| Show washington LETTER 23 1893 uncle sam Is IB having a wrestle with a local combine which though comparatively small email in ia worked upon tue kie mine p plea that govern the big trusts throughout on t the country cou and the result may be interesting to the entire country 71 the government departments depart mento use uee four or five million pounds of toe ioe every sessum and the turn lebing bing ot of it Js if given out by contract to the lowest bidder this thia year the five or nix eix tee ice companies formed a combine and raised the price of ice to private 0 COB and when the bids bide for log ing the government were opened jt was discovered diBO that they proposed making uncle sam pay about dou double last laet years price for his bis joe ice abo bida were all thrown out and a new ad vertia verti ement for bids bide published A philadelphia company comps maje m t ie a bid at a reasonable fig figure but a t before it was accepted withdrew bd rw r w lt it because it had been notified that the local combine had bad taken steps pa which would prevent its ita being able to get a vesel loaded with ice towed up the potomac river to A w the matter now stands the pren t contract expires the first ot of july it has haa been that the govern ment use uee one of its ito own buas tu to tow vessels loaded with ioe ice lor for the department at washington but bu t nothing h ba not lyet lawn been rion nan the local combine oom bine is confident that fiat the govern wont mout will b have aveta to get ft its too ice from them bd to pay their price it such to is the outcome it will demonstrate the weakness of the government in dealing with ft a combine in a mancer that will not be lost upon other combiner combine ip no verdict ever given by a washington coroner coroners a jury gave more gentral satisfaction then than that found colonel fred fredo C ainsworth Ains woith U US S A contractor daut sut covert anu anti engineer sasse guilty of criminal neglect and consequently ot of manslaughter ju in the deahn of wenty three men in ford fords Is old the ther i ter bior the accused have hav given bah each and their cases have gou gone to tue grand burr which is now in 40 if true bills are found against them they cannot be tried until the tall fall term of the criminal court the army bourt of inquiry appointed by Secretary lamont will wilk not begin its work until toe the grand jury shall have disposed oi of colonel Ain case whatever may abay be the taa result of the action of the grand jury colonel ainsworth Alua worth will intrain retain his rank in the army and continue dinue to draw his bis salary until unfit tried by ik a and dropped from the irmy army the president edt olin can suspend him from his posit position iob as chief of the he recarda and bension division divia iou and will pro baNy do so tf if the grand jury brings in a true bul of manslaughter mady think that he shooed have done so BO as soon boon as the verdict of the coroners lury ry was waa rendered but he cannot tie de of ois his rankin the army only a court martial can do that the death of senator stanford Stanfor ld was a great reat shook shock to his warm personal friends in washington although they knew that his bis health was bad mr stanford was hardly a statesman bf but he was something rarer and better a rich man whose heart and pocketbook book were always open to te his bis fel fellow lowman man who bad baa been less successful the presence of a delegation of louisiana sugar planters headed beaded by gwo democratic congressmen tn in washington and the object of their visit bialt recalls a famous saying of the late lare Glo general hancock the tariff is largely a local question PY the gentlemen are aft here to lemand that sugar augar shall be V protected in the now new tariff bill to the extent of one and obe balt or two cents a pound if the bounty be abolished abolish et it to is belt believed eved that one of the hardest fight that will occur over the new tariff bill will be that on the sugar clause that a tariff on sugar is u un a popular with the masses is apparent to every close observer but money has bag I 1 agot t to be raised somehow anti and it may Z be that the or which a tariff on sugar would put in the treasury trea aury such each year fmay outweigh the opposition of the muses with a majority of congress on the other hand it should not be forgotten that the votes of the individuals of the aforesaid muses masses make and unmake congressmen and this influence is not often openly ignored although it is often secretly and turned down by those who lack the PI to do so publicly it to Is rumored that chat a strong lobby backed by wealthy men who are opposed to an income tax is to be here when congress meets meet for the purpose or laying the proposed tariff on sugar against the proposed tax on incomes |
