The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-03-26
MARLBOROUGH, MARYLAND, MARCH &C.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
,SHJSGToS D. C. March 22nd.

WASHINGToN, d. c., March 22nd.
MIR Notwithstanding more daring has
been done IN the House during. either OF
the autncratc regns of Car Reed than
the passing in few hours of the Appro-
priation Bills which failed to become laws
at the last session of Congress, without
reference to any sort of Committee and
practically without debate Just stop and
think for Il moment of the audacity of this
proceeding Here is new House, more
than onc-third of its members being men
who did not belong to the last House and
who know no more about the items In
| those appropriation bills than if they had
been prepared in Africa. These bills were
brought forward and the House was or
dered to pass them "sight unseen as the
boys used to say about swapping conceal
ed articles, although they carried many
millions of the peoples money and it was
admitted by some of the republicans who
helped to force them through that they
contained items that were questionable as
we'll as those that were eXtravagant. And
this remarkable assumption of authority
on the part of Gar Reed had not even the
excuse 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 obi ect
was to keep the hands of the House tied
for the whole of the present session, by
not appointing the regular Committees,
another unheard of thing origin; ted by
the gentleman from Maine, who still kind
ly allows the e ..bc:s of the House to
draw their salaries and dispose of the
money without consulting him, and who
also allowed them to vote themselves eX
ira mileage.
Representative Champ" Clark. of Mis-
souri,. made red hot $, ccch in the House
on the the new method of passing appro
priation bills, saying in part: The longer
man lives the more he finds out. First
and last, I've said some Lnkind things of
the United States Senate, and poked con
was So cxaspcrated at its conduct that, al
though | believe in two legislative bodies
[ was in favor of aboliShing it. But in
this distinguished presence. | wish to re-
tract all the criticisms have made gainst
it. thank God that the Sena emains
a deliberative body. In tbs House we
are going through the most amazing. most
astounding performance which ever took
place on this Continent Speaking di-
rectlv to the republicans Mr.. Clark said:
"In the campaign of last year you charged
{, 500, 900 voters of this country with being
anarchists. You are the real anarchists.
What is anarchy? 1t is running the af
fairs of country without government
You are doing just what you charged us
with wanting to do, but let me tell you,
| day of reckoning will come
Mr.. Mckinley and other republicans are
much alarmed at the signs of a tariff re-
volt in the Senate. 1t is given out by
prominent republican Senators, among
them members of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, which has already 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. 1t
| is, of course, possible that these repubi
can Senators are only making bluff to
give Mr.. Mckinley an opportunity to offer
them Inducements in the shape of patron
age to support his tariff bill, but the man
| ner in which the Senate amended the two
| last tariff bills passed, is calculated to
make Mr.. Mckinley believe it means some
thing more serious.
There is rumor that Secretary Bliss
has resigned because Mr.. Mckinley COM
| PEELED him to accept the resignation of
| Land Commissioner LamOreuX, which was
| rendered before the close of the Cleveland
administration, and which Bliss had re-
| fused to accept because of accusations
made in connection with the Chicago lake
| front land case, but the rumor is denied.
| Although the output of the administra-
ton pie plant continues limited in guam
| tity, the fact is noted with wrath by those
who were not original McKinleyites that
nearly all that has been dished out has
| gone to the original Mckinley men. This
too, in the face of Mr.. McKinley's con-
| tinued reiteration of his intention to recog-
nize no factions of his party in making
appo ntments 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 good posi-
ton, it Happens" that he runs against
Mr. McKinley's very convenient rule not
to appoint men who cannot get the in
dorsement of their entire Congressional
delegation. 1t looks very much as though
| the old anti-Mcs. would have to content
| themselves with the smaller Federal offices
in their states, while King Hanna takes
| care of "Our friends"