The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-04-24
Washington Letter.
From onr RegnIar Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, April 2O.-SpcYkcr Reed is
II thing suspicious OF some of those who nave
undertaken the task oil making him the tGpuB-
lican candidate for President. One of the men
under suspicion is Quay. Reed is said to be
hcve that i'll addition To dicNcrinE with other
candidates for the nomination, Quay has got
the idea in his head that ii Mckinley and Reed
ear both be thrown down he can himself get
the nomination. Gee whiX, wouldn't Quay 5
nomination bc u YcTitublc wndiall for the
Democratic party? Others have known that
Quay's head had become swclled with the PrcSi-
dental idea sometime, and have believed that
il he could ut any time during the ST. Louis
Convention get the nomination for himself he
would have no hesitation i'll gObblng it up re-
gardleSS of his obligations to Mr. Reed or To
anybody else. And there isn't the slightest
doubt that the practical politicians of the Platt-
ClIrkSon stripe would sooner see Quay nomi-
mated than anyone yet named. lie belongs to
tn aIr class and they would know just now to
deal with him. Surely no man has IL better
right To he suspicious oil these men than Mr..
Reed whom they are pretending to be support
i'll i'll his fight for that nomination They may
vote for Mr.. Reed and they may get him nomi-
ia ted, but if they do, il Will be because they
find that they cannot do better for themselves
b. supporting somebody else.
The Democratic steering Committee has
served notice upon Republican Senators that
while not desiring to raise any obstacles to ear
lv adjournment if the Republicans are willing
to return to the people with record of having
done nothing except to pass the appropriation
kill, they insist upon being consulted upon all
the measures to be taken up during the re-
Inander 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 Hawlcy,
Of Connecticut, 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 progress, and if the friends of real econ
omy i'll public expenditures do not watch their
P'S and Q'S the SchemcrS will get it through.
1t is difficult to understand how any man can
have the cheek to stand up and advocate this
"a tao
the government has gained by taking charge
of this work. The stamps are better printed,
there are more safeguards aroung their distri-
button, and considerably more than $4,000
year is saved
The Republican majority of the House Com
nittee on Ways and Means has decided not TO
export any reciprocity bill during this Con-
gress giving as the reason the uncertainty Of
what action the Senate would take upon such
/ bill, and the presence of the Democratic
President. The real reason is that the Repub-
leans do not care TO define the exact party
policy on this subject, AS IL bill would have to
10, believing that il will make more votes by
caYing the question open so that any sort 81
promise that may be demanded may be made
There was time when Il senator who was
accused of having lied by another Senator, as
Scar. of Iowa., was 10y Allen, o. Nebraska.
wouii not have stood up and quietly said hat he
took no exception 10 the language, us Mr. Gear
did, but it seems To have gone by. Still there
are senators who believe that calling man Il
liar IS equivalent To striking him, and who are.
PREPARED to live up to that belief at all times
The occasion of the Alien ear episode was the.
Pacific railroad Bill which MIR. Gear us Chair
man of the Pacific ltuiir1udS Committee report
ed To the Senate, aud il directly caused i,N
MIR. Gear having stated that Weaver, the ruTu-
liz: candidate for President i'll 1892, stood for
the cOniiscation Of railroad property, the te!c-
graph, and the telephone, and the issuance of
pa per To pay for them. This railroad bill may
be the cause OF very bitter fight in the Senate
Car Heed can put it through the House
without amy trOube-becuuSe OF the belief of
some senators that it is entirely too favorable
20 Huntington
The Dupont case is still n0miHally before the
Senate, but nobody will he greatly surprised If
ii is never voted upon. The Republicans are
now certain that they cannot seat him unless
some senators who nave announced their de-
termination Ia vote against him can be changed
Ivy 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
hut 20 far he sticks to what he said first, that
he will not go. AS