The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-07

made evident by the course OF events.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER..
WASHINGTON. D. c.. May 4th.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Mr. Mckinley has fully
made up his mind to curtail some of the
eXtentions of the civil service rules made
BY Mr.. Cleveland but he lacks the nerve
to do sountil public opinion has been work
ed up a little on the subject. That is why
members of his cabinet and other promi
nent officials are making public their opin-
ms against those es. Of course ever, =
body understands that the rules do not
keep the present democratic occupants of
the positions in Office but so long as they
are in force they do operate to keep those
republicans who are not already in the
government service out of office. And
that is the milk in the cocoanut. Promis-
es have been made that have to be kept
and the only way to keep them is to
withdraw the civil service rules from some
of these places Had Mr. Mckinley been
a man of backbone he would simply have
rescined Mr. Clevelands orders extending
the rules and said no more about it, and
that would have been a much more manly
way than this beating tie devil around the
bush in order to make it appear that the
public demand their abrogation, when
every body knows that the public doesn't
care continental who fills the minor Off
ces under the government.
The Dingley tariff bill should now be
known as the Allison Aldrick Platte bilp
since those three Senators have added
bill which was today laid before the full
Finance committee of the Senate. The
amendments have not made the bill any
less Objectionable as a whole to democrats
but some of them have started many re-
publicans to kicking at a lively rate, but
there is no likelihood that any of them
will kick out of the party traces.
There haser,t been a determined fight
made in the Senate against any appoint
mcnt yet made by Mr.. Mckinley, but if
he persists in tryingt to make J. w. Lyons,
the negro member of the Republican Nat
tional Committee from Georgia, postmas
ter at Augusta Ga, there will be a fight
and very bitter one, too. The entire
Georgia Congressional dele cation made a
respectful protest against appointing this
negro postmaster at Augusta, taking the
ground that there were plenty of places
paying just rs well that could be given
him, where the performance of his official
duties would not necessitate constant IT.
ritation of the entire business interests f
that city and the greater part Of its pcpC-
lation-probably nine-tenths of its mail
receiving population. Postmaster General
Gary had given the Georgia delegation to
understand that be was opposed to max
ing this negro postmaster at Augusta, but
it seems that the negro, who was Nc
whooper-up previous to the ST. Louis con-
vention, had boss Hanna's positive prom
Use of the postotfice, if Mckinley was nom
mated and elected, and that he has refus-
ed all offers of other places, although some
of them carry more salary and insist ed
upon being nominated postmaster at A u
gusta The Georgia Senators believe they
can defeat his nomination in the Senate e,
and it is certain that they will fight it to
the last ditch, and hang it up if they can't
defeat is.
ooh, its just the regular pendulum
swing" is the substance of what members
of the administration say when their atten-
ton is called to the large amount of gold
more than $1,000, OOO-engaged last
week in New York for shipment to Eu-
rope, land it will all come back again in
the fall to pay for our crops. They may
be right but those with good memories
have not forgotten that Secretary Car
Isle and his assistants talked the same
way in 1864, when nearly 800, 600, GOD
in gold went to Europe, and in 1895, when
the value exported almost reached $1O5,
100000, and again in 1896, when it went
close to 100000, and they know that
this was only brought back by issuing
S261 zoo, 900 in L. S. bonds. Mr.. McKin-
ley has said that he would not issue bonds
did right in issuing them when the contin-
ucd demand for gold caused the gold re-
serve in the U. S. Treasury to fall below
the arbitrary limit set without any legal
autho rity by John Sherman when he was
Secretary of the Treasury. Every body
hopes that this gold raid is not made by
the New York and London money chang
ers to force another issue of bonds. but
that doesn't keep people from wondering
what Mr.. Mckinley would do, should it
turn out that way.
Democratic employees of the Treasury
Department who are not so unsophisticat-
ed as to expect to be protected by the civil
service commission are preparing to get
it in the neck \ committee has been
appointed to investigate all the bu 'eaus OF
the Treasury Department, and to rerort
plan of reorganization that will enable
the most efficient employees to get the larg-
est salaries That sounds all right doesn't
it? But every wide awake democrat
knows that the plan reported will give the
biggest salaries to the republicans, and is
preparing to take his dose of reduction
with as good grace as he can, if he isn't in
a position to show his disgust by resign
ing when the reorganization is made.
Peruvian Guano at $3.50 per sack.
Campbell & Son, Washington and An