The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-06-29
Washington Letter.


From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator Hills
fight against the income tax was futile one,
and he did not get even the support of all those
he had counted upon. Whether it was that
fact or something else he conducted the fight
with such bitterness that he has made enemies
among the Democratic Senators who will
never forgive him for the language he used
and for the manner in which he used it. Sena-
ator Hill could have made a fight against the
income tax without offending single Demo-
crat who favorS it, but he chose to do other
wise, and even those who agree with him in OPP
posing the tax are now unan nous in saying
that he has made Il mistake that he will never
be allowed to forget No man objects more to
being driven than he. Yet he tried to drive his
Democratic colleagues.
The end of the fight against the income tax
is the end of the legitimate fight against the
tariff BILL and unless there is some Republican
trickery the bill will pass the Senate and be in
the hands of the conference committee before
the close of this week. Such Republican Sena-
tors us Aldrich, Sherman and Teller, will do
nothing to prevent q vote being reached the
legitimate debate being over, but there is Il
gang of guerillas on the Republican side of the
Senate tmen like little Billy Chandler, of N
H. which may attempt fiilibuster against Il
vote, not with any expectation of defeating the
bill but just because OF their pure cussedness.'
Public interest, recognizing the early passage
of the bill, is now centered upon the changes
that will be made in it by the conference com
mttec. That there will be Il number of changes
is regarded certain, and it is fair to presume
that they will all lean toward the original Will
son bill rs it was passed by the House, although
probably in few, il any. instances going all the
way. The sugar schedule is regarded rs one of
the certain changes to be made, but it will
hardly go as far rs free sugar, because of the
opinion that some revenue must be raised
from sugar.
Senator Brice, who is chairm an of the Senate
committee on Pacific Railroads, has treat in
store for the members of that committee,
which will combine pleasure with the accumu-
lation OF useful knowledge OF the property
with which the committee has to deal. As soon
as Congress adjourns he will take the commit
tee in his private car on Il tour over the entire
L MON Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
The Hatch anticipation bill, which passed the
House by vote of $50 to 81, has been before
Congress in one or another shape for the last
hye years IL was shown by the e, manner in
vote was taken, for the bill, Democrats 93, Re
publicans AZ and Popuists 10 against, Demo-
Gratis 81, Republicans 2G-that politics did not
influence the members to any marked extent
The anticipation bill was originally introduced i'll
the Fifty-tirst Congress by Representative
Funston, of Kansas who was chairman OF the
House committee on Agriculture at that time,
it was introduced in the present and in the Fifty
second Congresses by Representative Hatch,
of Missouri, now ut the head of the committee
on Agriculture.
By the way. speaking of Funston, of Kansas,
the House committee on Elections has decided
that he is not entitled to the seat he now holds
in the House, because Mr.. Moore, his Demo-
cratic competitor was legally elected thereto.
Speaker Crisp, who was confined to his room
nearly all of last week by troublesome at
House, which is once more pegging away at
the regular appropriation bills and will prob
ably continue at it until they are all disposed
of, with the exception of the time that it may
be necessary to give to reports from the Repre-
sentatives of the House on the Tariff Confer
ence committee.
Vice President Stevenson certified the cases
of Messrs. HaYemeyer and Searle, OF the sugar
trust, to the U. s. District Attorney for pre-
sentiment to the Grand Jury, on Saturday, i'll
accordance with the majority report of the in
vestigating committee. The general opinion
is that Senators Gray and Lindsay, the Demo-
cratic members of the committee, took the
correct view when they stated in n minority re-
port that the committee had no authority to
compel Hayemeyer and Searle to tell how
much money they had contributed to State or
CARNATIONS, they having stated that they had
made no contributions to the National Organi-
cations. 1t was merely to gain little partisan
capital that the two Republican members of
the committee joined Senator Allen in ordering
that Hayemeyer and Searle be certified to the
District Attorney rs recalcitrant witnesses.
The committee is now working upon its report
of the entire investigation, hut it cannot be
positively stated in when it will be ready.
The so-called industrial armies, three of
which are now in the vicinity of Washington,
are rapidly going to pieces, the men finding
that the people of this country are not quite
silly enough to work for money and then con-
tribute it to keep several hundred men lying
around in idleness. c. A. s.