The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-04-02
Washington Letter.
From our Rcgular CORRESPONDENT.

From our Regular Correspondent.
Although the Republicans in the House
promptly lined up to vote down Representa-
tive Dockery's very fair antitrust amendment
to the Mckinley tariff bill, No. =, that is being
rairoaded through the House, providing that
whenever it should be shown to the satsfac-
ton of the President that there existed trust
or combination to control the price of any arti-
Gle ON the duti4ble list, the duty ON such article
should be suspended, only one of them has had
the nerve to stand up and openly defend the
trust. Representative Walker, of Massachu-
sets. is the man who was not only willing to
vote for the trusts, but to talk for them. He
told the House that the great trusts reduced
the cost of production. which was true, but
when lie added that they al O reduced the
prices to the consumer he entered the rea Ill of
fiction. He said that trusts were the natural
outcome of higher civilization, AZ j predicted
that all the railroads would eventually be con-
trolled by one. An attempt is being made by
the Democrats 10 get the time for debate on
the tariff bill extended but it is hopeless The
edict has gone forth that it shall be pass d by
the House on Wednesday, and as the votes are
controlled by Gar Reed, it will be.
In no business conducted by private indvid-
uals is the government of the United States so
directly concerned as in the soliciting Of pat
ents. When an ignorant client gets the worst
of his dealing W tn an INSCRIPTIONS and tricky
patent solicitor he is apt to regard the L. :.
Patent Office as having had Il share in the bust
ness. Knowing this, intelligent men in Con-
gress are always on the alert to head of when
possible the tricky schemes resorted to by
some men who call themselves solicitors of
patents. One of those schemes is struck at by
the bill introduced by Senator Hansbrough,
making it unlawful for any solicitor of patents
to offer an inventor Il premium or prize as an
inducement to him to pay his fee to enter his
invention i'll 4 so-called competition.
Every member of the new Executive Com
mittee of the National Association of Demo
cratic Clubs, appointed by President Chauncey
F. Black and directly to meet IN Washington,
April u, for organization and discussion of
the programme to be carried out by the clubs,
was u supporter of the Chicago platform and
of Bryan and Sewall. They were chosen for
that reason and the members of the Old EXecu-
tive Committee who refused to support the
party ticket and platform last year, were drop
ped for the same reason. The association is Il
strict party organization and will not recognize
boilers in any way. The following is the en-
tire Executive Committee: Benton McMilin,
Tenn; 6. Ii. Lambert, N. j.; d. c. Smith, N c.;
c, c. Richards, Utah; J. X. Mclean, Ohio; L. b.
Howell, Ga; II. d. Money, Miss; J. c. Dahl
MANN, Nebraska;S. NJ. White, Cal; E. Murphy,
Jr.; N. Y; L. l.. Jackson, Md J. l.. Mitchell,
Wis; c. J. Faulkner, W. Va; w. j. Stone, Mo-;
G. +. Williams Mass; J. S. Hogg, Texas, and
J. C. Sibley, Pa. The following is the full toas t
to which Mr.. Bryan will speak at the Washing
ton celebration of Jeffersons birthday
Thomas jefferson, we celebrate the anniver-
sary of his birth not in the spirit of dolatry,
but from regard and reverence for his political
principles"
Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri,
brought down the House by his retort to the
assertion of Representative Bromwell that JET
ferson stopped the coinage of silver and sup,
port ed protection. Mr.. Clark said: THAT is
an historic lie. 1t is on par with the state
ment that Madison was a Federalist The
trouble is the histories are written by New
England people. There will never be any
truth in history until the Yankees quit writing
history and the Southern people begin"
Representative Dolliver trod on some sore
toes when he said in reply to a Republican
charge that the Democrats were trying to de-
.ay the tariff bill ION the contrary, we are
very anxious to reach some of the schedules of
this bill before the final vote is taken Weuu-
derstand that there is an incipent revolt over
there among some of the Republican members
from the prairie States who want lumber left
on the free list"
Representative Griggs, of Georgia, has of
fered Joint resolution for the amendment of
the constitution. so as to give Congress the
power to impose and collect an income tax
1t is stated that ut the request of eN-Secretar ny