The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-07-20
ashingtOn Letter.

Washington, ID. c., July IA. 1891
President Cleveland and his cabinet are
almost swamped with kilograms from
every section of the country cOngratua-
| ting them on the promptness with which
| they have brought order out of chaos
! aud prevented what at one time looked
| like it might be Il revolution, and vol
unteering aid to any imaginable extent,
! in both men and money. The presl-
! dent and his advisers believe that the
worst is over, but they none the less feel
proud of the confidence reposed in them
! by congress and the people and will con
| tinue their efforts to deserve that con-
| fidence.
1t is Speaker Richardson now, if you
! please, Representative Richardson, of
| Tennessee, having been elected speaker
| pro tenn of the house during the absence
| OF Speaker Crisp, who has been called TO
| Georgia by the serious illness of his
| brother.
! The Democrats of the tariff conference
| committee nave held daily meet Ings this
| week, and the air Is full of runners each
| contradictory of the other as to what
they have done. These rumors are
nothing more than guesses as members
say until they report to their respective
! houses.
Had the situation not been entirely
too grave and important to be laughed
at the silly talk of Messrs Hayes, Nc
Guire and French, members of the ex-
| ecutive committee of the Knights of
Labor, who are in Washington this week,
about beginning impeachment proceed
| (lnpV a
cause of the arrest of Debs, would have
been regarded as a joke. As it is, it
merely gave the intelligent public an OPP
portunity to gauge the caliber of the
men who control once powerful and
Influential! organization and to wonder
how they ever managed to get their au-
thority and how long the organization
can stand the use they are making of 1t.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, in addi-
ton to being a states right Democrat of
the stauncheSt sort Is known among
lawyers as an authority upon Constitu-
tional law. His resolution (offered as a
substitute to the s.mi-anarchist resolu
offered by senator Peffer, of Kan, and
supported by the POpulist senator in one
of the most Outr tgeous speeches ever
made in the senate in which the abolition
to a committee composed of one member
from each state was advocated), endors-
ing President Cleveland and his admins
istration for the prompt and vigorous
measures taken ''to repulse and repreSs
by military force the interference OF law
less men with the due process of the laws
of the United States, and with COM
merce among the states and declaring
| hot 10 of nd hts
administration has the full sympathy
and support of the law abiding masses of
the people of the United States, and will
be supported by all departments of the
government and by the power and re-
sources of the entire natiOn," would
have been Immediately adopted by a
nearly unanimous vote of the senate as
it was the next day-only Peffer voting
against it-had not Senator Gallinger, OF
y. H, for some unexplained reason
caused it to 60 over a day under the
rules by objecting to a vote thereon and
refusing to withdraw the objection al
though he WIS begged to do so by his
Republican colleagues. Speaking OF the
situation Senator Daniel said: al am a
states right Democrat, and would be the
last man to stand idly bv and see the
authority of the state encroached upon,
but fail to see anything here that en-
crOaches upon the authority of the state
of Illinois in any way. The president is
: acting entirely within the lines of the
constitution, and his action is to be
, commended by all law abiding citizens,
regardless of their political predicatiOn
or partisan feeling"
: This Is the way the situation looks to
Senator Davis, of Mimi, the Republican
whose raking down of PETER will not
soon be forgotten: 81 have looked into
this matter as a lawyer, ands my judg-
ment is that the president has gone
about his business as a lawyer. He has
considered his ground, become acquaint-
ed with his authority and powers, and
, then gone to exercise them in a right
eous cause and for the good of the
general public. He has not exceeded
his power one whit; on the contrary, he
} has not as yet exhausted it. If the
Federal troops are not sufficient for this
: emergency the state militia is at his com
mand. The president can swear the
militia of the various states into the ser
| vice of the United States, and then send
t them to Chicago or any other point
I where their mobilization may become
necessary. The constitution is broad
enough in this case, and the president
Is entrenched to it. NJ