The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-11-25

have reached the two billion mark. 1t Is
money is chargeablc to the war, hut out
side of the war the public expenditures
are entirely too eXtravagant, and might
be largely curtailed without lcsSening the
efficiency of the government.
Mr.. Mckinley has shown his adroitncSS
as a politician by deciding not to recon-
mend any legislation at the coming session
of Congress for Porto Rico or the Philip
pines. and to keep the islands under mill
tary rule for awhile. He knows that the
question of legislation for the islands Will
be troublesome one and prefers that 1t
shall not be taken up until his party has a
majority in both branches of Congress.
Assistant Secretary of War Meikleiohn
wishes to be the Hanna-Mckinley candi-
date for the Senate from Nebraska, and
his friends say that he thinks | e will be,
the conditions being that he shall promise
to support the administration in all things
in the Senate, and that he shall secure a
solid Mckinley delegation from Nebraska
to the Republican Convention in 1900.
The same sort of pledge is being eNacted
as the price of administration support OF
all the other candidates for the Senate, in
states where the legislatures to elect Sena-
tors are controlled by the republicans
Mr.. Mckinley seems reasonably certain of
a denomination, but Boss Hanna will take
no chances and will, fin his power, clinch
the thing long before the convention is
held. 1t is to carry out this clinching pro-
CRANE that the Republican National Com
mittce is to open headquarters in Wash
ington, at once, and keep them open until
after the Presidential election. 1t Is also
part of this scheme to exhibit the strength
of the administration machine to Car
Reed, as warning.
1t is announced that the Canadan-Amer-
lean Commission, now sitting in Washing
ton, has made great progress but the an
nouncers take good care to accompany the
announcement with the statement that the
agreements reached by the Commission
have been only upon minor matters, and
that the important questions are still up
in the air 1t is further stated that none
of the agreements reached are to be bind.
ing unless agreements are reached upon
everything, which indicates that the great
progress is largely imaginary.
the republican United States District
Attorney, for South Carolina, spent two
entire days consulting with the admins
tration upon what should be done by the
Attorney General, if anything, about the
race troubles in that state. The District
Attorney was not enthusiastic over the
probable success of the plan of trying to
get indictments against white men fol
participating in riots from Federal Grand
Jury, which has been adopted by the ad-
ministration, but he will have to try it on,
if the administration insists; he wishes to
continue drawing his salary. Tolbert, the
Assistant Postmaster who was driven
away from Mccormick, has decided to re-
main in Washington and try to catch a
government job on the strength OF his
"martyrdom''
1t has been definitely settled that Mr.
Mckinley will, in his annual message to
Congress, recommend that the regular
army be increased to 100000, and that he
will indorse the recommendation of Sec
rotary Long that three battleships and
twelve cruisers be built, and twenty thou
sand men and two thousand five hundred
boys be enlisted in the Navy.