The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-11
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspondent Talks in a Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
(Communicated.)

WASHINGTON, Dec. Z, 1896.
The reign of Mark Hanna has open
ed in Washington. He is attracting
more attention from Republican Sena-
tors and Representatives than the
opening Of Congress and the Presl-
dents message confined, and ne
seems to be greatly enjoying it. Con-
gfess has no favors to distribute at this
/ session, while Hanna has them by the
barrel. The Republicans who have
| been reelected to Congress want to
work Hanna for their friends, aud
those who will cease to draw Congress
/ sional salaries on the Ord of March are
anxious to make connection with other
/ public salaries at the earliest possible
moment thereafter, and they recOg-
nize the necessity of getting on good
| terms with Hanna in order to do So.
4 Hanna has no particular respect or rev.
erence for anything except money.
4 He went through the pretense of lis
+ tening TO Protests by local Repub leans
/ against tue selection of a gold Demo-
I GRAFT for chairman OF the Inauguration
/ Committee, but he never had any idea
| of going back on the promise he had
made to the Clique of millionaire real
estate spectators to select the man
! they had named for the place, 10th as
Il reward for his campaign contribution
/ and as a means OF putting "a man uu-
/ der their control in way 20 get into
/ the good graces of Mckinley ana INTO
a local office where he Can influence
! the eXpendi ure of the Dislricl of Col
Z la, finn. L. fs hAT
/ Investments If | wanted anything
! from Hanna, should hunt up tine mil
| Honaile who had contributed to his
C ,mmittee, for hacker, instead of
nOthering with political influence.
Marx regaj DIS politics as simply ques-
ton of money, and not OF principles
aud / make the prediction right now
! that the nIlliOuaIres of the country
" ill he far more influential With the
Mex niey administration, than the
| poi iCiaus.
How Ia do nothing while pretending
| t. be Try ing to do something, VIII be
the motto of the Republican leaders
| during the present session of Congress.
1t has been fully decided at Canton
| that an extra session of Congress shall
be called TO pass tariff bIll, ana that
nothing must tie done at this session to
| give the Republican opponents of an
extra SESSION, of whom there are many,
an excuse for saying there is no neces-
| SHY for one. Under the circumstances
| tins will not be difficult task. The
regular appropriation bills can easily
be manipulated so as TO take up all the
time of the short session.
President Cleveland's seventeen
thousand word message to Congress is
| from u literary point of view, well
written document. Its recommended
tious, some of them repetitIons, have
the united endorsement of the cabinet,
and doubtless OF many of Mr.. Cleve-
lands admirers in private life. But
it has about the same effect upon Con
gress as a Whole as the distribution of
batch of temperance or religious
tracts would have had. 1t has been
received with Indifference. 1t is
neither praised or denounced to any
marked extent, although some features
OF it may, little later on, b. made
the text of some very interesting
speeches.
Pom Reed is to-day the most indie
pendent man in the Republican party.
Mckinley needs his support far more
than he needs anything that Mckinley
has to give, and nobody knows 1T any
better than the big man from Name,
next House without raising a finger
although the McKinleyites would give
much for some scheme that would ena-
bic them to tear him down, but they
dare not make an open move in that
direction
Those enemies of the Democratic
party who had somehow, most proba-
bly, because they wished it, gotten the
idea that Senator Hill Intended to at
tempt to knock the bottom out of
things 10y making speech in the
Senate in which he would pay all his
political and some of his personal
debts by telling things that ought not
to be told aud saying things which
were best left unsaid, have been bark
ing up the wrong tree. Senator Hill
may think he has political wrongs to
avenge, but it can be stated upon the
very highest authOrity-that of him
self-that he has not the slightest idea
of assuming the role of public aven-
ger on the floor of the Senate, and
that instead of trying to widen the
breach between Democrats be will en-
deavor to the extent of his influence to
bring about better state of party feel
ing.
Representative Berry, of Kentucky.
who was reelected, has this to saw Of
the recent election in that State: ion
fair and square vote Kentucky would
have gone for Bryan 10y at least % 600
majority. But money was used with
out stint, and it Is one of the most no.
tent factors in modern politics. There
Is always a purchasable element. and
when money is as plentiful as it was
IL Kentucky this year, there is no
trouble III getting mercenary recruits.
But the Democrats elected seven out
Of the eleven congressman In spite of
the corruptive methods of the opposi-
ton, aud two years hence the Demo-
cratic ticket v Ill sweep the State.n