The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-05-21
ashingiOn Letter.

sugar trust controlled the Republican
sub committee which drafted the amend
ments to the Diugley tariff bill, but all
| that has already been made through
| speculation on the advance knowledge of
! what that schedule was to be, as a ma
jority of the senate nave made II certain
| that the sugar schedule cannoI be put
| through, by declaring themselves to be
| against IT. The tariff bill is not likely
to be taken up by the senate on the 18th
as agreed upon, but it will not be the
| fault of the Democrats, but of the Re
! pubHcans In failing to get trustworthy
| comparative statement showing the diff
| ferenceS that will be the result of the pro-
| posed changes. There Is another thing
about the tariff bill that can be stated
with certainty. There will be anti
trust amendment adopted before the
bill passes the senate. The necessary
votes are promised.
| At last the administration has found
| out the bunco game that Spain played
| ON the Cleveland administration and
has been trying to play on the present
| one, thanks to the wide-awake reports
of Consul General Fitzhugh Lee, and
| justice is seemingly going to be done to
poor Cuba. Mr.. Mckinley has had
long conference with the members of
| the senate committee on foreign rela-
tions, as to what should be done. The
| impression is that Senator Morgan'S re-
| solution for the recognition of Cuban
| oelligerency hardly goes far enough and
that recognition of independence
would be the proper thing, in view of
the facts forwarded by General Lee. A
| public mass meeting of Cuban sympa-
thizers is going to be held in Washing
| ton Sunday.
The administration now wishes that
1t had not caused its intention to rein
state all exUnion soldiers or widows of
| such who had for any reason been
| dropped from the government pay roll
to be so widely advertised. Like most
advertising this has brought results.
These results are much more numerous
than were expected; also more embar-
| raSslug. The plain truth is that many
of the applicants for reinstatement, and
some of those who have been reinstated,
are united physically to perform the
duties of the places they once held, some
by reason of age and others by disease.
If there were only few of these people
they could be scattered around in the
| departments and their inability to do
| good work would go unnoticed, but
when their number goes away up into
hundreds 1t becomes serious matter,
because as a rule every one of them
relnstated displaces an efficient employe.
This matter was discussed at cabinet
| meeting this week.
Senator Kyle isn't the first man who
has made bad thing worse by trying to
explain away the charge that he had
agreed to vote with the Republicans in
exchange for good committee assign
| ments, hut he made a bad mess of it,
| especially in saying that his understand
ing of the policy of the populists was to
help the Republicans control the senate.
Evidently the house has not been
| properly impressed with the importance
| of the policy of Secretary Wilson in try
| ing to spread the sugar beet industry in
| this country, or 1t would not have re-
| fused TO agree to the senate amendment
| to the Sundry Civil hill, appropriating
$4,000 for the continuation by the sec
retary of agriculture of an investigation
| of the sugar beet industry. Perhaps
some of the members of the house have
| not forgotten the sugar fad of Mr. lie
Due, who was commissioner of agricul-
| ture under the Hayes administration.
which cost Uncle Sam considerable
money and did not revolutionize the su-
| gar industry.
The house showed its belief in the la
bOrer being worthy of his hire, by
| promptly agreeing to the senate amend
ment to the sundry civil bill providing
that duplicate electrotype plates, from
which messages and papers of the
| presidents were printed should be Civ
en- to the compiler, Representative Rich
ardson, of Tenn, notwithstanding the OBJ
lection of Representative Connolly, Ills,
who said that firm had offered SIC, 900
| for the plate. Inasmuch as Mr. Rich
ardson had devoted two years to the
! work of compiling this book, the house
| thought he should be entitled to anv
profits there might be in supplying the
book after the number ordered for con
| greSs had been printed.
| Albion w. Tourgee will not believe
that pie hunting was "a Fools Er1and''
IN his case, as he captured piece of pie
that promises to be far more satisfying
than making bricks without straw
was. He has been nominated U. :
| Consul at Bordeaux, France. III. p
Chatman, the negro ex-congressman
| from North Carolina also got a good
thing in the Recordership of Deeds of
the District of Columbia.
| 1t Is hoped that the senatorial pil-
| grimage to the tomb of Jefferson, which
| Senator Hoar is credited with being re-
| sponsibIe for, will result in a careful
study of Jefferson's life and writings by
the senators. Edifcation is to be found
therein, and some of the pilgrims need
edlhcatlon badly upon more than one
subject. NJ.