The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-02-05
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
Communicated.)


If there is anything in the old super
stition, McKinley's ears must have
been burning ever since it was an
nounced that he had chosen Lyman J..
Gage, of Chicago, man who voted for
Cleveland, signed the petition upon
which Gov. Altgeld pardoned the Chi
cago anarchists, and who for years has
been known as almost free trader in
his tariff views, for his Secretary of the
Treasury. 1t is great effort for the
Republicans in Congress to keep from
expressing publicly the disgust they
feel for this break of McKinley's, but
in view of the official pie that McKin-
ley will soon begin to distribute, they
are making the effort.
After all that has been said ami done
about the intention of the Republicans
of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee to give us new and thoroughly
conservative tariff Till, they are pro-
ceeding to give Us the same old Me-
Kinley bill, having already adopted
several entire Mckinley schedules.
The arbitration treaty has been
amended and favorably reported to the
Senate, although every silver man on
the Committee voted against it.
Although it is the policy of the Re-
publican leaders in both House and
Senate to keep the Cuban question in
the background, there are some men
who refuse to be gagged. One of these
is Representative Hardy, of Indiana,
who got the floor to speak on the Agri-
cultural appropriation bill, and pro-
ceeded to make red hot five minutes
speech for Cuba, which he would have
continued had not his request for unan-
imOus consent for an extension of Tina
been refused. He made a direct at
tack upon the administration, and
those Senators aud Representatives
who. he SAID, were dining with the
Spanish Minister too often to he able
10 hear the appeals of the people strug-
Cling for liberty,
It was brought out during debate
in the House which resulted in the re-
lection Of the Conference report on the
bill to confer the rights and franchises
va NAIO AlIanliO anu l. dCIllC IdlIIOduS
upon the purchasers under the mort
gage foreclosure, that at least two of
the New England Republicans in the
House do not entertain exalted opin-
ions of each other. They are Mr.. Pow
ers, of Vermont, who as Chairman of
the Pacific Railroads Committee, had
charge of the report, and Mr.. Barrett,
of Mass, who opposed the report as a
stock jo5bing scheme. Mr.. Powers
started by poking fun at the dudish
dress of Mr.. Barrett and wound up by
slurring at the whole Massachusetts
delegation, and charging that Boston
was the place where railroads were
wrecked. This aroused the ire of Mr..
Barrett, who said 81 am young
man. came here with no reputation
beyond service in the Legislature of
my State, but the gentleman from Yer
mont came here after a long term of
service on the Supreme Court of his
State. What was the record of that
Court? Ask any one of the sharehold-
ers of the Central Railroad of Vermont,
who were robbed by the DEGREES of that
Court, and then let the gentleman talk
to me of Massachusetts wrecking rail-
roads," Attempts were made to stop
Mr.. Barrett on point of order, but
Speaker Reed with grim smile over.
ruled the point.
According to Republican gossip, one
of the surest ways to get an aspirant
for Cabinet honors turned down by
Mckinley, is to get him endorsed by
Senator Chandler. 1t is said that Nc
Kinley breads nothing so much as that
he may by accident do something that
Chandler wants him to do, or appoint
somebody whom Chandler wants ap-
pointed.
Senator Allen took occasion to reply
to the various rumors saying that he
would vote for the Republican tariff
bill, by saying: have said that be-
lieve the proposed tariff measure of
the Republicans ought to be permitted
to pass, 1T has sufficient votes, after
reasonable debate. This does not mean,
however, that / will vote for the Re.
publican tariff bill. On the contrary,
shall vote against it." In other words.
Senator Allen occupies the same posi-
ton towards the tariff bill that Sem
ator Jones and other prominent Demo-
Gratis do-that no filioustering shall be
INDUCED in to prevent its coming to a
vote. 1t was just the same with the
Monetary Conference bill which was
passed last week.
Although it was considered matter
of doubt, the Republican managers had
hopes that some of the silver Republic
can Senators might be persuaded to
vote with their old party when the
new tariff bill comes up for action at
the extra session of Congress. They
no longer indulge such hopes. They
know that not only will the silver Re-
publicans not vote for the tariff bill,
but that they will vote against it if
their votes can defeat it. This has been
fully determined upon since the Re-
publicans resorted to such extraordi-
nary tactics to defeat Senator Dubois,
of Idaho, as punishment for having
followed his convictions and the wishes
of bis constituents by having support
ed Bryan and silver in the late cam