The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-05
FROM THE CAPITAL.
bur Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
communicated

\ 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 Han
mas arrival. He attracts more
Difference if possible, from Repub-
licans, than the four members of
McKinley's cabinet who are in town
do combined, and accepts it all as his
right and speaks with an air of propri-
etorship, not only of the coming adj
Congress. So big has Hanna's head
become that he is actually allowing
himself to think of trying to take a
fall out of Tom Reed, and is now
sounding the Republican 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 a Mckinley
candidate.
General Fitzhugh Lees friends are
mot talking for publication about Sec
-retary Olney's threat to recall him, be.
ecause he has shown up the lack of zeal
fon the part the administration in pro-
tecting American citizens in Cuba, but
they are wishing that Oluey will have
the nerve to carry out his threat, be-
cause il would make General Lee the
!most popular man in America.
While at the capitol to-day Mr.. Bry-
an called on many of his friends
among the newspaper correspondents
and spent some time very pleasantly
with some of those who served in the
House. In company with Mrs. Bryan
q he will leave for Nebraska tomorrow.
If some of the appropriation bills fail
to get through before Congress closes,
as many are predicting will be the
case, it will be because a coterie of
Senators for reasons of their own wish
them to fail.
About the smallest piece of business
in connection with the inaugural prep
arations was the taking down of the
white and yellow decorations which
were being put on the Treasury build
ing. because somebody suggested that
the colors stood for bmetallism. 1t is
understood that the order for the re.
moval of the white and yellow came
direct from the White House. This
decoration is not paid for by the gov
eminent but by the clerks in the Treas
ury Department.
Grave written charges have been
filed with the Post Office Department
by hfty-flve patent attorneys, includ-
ting four gentlemen who have held the
4offlce of Commissioner of Patents,
against the firm known as John
Wedderman & Co., successors to the
defunct Examiner Claims Bureau and
the Press Claims Co., in one sense, but
it seems not in all, and the Nat
1ondt Recorder, a newspaper pub
lished by the firm. The charges go
into detail and close by asking
that the NdtiondW Recorder be
shut out of the mails as fraud, and
that fraud order be Issued against
Wedderburn & Co. for obtaining money
under false pretenses. In addition to
the written charges, personal hearing
was given by the Postmaster General
to Committee representing the Patent
Attorneys who signed the charges.
If either Mr.. Cleveland or Mr. Olney
can extract any satisfaction from the
part they played in getting from Spain
the pardon of Julio Sanguilly in order
to head off the adoption by the Senate
of a resolution directing the President
to demand the immediate and uncon-
ditional release of Sanguilly. they
should be allowed to do so. The SEN
timent of 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
l'years has been down on his hunkers
before Spain. How joyous his honest
and noble American heart must be,
and in what transports of Joy must be
his magnificent person, when he hears
that by combination between the
Crown of Spain and the President of
the United States they have dragged
out of poor creature a confession
which enables them to escape the dam
ger of paying damages and gives them
the liberty of sleeping and snoring
like sluggards, while Americans suf-
err'
1t is a matter for all around congrat-
ulation that the Senate Committee on
Public Lands quickly investigated the
matter and unanimously arrived at the
conclusion that the land patent to Mr..
Perrine, the husband of Mrs. Cleve-
lands mother, was regularly and legal
ly issued.
The farewell address of Senator Du-
Bots was a little disconcerting to the
Republican leaders, who have been ex-
pecting that the Republicans would
be allowed to reOrganize the Senate 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 Mr.. Dubois
spoke for himself alone or by authority
of the other Republican silver Senators.