Show washington T TOPICS TUPI a au ali interesting letter from our reg alar lir correspondent FINANCIAL legislation FIRST after that will bome tariff reform beform ther othor improvements in our laws will be mado from broin time to timo WA maTox D C july 29 93 03 secretary carlisle Carl islo is the only member of the cabinet at present in washington and ho he has been confined to his house for several days dabs this week by rheumatism but next week president cleveland arid and the other members of the C cabinet it billet will bo be here as they h have ave been notified that the president wishes to submit the first draft of his message to cengr congress ess to t them 11 ani anil have a full and an d free discussion of its contents before it is finally completed I 1 attempts are numerous at t trying to guess the nature of the presidents coming message but it is nonsense for tiny one outside of the cabinet and a few close personal friends of mr cleveland and they wont talk about it to pretend to know the more mere fact that lie he will send another message to con gress at tho the opening of the regular session even should the extra session remain remain in in session until then and the general belief is that it will makes it presumable that his message to the extra session will be confined to what it was called to legislate upon finance and if this presumption bo be correct it will not indicate illy any change c of opinion as to the neos necessity sity io for i tariff and other reforms advocated by tile democratic party during the tb c last campaign merely re ly that circumstances have made it necessary to take up finance first speaking of reform commissioner lochren is going right ahead in the pro gramme mapped out for the reformation odthe of the pension roll notwithstanding 0 the howl that is being bein 3 raised rai ed bya fly ia few congressmen con jessmon whose constituents have been suspended it has already been discovered that in addition to the larse large number of pensions gr granted anted narl n nd n 1 1 l app applicant icart and his papers there were thousands granted illegally knowingly and willfully only those granted under tho the let act of 1890 have yet been examined and no others can betoken betaken bo taken up for a long time the suspensions up to date number nearly and if the same average I 1 be kept up in the entire pensions granted under 1 or the law the total number of suspensions will be something like 75 JOO the examination is is very thorough and systematic and only those cases showing clearly some come irregularity 6 or doubt odthe of the right of the pensioner the receive c tile the amount he has been getting are arc suspended and few if any of those who 0 got get restored to tile roll upon a reexamination examination re will get as large a pension as they have been receiving senator german Go rhian remarked a friend of the man who has proven his right by his ability on oil many many occasions to bo be classed clas sedas as a democratic leader never announces through in the news newspapers pipers his future political intentions and that fact is so well known that be very seldom takes the trouble to contradict the newspaper stories which appear from time to time burp purporting artinr I 1 to gitein give in detail t to do in case e age this or that happens in the senate it is safe to say however that his future actions like those of the past will always alwaes be such as will meet tile the approval of a majority of good democrats and to say that hat any advance of them which 11 may I 1 ay appear may always be set down as merely guesses gues sus one of tile the I 1 most encouraging sigs signs to those thoe who expect fin financial ancla I 1 relief from the legislation lei gi ot of the extra r session is tile the fact that while most odthe of the democratic senators and representatives havo have ideas idea of f their own as to tile the legislation needed a I 1 majority of then them express themselves as willing to licar hear tile the arguments of those who advocate other ideas and to be open to conviction if the other fellows argument be the best if this feeling be bc shared by a majority of the democrats in both house and all Sena senate the difficulty of reaching some satisfactory basis of compromise will bo be greatly lessened but it is going to take timo time to to bring about that result and wise people will not expect immediate iaac congressional action on th this is 1111 important subject good legislation is better aletter than hurried I 1 legislation egi arid I 1 have yet to to find the taft first democrat who does not firmly believe bo tb that it good legislation will be one of the alio certainties of the fifty third congress ae iceal duncan S walker chair chairman nIan or of tile committee on invitations of tile centennial celebration of the laying of the cornerstone of the capitol building m to be held september next this week sent invitations to the governors of all the states slates and their staffs to participate president cleveland has promised to introduce the principal speaker at the celebration who will be william wirt henry of virginia a descendant of patrick henry REGULAR |