
sst that it shall be accompanied with more or
less Federal control over the currency to be
issued by the state ban ks. The House COM
mittee on Banking and Cure Ley pigeon-hoed
the question soma time ago because of failure
to agree Oh bill. The VIII ole mat er will be
talked over at the caucus and VIII, it is hoped
be definitely settl I'd one way or tho Other al
though the present understanding Is that the
caucus is not to take action that will be con-
sidered binding upon those who attend it.
Somebody, probably from pure viciousness,
started story few days ago that Senators
Hill and Murphy, would antagonize the nom-
nation Of Mr.. Benedict t, be Public Printer.
They will do nothing of the sort. Senator
Hill said week ago that he was glad so good
democrat as Mr.. Benedict has been selected
for the place and that he expected him to be
confirmed without opposition. Senator Muir
ply has also expressed himself as pleased
with the nomination. Mr.. Benedict arrived
in Washington to-day and he expects t. be
confirmed, submit his bond and be sworn in as
Public Printer before the 18th of the month,
Ey-Sraakar aad oon,a5 h., al for oh
surd and needless fillibusterlng on Saturday
when he prevented the carrying out of
special order setting apart that day for eulo.
gies on the late Senator Gibson, of louisa ma,
by forcing an adj )urnment by raising the point
of no quorum on motion to discharged the
warrant issued by the Sargeaot at Arms to ar
rest absentees during the time the contested
election cases, settled last week, were pending
all of the blam e for this state of affairs does
not, however, belong to Reed and the republic
cans. There are 21S democrats in the House,
and if 179 Of them would remain const antly
in their seats Reed and his obedlent gang
would be powerless to stop the wheels of ,g-
slation in theil efforts to compel the speaker
to count quorum as tley have tried so often
to do of late.
Coxey's army woull better Ike warning
from the treatment that is being melted out by
the Washington authorities t. the advance
guard of the western wing of his army, which
arrived here Saturday night There were
forty odd of them. They were met by de-
tachment of police, marched off and locked up.
Representative Meyer, of Louisiana, has H.
age, which meets the object ON raised in the
Presidents veto and also adopt this suggestion
of providing for an issue of bonds. But
somehow the bill isn't popular.