The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-04-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April Goth.

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Mr.. EDIToR:-The chief pie distributor
and his assistant having gone to New
York to take part in dedicating the mon
ument to Gen. Grant, the pie huntere who
to accompany them are taking Il rest
About half of Congress has also gone, as it
was previously agreed that the House and
| Senate should meet to- day and Thursday
only to adjourn.
1t is becoming apparent that the admin
istration is preparing to let down some of
the civil service bars to the office pastures.
| MIR. Mckinley has been talking over the
and two of his cabnct-Gagc and Wilson
have publicly advocated modifying the
| Civil Service Rules as applied to their de
partments.
Some surprise was expressed by ONO
men who were not inside the game, so to
speak, when Judge Day, of that State, who
was supposed to be prepalingto go to Cuba
as a special commissioner, allowed himself
State. They knew that Judge Day had
| resigned two judgeships, both paying
more salary than any of the Asst. Secre-
taries get, and that he wasn't exactly the
sort of man who would care to be any
bJdv'S assistant Well, he is to be Sher-
mans assistant only in name. SO far as
the matters he will handle are concerned,
he will be Secretary of State, and if Mr..
Sherman, who is giving visible evidence
that he feels his age, gets tired of the wor
~ and resigns, the portfolio will be given
to Judge Day. What Mr. Sherman thinks
of this programme would make interest
ing reading, but unless he concludes to
add another volume to his "Rccollections"
the public will have to be content with
guessing. Had She'm not been in Han
mas way in the Senate, he would never
have been made Secretary of State, and he
would not be persuaded to withdraw it
should he tender his resignation
Senator Foraker won his fight against
Bellamy Storer, of Ohio. without having
A"A
nomination to be Asst. Secretary of
State. Storcr was nominated Minister to
Belgium instead, and Foraker has no OBJ
jections to his going there
Had % members who were present Dut
did not vote, supported Representative
Bands appeal from the decision of the
Speaker, refusing him recognition to offer
his resolution calling upon the Attorney
General for Information as to what steps
had been taken to protect the interests of
the Government in relation to the sale of
the Union Pacific Railroad, the Speaker
would have been defeated as the vote
stood 81 for sustaining the speaker and -
against Such a close call as that ought
to convince Mr. Reed that he has got to
be little careful or he will get a heavy
throw down some day.
The death of Judge Holman, of Ind, so
closely following that of ex Senator Noor-
hees, another distinguished son of the
Hoosier state, is deeply felt by the old
timers in Congress. Notwithstanding his
appropriations he believed to be unnecess-
airy, no member of the House had more
personal friends That he valued the
good will of his associates was strikingly
shown several years ago. He was very
poor and when approached by publish
cr with a liberal offer he decided to write
book covering his personal reminiscent
ces during his long memberships in the
House, and actually began the prclimina-
nv work About that time John Shcrman's
book was published, and when he saw the
antagonsm that was thereby aroused, he
concluded not to write book. When re-
monstrated with he said Il cannot do it.
Every book of "reminiscences that comes
out only makes trouble for the writer.
He is bound to say something, even if he
is innocent of any mean intention, that
will cause heartburning. ! must not let
the end of my life be clouded in such a
way
Senator Jones, of Ark. said speaking of
the future of the gold democrats: "Some
W III iCIiialu III tuC iCpupliSdn pdilS anu
the others will return to us. 1t is too
early vet to predict what proportion will
renew their allegiance to democratic
principles, but | think very considerable
number will. Those who are willing
to support democratic principles will be
welcomed back. We shall be glad of the
assistance of any man who believes As We
do and votes with u.s. that is sound demo
cracy. The gold democrats may not be
permitted to vote at the primaries in some
places, but that is IA local matter determin-
ed by local sentiment. Generally speak
ing the democrats who left the party last
year, because of the money question, will
be permitted to identify themselves with
the organization again, if they will sup
port our PLATFORM"