The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-07-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July ,:

| WASHINGToN, ID. c., July %.
Mr.. EDIroR:-N erily, the summer mad
ness is on those who are jumping all over
| Secretaries Olney, Carlisle and Herbert
and Attorney General Harmon, who at
tended special cabinet meeting last Fri
tav afternoon, because they declined to
tell what was considered at that meeting
| Since when, pray has it been the custom
| for members of the Cabinet to take news
papers into their confidence to that ex-
tent? There are reasons-good ones-for
keeping secret for the present the business
of that meeting and abuse will not change
| them.
| \ bit of the same sort of business is the
abuse heaped upon Comptroller Bowler,
| because he has notified beet sugar COM
| panv of Nebraska that he has doubts of
| the constitutionalitv of the Act making an
appropriation to pay sugar bounties, and
requesting them, through their lawyers, to
| present arguments on the subject. Mr.
Bowler is only performing his duty In a
decision in a suit brought to compel pay
ment of sugar bounty the Court of APP
peals of the District of Columbia has de-
clared the bounty law to have been, in its
opinion, unconstitutional. What then is
wrong about Comptroller Bowler demand
ing to have his doubts removed before APP
|
| That is exactly what the office of Comp
| troller exists for.
Treasury officials are not disposed to re-
gard seriously the proposed boycott of
national bank currency by the Knights of
| Labor They say that even if the boycott
| be carried out according to programme it
would not affect the Treasury in the slight
est manner, although it would probably
result in lessening the amount of money
| i'll circulation, as the National Banks would
doubtless soon withdraw a greater portion
of their notes. The notes of National
Banks represent less than one-tifth of the
circulating money of the United States,
the total being less than 1912 100000. 1t
is difficult to see what would be gained by
boycotting national bank currency. True,
the National Banks notes are not legal
tender, as between individuals; neither are
the gold and silver certificates, but they
can be turned into legal tender so easily
that their refusal would amount to moth
ing Should National Bank Notes be re-
fused all their holders would have to do
would he 10 present them to the Treasury
for redemption and receive legal tenders
for them. The Knights of Labor are on
the wrong track. The National Banking
System, under present laws, is far from
being perfect or even half way satisfactory,
but there is only one way to light it with
out ii ghting the United States Government
and that is through repeal or amendment
Of the laws by Congress. Neither the
Knights of Labor nor any other organiza-
ton, civil, religious or military is strong
enough to successfully boycott the United
States government, and that is just exact
ly what Il literal carrying out Of that order
of Sovereigns would mean.
EX-Speakcr Crisp is III WaShin gtOn, but
will sail this week for Europe, where he
will remain until the fall, for the benefit
of his health, which, while much better
than it was during the last session of Con-
gresS, Is still far from robust. Judge Crisp |
simply laughs at the story that he is run
ming away from Georgia to escape the Sill |
yer discussion now going on in the state |
He says the people of Georgia know better |
than That: also, that they know his posi-
ton in favor of silver is the same now that |
ii has been for years.
\ business man from New York thus |
sizes up the political outlook: The pros
poets of the democrats are Frightening all |
the time. ANYBODY who doubts that state
ment knows but little of what is going on.
Wages are being advanced, mills are run
ming night and day, and American manu-
LECTURERS, thanks to free raw materials, are
beating their European competitors in the
most distant markets of the earth. This
is procf positive that with equal chances
as to material the manufacturer of the
United States could not only hold his own
against the foreigner, but could drive him
off the field. EN-Sccrctary W hltncy Is, |
think, the strongest man the democrats
could nominate for president"
Secretary Olncy was asked when he came
to Washington the other day if the Pres-
dent had given any consideration to an