The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-23
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
tCommunicated.)
WASHINGTON, April II, 1897.


present at the last session of the
House who didn't feel a little bit
ashamed of its proceedings. Repre-
sentative Bailey, of Texas, lose TO
question of personal privileges, and af-
ter having read an editorial from
Washington paper, that claims to be
Democratic, calling him in effect tool
of Mr.. Reed, he denounced the writer
as an infamous and deliberate liar.
Later Representative De Almond, of
Missouri, arose also to a question of
personal privilege, and made a speech
explaining his attitude toward the Re-
publican policy of semi-weekly ad-
tournaments, and disclaiming that he
and the Democrats who thought as he
did, bad rebelled against the Demo-
cratic leadership established in caucus,
and virtually charging that it was the
other Democrats who We're acting in
opposition 10 the caucus. AS if that
were not enough for one short sitting,
Representative Burke, of Texas, also
made personal explanation. calling
the meetings of the House great
national farce" and saying that so far
as his own action was concerned he
had consulted no one. All of this was
nuts for the Republicans and Mr.. Reed
took good pains to allow the Demo-
Gratis to do as much talking as they
wanted to do, so long as they talked
against other Democrats. The major
ity voted for the three days adjourn
ment just the same and carried it.
The treaty negotiated by the last ad-
ministration, with Great Britain, de-
fiDing portion of the boundary line
between Alaska and Canada, will
never be ratified in its present shane.
By pretense of liberality IN giving
the United States about fourteen
square miles (which we already had
a legal claim toy the willy English d.
plomats made trap which was in
tended to cost the United States all the
territory worth having in that section,
by shutting out our claims within
what Is known as our thirty-mie strip
and its intersection with the 14lst me-
lidian, and it came very near succeed
ing too, as the treaty would have been
ratified some time ago had not Senator
Stewart objected. Mr. Stewart OBJ
jected on the general principle that
the matter was too important to be has
tlly disposed of, and now that the con-
tents OF the treaty is understood, he is
being congratulated for preventing the
Senate making blunder
According to current gossip, Ex-
Representative Bellamy Storer, of
Ohio, must be queer sort of duck.
The story goes that he took advantage
of Mr.. McKinley's financial obligations
to him to force a promise that he
should be appointed Assistant Secre-
tary of State. When the promise was
made, Mr.. Mckinley did not know
that Storer was not on speaking terms
with Senator Foraker, or with either
or the Republican Congressman from
Cincinnati, and now Storer insist on
that appointment being made, although
he caunot get the Endorsement of eth
er Senator, or any one of the Congress
sional delegation. He has refused TO
accept a foreign appointment, because
his rich wife wishes to figure in the Of
fetal society of Washington. 1t is
said that Mr.. Mckinley has told SEN
ator Foraker that there was nothing
left for him to do but nominate Storer
for the place, and that be added that
any fight made on the nomination in
the Senate would not be regarded by
him as fight on the administration.
The nomination will almost certainly
be rejected, and StOrer must know il.
yet he insists on being nominated.
Certain Republican Senators, among
them Mantle, Carter, Shoup Warren
aud Burroughs, have demanded of the
Republicans of the Senate Finance
Committee that duty of not less than
two cents pound shall be placed on
hides, and that the duty on wool should
be raised to meet schedule submitted
by them, and the demand is accompa-
MED by threat TO defeat the tariff bill
If their wishes are not carried out.
1t is clearly within the power of these
five Senators to defeat the tariff bill,
but it is not the opinion of those best
Informed that they will make use of
that power to such an extent. They
are simply exercising their right to
make big bluff in the interest of the
products of their States, in order to
get as much of the protection swag for
their constituents as possible, but in
the end they will take what is given
them and vote for the bill.
Having satisfied themselves that
Democratic Senators would make no
further concessions, the Republicans
accepted the last proposition made by
the Democratic steering committee,
and the vacancies in the Senate Com.
mittees will all be filled in few DAYS.
Politically speaking the committees
will stand substantially as they did at
the close of the last session. An agree
ment might have been reached before,
but the Republicans wished to punish
the silver Republicans for supporting
Bryan, and the Democrats insisted
that it should not be done, and it was
not done.