The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-02-01
CTR WASHINGTON LETTER.


TO make money out of the condition of the
Treasury is believed by many men in botn
branche, of Congress. Natu ally members
of the administration will not express
their belief upon such Il matter. The idea
of the conSpiratOrs rs understood by those
who believe in their existence. is to with
draw gold from the Treasury and hoard il
until gold can 10y its scarcity he forced It"
premium. Your correspondent does not
undertake to make the positive statement
that there j. Il conspiracy, but the facts are
such as to justify the suspicion that there
is 1t is known to a certainty that the le-
ultimate demand for yold-to pay debts
and for purchases in Europr-c"uld have
been met with les, than one half of the
gold that has recently been Withdrawn
from the Treasury. 1t is perfectly clear
then that more than onc-half of the gold
withdrawn is now boarded in the vaults
of banks and safe deposit companies,
Why: 1t can earn nothin" for its owners
while thus living idle. and the men who are
credited with the boarding are men who
always expect Il profit out of all their imam
cial transactions. There is only one way
they can make Il profit out of this one, and
that is to force gold toa premium. That :
why so many believe that they are doing
that very thing. or at least trying to do it.
Can Congress do any thing to head off
such a conspiracy: 1t unquestionablv can.
but will it do so. That is question cas-
Ter to ask than to answer. lfthere Is such
Il conspiracy. it exists solely because of the
belize of its members that Congress will
do nothing to prevent its operation being
successful President Cleveland and See
rotary Carlisle are thoroughly alert, and
they will not allow gold to 30 lOa premium
if it be possible under the authority vested
in them by present laws to prevent it. by
issuing more bonds, and they are both sat
isfied that it will he. although they would
much prefer Congressional action.
Senator Faulkner who is chairman of
the committee on Territories. is anxious to
get the bills for the admission of Arizona
and New Mexico before the Senate and
hopes to be able to do so in Il few days.
Those bills would have been passed lon"
ago but for the secret opposition OF repub-
lican Senators. who lack the courage to
openly oppose the admission of those ter
ritorics. but make use of all their parlia
mentarv skill to kill the bills indirectly,
by prevcntin" their being acted upon.
Secretary Carlisle succeeded in getting
the House to adopt two important amend
ments to the Sundry Civil appropriation
bill The first restores to the Secretary
notes of such denomination as he may
deem best in place of currency presented
for redemption. At present he is compelled
to reissue notes of the same denomination
as those redeemed and cancelled. The
other which amends the law for the issue
of gold certificates shall not be receivable
for customs dues after July |. 1895. and
shall not be available for use a. part of
National banks reserve fund and discontin-
ues their further issue.
Sixteen out of 81 votes which were east in
the Senate against the Nicaragua Canal
bill came from democrats, and II out of
the 81 votes cast fort. 1:'democrats We're
haired. o Union differs widely as to the
probability of the bill getting through the
House Only one thing is certain, and
that is. that it cannot be brought to vote
in the House without an order from the
committee on Rules. 1t has been stated
bv friends of the bill that Speaker Crisp
had partly promised that an order setting
time for a vote would be reported, but
the statement has never been confirmed by
a member of the committee. Even if such
an order were reported it might meet the
fate of the Currency bill order-hc reject
ed bv the House The Canal lobby is
very active.
\ decided administration victory was
won i'm the Senate Saturday afternoon,
when Senator Vests amendment to the
pcndin" Hawaiian resolution was adopted
bv the Senate The Vest amendment en-
presses sympathy with all attempts to es-
tablish republican institutions: rcatfirmS
the doctrine of absolute n-intcrfercncc
with foreign nations and says: That the
administration of President Cleveland in
maintaining this policy as to our foreign
relations deserves the approval and sup
port of the American people The odd
feature of this victory was that II was won
hv the vote of Senator Pettigrcw, who il
will be remembered was one of the repub-
lican Senators who voted against Tie Nc
kinlcv tariff bill. he havin" with 2:' demo
Gratis voted for the Vest amendment. while
Is republicans and 1 ropulist~ voted
against it, Had Pctti"rcw voted with the
republicans there would have been tie.
The tariff receipts of the government
are rapidly increasing thus furnishing an
answer 10 the argument advanced by re-
publican>. that the tariff would have to be
amended in order To produce more rrve-
nue., and hearing out the estimates made
bv Secretary Carlisle Of the new Tariff us
4 revenue producer.
\ Con>tan,inorlr correspondent of the