The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-07-06

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-Chairman Wilson, of
the House Ways and Means committee, is on
hand. apparently completely restored 10 health,
ready to take charge of the tariff bill as soon
as it gets back to the House Like the skillful
commander he has shown himself to be, Sir.
Wilson decliues to publicly express his own
opinion of the Senate amendments to the hill
or to say what he thinks Will be the result OF
the conference on those amendments. What
ever position taken by the cOntcrCCS on Iii"
part of the house. who will, of course. hC head
cd 10y Chairman Wilson, will be the result of
mature consideration on the part of Speaker
Crisp and the leading Democrats of the House,
with whom Mr.. Wilson has been in almost con-
slant consultation since his return to Washing
ton. The one prom inent Democrat who has
been entirely left ont of these consultations is
President Cleveland, and he has been left out
in accordance with his own wishes. He does
not wish to have it said that he took sides with
either the House or Senate i'll what may lie IL
quickly settled friendly controversy or may de-
YeIOp into bitter wrangle. However, no one
who is at all familiar with President Clevc-
lands public uttcrances, not to mention his
private conversations on the tarl1 question,
can have any doubt as to which OF the tWo-the
original Wilson bill or the amended Senate
bill-he prefers. There are good reasons for
the belief that the Democrats of the House will
stand up for the original Wilson bill, and il
can be set down as certain that the protection
amendments of the Senate will never be ac-
cepted in their present shape. There is no
longer any talk of even an attempt being made
to have the House agree to all OF the Senate
amendments In bulk. There never was any
foundation for such talk, beyond the imagina-
ti0ns of some people who would like to see
the matter disposed of in that way.
The GeorgianS in Congress are beginning to
get somewhat worked up over the election of a
Senator to succeed Mr.. Walsh. When Speaker
Crisp declined the proffered appointment to fill
the unexpired term of the late Senator Col
quit, it was generally supposed that he there
by secured what the boys call IA lead pipe
cinch'' on the full term, although il was then
known that Representative Turner would
probably be Il candidate. Several days ago,
hnw Walsh made a manly al
nouncement of his candidacy. Speaker Crisp
has not indicated whether he will be candi-
date or not, and one Of his closet personal
friends has just assured me that Mr.. Crisp mas
not yet decided the matter.
Two New York bankers of prominence had an
eXerience in Washington several days ago that
will probably make them more careful in the
future about believing every statement they
see in the newspapers of the class which make
practice of printing the sensation first and
ascertaining its truthfulness afterwards. A
newspaper of this class had story to the Ell
feet that the President would gladly issue an
other $50, 900, 900, of bonds if he were certain
they could he placed without trouble. These
two bankers filled with patriotism and desire
to profitaby invest the money of their custom
ers came at once to Washington and went to
the White House where they proceeded to sur
prise President Cleveland by offering to take
that entire bond issue. Mr.. Cleveland assured
them that there was not the slightest fOunda-
ton for the bond issue story; that the admins
tration had not contemplated any further issue
of bonds and that there was no reason in any
UnlHS HOW hHO"H W cAptCb lhslb thClS "ouiu
be any necessity for the question to be consid-
cred at any time in the future. Surely that
ought to be sufficient to settle the matter but
all the same that bond issue story will continue
to be printed in one form or another, as it has
been from time to time, by those who know its
fasity.
Senator Harris's programme has so often
been upset and changed by circumstances
over which he had no control that he deserves
great credit for not having lostheart entirelybe-
fore now. 1t is his present attention if the final
vote on the tariff bill be not reached on Tues
day to compel the Senate to hold session on
the Fourth of July, but, of course, it all de-
ponds on the vote of the Senate as to whether
his intention can be carried out. In the alb
sence of n unanimous agreement as to when
the final vote shall be taken there is nothing III
the rules of the Senate to prevent Senator
getting the floor and speaking for the rest of
| the week, if so disposed. Senator Aldrich, who
has been the leader of the Republicans in the
| tariff fight said this morning that so far as he
knew no Republican Senator would make an
| other set speech on the bill and that he saw no
| reason why Il vote could not be reached some
| time Tuesday. No good reason existed that
prevented vote being reached long ago, but
we all know that it hasn't been reached
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