The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-22
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspond ent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
Especial to the Citizen.l
WASHINGTON. May 18th, 1896

MASHING1ONs May I5lHs 1850
Mckinley paid big price for the
support of the A. P. A. Nothing less
than a written pledge to live up to the
principles of that organization should
he be nominated and elected Presi-
dent. This pledge was obtained by
committee of three sent by the Su-
preme Council of the a. P. A. to see
Mckinley personally and report back
to the council. The visit was supposed
to be kept secret and yesterdays pa
pers contained telegram stating that
Mckinley denied having been waited
upon by an A. P. A committee, but
when the denial was published, the
written pledge signed by Mckinley,
which to all intents and purposes
makes him member of the A. P. A,
was in Washington and being discuss
ed by the members of the Supreme
/ Council, who had been awaiting the
return of their committee with consid-
| cradle impatience. With that pledge,
and il is said considerable expendi-
ture of money, it did not take the SUI
preme Council long to unde the anti
Mckinley work of the Advisory Com.
mittee, and TO virtually hitch the or
gan ization to the tail of the Mckinley
kite.
Car Reed has resumed his crown
and has abandoned the conciliatory,
you're a good-fellow style which he
assn med as candidate for his party's
Presidential nomination and again be-
| came the autocrat of the House that he
used TO be. He has also resumed the
habit of making enemies by firing sar-
castle epigrams at members who give
him an opening either on the floor of
the House or in private conversations.
The meaning of this is all perfectly
plain. Mr.. Reed sees the Mckinley
| shadow on the wall and no longer re-
| CARDS himself as in the Presidential
running. He can have the second
! place, but it is said that he will not
take it unless he finds il necessary to
keep ii from going to some man like
Senator Proctor or Senator Quay, both
of whom he thinks betrayed him. IF
he takes the second place it is said
that be will be open to the charge of
treachery to the combine, each MEM
Der of which pledged themselves to
make no deal with Mckinley.
The Democratic Senators were uuau-
imous in their belief that Col Dupont,
OF Delaware, was not entitled to seat
! in the Senate, and as the Populists
voted with them Dupont was turned
down by majority OF oDe. 1t was
thought that some of the Republicans
would vote against Dupont, out such
strong party pressure was brought to
bear that those who would not swal-
low their convictions outright by vot-
/ ing for him allowed themselves to be
paired, which amounted to the same
thing. 1t eau be positively stated that
the Democrats did not offer the Popu-
lists single inducement to vote
against Dupont. Aside from their
convictions, there were several strong
reasons for their doing so anyway, not
the least of which would have been
their loss of the balance of power in
the Senate if Dupont had been elected.
AT least one important office has
sought man aud found him before he
knew it was after him. Mr.. Dominick
L. Murphy, of Pa, who has been nom
mated TO succeed Commissioner Loeb
rem, who has been nominated to be-
United States Judge of the Minnesota
district, got the first news of his pro-
motion from a newspaper bulletin
board. Gen Dana has been nominal
led to succeed Mr.. Murphy as first
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.
He has been chief of a division in the
Office for a long time.
When a man gets a reputation for
dQnUfnU Guah a SnnoTnr Of
Iowa, has had for many years, he cam
not come out f1atfooted upon any i'm
portant question without creating a
sensation aud stirring up a nest of in
terrogation points. That is just what
Senator Allison's square statement in
favor of the gold standard aud against
the free coinage of silver has done
Mr. Allison has been sort of Presi-
dental candidate for twenty years and
has made 1t point to try to stand well
with everybody in his party. His en-
tIrely unexpected declaration is taken
TO mean that he, like John Sherman,
has come to the conclusion that he
viii never get the Presidential nomi-
nation of his party and that it is use
less to longer keep up the troublesome
habit of lodging
The Senate has adopted another Gu
President to furnish 1t with the details
of what has been done and what it is
proposed to do towards seeing that
Americans arrested by the Spanish in
Cuba are not deprived Of any of their
treaty rights. This resolution was
probably adopted more for its effect
upon the Spanish than for Information,
as every Senator must have known the
prompt and vigorous steps taken by
the administration which led to the
setting aside of the sentence of death
imposed upon several Americans by
Spanish Court Martial and the order
ing of the civil trial for the prisoners.
Gen. Fitz. Lee has received his final
instructions and will this week go to
Cuba. A great deal of rot has been
written about these instructions. As
matter Of fact they are probably known
only to President Cleveland, Secretary
Olney and Gen. Lee, and it is certain
that neither Of them would talk about
them for publication. What has been
published on the subject is guess-work
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