The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-01-04

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


President Cleveland is the only man who
has the authority to call an extra session
of Congress, but that little fact important
rs it happens to he is being entirely over
looked by those who have relieved the
President of all trouble in the matter aud
assumed his aul hortv without even say
ing. by your leave. sir. and who are now
busy arranging all the details of the extra
session, hut both he and Secretary Carlisle
sometime a@o pointed out to leading demo
Gratis that some sort of relief must soon be
had for the Treasury. and that if this Con-
"rcSs failed to provide it necessity mi @ht
compel the calling of an extra session. The
situation has not changed. The calling of
an extra session depends largely upon the
action or nnl,-action of the democrats in
the present Congress.
The republican leaders would regard the
I calling of an extra session of Congress as
a great misfortune for their party. al
though some of the small fry are Sway~er-
ing around talking about what we'd do. ="
The leaders know that just as soon as II
financial bill is reported to the republican
House. a situation not widely differing
from that rNiStin" in the present House
will at once be developed: that the tinan-
cial differences are quileaS marked in their
own a> IN the democratic party: hence
their dread Of an extra session the wear be =
fore Il Presidential campaign.
Although Il large proportion of the dem
ocratic members of the House have re-
turned to Washington there is not ain" in
sight upon which TO prc,.ict with any de
gree of certainty what will be done with
the Carlisle currency reform bill. In or
| der that there might he no misunderstood
| ing and that every democratic member
might feel at liberty to propose amend
mcntS, President Cleveland has allowed it
to be perfectly understood! that he is not
welded to any particular plan of currency
| reform, but is ready to join hands with the
| democrats in Congress upon any plan that
can be greed upon. When the House meets
Wednesday the discussion of the Carlisle
| bill will he resumed and continued for the
rest of the this week. Further t,lan that
no definite pro gramE.c has been ranged.
| 1t i expected that Il democratic caucus to
consider the bill and proposed amendments
will be called this week AMI that somcth hin =
will bc decided upon.
| Senator Cameron. Of PENNSYLVANIA. has
| lust shown that Il man may have Prrsidcn-
| Ill
ron will ever havc-an.l vet not guard his
tongue That Senator Cameron was pccu-
niarilv interested in the Malone lot. and
that it was partly through him that cN-
| Senator Mahonc has for four wears been
able to prevent the purchase of any other
lot as IA site for Il new Government Print
| inc Office, has long been know in Wash
ington But that did not prevent general
| surprise when Senator Cameron made the
| fiat footed statement that the Senate would
agree to the purchase of the Mahonc lot,
and that only. Not very complimentary
to the democratic ma joritv of the Senate.
ell:
Secretary Gresham presented the new
| AuStro- Hungarian minister Ia the Prcsi-
dent Saturday afternoon. 1t having been
| reported that the new minister was under
instructions To demand on behalf of his
government certain tariff concessions with
notice that retaliation upon American
| products would follow Il refusal on the
part of this government, he was seen aud
asked if the report was true. He stated
positively that his government had given
him no such instructions, and that it hal
| taken no action whatever concerning the
new tariff. lie added that he did not an
ticipate any commercial trouble between
his government and the United States on
account of the new tariff
Senator Cockrcll. of Missouri chairman
| of the Senate committee on appropriations,
takes no stock in there being any serious
attempt made to defeat the clause in the
urgency appropriation bill appropriatn.
money to meet the expenses of collecting
| the income tax, notwithstanding reports
which pretend to give the details of a com
bination organized to defeat that appro-
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he intends to get the bill before the Senate
as soon a> possible and that he anticipates
no trouble in getting it passed. Senator
| Quay is said to be preparing an endless
speech which he proposes to make against
the Iii. and Senator Lodge is also crrd-
! ted with desire to talk against it. Scna-
| tor Hill figures in all the rumorS about
what is being done to try to defeat this APP
| propriation but those who know him best
do not believe he would defeat the appro-
| priation. if he could. although he would
| gladly vote to repeal the income tax. But
voting t" repeal law and voting to with
| hold an appropriation necessary to enforce
Il law are two very different things At
torncy General Olnry is confident that the
attempt 10 have the income tax declared
| unconstitutional by the courts will fail.