The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-03-05
Warrington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WARRINGTON, March 1.-If any person in
Washington had any remaining doubts about
Mark Hanna being the whole thing under the
Mckinley administration, they must have been
dissipated since Hanna's arrival. He attracts
more Difference, from Republicans, than the
the four members of McKinley's Cabinet who
ure in town do combined, and accepts it all as
his right and speaks with an air of proprietor
ship, not only of the coming administration
but of both branches Of Congress. So big has
Hanna's head become that he is actually al
lowing himself to think of trying to take Il fall
out OF Tom Reed, and is now sounding Repui /.
lican members of the next House in order to
ascertain whether it will be possible by the use
of patronage to beat Reed for the SpeakerShip
nomination before the Republican caucus with
n Mckinley candidate.
Gen. Pitz 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 i'll Cuba, but
they are Wishing that olney will ha, the nerve
to carry out his threat, because they knew it
would make Gen. Lee tie most popular man in
America.
While at the Capitol today Mr.. Bryan called
ON many of bis friends among the newspaper
correspondents and spent some time very pleas
antly with some of those who served In the
House with him. In company with Mrs. Bryan
he will leave for Nebraska tomorrow.
II some OF the appropriation bills fail to get
through before Congress closes, as many are
predicting will be the case, it will be because
coterte OF Senators for reasons of their own
wish them to fail.
About the smallest piece of business in con-
nection with the inaugural preparations was
the taking down Of the white and yellow deco
rations which were being put on the Treasury
building, because somebody suggested that the
colors stood for bimetalism. 1t is understood
that the order for the removal of the white and
yellow came direct from the " hite House.
This decoration isn't paid for by the Govern
Inent, but by the clerks in the Treasury De-
partment
Grave written charges have been filed with
the Post Office Department by tifty-tive WASH
lngton patent attorneys, including four geRtle-
men who have held the office of Commissioner
OF Patents, against the firm known as John
Wedderburn g. Co., successors to the defunct
Examiner Claims Bureau and the Press Claims
Co, in one sense, but it seems not in all and
the National Recorder, newspaper published
by the firm. The charges go into detail and
close by ask .ng that the National Recorder be
shul out of the mails as fraud, and that n
fraud order be issued against Wedderburn Il
Co. for obtaining money under false pretenses.
In addition to the written charge, personal
hearing was given by the Postmaster General
to Committee representing the Patent AttOr-
neys who signed the charges.
II either Mr.. Cleveland or Mr.. 0lney can cx-
tract any satisfaction from the part they play
ed in getting from Spain the pardon of Julio
Sanguily in order to head Off the adoption by
the Senate of resolution directing the Presi-
dent to demand the immediate and uncOnd-
tional release of Sanguily, they should be al
lowed 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 hunk
ers before Spain. How joyous his honest and
noble American heart must be, and in what
transports of joy must be his magnificent per-
son, when he hears that by Il combination be-
tween the crown of Spain and the President of
the ULited states they have dragged out Of IA
poor creature confession which enables them
10 escape the danger OF paying damages and
gives them the liberty of sleeping and snoring
like sluggards, while Americans suffer"
1t Is u matter for all around congrat ulation
that the Senate Committee on Public Lands
quickly investigated the matter and unani-
mously arrived at the conclusion that the land
patent to Mr.. Perrine, the husband of Mr..
Cleveland's mother, was regularly and les ally
issued
The farewell address of Senator DuBois was
a little dsconcerting to the Republican lead
ers, who have been expecting that the Repub-
licans would he allowed to reorganiLe the Sen
ate at the extra session without any trouble.
Mr.. Dubois told them plain and fiat that the
silver Republicans would not help them and
that they would not be allowed to organize the
Senate 1t will soon be seen whether Hr. Du-
Bots spoke for himself alone or by authority OF
tie other Republican sifver Senators. ~