The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-03-26
Washington Letter.
rom our REGULAR Correspondent.

FROM our heRuldT correspondents.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Nothing more dar-
ing has been done in the House during either
of the autocratic reigns of Car Reed than the
passing in few hours of the appropriation
bills which failed TO become laws at the last
session of Congress, without reference 10 any
sort of committee and prac ically without de-
bate. Just stop and think for moment OF the
audacity of this proceeding. Here is a new
House, more than one-third of its members be-
ing men who did not belong TO the last House
and who know no more about the items in
those appropriation bills than il they had been
prepared in Africa These bills were brought
forward and the House was ordered to pass
them sight unseen" as the boys used to say
about swappin conce led articles, although
they carried many millions of the peoples
money and it was admitted by some of the Re-
publicans who helped to force them through
that they contained items that were question
able as well as those that wcEe extravaganza.
And this remarkable assumption of authority
on the part of Gar Reed had not even the ex-
cuse of urgency and lack of time to have the
bills take the regular course of such measures.
There will be time to waste in the House after
the 3lst Of this month, upon which date the
Mckinley tariff bill, No. ,, is to be passed. The
sole object was to keep the hands of the House
tied for the whole of the present session, by
Incorporating the regular committees another
unhe I'd of thing originated by the gentleman
from Maine, who still kindly allows the mem
bers of the House to draw their salaries and
dispose OF the money without consulting him,
and who also allowed them to vote themselves
extra mileage.
Representative Champ" Clark, of Missouri,
made a d-hot speech i'll the House on the new
method of passing appropriation bills, saying
in part: "lhe longer man lives the more he
finds out. First and last, I've said some unkind
things of the U. s. Senate, and poked consider
able fun ut it. In the days of 1894, WAS SO
exaspcrated ut its conduct that, although be-
lieve in two legislative bodies, was in favor of
abolishpg it. But in this distinguished pres
ence. | wish to getract al the criticisms have
made against it. l thank God that the Senate
remains Il dellberative body. In this House
We are going through the most amazing, most
astonishing performance which ever took
place on this continet." Speaking directly TO
the Republicans Mr.. Clark said I'm the cam
paign of last year you charged 6,5OO,OOO
voters of this country with being anarchists.
You are the real anarchists. What is anarchy?
1t is running the affairs Of country without
government. You are doing just what you
charged us with wanting to do, but let me tell
YOU, Il day of reckoning will come"
Mr. Mckinley and other Republicans are
much ala med ut the signs of tariff revolt in
the Senate. 1t is given out by prominent Re-
publican Senators, among them members of
the Senate Finance Committee, which has al
ready taken up the subject, that the Mckinley
tariff bill, No. >, will not do, and that they are
going to amend it so it will not be recognized
IL is of course, possible that these Republican
Senators are only making bluff to give Mr..
Mckinley an opportunity to offer them induce
ments in the shape of patronage to support his
tariff bill, but the manner in which the Senate
amended the two last tariff bills passed, is cal
cui,.ted to make Mr.. Mckinley believe it means
something more serious.
There is a rumor that Secretary Bliss has re-
signed because Mr.. Mckinley compelled him
to accept the resignation Of Land Commission
| er Lamoreux, which was rendered before the
close of the Cleveland administration, and
which Bliss had refused to accept because Of
| accusation made in connection with the Chi
cago lake front land case, but the rumor is de-
| MED
| Although the output of the administration
| pie plant continues limited in quantity, the fact
| is noted with wrath by those who were not orr
ginal McKinleyites that nearly all that has been
dished out has gone to the original Mckinley
nsn, This too. in the face of Mr. Mckinley s
continued reiteratiOn of tn intention TO recog-
nize no factions Of his party in making appoint
ments. 1t is beginning to dawn upon the minds
of some of the Republicans who were not for
| Mckinley before the st. Louis Convention,
| that they are being tricked, Whenever one OF
| them looms up as prominent aspirant for a
good position. it "happens" that he runs
against Mr.. McKinley's very convenient rule
not to appoint men who cannot get the indorse.
ment of their entire Congressional delegation,