The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-09-24

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
W >sHINGToN, ID. c., September nh.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., September , Nh.
Mn. EDIToR;-In view of the officially
estimated deficit in the payment of pen
sions for the current fiscal year there may
y. some emphatic talk ON this subject ut
the coming session of Congress. Lest
some Of your republican readers should
say that this idea of Il pension deficit was
voncucted by the opponents of the admin
i,tration, the following language used by
II. CLAY Evans Commissioner of Pensions
is given: Il estimate that the total pay
mcnt for the year will not exceed S14a,-
100000, and the appropriation for the year
is Sill 26:}, $50. Mr.. Evans speaks of this
probable deficit of six and quarter mil
lions of dollars as inditfcrently as though
he were talking of purchasing Il pint OF
peanuts, and when his attention was call
ed to the probability that the failure of the
new tariff to produce the estimated amount
of revenue might cause Congress to object
to passing Il deficiency pension appropria.
ton bill for this year, he gave away the
republican plan for meeting such Il con
tngcncy by saying: If there should be
an unexpected falling off in the revenue
the pension payments might be curtailed
towards the end Of the year.
The Home Rule Plank of the Republican
National Platform cuts no ice when it
comes to providing for cousin of Mr.
NTnIr, .-.1,N
ment that Frederick E. Mckinley, ofNew
Mexico, had been appointed receiver of
Public Moneys at Guthrie, Oklahoma. A
cousin of the Vice President was also pro-
vidcd with an office, but not quite so big
an office as he applied for. This was Ed
ward F. Hobart, who aspired to be Gov
ernor Of New Mexico, and who was APP
pointed Receiver of Public Moneys at
Santa Fe.
Indian Commissioner Jones hasn't re-
signed, and is not likely to do SO volun-
tarily, although Boss Hanna's man has
been appointed Assistant Commissioner
over the protest of Jones. This is another
straw showing the uselessness of republi-
can objections to the carrying out of any
of Hanna's wishes.
EX-Secretary Hokc Smith passed
through Washington day or two ago,
and he was fairly bubbling over with sat
isfaction at the bright prospects ahead of
the United Democratic party, which al
ways wins. He thinks the success of the
democrats in Greater New York is certain
and that it will start a wave Of party har-
mony that will result in the election of a
democratic House next year and Of a dem
ocratic President in 1900.
All the talk about Gen. Fitz Lee re-
naming at home and taking part in the
Virginia Campaign, was settled for good
and all, when General Lee, in difference
to Il request of Mr.. Mckinley, made dur
ing Il long conference between the two
men at the White House, agreed to re-
sumo his duties as United States Consul
General to Cuba as soon as the leave of
absence upon which he came home, OK
PRED, which will be early in October
General Lee is mum about the situation in
Cuba, but his opinions as we'll as the drift
of his sympathy are pretty well known,
and it is not believed that he would have
agreed to return to Cuba had he not been
given to understand that some action was
soon to be taken by this Government that
will put an end to the present deplorable
condition there.
Boss Plat is using all his wiles to get
Mr.. Mckinley to take sides against the
er New York, and he is very sly about it,
too. He is trying to convince Mr.. Mckin-
ley, and has almost succeeded, that if he
doesn't help to kill the aspirations of Low.
he will have him to fight as a candidate
for the Presidential nomination at the
next Republican National Convention.
Mr.. Mckinley is somewhat of Il politician
himself, and will not do all that Platt
wants him to do, without cXacting loyalty
from Plat in 1900, but present in dcations
are that he will join Platt i'll fighting Low,
which will make it all the easier for a
democrat to be elected Mayor of Greater
New York
At last Il man has been found who is
willing to acknowledge having had hand
in the putting of Section % into the tariff
bill, while that measure was in conference
1t is Senator Elkins, of West Virginia,
who says that the discriminating duties
prescribed are intended to shut out freight
now brought into the United States by the
Canadian Pacific Railroad. But it will
also shut out much stuff brought by other
transportation lines, both by rail and sea