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

Washington. d. C, Dec. 29, 1924 -
Although there have not been at the
outside more than seventy five members
Of congress IN Washington at any one
time during the present week, that has
not prevented those industrious gentie~
men who make a business of lnanufac-
turing Washington news for sensational
papers sending out detailed programmes
each entirely different from the other
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 Is in charge of the
currency bill, hope and believe that the
bill Will pass tte house in some shape,
neither of them would attempt to posi-
lively say that the house would or would
not pass 1t, although these irresponsible
scribblers do so daily.
As a matter of fact. 10 man living Is
in a position TO state with a 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 holidays
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-
gether again. 1t Is believed, but even
that mas not been definitely determined
upon, that the fate OF the currency bill
viii be settled at a Democratic caucus to
he held as soon as congress meets again.
At any rate it can be set down n c rtain
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 20
cents a 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 Cieve
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 It, if the Spanish
government refuses to favOrably respond
to the representations which Minister
Taylor has been directed 10y Secretary
Gresham to make on the subject.
Secretary Carlisle made public this
week the plan for the reorganization OF
the office of the supervising architect of
the treasury, which Is 10 lake effect jan
uaIy l, 1s95. Under the new plan the
Architect will have to deal only with
matters which should properly come
under him: all the rest Will 90 where
they properly belong Everybody who
knows anything about the business of
the office admits the proposed change to
be beneficial in every respect. The Of
flee of architect Is now vacant, but it Is
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 foI
| Representative Asher Caruth, of Ken
| lucky, around his usual Washington
! haunts, because of his having told 4
! guiIelss reporter that he had no use for q
! present sent him from Philadelphia
! The aforesaid present was in the shape
| of a book and bad a title reading: "Chip;
| that Pass in the Night; by Jack Pot.
! Inside, instead of reading matter. was
a poker layout, including cards anC
ivory chips. The Col. is accused by hi.
friends OF trying to bur CO that poo
! reporter and through him the public
and the reporter Is said to have beer
discharged for accepting as true tn,
statement that Kentucky Congressman
had no use for poker layout.
Gov. Oathes, of Alabama, is spendin.
the holidays in Washington, but hi
visit Is one of business as well as pleas
| ure. When asked what brought him t,
Washington at this time, he said: M,
chief aim and ambition l. to help con
| tribute to the material development o
Alabama, which Is so rich in natura
resources. National legislation is needeo
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
necessities Of the country by some kin,
of financial Legislation. The Carlisl
bill may not be project, but il Is way o
relief, and should be passed.
Chairman Sayers, of the house com
mittee on appropriations, IL, with
number of his colleagues, working righ
through the holidays on the appropria
ton bills. ".