The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-05
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June l


MIR. Ep1roR:-It is not denied by any
body that President ClevelandS veto of
the River and River and Harbor bill was
in line with .Teffersonian democracy, nor
that his veto message was an entirely truth
full and conservative arrai gnment OF that
bill and of the anti-dcmocratlcs system upon
which it is founded yet many democrats
are helping to get Il sufficient number OF
the members of the House and Senate back
to Washington to pass the bill over the
President veto. and 1t Is probable that
they will succeed in doing SO during the
present week In view of the fact that
this bill could not pass over the Presidents
veto without receiving considerable
number of democratic votes, it behoovcs
patriotic democrats to carefully read
President Clcvcland's words: 'To the eX-
tent that the appropriations contained IN
this bill are instigated by private interests
and promote local or individual! projects,
their allowance can not fail to stimulate
a vicious patcrnalism and encourage a
sentiment among our people. already too
prevalent. that their attachment to our
government NAV properly rest upon the
hone and expectation of direct and especial
fayors and that the extent to which they
are realized may furnish an estimate OF
the value of governmental care. Ihat
some democrats. both in and out of Con
rrcsS. have been bitten with the "vicious
paternalism' which lays aside an old
party principle in the struggle to get
| Il government appropriation Is as true rs
| it is rcgrctable. Mr. Cleveland scored
one on Congress when he said in the clos
inc sentence of his veto message that 1.-The
contracts provided for in this bill would
create obligations of the L. :. amounting
to $6?. 00o, 900 exclusive of the 81. ,OOo,oo)
cash app 'opriatcd), no less binding than
its bonds for that sum- The unfortunate
part of this matter is the large number
of democrats in Congress who admit that
the President is right but yet are going
| to vote against him because the bill carries
| appropriations for their states or districts.
The statement of Chairman Harrity, of
! the national Democratic Committee. that
| he is going to the Chicago convention
with the intention of supporting the tick
ct and platform adopted by that conven
| ton. and that he thinks every delegate
| ought to enter the convention with the
same intention, has been well receivedby
| democrats in Congress, and as rule DEM
| Ocr;tS, whether for or against silver, en-
dorSe Mr.. HarrityS position. because 1t
is the old, old democratic principle of the
rule of the majority. During Mr.. Har-
rity's stay in Washington he was very en-
phatic in stating his belief that there
would be no bolt ut thc Chicago conven-
ton.
The MAJ who tricl to start a Presidcn-
tial boom for Speaker Crisp overlook
ed quite an obstacle; Mr.. Crisp was bora
at Sheffield England. That Mr.. Crisp is
an American all the way through. and
| that his parents were Americ ms tempo
rarily in England ut the time of his birth,
is all true: but all the same his being born
| there will prcvelt his name ever adorn-
| ing Presidential ticket, notwithstanding
his having the ability to make good
| President.
Secretary Carlisle lost no time in pay
| ing the Suwar bounticS in accordance with
a decision of the Supreme Court, handed
down last week. The sugar makers who
will share in the $5,000,000 appropriated
by Congress will get about 81 per cent of
| their claim, aud it it expected that the
money will all be paid before the first OF
July.
President Cleveland several days ago
sent for several members of the Senate
committee on Foreign Relations and laid
before them the Cuban information
which he declined to make public i'll re-
| Spouse to Senate resolution. lie also
took them into his confidence, to GER
tain extent, as to the policy which he in
tends maintaining towards Cuba until
there shall he reason for Il change. and II
he did't convert them to his way of think
| ING he at least convinced them that 1t was
useless to bring the matter up in Congress
again before adjournment
Since the news of the result of the Ken
lucky contest was received it is the opln-
ion of at least . democrats out of every 10
in Congress, regardless of their personal
preference, that the silver democrats will
have Il majority in the Chicago conven-
ton and will be able to dictate the plat
form. The more conservative among
them think however, that the time-honor-
ed two thirds rule will be continued and
that it will be utilized as Il toner down of
extremes. In other words. that while the
silver men will have ma ority which VIII
enable them to make any sort of platform
they want, they will not have the two
thirds necessary 20 nominate candidates.
No adjournment resolution has been
adopted but it is regarded as certain that
adjournment will take place between this
and the 10th of the month.