The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-31
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, Is


WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, 1896.
President Cleveland has no occasion
to worry because his patriotic foreign
policy fails to meet the approval of
men like Senator WolcOtt, of Colorado,
when their speeches of alleged criti-
cism are followed by such extraOrdi-
nary votes of confidence as the adOp-
ton of the Armenian resolution by the
Senate was. There are always a few
men who delight in taking the wrong
side of every question, but Congress as
a whole is now, as il has been from the
first, soIidly behind the administra-
ton, regardless of party politics, in
maintaining patriotic American pol
icy in all our dealings with foreign
countries.
The Senate will this week pass the
finance Committees free coinage sub
stitute for the House bond bill, unless
something now unlocked for shall fur
theI delay the taking of final vote,
and that will probably be the last of it
for the present session, as it is practi-
cally certain that Speaker Reed will
direct sub-boss Dingley, of the Ways
and Means Committee, to see that it
never even gets reported to the House,
let alone voted upon.
If the deadlock on the House tariff
bill continues in the Finance Commit
tee after the free coinage bill is dis
posed of, it is probable that the Davis
Monroe doctrine resolution, which was
last week favorably reported from the
Committee on Foreign Relations will
be made the unfinished business of the
Senate until it is adopted.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, has always
been known as dOdger upon all finan-
cial questions, and now that he has
allowed himself to be announced as
candidate for the Republican Presiden-
tial nomination, he will dodge more
than ever The friends OF the other
candidates are determined to make
him go on record either for or against
that free coinage substitute for the
House bond bill, or to openly convict
him of lodging it.
Few quicker pieces of official work
have been done under the Federal
government than the removal of Uni
ted States Marshal Nix, of Oklahoma,
and the nomination of Patrick Nagle
to be his successor. Some time ago
liners at work upon the charges which
had been made against Marshal Nix.
Those examiners reported him guilty
of having shaved the pay warrants of
his deputies greatly to his personal
profit. He was removed by telegraph
and in less than ten hours the name of
his successor had been sent to the SEN
ate.
Since Secretary Morton assumed
charge of the Department of Agricult-
ure, he has saved out of the money APP
propriated by Congress for the support
of that department 81 30,009, and
considerable sum will be added to that
amount at the close of the current tis-
Cal year. The House Committee on
Agriculture has decided to utilize this
money by erecting a new building for
the Agricultural Department, which
has outgrown the one it now occupies,
which was built when the department
was only a small bureau of the Inter
iOr Department. 1t is proposed that
work on the new building will begin
early in the coming fiscal year.
Senator George, of Miss, after March
4th, 1897, will be succeeded in the Sen
ate by Representative HI. ID. Money. He
says of Mr.. Money: Il know him well
and have known him since his boy
hood. He has been my neighbor for
many years. Our intercourse and
communications on political subjects
have been frequent and confidential.
have had the opportunity to judge
the man from every point of view.
He is of unblemished honor and of the
strictest integrity. His native ability
is of the best, and his moral and phys
zeal courage unquestioned. He had
my sympathy in his race for the SEN
ate, although l took nc steps to secure
his election"
EX-Boss Clarkson, of the Republi-
can National Committee, wasin Wash
ington last week, when Mr.. Harrison
was there, but he did not call on him.
In fact, it is pretty well known that
the two men are not in love with each
other Clarkson has never forgiven
Mr.. Harrison for refusing to make him
Secretary of the Interior in 1889, and
loses no opportunity to put obstacles
in tho way of Mr.. Harrjson's political
ambitions.
Representative Cowen, of Maryland,
who has been elected President of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, will not
take any further active part in the
legislation of the House, but being a
member of the House Committee on
Banking and Currency, he will not re-
sign until he has completed some data
he has been working on in connection
with bill to place the u S. Treasury
upon a thoroughly sound basis.
But when that work is completed, he
will resign in order to devote his whole
time to the railroad over which he has
been called to preside. The Demo-
Gratis of the House will lose valuable
man when he goes.