The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-08-31
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN, August -, 1891

l'fesldeI Cleveland viii, III honor OF The
Uniformed Rank Knights of pylhias, now Ell
campci on the grounds ii the foot of the
Washington Monument. remain i'll Washing
ton until Wednesday. and possible until
Thursday, although he is just as ANXIOUS 10
Get away rs any Of the congressman. and the
most Of them were SO anxious that they coul
not wait for the formal adj 'urnment, to NOR
low afternoon, but have already gone
To-morrow morning in every Custom House
in the Unit ii States the new tariff law will be
put into effect and Mex nlrl ism wi be dead
forever, unless tn voters have undergone a
great change of mind since the list Congress
sonal election The working of the new law
will SoCn brit.g out lis many good points, and
perhaps the bad features may not prove as bad
as many good Il mocias, including the Prrsi-
dent, fear them to be.
People ufen oyerIeach themselves A
case in point is connected with TIE tar
iii law. As soon as it became detinit IL known
that tyng cards We're t. be taxed , cents a
pack the five or SIX manufi,t trers of them in
this country We're llpoirL with orders for the
wholesale dealers who had an idea that the
tax would only have to b. paid On those man
uta,t uei after the new law went into eff ct
They learn better now, AMI the kn,wl-
edge Will cos, them j'ist cents pick, as the
fax must be paid on every pack of cards sold
Had these wholesalers been less greedy they
would have saved money, al cards made
after the Nv takes ell ct will have to lave the
cent revenue stamp attached by the manu-
features, while the stock il, The. hands of Il al
ers will have t be stamped by them.
representative Hall, OF Minnesota, has pub
lshed i'll pamphlet form his speech giving in
Condensed form Whist Congress has done, and
it will probably ei " a wide circulation. He
has had ILe cover Of The pamphlet printed in
tac simiie Of rat blank pl,npi,tnt first ought
to Congress during the ,ter debate III the
Senate at the extra session by a would be wit.
with It's II triug tile What Congress has
done Mr. II Ill shows wha' it really has
done and rs his summary dIscosAs il has been
all things c,nsde. ed a cIeditatlr session 10 the
democratic party 1t has III d all money
equally tlNabl.: restored coht euce i'll cur
currency and ii rtnc..s; given to the people the
opportunity of living better ana cheaper; shat
tered the protective i.HS,s uf Mex nley ISM
mans surplus a, well ~ upon every tn's
needs; restored the freedom Of rle, lin FACED
the transactions of the government aud its
method of accounting up IN a business basil
greatly reduced the eAp-naitures of tie GOV
eminent ard the number Of "fli e hol lets, and
has maintained an unr rnting fight against
trusts and monoples which protection created
AT the close of the Summary Mr. Hall prn s
the quoati ,n-'lt has 10 IgIt the good ti.ht,
it has fniS'ed the curse i has kept the
fa'tl."
Represent alive McCreary, OF Kentucky, says
pertinenlly: The house has passed more good
bills and enacted more important .gislation
than any of its predecessors i'll ten years. or Of
any in which | all familiar, and | have been
watching the course of legislation for % yeas"
OF the new riff bill he says: 1T is not a.
sweeping ant! comprehensive as | desire, bur
it is the best tariff rrtDrm bill since 1877
when democratic Congress amended the Wal
ker irifl bill of 1916 by reducing the taIitl
rates to average rate Of | : per cent. The new
tariff bill places wool, salt, lumber, farmin"
machinery, co III ties, c ton bag"ing, bind
ing Irvine, and number OF other necessar,
at cles on the free list The duty on WOODEN
goods and clothing has been reduced from ALI
average rate Of IS to Is per cent, and millions
of dollars annually will be saved 10 the people
on clothin. and wooden goods alone
The Democratic Congressional campaign
committee viii now b.cin to rnsh things.
ter, and even the republicans are nov begin
ming to admit that they have no hing up II
which to base hopes lat they will elect a ma
jority of the next House. They have no,
yet reached the stage where they are willing
To concede majority 10 the democrats but
let themselves uo"u easy by expressing their
belief that neither democrats republicans
will elect maio ity of The next House. This
implies belief that the populists will elect a
the III Duse The democratic commit &c is in
constant communication with trustwortl COZ
respondents in every Congressional District,
but they have no knowl .tge of anything that
indicates any such increase i'll the p pulisl
strength Dn The contrary, they are confident
ia tit, next lnt.se will be democratic by a
GOOD woik king majority.