The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-29
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

| WAsHINGToN, ID. c., November p
Mr.. EDIToR:-With few exceptions
| democrats are agreed that it is the duty of
| the democratic senators to retain the con
| troll of the Senate until they are forced to
| give it up. There will be no occasion to
| fill the vacancy in the office of President
| Pro TEN of the Senate so long as Vice
| President Stevenson is on hand every day
| to preside over the Senate and he can be
| counted upon to be on hand unless pre-
vented by serious illness. 1t is understood
| that the democratic steering committee of
| the Senate will recommend following this
| line of policy; also, that every measure
which comes before the Senate shall be
| fully debated by the democrats, in order
that the position of the party may be thor
oughly understood by the country TAr
republican senators can, of course, obtain
control of the Senate at once with the as
Sistance of the populists and without their
aid if Dupont is seated from Delaware
when the Utah senators take their seats,
which will probably be early in the com
ing year, if they can agree among them
selves. but up to this time they are a long
way from agreeing, and by harmonious
and skillful tactics the democrats may re
main in control during the entire session.
AS the annual reports ofthe heads Of the
various branches of the government ser
vice are made it is easy to see that demo
cratic ideas of economy in public eXpendi-
lures have been put into effect where ger
| possible. The grand aggregate of all the
saving effected may be found in the foot
| ings of the ordinary expenditure column
of the United States Treasurer annual re
| port. Those footings show that for the
fiscal year ending June 80, last, the GOV
| fnr
800 ,9Sl less than was spent duringthc pre-
vious year.
| Some people have queer ideas of what
is good taste. For instance, Hon. John
| NJ. ThurSton, of Nebraska, who was for
years in the employ of one Of the Pacific
| Railroads-only resigned within the last
ten days, although his salary as Senator
began March 4th, last-and who is said to
| owe his election to the United States Sen
| ate to the influence Of that corporation,
proposes to inaugurate his senatorial ca
reer by Introducing bill providing for Il
| settlement of the debts due the govern
ment from the Central and Union Pacific
| Railroads. He says that while his bill diff
fcrs in details from the settlement recon-
mcnded by the government directors of
those roads its result will be the same
| This may be true but when his past rela-
| tions with these corporations are rcmcm-
bcrcd suspicion will n;Mfally arise that
he is merely continuing to do their bid
| ding by introducing this bill.
Senator Hill has started much gossip by
| renting large house in Washington and
| reports as to his intentions cover every
| ina ginable thing from getting married to
opening political club house for the start
ing of Il new boom for the presidential
nomination. 1t is probable that his per
| sonal convenience was his only reason
for setting up housekeeping.
One of the most prominent members of
| the MARYLAND democratic editors is Mr. +
Sassccr, acting president. He is at the
head Of the editors party and is cnthusi-
astic over the visit to Atlanta. He took
the entire party to the exposition grounds
ycSterdy afternoon.
The exposition is a great one he said
Yesterday evening, land is an exposition
that would do credit to an entire state as
we'll as to single city. The people of
Atlanta are thoroughly energetic and have
succeeded in what many cities of three
times its size would have hcsitatcd to I'M
dcrtakc. The exposition is Il place where
much may be learned From the Atlanta
Constitution of the Goth inst