The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-07-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 2Sth.

WAsHINGTON, D. c., June 2Sth.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Senator McLaurin is one
of the few democrats who is willing to
make prediction as to the date of the
passage of the tariff bill by the Senate,
which nearly everybody expects to occur
sometime during the later part of the pres
ent or the first of next week. Speaking
on the subject, MIR. McLaurin says: Il
think a vote will be reached on Friday,
that is hangman's day, and, as the bill Will
bring ruin and misery, it would be appro-
pirate to put 1t through on hangman
dav." Some of the republican Senators
expect the bill to be passed as early as
Wednesday or Thursday of this week, but
that is not very probable. Republicans in
the House are very confident that in all
important schedules, the bill as it energies
from the conference Committee will close
ly resemble the original Dingley bill.
Secretary Sherman doesn't know what
Mr.. Mckinley's Cuban policy is to be.
He so informed close personal friend.
1t has leaked out since Gen. WoOdford,
the new Minister to Spain, has been in
Washington that he isn't in any particular
hurry about getting to Madrid, and that
he has no idea that he will actually open
negotiations with Spain in the Ruiz case,
which is to be made the stepping stone to
the introduction of the Mckinley policy
towards Cuba, before the fall. He will
probably start late in July, but it is not
certain that he will go either by the most
direct or the most speedy route.
Gar Reed has made out his list of Com
mittee assignments and unless some of his
kindergarten, otherwise known as the
United States House of Representatives,
do something to offend him between now
and then, he will announce them after the
House has adopted resolution setting
the date for the adjournment of the ses-
sion.
The new Commissioner of Patents, Hon.
Benjamin Butterworth, is plying the new
broom or pitchfork which has been long
needed. Within two weeks he has dis
barred eight patent attorneys for fraudu-
lent practices.
Mr. Mckinley and Boss Hanna have
concluded to abandon the idea Of trying
to get Congress to authorize the appoint
ment of currency commission at this
session.
Nearly everybody except the applicant
takes the refusal of the Committee of
Privileges and Elections to vote on the
report prepared by Senator Hoar, favor
ing the seating of ex-senator Corbett, of
Oregon, on the certificate of the Governor
of that State, to mean that Mr.. Corbett
will never get the coveted seat. He might
have gotten the seat had not ex-senator
Mitchell and his friends been using their
influence against him on the quiet, al
though it is by no means certain that a
majority would have voted to seat him,
anyway.
Senator Billy Mason will be unmer-
cifully guyed by his associates when he
returns to Washington, for having made
big bluff by telegraphing the request to
have the nominations for the southern
district of Illinois held up by the Senate
Committee to which they were referred,
one day, and following it up the next day
by Withdrawing his objection to their con-
firmation. He will be complmented on
his skill as lightning change artist.
Some of the applicants for consular APP
pointments are beginning to regard them
selves as being up against bunco game
that is being run by Mr.. Mckinley, and
they are kicking as much as they dare to
as long as they allow themselves to cher
ish hopes of getting a government berth.
These men say that every time they go to
the White House to try to push along their
application, they are told that Mr.. McKin-
ley isn't ready to take up the appointment
of consuls, and yet they see the nominal
tions of consuls sent to the Senate almost
every day, and some of them have been
young fellows whose only claims for rec
ognition were the pocketbooks of their
fathers, or the social "pulr' of their moth
ers. 1t is not strange that this state of
affairs should cause kicking.
Senator Pettigrew is apparently none
the worse because of his disagreeable ex
perience in the Senate on Saturday. His
physician says that his trouble was merely
a temporary paralysis of the vocal chords.
His sudden cessation in the midst of the
sentence which formed part of vehe
ment speech created a sensation on the
floor.
THE PROTEST OF JAPAN.