The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-06-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 18th

w ASH1NGTON, u. u, June 18TH.
Mr.. EDIToR:-It is not surprising that
Admiral Sampson should have shown i'm
patience in his dispatches to Washington
because of the delay in sending him the
troops promised He has had within the
last week ample cause for Impotence, ave,
and for indignation, too He destroyed
the outer forts at Santiago and had every
thing ready for troops to land. but there
were no troops; he captured Guantanamo
Bay, and still holds it, for the same pur-
pose, but the troops which ought to have
been there to land were on transports
anchored at Tampa, held up by orders
from Washington on account of the cock
and bull story about a fleet of Spanish
warships being at Havana ready to steam
out and capture the troops as soon as they
started until Sampson could detach a
number of his most formidable ships and
send them to convoy the transports to
Santiago. Meanwhile SIMPSONS marines
hold all the Cuban ground they have cap
tured. Although nothing official can be
obtained, there is reason to believe that
the troops are now on their way to Cuba,
under convoy. The frequency with which
holdup orders have been sent from Wash
ington when important movements were
about to be started, on no better founda-
ton than wild and improbable rumors,
presumably of Spanish origin, makes it
look as though somebody who has int1u-
ence enough to control the issuing of Or
dcrs has the misfortune to have "A streak
of yellow down his backbone. 1t cannot
be stated to an absolute certainty who this
individual is, but, unless the delays have
been purposely made to prolong the war,
there is little doubt that he exists. 1t is
only where those in command are out of
reach of holdup orders that notable sue
cesses have been obtained.
Orders have been sent to Generals Cop
pinger and Lee, who are to command the
Porto Rican army, to get their men ready
to start, but there is no telling how many
holdup orders they will have to contend
with before they get off.
Oh yes indeed indeed.
y good little boy is Tommy Reed.
After being compelled by the majority of
the House to get out of the way of the
consideration of the resolution for the an
nexation of Hawaii, Gar Reed has the
| audacity to say, through his thick and thin
| followers, that he never had stood in the
| way of the ma jority, or intend to stand in
the way. This comes too late to help the
political fortune of the Czar-cx- Gar now
| He has been deposed by Mr.. Mckinley,
and will never again WELD the autOcratic
| power he has had. The annexation reso-
luton will be voted upon Wednesday
afternoon Of this week. and will. of course.
| be adopted. About - democrats have an
| nounced their intention to vote for the
resolution.
| The fact that the war revenue law pro
| vidcs for the coinage of the silver bullion
owned by the government at the rate of
| 81 800 900 a month destroys every argu-
ment advanced by the gold standard men
against the coinage of the seisuiorage.
| The amount to lie coined each month is
! less than was proposed by the silver men,
! but authorizing the coinage of any amount
was a recognition of the principle advU-
Gated by the silver men.
1t is already announced that the sugar
trust and the standard oil trust will refuse
to pay the tax of e-quartcr of one cent
on their gross receipts in excess Of $3.50
000 imposed by the war revenue law, and
will 90 into court to fight the constitutions
ality of the law.
1t is openly charged on every hand that
much Of the Inconvenience that the troops
! have been put TO has been directly trace
able to the Incompetence Of many of the
! civilians appointed to important staff posi-
| ti0ns by Mr.. Mckinley. Secretary .tlger
now says that in ten days every man in
| the army will be provided with his fall
equipment for war. Then there can be
no further valid excuse for pottcring along
! instead Of At once fighting The war to IA
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