The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-03-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 21st, 1891

WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 21st, 1908.
MIR. EDTToR:-Labor's bill of griev-
ances, amounting to a demand for GER
tain legislative enactments In the inter-
ests of labor at this session of Congress,
and prepared by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, in collaboration with the
heads of other organizations affiliated
with the federation, was submitted this
week to the Nice-President OF the
United States and the Speaker Of the
House of Representatives The only
tangible result of the conferences was
the declaration of Mr.. Cannon that the
House would undoubtedly pass q bill
re .enacting the employers liability act
$50 as to meet the constitutional obJec-
tions found in the old law by the United
States Supreme Court. As to the other
Congressional enactments sought by
; labor, Speaker Cannon assured his call
| ers that they would have consideration
BY the proper committees Of the House.
| Representative Bourke Cochran is a
| frequent White House visitor these days
| In fact he is there SO often that there is
much speculation as to his real mission.
| ITS case for smiles rather than for
comment" he replied the other day
when asked, as he was leaving the White
House to talk about the action OF
| Charles F. Murphy in leaving him oil
the Tammany committees. care You
| Democrat today" Mr.. Cochran was
| asked II don't know what the de1ni-
ton is today" replied Mr.. Cochran,
land so l can't tell whether I'm within
| the breastworks."
| David Bennett Hill, of Albany, N. Y,
! was in the Senate and about the Capitol
this week. MIR. Hill says emphatically
that ne is out of politics and that he is
| over here to argue a case before the
| Supreme Court 1t is fresh in the mem
| ory Of all Democrats that there was a
| time when ex-senator Hill was power
n the politics of the Empire State and
| contested honors only few years ago
| for State leadership, with Richard
Croker, the boss, at that time, Of Tam
| many Hall. Several times Mr. Hill has
had his name on many tongues as a
| probable candidate of the Democratic
| party for the Presidency Of the United
| States.
The House of Representative passed
| a res olution this week, introduced by
| Representative Harrison Of New York,
calling on the President fer information
regarding his authority of law for exer-
cising the functions of government on
| the Canal Zone. Mr.. Harrison charged
the President with exceeding his author
ity and charged the Republicans in the
House with negligence in their conduct
eff the government.
Senator Bacon of Georgia is doing a
work which must appeal to every IN
preiudced mind in his endeavors to Sc
| cure an increase in the pay of employees
of the executive departments. The pay
of Senators and Representatives was in
creased fifty per cent. at the last session
| to meet the acknowledged increase in
| the cost of living in Washington, but
| until Senator Bacon took up the cud-
gel in their behalf, no one considered
the poor government clerks who are
obliged to keep up with the procession
as best they may On the salary allotment
of years ago.
The Tatsu Maru incident between
China and Japan has passed into his
tory. Minister WI on Thursday receiv-
ed a dispatch from Pekin stating that
the vessel had been delivered to the
japanese, and that the Japanese flag
had been saluted; also that an agree
ment had been reached between the
two countries to draw up convention
that would prevent the smuggling of
arms in the future. 1t was stated at
the State Department on Thursday that
China and lately been endeavoring to
to prohibit the importation of arms and
ammunition for the use of bandits and
revolutionists. The zeal of the Chinese
customs officers to prevent such lmpor-
tation was the cause of the seizure of
the Tatsu Maru.
1t is the belief of the House Committee
on Appropriations that no obligation,
equitable, legal, or moral, rests upon
Congress to make appropriations for
the relief of the survivors ofthe Slocum
disaster, in New York Harbor, or the
heirs of those who lost their lives in
the burning and grounding Of the
steamer General Solcum. A resolution
to this effect has been passed by the
committee.
On motion of Senator Tillman COM
mittee of the Senate will investigate a
lot of things in the New York financial
district, the principal of which is
whether the banks caused the panic.
Among other things, the Senator'S
resolution charges the committee to
| ascertain whether there is any way of
preventing the Treasury from being a
school for the educa ton of bank Off
Gers. He does not approve of the cleo
ton of Secretaries, Assistant Secre-
tarjes and Comptrollers of the Cure ncy
TO presidency of financial institute Ons,
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