The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASuINGToN, ID. c.. October It'll
MIR EDIToE:-Sccretary Carlisle is still
in doubt as to whether he will again speak
in Kentucky during the state campaign,
with the chances against his doing so,
but he has excepted an invitation to deliv-
cr a financial speech before the Boston
Reform Club, at its annual banquet. to
be %ivcn on Saturday next.
1t is reported that Secretary Carlisle has
about made up his mind to recommend in
his annual report to Congress, that 81 Il
barrel be added to the tax on beer, which,
it is estimated, would add So 5000 a
year to tie receipts of the government.
Whether the republicans would accept
this recommendation if it he made will
depend upon whether the high-tariff or
bust republicans control the House. If
that faction gets on top the country will
be in for another tariff agitation. Mr.
Reed who will rule the House with rod
of iron, only bending when he thinks he
can improve his chances for getting the
presidential nomination, he is credited
with not wiShin" to touch the tariff durin"
the coming session of Congress.
Secretary Olncv declines to discuss re-
cent sensational publications concerning
the action taken by this government to-
wards compelling England to respect the
Monroe doctrine in its dispute with Ecne
zucla about the ownership of certain lands,
but | can State on high authority that the
action of the administration has been as
vet, with the exception of renewing the
suggestion made by Secretary Gresham
that the claims be submitted to arbitration
confined to gathering facts to fortifv it i'll
the position 1t will take later on, if it be
comes necessary to uphold the Monroe
doctrine.
W hencNcr Il man who l. or has been
prominent becomes i'll or dies the country
is at once flooded with Measurements con
corning his life The case of Ex-senator
Malone, of Virginia, is the latest striking
instance. From the time he was stricken
down with paralysis the msstatemcnt mill
has been steadily grinding. One promi-
nent newspaper writer stated over his own
signature that Gen. Malone and his fami-
" werd -bloodcd, F.F.N .aristocratS, and
that 50 long as he remained in the demo-
cratic party he was rich and prosperous in
business idoIiZcd for his war record, and
his family the pets of the highest society,
but that after he became II republican nc
and his family were socially ostracizcd
and his business Disseminated against
until he was gradually driven to bankrupt
CIV. About the only true thing in the
whole Article is what is said of his war re-
cord. The people of Southampton county
Virginia. where Gen Malone was born,
and where he has relatives now living,
would smile at his being called an aristo
crat, and old citizens of Petersburg where
he has lived since the war would do like
wise upon being told that the Mahones
ever were social pets. Malone was pie
bcian born. He was a civil engineer and
helped to build the Norfolk and Peters
burg railroad, which was part of the A.
VI. & o. system, of which he became pres
ident after the war. at a salary of So, 900
wear. He came out of the war poor, a.
he entered it, but his war record made