The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-06-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 21st.


ing shrewd tariff game to get what it
wants while pretending to the contrary,
and it is bound to win. The original
Dingley sugar schedule, which gives the
trust an increase of four cents on each
hundred pounds over what it now receives
on ninety-six degree sugar, is all the trust
expected to get from the beginning. In
the first Senate schedule, the increase was
made nine cents and in the schedule which
was last week adopted by the Senate, the
increase was put at ten cents a hundred
pounds. When the bill goes to conference,
the House will insist upon its sugar sched-
ule being adopted, with the chances in ia
vor of succeeding. Then it will be an
nounced with a great flourish of trumpets
by republicans that the sugar trust has
been knocked out, while the members of
the trust will chuckle over having got as
much as they expected to get, besides hay
ing made lot of money by specializing in
sugar stock while the several schedules
were pending. That's the game. OF
course the trust would gladly take the ten
cents a hundred increase given in the Sen
ate schedule, or anything between that and
the four cents of the House schedule that
the House cOnferees can be persuaded to
give, but it doesn't really expect to get
more than four cents, which added to the
thirty-seven cents it now gets, will give it
forty-one cents hundred. AS its profits
have been $25, 900 with thirty seven
cents, it will be seen that it is not playing
for small stake even to get the increase
of four cents hundred.
1t will probably be the middle of July
or later, before the country is allowed to
learn officially what the Mckinley Cuban
policy is to be, as it is now stated that the
new policy is to be inaugurated by nego-
tiations to be opened by General Stewart
L. Woodford, the new Minister to Spain,
as soon as he arrives at Madrid, and he
does not expect to start until after the
first of July. Before he gets to Madrid
ex-Congressman Aldrich, of Illinois, the
gentleman who, Notwithstanding the back
ing of Gear Reed, has been turned down
by Mr.. Mckinley in four or five instances,
will be nominated to succeed General Fitz
Lee as Consul General to Cuba. If there
be any truth in current talk, Mr.. McKin
ley's policy will be more popular in Spain
than in Cuba.
There was some talk of a caucus of dem
ocratic Senators to adopt resolution to
oppose the ratification of the treaty for
the annexation of Hawaii, but so many
democratic Senators have said that they
would not be bound by caucus, because
they intend voting for the treaty, that the
idea has been abandoned. There will be
less democratic opposition to the treaty
when the Senators have had an opportu-
nifty to learn the sentiments Of their con-
stituents.
The democrats won tariff victory, al
though it will probably only be temporary
when Senator Vests amendment putting
and cotton baggipg on the free list, was
adopted.
Senator Morgan continues to take an
occasional shot at Gar Reeds idlers.
His latest was pointed reference to d
Legislative body that used to sit at the
| National Capitol, about two hundred feet
from u.s. He added that the members of
this body were now men of leisure, meet
ing only twice a week, in accordance with
rule of their own adoption and in def
ancc of the Constitution.
Mr.. F. Wolff, President of an Iron Ship
building Company, at Portland, Oregon,
who is now in Washington, says of the
political situation in his section: "1f an
election were held now for President the
whole Pacific slope would vote for Bryan
over any man the republicans could name.
1t was hard struggle to hold Oregon in
line last year, but to-day it would be i'm
possible"
The Civil Service Commission is inves-
tigating charges preferred against Public
Printer Palmer, who has been making re-
movals of democrats and in every case,
giving their places to republicans. mas
much as Palmer would not have dared to
act without the consent of Mr. Mckinley,
at whose pleasure the Civil Service Com
missioners hold their places, there is little
probability that the investigation will
amount to anything practical.
After the acquittal of the sugar trust
kings by Washington Courts, nobody was
surprised that the two newspaper cores
pondents, who were under indictment for
contempt, were also acquitted. In fact,
the only surprising thing about the whole
business was that Broker Chapman was
convicted and compelled to serve even his
easy sentence i'll jail. 1t is difficult for the
lay mind to comprehend how he could be
guilty and all the others innocent.