The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-19
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
Communicated


Representative Bailey, of Texas, had
the honor of receiving the Democratic
nomination for Speaker of the House,
and every Democrat who was present
at the meeting of the House to-day
voted for him. Mr.. Reed was, Of
course, elected, but the present House
has a Republican majority of about
one hundred less than the last House.
There was more or less talk about an
attempt being made at the Republican
caucus, to curtail the power of the
Speaker, but when the time came for
action, the nerve was lacking, and Mr..
Reed will dictate the business of this
House just as he did that of the last.
The Democratic nomination for
Speaker was equivalent to an election
of the Democratic leader in the House,
aud Mr. Bailey will be recognized dur
ing the Flfty-fifth Congress. He is
"a comparatively young man for so re-
sponsible position, but during his
service in the House his natural ability
has forced him to the front and no
doubts are entertained of his making
good leader ana adding to the repu-
talion he already has.
There is much disappointment
among the Republicans over the APP
pointments Mckinley has made aud
no end of growing because he has
not made more, but he has shifted
most of the responsibility upon the
State delegations in Congress by re-
quiring them to unite upon each appli-
cant for office from their States before
he will even promise to consider them.
This may be merely q bluff to save
time. If so, it is good one, as many
of the Republican Senators and Repre-
sentatives are known to lave endorsed
as many as five or six ma for the
same position, and it will require time
for them to settle upon one man and
to fix up things so as to save them
selves at home. Many of the delega-
tons are also split up among them
selves and it will require time for them
to unite upon men for the offices allotted
to their State Meanwhile Mr.. Nc
Kinley gains time to devote to some of
his other troubles, including the extra
session of Congress which convened
to-day.
Representative McMillin, of Tenn,
has been made Chairman of the Exec
utive Committee of the National AS
ISOLATION of Democratic Clubs, and will
direct the arrangements for the gen.
eral celebration by all the clubs in the
association, of Thomas Jefferson's
birthday, April 18th. The event is to
be celebrated in Washington by a din
ner at the same hotel in which the
first celebration of Jeffersons birth
day was held, in 1880, which was at
tended by President Andrew Jackson,
Vice President John &. Calhoun, the
entire cabinet and large number of
Senators and Representatives. Hon.
VIM. Jennings Bryan has accepted an
invitation to be present and to respond
to the toast "Thomas Jefferson"
The credentials of all three of the
gentlemen appointed to the Senate by
the Governors of Kentucky, Oregon
and Florida, are now in Washington,
but that is about as near IA seat in the
Senate as any of those presenting them
will get. The reasons for not seating
the Republicans from Kentucky and
Oregon, are so weighty that no serious
attempt will be made to upset them.
The Democratic appointee of the Gov
ernor of Florida is thought to have a
valid claim to a seat, but before it
could be established the Florida Legis-
lature will probably have elected "a Sen
ator; consequently it is not probable
that the attempt will be made.
All of the things said about McKin-
ley's accessibility to callers during his
first few days in the White House,
were rather too premature. He has
since adopted rules which, excepting
that they do not shut out every Dody
one day in every week, are practi-
cally the same as those made by Mr..
Cleveland, and it is now Just as hard
for private individual to get an inter-
view with Mr.. Mckinley as it was with
Mr.. Cleveland.
If the new tariff bill is what its
trainers call conservative" measure,
it would be decidedly interesting to
know what they would call radical.
Although the country denounced and
drove from power the Republican party
because of the high duties imposed 10y
the Mckinley tariff law, the average
IdOCo VI uub1 W DC BOcCu ny Tue new
tariff bill have been made higher than
the Mckinley bill. And about the
heaviest taxation carried by the new
bill is that imposed upon such necessi-
ties as sugar and clothing. There may
not be such plain sailing ahead of this
measure as Mr.. Mckinley and his per-
sonal worspippers expect. 1t will, OF
course, be railroaded through the House
all right, but that it will be materially
amended before it gets through the
Senate is very probable.
Two of the numerous candidates for
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, both
IF whom served in the navy and are
strongly backed, have presumably been
thrown down by the exposure of ugly
1lots in their naval record. They were
both court martialed; one was sentenc-
ID to dismissal and the other suspended
rom the service for time. They both
afterwards patched up matters in some