The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-29
" ashingiOn Letter.

tor German this week made good the
threat he made some time ago, when he
called attention to the fact that there
would not be money enough IN the
treasury 10 meet the extravaeant appro-
priations made AT this session of CON
gress, by offering an amendment TO tie
Fertilization bill authorizing tie issue uf
800, 600, 600 in 5 per cen:. &c tificates OF
Indebtedness. OF course the Eppubil-
cans threw up their hands IN hnIy nor
ror at the very idea of such thing, but
none of them offered to lplu Senator
German in trying to curtail the extrav-
agant appropriations
Senator Quay is going to see MckIn-
lev to dicker for a place In the band
wagon. and Speaker Reed is thinking
unprintable thoughts. The Republican
opposition to Mckinney has about
reached the colIapsing point
Th Sc two eminent Republicans of the
House, Walker of Mass. and Dalzel, of
Ia exchanged this week the compli-
mentary terms of "demagogue" and
s'impudcnt," in little discussion
brought on by the former making kick
against boss rule in the house, which
allows speaker Reed to control al legis-
lation i'll that body.
Gen Fitz Lee, now on hisw to Gu
ba, opened a May festival CIV by
Southern ladies of Washington in aid of
the proposed Battle Abbey, to be erected
as monument to the bravery of the
Southern soldiers, with a spirited speech
endorsing the Battle Abbey idea, and
highly eulogistic of American valor
General Lee is endowed with that mys-
terious quality which we call personal
magnetism to A marked extent AS one
of his old soldiers and admirers puts it,
81 believe Ftz Lee would create enthu-
siasm at a Quaker meeting, if allowed
to talk for five minutes 49,
Senator Villas naturally reSents the
charge that he secured the adoption OF
the resolution by the senate ordering
that Secretary Carlisle's recent Chicago
financial speech be printed as public
document by trick He states thst his
| action was open and above board in the
matter, and that before he asked unani-
nous consent for the adoption of the re
| solution he consulted with senators
Cockrell and Teller, as representative sill
yer me1 of both parties, and they as
sured him that they had no objection to
the speech being printed as public doc
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| Praise from your political enemies is
| often more dangerous and undesirable
than censure, but the reference to the
| immigration bureau made by Represen-
| tative Corliss, of Michigan, doesn't be
long to that class. He said of this bu-
reau, in IA speech made in the house
this week: at stands out as one de-
partment of the government seeking
earnestly and faithfully to execute the
laws with reference to immigration, and
| want TO congratulate my Democratic
friends that they have in this depart
ment worthy and efficient men" Ex.
Congressman Stump, of Md, is at the
head of the immigration bureau.
The debate on the immigration bill
which was passed brought new orator
TO the front in the person of Representa-
tive Buck, of New Orleans. As natur
allied American citizen-He came tC
America in 1852, when only 8 years olC
he opposed any burdensome restric
ton on immigration. AT the close o.
his speech he was warmly congratulated
by those who agreed with him as well a:
by those who did not, for having made
one of the best speeches of the session
from the stand point of the admirer o.
finished and eloquent oratory.
A movement has been started which
Mr.. Mark Hanna will do well TO watch
carefully. Its avowed object is to throw
the vote of every negro delegate to tn,
st. Louis convention against Mckinley
and to either Reed or Allison. Thi
movement is headed by the notorious
Perry Carson, who has for many year
boSsed the negroes of the city of Wash
lngtOn and who has been delegate t
every Republican national conventioC
for years past. Carson is an ilIiterat,
I | negro, but when it comes to politica
trickery and the manipulation of negroe
he can give the shrewdest of his white
brethern pointers. Mark Hanna ma,
2 have to buy some of those nigs again
Mr.. John Bell Bigger, who has beer
: J clerk of the Virginia House of Delegate:
] for years and who is always posted or
Democratic politics in that state, is il
t ! Washington. When asked if the Vir
D | ginia Democrats would bolt if the finan
{ | cial plank of the Chicago convention
Z didn't suit them, he instantly replied
"No sir! not on your life. Boiling ism
I'D our line. We will stick to the party
it matters not what platform is construct
ed at Chicago. Ii the financial planI
f | should declare for tin or zinc as a mou
ev metal it would he all right with Viz
ginia Democrats. Party success will
us is paramount to all other consiera
: tons" NJ.