Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-11-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rom Our Regular Correspondent.

principal topic Of conversation IN
Washington this week. The re-
suits offer new proof of the un-
certainty of things political in
this country. The machine poli-
ticians of all parties are pleased
with the success of Tammany in
New York, because the success of
Low would have encouraged the
practice of running anti-machlne
candidates in other places, to the
consequent loss of prestige to the
machines and their candidates.
Democratic rejoicing over the
gains made by their party is
tempered by the licking admins
tered to Senator Gormanin Mary
land. The silver men are pleased
because the gains were large in
all the states in which the demo-
Gratis made the free coinage of
silver the leading issue of the
campaign. Republicans fnd sat-
1sfaction in the knowledge thatf
they make a gain of one senator
--Gorman's successor.
There will be more men in
army bands and more pay for
them, if Secretary Alger can per-
suade congress to adopt some of
the recommendations contained in
lus annualreport, and army bands
will not be allowed to play for
pay for private parties. Forty
years ago the law authorizing
the formation of army bands and
regulating the pay of musicians
was enacted. According to that
law the musicians are only pri-
vate soldiers, detailed for band
service, aud they only receive pri-
Yates pay, about SIS a month.
Secretary Alger wants them en-
listed as musicians and their pay
increased. All of the labor or
CARNATIONS will probably favor
these recommendations, as many
of them have repeatedly sent pro-
tests to Washington against gov
ernment bands being allowed to
compete with private bands.
Public interest in the case of
Mrs. Maybrick, the American
born woman who is undergoing
life sentence in an English prison
as result OF having been con-
victed, unjustly most people be-
lieve, of poisoning her husband,
was revived by the publication of
a statement that she was shortly
to be pardoued. Judge L. D.
Yarrell, in Washington, who is
Mrs. Maybrick's attorney, says he.
has no official information, but
has other reasons for believing
tlat she will be released. He
thinks she would have been par
doned upon President McKiniey's
|Iequests that it be done as an
international courtesy, had not
that request been so speedily fol-
lowed by Secretary Sherman's
sharp note on the seal question.
He also calls attention to the
fact that this government has
always acted upon the belief that
Mrs. Maybrick had by her foreign
marriage forfeited her American
citizenship and made it impossible
tor this government to act under
the law, directing the president
to demand the reasons for the
Imprisonment OF an American
|citizen, and if in his Judgment
they are wrongful to demand the
release of the prisoner. Judge
Yarrell contends that Mrs. Nav
brick has not forfeited her citizen
ship and some time ago filed,
with President Mckinley, a list
|of authorities supporting his con-
tention, and he says Of B the
present status of the matter: The
president has referred the author
i-ies and my argument on the
|caltizenshiP,questlon to the state
department., with the request that
they be further examined and re-,
Eported upon, aud | am awaiting
the result Of their ]. research.
President Mckinley has shown
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