The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-06-22
Washington Letter.

WARRINGTON. ID. c., June 16. 1904
President CLEvEIAND's health is once
more the text upon which the Washing
ton exaggeratOrs are preaching the same
old sermons. He called in a doctor this
week because of little trouble with his
stomach, such as most of us are liable to
have at this season, and the doctor told
him to keep quiet for a few days. That
Is the whole unadorned story He has
not stopped tTansaCting business for a
single day. He only cut down the
amount of work he usually does for
day or two, in order to comply with the
doctors orders, and he is low all right
again; but the sermons will be kept up
until a new text is found
Recognizing the fact that the Demo
cratic senators had about exhausted their
stock of patience and were about to force
matters, Senator Aldrich, on behalf of
the Republican Senators proposed to
Senator Harris that Monday, June %,
| be set as the date for taking the final
vote on the tariff bill. Senator Harris
| declined to accept, because he is salts
| fed that a vote can be reached before
tina: date, or certainly not later, without
any agreement. The income tax Is the
/ only thing remaining to be disposed of
that is likely to consume much time
! Senator Hill will make a long speech
against it, but, like tine rest of the bill,
it cannot be defeated. because the votes
to pass it have been pledged.
The delay of the senate in passing the
tariff bill will make it necessary to pass
| joint resolution extending the appro-
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| into the new one that begins July /. as
| not a single one of the regular apprO-
! priation bills has been touched by the
senate, although eight of them have
! been passed by the house and the rest of
| them could he disposed of in the next
| two weeks if the senate was ready for
| them.
! Assistant Secretary Hamlin. of the
! treasury department, has gone to the
| Pacific coast upon somewhat peculiar
| errand. For some years there have been
/ constant scandals in connection with the
| administration of the customs service in
that section, and, according to the re-
! cent reports of special agents sent out by
the treasury department, so powerful
! have the combinations engaged in
| smuggling opium, Chinese, etc, be-
come that persons who dare oppose them
| or attempt to expose them are sued for
| libel in the local courts and practically
| driven from their homes by the influence
of the smugglerS upon the workings of
the legal machinery. The reports of the
! special agents have been of such an eX-
| traOrdinary nature that Secretary Car
! liSe, who was unable because of pressure
of other business to go himself, request
ed Mr. HamIin to go and make a thor
| Ough investigation. Should he find
things as they have been reported to be,
! steps Will be taken that will teach some
people a never to be forgotten lesson.
Il never exchanged a word with Mr.
Cleveland or in his company in my life,
and have never seen the man" These
were the words used by Mr. Havemeyer.
the president of the sugar trust, when
asked by Senator Gray, chairman of the
senate investigating committee, whether
| he had held a conversation on Mr.. Ben
edict's yacht in the summer of 1892
with President Cleveland, as alleged by
| one of the newspaper correspondents who
| has been indicted by the grand jury.
No denial could possibly be more con
! vincing than that, although no denial
| WIS nttbtu 10 CONVINCE lIlG American
| people that Grover Cleveland had never
been party to Il bargain with the sugar
trust or any other trust or person. He
owes to the fact that he never would
make bargains in politics some of the
most persistent personal enemies he has.
Mr.. Havemeyer made another state
ment that Democrats should paste in their
hats to spring on Republicans who ac-
cuse the Democrats offavOring the sugar
trust. He was asked what profit the
sugar trust would make if the sugar
schedule became law. His reply was
about one fourth of what we make
under the Mckinley law" If taking
away three-fourths of its profits can be
| called favoring the sugar trust the Dem
ocratic party should not object to plead
ing guilty 10 the charge.
\ subcommittee of five members of
the house committee on banking and
currency began work to-day under
| special instructions from that commit
tee, upon a bill providing for compre-
| heTsive system of currency and bank
! ing, an improvement upon the national
! banks. Although the sub committee is
! directed to report this bill by the %
! inst, the committee does not expect il to
! be acted upon at this session. 1t mere
| ly desires to get it perfected and reported
| To the house, in order that it may be
discussed by the people before the next
|