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

WAsnINGToN. d. c., November It'll
Mr.. EDIToR:-Although it has taken
| the Peace Commission, at Paris, more than
| q month to get down to the single ques-
| ton it was formed to settle-the DISPOSE
| ton of the Philippines-it would be Il safe
| wager that it will not take three weeks
| more to finish the business. This may
seem a rash statement, in view of the ap-
parent deadlock of the Commission, caused
| by the refusal of the Spanish Commission
ers to agree to surrender the Philippines
| upon the terms offered by our Commits
sioncrs If that deadlock were real, it
would he rash statement, but it is not.
| There are the best of reasons for the be-
| lief that this apparent deadlock is a
dummy, trottcd out for effect. and that
the Congressional campaign being over
and the administration no longer having
| reason for delaying the negotiation of
the treaty, the Commissioners will very
speedily agree upon the amount of money
| that we are to pay Spain, and finish up
| the treaty Although the treaty will say
that we pay this money to Spain for the
Philippines, others will regard it as paid
| for other pun poses, inasmuch as the Phil
| ipplnes are ours by right of capture. This
| idea of the victorious nation paying in
demnty to the conquered nation, has only
one thing to commend tit is original
| but that isn't likely to make it popular.
IL l,ic c,,1
| iect in Congress, this winter, and it will
| not all come from democrats, either.
If Lieut.. Hobson, who is still in Wash
| ington, mas any of the superstition which
most persons raised in the South have, he
probably regards himself as having been
hoodooed. He had hardly recovered from
the knockdown given him by the Navy
Department when it refused to allow him
to continue his efforts to save the Spanish
warships, sunk of Santiago. when the
news reached Washington that the Maria
| Teresa. the Spanish cruiser raised under
! his direction, had foundered in Il storm,
while on It's way to New York. There is
| much real regret over the loss of this fine
| ship. estimated to be worth 81 900, 600. but
| there are Naval otficials-high ones-who
| regard the loss with complaccncy, because
| the vessel would have been Il constant re-
! minier of Lieut. IIobson, who has, they
| think, already received u"tirely too much
| glory for his work Hobson can't talk
| about the way he has been treated, but
L. L Il
phatically
! The tact the members of the Fourth
Ohio Regiment would get home in time to
vote was made apparent by Mr.. Mckin
| lev's treatment of them The reg .mrnt,
which was brought all the way fl ON Porto
Rico, hy special order of the President to
get their votes in, was stopped in Wash
ington for the purpose of being given II
| reception in the White House. The regf
mcnt was first reviewed from the White
House portico, and was then received in
| the East Room by Mr. Mckinley, who
shook hands and exchanged word or two
with every member. 1t is the first time
| that any President ever accorded such an
honor to a body of soldiers as large as a
regiment but then, you know, Mr.. Nc
kinley regarded their votes as being nee
! essary in Ohio, and hoped that lie might
catch the democratic membership Col
is democrat by paving them unusual
attentions.
ErIva Lockwood, once a Presidential
candidate, and for years a sort Of a lawyer
and claim agent, has been telling sons
other women exactly..what brought on the
war. She said it was all the wicked news