The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-01-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. G., January 10th.

WAsuINGToN, ID. G., January 10th
Mr.. EDIToR:-Mr. Mckinley, By work
| irg overtime and by using a shovel on the
| pie, managed to send more nominations
to the Senate since Congress rcasscmbled
than have before gone in in any single
week since he look charge Of the pie coun-
ter, but it has not lesScned the pressure on
him for pie 4 little bit. For every hungry
mouth he has filled there are Il thousand
asking to be filled. There is Il suspicion
that Mr.. Mckinley, instead of being op-
posed to the warm fight that is being made
in the House for modification of the civil
service law, is really in favor it. Lack
| ing the backbon to use his authority to
modify the rules under the present law, he
| will do nothing. But if Congress adopts
| any legislation he will allow it to become
law, probably without his signature
The ground for this suspicion is ample
Many of Mr.. Mckinlcys warm friends are
engaged in this fight, and every member
of his Cabinet has gone on record as ia
before the House civil service committee
| limits the law to those positions paying
from 5000 to 81 800 year.
The Senate has taken up the Hawaiian
| annexation treaty and, if Its supporters
have their way, will consider it daily until
vote is reached.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina, has
offered joint resolution proposing con-
stitutional amendment that would revolu-
| tionize the United States courts. 1t pro-
poses that all United States judges, in
Guiding those of the Supreme Court, shall
be elected by the people, for terms of eight
years, and provides for division of the
country into circuits for their election.
Speaking of his resolution, Senator But
Ter says: There was a time when all the
states thought it incumbent upon them to
appoint their judges for life. Now the
life tenure of Judge i'll state is the ex-
ccption. believe in placing the power
over the Judiciary in the hands of the peo-
pie. If the system of stated terms is good
in the states it ought to be equally good
for the Federal government"
Many democrats in Congress favor be-
ginning the congressional campaign of
next Fall at once, on the floors of Con.
gress, and keeping up a red hot, aggressive
fight upon the republicans from start to
finish. Among them is Representative
De Almond, of Missouri, who said on the
subject: I'VE ought to be aggressive. We
want to force the fighting. We ought to
lose no time in exposing the hypocrisy
and cowardice of our political opponents
We can lose nothing by being aggressive
Those who followed the standard of dem.
ocracy ana Bryan in the last campaign
are as enthusiastic and as earnest as ever,
| and we who are here in Congress repre-
senting that sentiment ought not to lag"
Senator Chiffon, of Texas, says of the
civil service hubbub in republican ranks:
I'm my opinion, if Mr.. Bryan had been
elected instead of Mr.. Mckinley, the fly
spccks which republican orators in Con-
gress now imagine to be blood spots on
the civil service system would have escaped
their attention altogether. Their sudden
realization that the idea of civil service re-
form has been carried too far is due olely
to their purpose to get republicans into
places now filled by equally capable dem
ocrats, and no democratic senator or repre-
sentative should give them aid or comfort
in their Designs
Gar Reed is the one republican in Con-
gress who has revcr buckled down to Boss
Hanna. On the contrary, he not long ago
made Hanna eat big chunk of humble
pie. 1t all came about in connection with
the appointment of a light house keeper
in Mr.. Reeds district, a place Mr. Reed
had asked for one of his constituents. In.
stead Of the appointment Mr. Reed got a
letter from the headquarters of the repub.
lican national committee, signed NJ A
Hanna That made him mad He isn't a
profane man, but his demand for an eX-
PLANTATION from the Treasury Department
as to what NJ. 4. Hanna had to do with
appointments in his District was as "hot
stuff as anybody on Secretary Cages staff
cared to hear about An apology quickly
followed, as did the appointment of Reeds
man. But that didn't mollify the Gar
He went after Boss Hanna and made him
apologize also.
Senator Teller made Il manly and able
speech in reply to the numerous newspa-
per stories alleging that some of the silver
men in Congress have no proper concep-
ton of the financial question, and are try
ing to force it to the front merely to make
breech between Mr.. Mckinley and his
Secretary of the Treasury. He said that
it was ridiculous to suppose that Mr.. Gage
would remain in the cabinet an hour if he
and the President were not in financial &C
cord; also that the Republican PARTY was
to- day fully committed to the gold stand
ard. Every eye in the Senate was upon
Mr.. Teller when he uttered these ringing
words: II attack the republican party be-
cause it is the party of the gold standard.
hope TO see it go down in 1900, and l
pledge you that | will do everything in
my power to drag it down. Its policy is
not such as is demanded by great and
free people. | have no quarrel with the
President, but he stands for the gold stand
ard, policy which in my opinion will
impoyerish and wreck our people.
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