Show oun OUK washington LETTER ocr writs of matters 6 within and ana without congress A real investigation of the sugar scandal one that would go to the bottom of things and not get frightened off when on the track of information that would incriminate senators would be a good gooc and desirable thing to have but another fible liate the last one goald be worse arse v than useless because it w would do more harm than good the people recognize a job of if whitewashing as quickly when it is done by senators as by hur humbler abler wielders eldera wi ot of the brush senator jones of nevada who was inferentially charged by senator aldrich with havin having given out the cuaar robe ische dule C batore tore the tariff bill was reported P arted to the senate is Chair chairman mao of the committee on contingent expense to which senator tillmans resolution for a sugar hinves ti gation by a committee of five senators was referred and he says saya the committee will deport the res resolution 0 favora favor aDly oly that makes it reasonably certain that the tion will he be adopted because a number of senators who would like to vote against it it will not dare to do so it will all depond upon the formation of the investigation committee whether it will mean business or a farce senator tillman will be chairman of HIP ohp committee if he be given four collea colleagues ups as fearless as himself the guil guilty ty senators if there be any deneh will be brought to hook book and the sugar t trust rust the head of which got cleared on that other indictment will also be shown up but if he be be given colleagues who are alfraid of their shadows tothill 9 a will come of the invests investigation altion the republican steering committee in the senate is ig slowly but surely undoing the work of the subcommittee that prepared the amendment to the din dinley dingley 0 ley tarin bill find and by I 1 the tinie timo the bi bill 11 gets gels through th die e senate the rate of duties impo imposed ed therein will average almost or quite as high as the dingley hill bill the tax on tea and the increased tax on beer are doomed and we are likely to have in an internal revenue tax on an bank checks MOTt mortgages gages etc in their places unless the republican Republic ansi get frightened out of the idea by protests mr T G peyton a well rell known virginia gold democrat thus sizes up the present situation it seems to me now that those of us who contributed to tile the success of the republican ticket have been the victims of a confidence game As I 1 view it now a very great mistake was made last november it would have been much better for the country to ta have elected mr bryan I 1 have not lecomp a convert 17 eh to free silver bi lver since the election my belief in sound money is as strong as ever but I 1 am satisfied that if bry bryan an had been elected the country would have recovered more LO re quickly from the ills that have af f isted it Sy sneaker speaker eaker reed s readiness to r reverse verie rulings i made by him hi im as speaker an and d opinions given by him as in an authority on parliamentary law would be amusing if the matter was not of too serious rious se a nature to be so regarded whatever it rt anding as a an authority on parliamentary rules and practice mr reed I 1 had previous outi to the present session of congress has been lost by his hi decisions decision which have nude made it plain that he recognizer nothing higher than his own will in making in deci decisions sons heretofore many people who disagreed with I 1 sir r reeds parliamentary rulings in many particulars have been willing to 0 give him credit for conscientious belief in them himself but they are not now after all mr reed read is not solely to blame A few of the republican member of tho house could at any time rebuke the methods pursued by mr steil R by voting with the democrat but they have not done and are not likely to do so go on the contrary if mr reed should rule that the chaplains prayer was vlas out of order and 9 a democrat appeal from thil the ruling m the republicans almost I 1 to a man vote to sue tain the speaker with the fi republican le Pul lican in the house it ia is not a question of which is right t to 0 10 but of what reed wants them to do senator morgan was doubtless out of order when he made that stirring attack upon reed and the laloup on n the floor of tile the senate but the llie attack wag certainly deserved arid and senator morgans assertion that the present method ii of the house are not am constitutional is receiving clise attention bud and may result in n a change the selection of whitelaw reid and hu brother inlaw in law ogden oden balls ills to lo be respectively special ambassador arid and Secret secretary arv to the ho ambassador to represent the united states at the queens jubilee ceremonies monies in in london is another indication cation of mr tion to lo cater to the wealthy vr whitelaw hit elaw reid thanks to his hia father fabber in laws money and so gome ro e never very clearly explained business manipulations manipulation acquired a con tr trolling ollin v interest inter cut in the paper established by horace florace greely and later by political icil trickery got fei P morton morion turned down by the be republican national Kat ional convention arid and himself substituted for Beri benjaain jatin running mate in iii his last campaign it these ma may y he be reasons why lie he should be especially honored but why mr mills who has never been anything but an idle society nanu man should be honored is iD explainable on oil any other ground than that of money wor ship on the martof part of mr meki mckinley alev washington slav 31 1807 |