The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
Especial to the Citizen. !

WASHINGTON, May 18th, 1896.
President Cleveland's consistent rec
ord of refusing to sign River and Har-
Dor bills, to say nothing of the extrav-
agantly large appropriations already
made by this Congress and the lack of
money in sight TO pay them, makes it
reasonably certain that the River and
Harbor bill now 10 his hands, which
breaks the record by providing for the
enormous expenditure of S75,000,000
will be vetoed. Congress is expecting
a veto, and, owing to the wide distri-
button of the appropriations provided
for in the bill, expects to be able TO pass
it over the veto. While nothing is
positively known, Democrats gener-
ally hope and believe that the President
will make his message vetolug the bill
a ringing protest against the eXtrava-
gance of this CoDgress-something
that will make strong and cOnvinc-
ing Democratic campaign document.
In declining to furnish the Senate
with the correspondence connected
with the arrest by the Spaniards of
American citizens on the filibuster
Competitor, President Cleveland mere
ly exercised his constitutional right to
withhold information which in his
Judgment ought not to be made public,
and doubtless he will explain his rea-
sons TO such Senators as may take the
trouble to call on him.
The Republican House was so dis
gusted by a resolution offered for the
Impeachment of President Cleveland
by Representative Howard, of Ala
hama, that it refused by an almost
unanimous vote to give him a hearing
IL I'D, hoo. = r.ll
tracised ever since he became men,
Der of the House, except by his fellow
Populists, because of disgraceful book
he wrote just before he became CAN
didate for Congress.
The Virginia Democratic Associa
tion, of Washington, at the last meet
ing, unanimously adopted a resolution
endorsing Senator Daniel, of that
State, for the Democratic Vice-Presi-
Dental nomination. The convention
might easily nominate a worse man
than Senator Daniel.
There is food for thought in the
words of Senator Hill, concerning the
probability of tariff legislation at any
time Gin the near future. He said:
There will be no tariff legislation
iii this Congress, or in any extra ses-
sion if one should be held, or in the
two years during which the next Con-
gress will be in session." 1t looks as
| though most OF the Senators agree with
Senator Hills very emphatic assertion,
for not one of them even made a pre-
tense of denying or of challenging
them.
The Mckinleyites Knocked the last
prop from under the Republican anti's
when they brought their batteries to
| bear upon the members of the Republi
can National Committee with such
good results that thirty.two of the fifty
one memherS are now announced by
name as having pledged their support
to Mr.. Mckinley, the latest recruits
being Senators Hausbrough, OF North
Dakota, and Shoup, of Idaho, the for
mer having just returned from u visit
to Mckinley. This destroys the hope
OF his Republican opponents that Nc
Kinley might be beaten Nv the Ma
tional Committee throwing our Nc
Kinley delegates from all the States in
which there ale contests, as the com
mittee will now be certain To favor
him wherever it can he done.
Senator Harris, of Tenn, chairman
of the subcommittee which will make
the bond investigation under the re-
Gently adopted Senate resolution, says
he favors conducting the investigation
in secret and making public its result
when obtained. He takes this stand
not because he favors hiding anything,
but because he is opposed to having
the testimony published by piece meal
as it is taken and commented upon in
the public press. The matter will be
decided by a vote of the committee as
soon as it is ready to begin work,
which will be as soon as the statement
of Secretary Carllse, upon which
Treasury clerks are now working, is
in the hands of the committee. The
probabilities are that the investigation
will not begin until after Congress adj
journs. unless the session shall be un-
eXpectedly prolonged.
Direct Information from Chairman
Hsrrity, of the Democratic National
Committee, knocks out the sensational
report that Mr.. Harrity had said that
no delegate who gave advance notice
of his intention to bolt the candidate
and platform, if they didn't suit him,
would be admitted to the Chicago con-
vention. OF coarse, Mr.. Harrity didn't
say so. Neither lie nor any other in
dividual has the authority to say who
shall be admitted to the convention.
What he did say, what has been said
by scores of Democrats in Congress, is
that no delegate who threatens to
bolt ought to be admitted to the con-
vention.