The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-10-03
PEARRE IN CONGRESS.
Some Information That Will
be of Use to His Opponents
He Was a Friend of Corpor-
ationS.

The congressional career of
Hon. George A. Pearre is at this
time a most interesting subject,
as the people want to know what
account he has given of his stew
ardship. Below will be found an
exhaustive and thoroughly re-
liable account of his position on
the various questions of the day
during his term in the last Con-
gress:
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS INTRO
DUCED.
At the first session of the 56th
Congress, Mr.. Pearre introduced
So bills, presented IS petitions,
made 10 speeches, submitted D
reports from Committee OH Dis
trict of Columbia, and served on
two conference committees. he
cannot, therefore, be charged
with lack of diligence. But when
we come to look critically at his
work, it cannot be said to be i'm
portant except as showing that
/ the railroads and other corpora.
tons have a wide awake advocate
in Mr. Pearre.
Among his So bills, the most
important were ii. h. l0,57l, for
the relief of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad; ii. h. 1928, for
the relief of the Colum bian Iron
Works and Dry Dock Company;
II. II. 1914, for the relief of Fred
erick, Md; II. r. 1856, to amend
the pension laws; II. r. 57S5, for
increasing the cost of the United
States Building at Cumberland;
Ii. II. 1898, to adjudicate claims
of customs inspectors; II. r.
1928, to purchase the portraits
of the Chief Justices of the United
States: II. Il. G072. to suspend
tariff duties on articles controlled
by trusts; ii. II. 5794, to prevent
the pollution of water supplies;
II. Il. 9047, to incorporate the
Washington Telephone Company;
IL. II. 3597, to incorporate the
Frederick Douglass Memorial and
Historical Association; ii. Ii.
5000, to extend the lines of the
Metropolitan Railway Company;
II. II. 57S4, giving preference to
soldiers and sailors in the Civil
Service; II. Il. 9l30, to appoint a
railroad commission in the Dis
trict Of Columbia; and three bill
to widen streets and one to collect
arrearages of taxes in the District
of Columbia. The seventy other
bills introduced by him re lated
nearly all to pensions or other
forms of relief, and are of little
general interest.
His bill, Ii. II. 6072, "author.
ling and directing the suspen.
sion of tariff duties upon imports
when their sale or manufacture
are mOnopolized, and providing
for the creation of a commission
to investigate and report to the
President thereon was an excel
lent joke. The monopolizing OF
the home manufacture of imports
or the sale of home made imports
alone was affected by it. lie was
consistent, therefore, in voting
against the third amendment of
fered by the Democrats to the
Littlefeld bill, because that
would have taken the tariff of
imported goods competing with
articles made by trusts in this
country, whenever the prices were
unduly enhanced under the shell
ter afforded by the tariff.
AS will be seen further on, Mr..
Pearre voted against all five OF
the amendments proposed by the
Democrats to the Littletield bill
and his own bill, of course, was
pigeonholed as it was evidently
intended to be.
OF all the bills above specified
only two became laws. These
Ii. II. $3.50 and the MetrOpoli.
tan Railroad bill Ii. r.. S663) but
neither of these was originated by
Mr.. Pearre. They were proposed
by citizens of the district. The
Washington Telephone bill passed
the House but dies in the Senate.
The rest were all pigeonholed by
House committees to which they
had been referred. Only four OF
his seventy private bills became
laws. These were bills to pension
jeremiah Everly, John S. Parker
and Frederick Weber, and to in.
crease the pension of Julia A.
! Gilpin. Four out of seventy is a
little more than five per cent.
AS the net result of his work at
this session, we, therefore, have
two unimportant bills of a gen
eral nature, one of which was in
the interest Of the negroes of the
! district and the other in the in.