The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-08
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Corresponds nt Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
Especial to the Citizen.J
WASHINGTON, MAY 4th,

WASHINGTON, May 4th, 1896.
Democrats are delighted with what
now looks like the certainty of McKin-
Republicans. If they can't beat Nc
Kinley they can't beat anybody.
Speaker Reed was reported to be so
disguised with the result of the week
just closed that it required not a little
persuasion to prevent his announcing
his withdrawal in favor of Mckinley,
whom he has abandoned all hope of
defeating. The McKinleyites want
Reed to take the second place on their
ticket, but his mind Will have % un-
dergo a great change before he con-
sents. 1t is said that Mr.. Reed feels
very bitter towards Senator Proctor, of
Vermont, on account of bis belief that
Proctor betrayed him to Mckinley i'm
that State, in the hope of getting sec
Ond place on the Mckinley ticket, and
it has been intimated that Reed in
tends to have something to say about
the treachery of Proctor, after the meet
| ing of the st. Louis Convention.
General Fitzhugh Lee is in Wash
ington for the purpose of receiving his
final instructions before going to Cuba
as United States Consul-General. He
| has had several conferences with Pres
! ident Cleveland as well as with Secre-
tary Olney, and has probably been
made fully acquainted with the posi-
| ton the President intends to maintain
towards both Cuba and Spain. He eX-
! poets to go to Havana next week.
| President Cleveland will preside over
| the exercises at the unwilling of the
equestrian statue of Gen. w. S. Han
cock, on the 18th inst. and may make
short Introductory address. Follow
ing is the formal program: Prayer, by
Bishop Satterlee; "Star Spangled Ban
ner," by Marine Band; unwilling of
statue, accompanied by artillery salute
fired from the Washington Monument
grounds; Address, by Senator. Palmer,
Of ILL.,, who was Major General of vol
unteers; Hail Columbia" by Marine
Band; Benediction, by Rev. DIR. w. III.
Potomac, G. A. r. The military and
civil parade which will precede the
unwilling will be under command of
Brigadier General Brooke, commando
ing the Department of Dakota, who is
in Washington on visit. All Of the
United States troops III Washington
will take part in the parade.
While all Democrats regret the
wrangle between Senator Hill, of n.
Y, and Tillman, of s. c., there is al
most unanirnity among Democrats as
to who was at fault and who got the
best it. Senator Tillnlan's honesty
is unquestiOned, but his judgment is
generally regarded as poor, and heard
one of the most prominent silver DEM
ocrats in Congress say that Mr.. Till
NC lof
more harm than all its eHenies have
been able to do it, by frightening con-
sentative Democrats into the belief
that there was danger III the triumph
of silver. A number of silver Demo-
Gratis in Congress deny that Mr.. Till
man spoke for them when he declared
that the silver Democrats would holt
the Chicago Convention unless Is to
! free coinage platform was adopted,
and agree with Senator Hill's deciara-
ton that no man ought to be admitted
to the National Convention who de-
clares in advance that he Will bolt if he
fails to get everything that he wants.
Senator Hills answer to Senator Til
mans claim that the Democrats of the
South were going to Chicago with only
one /, cato get free coinage or to bolt
was level-headed enough to be stud.
we'll as elsewhere. He said: "No; it
will not do for my friend to give that
as the sentiment of the South. The
Democracy has more than one idea.
The South will go to that great gather
ing to confer, to compare. 1t would
be blind folly for that great party to
split, to divide on the financial ques-
ton. There is more in Democracy
than the single question Of silver.
There are the great questions of fIater-
nalism, of Capitalization and the vital
question of personal liberty of the citi-
Zen." Mr.. Hill ended his remarks with
this advice to the party: "In essential
unity, in DOn-essential liberty; in all
things charity"
Senator Allison's reputation as a
dOdger is as old as his aspirations
to be a Presidential candidate of his
party, therefore nobody was surprised
when he lodged the vote on Senator
Gorman's amendment to the Naval
Appropriation Bill reducing the num-
Der of battleships provided for from
to 2, but nearly everybody smiled.
The amendment was adopted.
According to the most trustworthy
information which reaches Washing
ton from Georgia, Ex-Speaker Crisp
will get that Senatorship regardless of
the result of the financial fight for SUI
premacy which is being waged by the
silver and anti-silver Democrats of that
State.
The House passed the Bankruptcy
Bill Saturday afternoon by nearly
two-thirds vote.