The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-09-21
Washington Letter.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, September 17.-Secretary Car
| Isle has had to explain to some interested
party so often that he is merely an executive
officer charged with the duty of enforcing the
tariff law as he understands it, and that he has
no more authority to change its express pro-
visions than he has to change any other law,
that he wouldn't be human if he was not very,
very tired of the task. Some of the things he
has been asked to do are fairly reasonable.
but by far the most of them are simply out of
the domain of reason. One sample OF these
requests will do to show the general nature of
all of them. The section of the new tariff pro-
yiding for the free admission of alcohol used in
the arts has been one of the most troublesome
to Secretary Carlisle, largely because Congress
neglected to make any appropriation to pay
the large number of inspectors that will be
necessary to make any regulations adopted by
the Treasury even fairly effective. A commit
tee representing the manufacturing chemists
and druggists, who will be greatly benefited
by the new law, has been in Washington Tor
some days. and so anxious were its members to
assist Mr. Carlisle that they proposed that the
necessary number of Treasury inspectors
should be appointed and that their salaries
would be paid by those manufacturers who
used the free alcohol and they actually seem
ed surprised when told Chat there was one little
drawback to such a scheme-it would be I'M
lawful. Secretary Carlisle will shortly put in
operation regulations for the enforcement OF
this section of the law, without the appoint
ment of any new inspectors, depending large
ly upon putting the manufacturers under
heavy bonds to make them toe the mark.
The government receipts for the first half of
September have been very satisfactory, and
there is little doubt that the receipts for the
entire month will exceed the expenditures. 1t is
also now as certain anything in the future
can be that the new tariff will produce more
than enough revenue to run the gQvernment.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee, has Just
returned from New York. He reports the
Democratic party in that State to be in mucn
better condition than might be supposed by
those who depend upon the Metropolitan press
for their information. He thinks the domina-
ton of Tom Platt in the Republican State Con.
vention is going to help the Democrats. OF
the Congressional outlook in the State he says
I'VE are weak in one or two districts, but a
careful survey of the State convinced me tnat
we are not in so much danger of losing
strength as some would like TO have IL appear.
The people are being aroused to the Dement'S
which accrue to them under the new tari1.
Prices are getting lower even at this early date
on many of the staple articles OF daily use
This is particularly true of goods coming under
the wooden schedule, although, that does not
go into effect until the LIST of next January,
but the prices are already being marked down
in anticipation. One thing that struck me very
forcibly was the statements made on every
hand by the wholesale dealers of New York
city of marked improvement in business, all OF
them being engaged in the pleasing task OF
booking unusually large orders, when means
that things are improving all over the country,
as these orders come from merchants In every
section"
Well, the administration has been blamed for
everything by the Republican press, but the
climax of absurdity would seemed to have
been reached when it was blamed Tor having
allowed the kentuckians from Col. Breckin-
ridges district holding office in Washington to
go home to. help Col. Breckenridge in his light
for denomination. Why, the administration
has no more right to say what an office holder
may or may not do when he takes the vaca-
ton which belongs to him than it has to say
what grocery store he shall patronize. The
men who went to Kentucky to help Col. Brock
inridge were under obligations to him for the
government positions they hold and If they
chose to take their vacation at a time when
they could go home and return those obliga-
lions nobody had anything to do with 1t. An
administration that would attempt to take
part either for or against every candidate for
Congressional nomination in its party would
have no time to do anything else. SO Tar as
Col. Breckenridge is concerned, there are few
Democrats hereaboutS, either in public or pri-
vate life, who would not have preferred seeing
him voluntarily retire from Congress- but the
most of them considered, when he announced
his determination to fight for a denomination,
that it was matter belonging exclusively to
the Democrats of his district, and for that real
son few Democrats have publicly expressed
any opinion about it. Now that the Democrats
of his district have compelled his retirement Dy
nominating his rival Mr.. Owens, 1t IS Just as
well to let the whole matter drop. Its con-
tinued discussion can profit nobody. c. A. S.
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