The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-01-04
aShiBgTOH Letter.

Washington. ID. c, Dec %, 1894 -
Although there have not been at the
outside more than seventy hve members
of congress in Washington at any one
time during the present week, that has
not prevented those industrious gentle~
men who make "A business OF inanufac-
turing Washington news for sensational
papers sending out detailed programmes
each entirely different from the otner
of what disposition congress will make
of the Carlisle currency reform bill. As
that distinguished philosopher. Josh
Billings. used to say. lit Is better to be
ignorant than to know SO much that
amt so. While President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle, as well as Chair
man Springer, who Il in charge of the
currency bill. hope and believe that tine
bill Will pass the house in some shape,
neither of them would attempt to posi-
lively say that the house would or would
not pass it. although these irresponsible
scribblers do so daily.
As a matter Of fact, no man living Is
in a position to state with reasonable
degree of certainty what will toe the fate
of the currency bill, and all attempts to
do so are but guesseS- 1t was well un-
derStoOd by the Democrats of the house
when the adjournment for the LoIdays
took place that the recess would be de
voted TO a study Of how the bill might
be improved, and that no CONCLUSION
was to be reached until they came to-
geth6r again. 1t Is believed, but even
that mas not been definitely determined
upon, that the fate of the currency bill
viii be settled at Democratic caucus 10
| be held as soon as congress meets again.
| At any rate it can be set down as c rtaln
| that the Democrats, and not the Sensa-
| ton managers. will decide the matter.
] If Spain persists in making the duty
| upon Canadian flour shipped to Cuqa 10
| cents barrel less than the amount
/ charged upon flour shipped from the
United States, she may wake up some
! fine morning and find herself reading a
! proclamation issued by President Cleve-
| land that will shut Cuban sugar out of
| the United States markets. There Is no
doubt about the president having ample
| authority for this retaliation, and little
that he will exercise 1t, if the Spanish
! government refuses to favorably respond
| to the representations which Minister
/ Tavlor has been directed by Secretary
{
| Secretary Carlisle made public this
week the plan for the reorganization OF
/ the office of the supervising architect OF
/ the treasury, which Is to lake effect Jan
uarv l 1898. Under the new plan the
Architect will have TO deal only with
matters which should properly come
under him; all the rest viii go where
they properly belong. Everybody who
knows anything about the business OF
the office admits the proposed change tc
be beneficial in every respect. The of
fee of architect Is now vacant, but 1t Il
! expected to be filled soon after the re-
| organization of the office. There are
| twenty-five written applications for the
office on file.
They are making things lively fOl
Representative Asher Caruth, of Ken
lucky, around his usual Washington
haunts, because of his having told ;
guilelsS reporter that he had no use for ;
present sent him from Philadelphia
The aforesaid present was in the shap,
of book and had title reading: "Chip
that Pass in the Night; by Jack Pot.
Inside, instead of reading matter, wa
poker layout, including cards ant
ivory chips. The Col. is accused by hi
friends OF trying to burc2 that poo
reporter and through him the public
and the reporter is said to have beer
discharged for accepting as true tn
statement that Il Kentucky congressman
had no use for poker layout.
Gov. Oathes, Of Alabama, is spending
the holidays in Washington, but hi
visit Is one of business as we'll as pleas
ure. When asked what brought him t
Washington ut this time, he said: M
chief aim and ambition Is to help con
tribute to the material development q
Alabama, which is so rich in natura
. resources. National legislation Is neede
: to help on the good work. The peopl
Of the South are short Of the capita
in building up that section, and so
hope that at the present session Con
: gress will do something to relieve tn
f necessities Of the country 10y some kin
: of financial legislation. The CarIisl
bill may not be prefect, but it Is a way c
{ relief, and should be passed" 5"
Chairman Sayers, of the house con
{ mittee on appropriations, Is, with
] ! number Of his colleagues, working rigf
through the holidays on the appropri;
ton bills. NJ