The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-26
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
communicated
WASHINGTON, March %, 1897.

Nothing more daring has been done
in the House during either of the au-
tocratic reigns of Gar 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 COM
mittee and practically without debate.
Just stop and think Tor an instant of
the audacity of this proceeding. Here
is new House, more than one-third
of its members being men who did not
belong to the last House and who
knew 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 ordered to pass them sight
uuseen," as the boys used to say about
swapping concealed articles, although
they carried many millions of the peo-
pies money and it was admitted by
some of the Republicans who helped
to force them through that they con-
tanned items that were questionable to
the government as well as those that
were eXtravagant. And this remark
able 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 course of such
measures. There will be time to waste
in the House after the 3lst of this
month, upon which date the McKin-
ley 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, 10y not appointing the
regular committees, another. unheard
of thing, originated by ti5. gentle
man from Maine, who still kindly al
lows the members of the House to
draw their salaries and dispose of the
money without consulting him, and
who also allowed them to vote them
selves extra mileage.
Representative "Champ" Clark, of
Missouri, made a red-hot speech in
the House on the new method of pass
ing appropriation bills, saying in part:
1.-The longer man lives the more he
finds out. First and last, pve said
some unkind things of the United
States Senate, and poked considerable
fun at it, In the days of 1894, l was
so eXasperated at its conduct that, al
though | believe in two legislative
bodies, | was in favor of abolishing it,
But in this distinguished presence, /
wish to retraCt all the criticisms have
made against it. thank God that the
Senate remains deliberative body.
In this House we are going through
the most amazing. the most astound-
ing performance which ever took place
on this continent Speaking directly
to the Republicans Mr.. Clark said:
ain the campaign of last year you
charged 100000 voters of this coun-
try 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 want
ing to do, but let me tell you, day
of reckoning will come"
Mr. Mckinley and other Republic
caus are much alarmed at the prospect
of a tariff revolt in the Senate IL is
given out by prominent Republican
Senators, among them being members
of the Senate Finance Committee,
which has already taken up the sub
ject, that the Mckinley tariff bill No.
=, will not do, aud that they are going
to amend it SO that it cannot be recog-
nized. 1t is, of course, possible
that these Republican Senators are
only making bluff TO give Mr. Nc
Kinley an opportunity to offer them
inducements in the shape of patronage
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, that it
is something more serious.
There is a rumor that Secretary Bliss
has resigned because Mr.. Mckinley
compelled him to accept the resigna-
ton of Land Commissioner LamoreuX,
which was rendered before the close of
the Cleveland administration, and
which Bliss had refused to accept be-
cause of accusations made in conuec-
ton with the Chicago Lake Front land
case, but the rumor is denied.
Although the output of the admins.
tratiOn pie plant continues limited in
quantity, the fact is noted with wrath
by those who were not original Nc
Kinleyites that nearly all that has been
disbed out has gone TO the original
Mckinley men. This, too, in the face
of Mr.. McKinley's continued reitera-
ton of his intention to recognize no
factions of mis- party in making APP
pointments. 1t is beginning to dawn
upon the minds of some of the Repub-
licans who were not for Mckinley be-
fore the st. Louis Convention, that
they are being tricked. Whenever
one of them looms up as a prominent
aspirant for good position, it chap
pens" that he runs against Mr.. Nc
Kinley's very convenient rule net to
appoint men who cannot get the en-
of their entire Congress
ional delegation. 1t looks very much
as though the old anti Mes would
have to content themselves with the
smaller Federal offices in their States,
while King Hanna takes care of "our