The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-03-05
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN. ID. c.. March LIST

WAsHINGTON, ID. c.. March LIST.
Mr.. EDIToR:-If any person in Wash
ington had any remaining doubts about
Mark Hanna being the whole thing under
the Mckinley administration, they must
have been disspated since Hanna's arrival.
He attracts more deference-from repub-
licans-than the four members of Mckln-
lcy's Cabinet who are in town do combined,
and accepts it all as his right and speaks
with an air of proprietorship. not only OF
| the coming administration but of both
| branches of Congress. SO big has Hanna's
| head become that he is actually allowing
himself to think of trying to take fall
out of Tom Reed, and is now sounding re-
publican members of the next House in
| order to ascertain whether it will be pos
sible by the use of patronage to beat Reed
| for the Speakership nomination before the
| republican caucus with Mckinley candi-
| date.
Gen. FitZ Lees friends are not talking
for publication about Secretary Olney's
threat to recall Gen. Lee because he has
shown up the lack of zeal on the part of
the administration in protecting American
citizens in Cuba, but they are wishing that
| Olney v i'll have the nerve to carry out his
threat because they know it would make
Gen Lee the most popular man in America.
| While at the Capitol to-day Mr.. Bryan
called on. many of his friends among the
| Il Il Mt
time very pleasantly with some those VIII"
served in the House with him. In com
pany with Mrs. Bryan he will leave for
| Nebraska tomorrow.
If some of the appropriation bills fail /"
get through before Congress closes, as
many are predicting will be the case, it
will be because a cotcric of Senators for
reasons of their own wish them to fail.
About the smallest piece of business in
connection with the inaugural prepara-
tons was the taking down of the white
and yellow decorations which were being
put on the Treasury building, because
somebody suggested that the colors stood
for bimctallism. 1t is understood that the
order for the removal of the white and
yellow came direct from the White House.
| This decoration isn't paid for by the Gov
eminent but by the clerks in the Treasury
department.
| If either Mr.. Cleveland or Mr.. Olney
can extract any satisfaction from the part
they played in getting from Spain the par
| Il liz To pff
the adoption by the Senate of a resolution
| directing the President to demand the inn
mediate and unconditional release of San
gully, they should he allowed to do so.
The sentiment in Congress was pretty
nearly expressed by Senator Morgan, when
he said in the course of his speech on the
recent relations of this Government with
Spain: "Oh, what welcome news was that
pardon. to that President of ours in the
White House, who for two years has been
down on his hunkers before Spain. How
JOYOUS his honest and noble American
heart must be, and in what transports OF
icy must be his magnificent person, when
he hears that by a combination between
the crown of Spain and the President OF
the United States they have dragged out
of poor creature a confession which en-
ables them to escape the danger of paying
damages and gives them the liberty oi
sleeping and snoring like sluggards, white
Americans suffer-
1t is matter for all around congratula
ton that the Senate Committee on public
lands quickly investigated the matter ant
unanimously arrived at the conclusion
that the land patent to Mr.. Perrine, thu
husband of Mrs. Cleveland's mother, wa:
regularly and legally issued.
The farewell address of Senator Duboi:
was little disconcerting to the republi
can leaders, who have been expecting thai
the republicans would be allowed to reor
ganize the Senate at the extra session with
out any trouble. Mr.. Dubois told then
plain and fiat that the silver republican:
would not help them and that they woul'
not be allowed to organize the Senate.
will soon be seen whether Mr.. Dubois
spoke for himself alone or by authority o
the other republican silver Senators.