The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-04-24
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Corres9Sond ent Talks in Sage
Name of Things in General
About Washington.
Especial to the citizen.I
WASHINGTON. April 2Olh, 1896

Speaker Reed is getting suspicious of
some of those who have undertaken
the task of making him the Republi-
ban candidate for President. One of
the men under suspicion is Quay. Reed
is said to believe that in addition to
dickering with other candidates for the
nomination, Quay has got the idea in
his head that if Mckinley and Reed
can both be thrown down he can him
self get the nomination Gee Whiz!
wouldn't Quay's nomination be "A ver-
liable windfall for the Democratic
partt?) Others have known that
Quay's head had become swelled with
the Presidential idea some time ago,
and have believed that if he could at
any time during the st. Louis CouveD
| ton get the nomination for himself he
would have no hesitation in gobbliug
it up regardless of his obligations to
! Mr.. Reed or to anybody else. Aud
| there isn't the slightest doubt that the
| practical politicians of the Platt-Clark-
| son stripe would sooner see Quay NOM
mated than anyone yet named. He
belongs to their class and they would
know just how to deal with him.
| Surely no man has a better right to be
suspicious of these men than Mr.. Reed,
whom they are pretending to be sup
porting in his fight for that nomina-
| ton. They may vote for Mr.. Reed and
they may get him nominated, but ii
| they do, it will be because they fluid
| that they cannot do better for them
selves by supporting somebody else.
The Democratic steering" commit
hi
Senators that while not desiring to
raise any obstacles to early adjourn
ment, if the Republicans are willing
to return to the people with a record of
having done nothing except to pass
the Appropriation bills they insist
upon being consulted upon all the
measures to be taken up during the re-
maiuder of the session and will not
grant unanimous consent to take up
anything that has not been previously
agreed upon.
The movement started by Senator
! Hawley, of Conn.,, to take the printing
of the postage stamps away from the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving at
Washington, and give it to the lowest
private bidder is making rapid pro-
gress and if the friends of real economy
in public expenditures do not watch
their P's and Q's the schemers will get
it through. 1t is difficult to under
stand how any man can have the
cheek TO stand up and advocate this
step backward in the face of the adj
vantages the government has gained
by taking charge of this work. The
stamps are better printed, there are
more safeguards around their distribu.
ton, and considerably more than $780,
COG is saved.
The Republican majority of the
House Committee on Ways and Means
! has decided not to report any reciproc-
lty bill during this Congress, giving as
the reason the uncertainty of what ac-
ton the Senate would take upon such
a bill and the presence of the Demo-
cratic President The real reason is
that the Republicans do not care to de-
fine the exact party policy on this sub
| iect as a bill would have to do, belle W
| ing that it ill make more votes by
| leaving the question open 80 that any
| sort of promise that may be demanded
may be made.
There was a time when a Senator
who was accused of having lied by an
other Senator, as Gear, of Iowa, was
by Allen, i Nebraska, would not hav
stood up and quietly said that he too
no exception to the language, as NJ n
Gear did, but it seems to have gone b,Tl
| Still there are Senators who belieW
that calling a man liar is equivaleN
to striking him and who are PREPARED
to live up to that belief at all timeX
The occasion of the Allen-Gear episodN
was the Pacific Railroads Bill, whiG
Mr. Gear as Chairman of the Pacif I
Railroads Committee reported to ~
| Senate, and it was directly caused K
Mr.. Gear having stated that Weave
the Populist candidate for President /
1892. stood for the confiscation of RAJ :
road property, the telegraph, the tel
phone. and the issuance of paper IA
pay for them. This railroad bill mad
be the cause of very bitter fight i
the Senate-Czar Reed can put q
through the House without any trouble
because of the belief of some Senatot
that it is entirely too favorable to Hunt
ington.
The Dupont case is noniinally before
the Senate, but nobody will be greatly
surprised if it is never voted upon. The
Republicans are now certain that they
cannot seat him unless some Senators
who have announced their determine.
ton to vote against him can be changed
| by pressure, circumstances or time, and
for that reason it is being allowed to
drag along.
Great pressure is being brought to
bear upon Senator German to get him
to change his mind about not going to
the Chicago Convention, but so far he
sticks to what he said first-that he
will not go.