The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-06-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June Srd.

MIR. EDIToR:-A real investigation of
the sugar scandal-onc that would go to
the bottom of things and not get frighten-
ed off when on the track of informal on
that would incriminate SenatOrs-wOuld
be Il good and desirable thing TO have but
another fiZZle like the last one would be
worse than useless because it would do
more harm than good. The people recog-
niZe a job of white-washing as quickly |
when it is done by Senators as by humble
yielders of the brush Senator Jones, of |
Nevada, who was inferentallv charged by |
Senator Aldrich with having given out the |
sugar schedule before the tariff bill was
reported to the Senate is Chairman of the |
Committee on Contingent Expenses, to |
which Senator Tillman's resolution for a |
sugar investigation by a committee of v.
Senators was referred, and he says the |
committee will report the resolutions fav-
orably That makes it unrea sonably GER
tain that the resolution will be adopted,
because number of Senators who would
like to vote against it will not dare to do
so. 1t will all depend upon the formation
of the investig eating committee whether it
will mean business or a farce. Senator Till
manwill be charma nofthe Committee Ifhe
be gwen four colleagues as fearless as him
self, the guilty Senators, if there be any
such, will be brought to book, and the
sugar trust, the head of which got cleared
on that other Indictment will also be
shown up; but if he be given colleagues
who are afraid of their shadows, nothing
will come of the investigation.
Tne Republican steering Committee in
the Senate is slowly but surely undoing
the work of the sub committee that pre-
pared the amendment to the DINGHY tariff
bill, and by the time the bill gets through
the Senate, the rate of duties imposed
therein will average almost or quite as
high as the DINGHY bill The tax on tea
and the increased tax on beer are doomed
and we are likely to have an internal rev.
| enue tax on bank checks mortgages, etc,
| in their places unless the republicans get
| frightened out of the idea by protests.
MI L w. ~ ION. Il "cli hnt'Wn lTGlI-
| ia gold democrat. thus sizes up the pres
| ent situation: 1T seems to me now that
those of us who contributed to the sue
cess of the republican ticket have been
the victims of a confidence game. AS l
view it now, IA very great mistake was
made last November. 1t would have been
much better for the country tohave elected
| BRYAN. have not become IA convert to free
silver since the election, my belief in
in sound money is as strong as ever. but
am satisfied that if Bryan had been elect
| cd, the country would have recovered
more quickly from the ills that have af-
f1icted it.
| Speaker Reeds readiness to reverse rul-
ings made by him as Speaker and opin-
ions given by him as an authority on par
lamentary law would be amusing, if the
| matter was not of too serious a nature to
be so regarded. Whatever standing as an
authority on parliamentary rules and prac-
tice Mr.. Reed had previous to the present
session of Congress. has been lost by his
|
he recognizes nothing higher than his own
will in making decisions. Heretofore
many people who disagree W it'll Mr.. Reeds
parliamentary rulings in many particulars
have been willing to give him credit for
conscientious belief in them himself, but
they are not now. After all, Mr.. Reed is
not solely to blame A few of the repub-
lican members of the House could at any
time rebuke the methods pursued by Mr.
Reed, by voting with the democrats, but
they have not done and are not likely to
do so. On the contrary, if MIR. Reed
should rule that the Chaplain's prayer was
out of order and democrat appeal from
the ruling, the republicans would almost
to a man vote to sustain the Speaker
With the republicans in the House, it is
not IA question of which is right to do, but
of what Reed wants them to do. Senator
Morgan was doubtless out of order when
he made that string attack upon Speaker
Reed and the House on the floor of the
Senate but the attack was certainly de-
served and Senator Morgan's assertion
that the present methods of the House are
not constitutional is receiving close at
tention, and may result in IA change.
The selection of Whtelaw Reed and
his brother-in law, Ogdon Mills, to be re
spcc,ively Special Ambassador and Sec
rotary to the Ambassador to represent
the United States at the Queens jubilee
ceremonies in London, is another indica-
ton of Mr.. Mckinleys disposition to Ca
ter to the wealthy. Whtelaw Reid, thanks
to his father-ln-law's money and some
never ve-y clearly explained business
manipulations, acquired "a controlling in
terest in the paper established by Horace
Greedy. and later by political trickery got
Levi p. Morton turned down by the re-
publican National Convention and him
self substituted for Benjamin Harrison S
running mate in his last campaign. These
may be reasons why he should be especi
ally honored, but why Mr. Mills who has
never been anything but an idle society
man should be honored is incXplainable
on any other ground than that of money
worship on the part of Mr.. Mckinley.
recently organized Capital Division No
37S in Washington, of which the conduc-
| torc an roads contprinu in that city arc