The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-02-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsnINGToN, ID. c., February 18th.
Mr.. EDlToH:- adage, The occasion
, always produces the man." like some 9TH
cr adages, sometimes lies. The Prcsidcl
of thcCnitcd States has been inSultcd 10y
, a Spanish black guar d who held the com
mission of his government as Minister to
the United States, and our department of
State has been held up to the ridiculc of
! the world for allowing itself to bc quilted
by Spanish Shams labeled autonomy for
Cuba and negotiations for reciprocity
| treaty: the insult was in writing, the au-
| thorship of which was acknowledged 10y
| Senior dc Lone, and has been published
| throughout the civilized world. Surely
this was an occasion" but no man has
vet been produced. The natural thing to
| be expected after de Lone acknowledged
having written the published letter, was
that Mr.. Mckinley would at once send de
Lone his passports. Instead of that, he
sent request to Madrid that de LONE be
recalled and before it was presented to
the Spanish government, de Lone had re-
signed and his government had accepted
the resignation, and now, Mr.. Mckinley
is waiting to learn what Spain will say
about it all. 1t has been proven time after
time by Congress that politics cuts no zig
urc in the solid backing ALWAYS given Il
President who stands up firmly for any
question affecting our honor or rights,
and Congress was and is still ready to
back Mr.. Mckinley, even to the extent of
q declaration of war, but he does nothing.
1t is now in order for Congress to make
him do something, and its members are in
the humor to do 1t.
Even prominent republicans ignore the
very existence of Secretary Sherman when
discussing anything relating to our foreign
relations. Senator Lodge, who takes 4
more cheerful view of the situation than
many of his colleagues do, said: Spain is
evidently practiciny duplicty towards us,
and the administration will be forced to
this conclusion if Spain does not express
regret for the utterances of her late Min
lister, and no matter what Spain may say
officially, the general belief will be that de
Lone told the truth about the use Of au-
tonomy and reciprocity to delude this gov
eminent. l cannot predict what the fu-
turc will bring. | only know that in
Judge Day, we have Il Secretary who is
firm, patriotic and capable, and that he
will see that this country does not lose
cast among the nations of the world by
reason of this incident"
The House Judiciary Committee has
hung up Senator Tillman's bill to permit
the states to control liquor carried into
them in original packages, and it will re-
main so unless some member of the Com
mittec who voted against reporting the
bill can be induced to get the matter up
again. Representative Latimer is work
ing with that end in view, and thinks he
will succeed. The bill was passed by the
Senate some time ago and was intended to
aid the South Carolina authorities to en-
force the liquor dispensary law, which was
weakened by a United States Supreme
Court decision. TIE principal objection
to the Tillman bill by members of the com
mittee who voted against reporting it was
that it would be Il step towards giving
states the right to contrib interstate com
mercc.
Not having the fear of Car Reed before
its eyes, the Senate increased the amount
carried by the fertilization appropriation
bill from $4,144,912, appropriated by the
House, to $9,052 ,494. 1t remains to be
seen whether the Car can compel the
House to insist upon its original bill.
The addresses of the National Organi-
cations of the democrats, the peoples
party and the silver republicans, have been
approved by joint caucus and will all be
made public this week The key note of
the addresses is cooperation by the friends
of silver in the Congressional campaign
Unless all signs fails, us they sometimes
do, the treaty for the annexation of Hawaii
will have its fate settled this week The
Committee on Foreign Relations, acting
upon the expressed doubt of Senator Tel
Ter, enc of the strongest anneXation:sts, as
to their ability to ratify the treaty, will
get a test vote in the Senate. If the vote
shows that the two-thirds are for the
treaty, its early ratification is certain, as
the opposition would not prolong the fight
with certain defeat ahead of them; if the
vote shows, as it probably will, that the
treaty cannot be ratified, it will at once
be dropped, and a joint resolution for an
nexation brought to the front.
Car Reeds latest bit of suppression
was to wipe Friday and Saturday off the
House calendar. Friday is private bill
day in the Honse, and on the last Friday
| that the House was in session, enough re-
publicans voted with the democrats to
pass number of private bills, in defiance
of the opposition of the Car and his
agents on the floor. In order to prevent
REPETITION of such tactics the Car made
the House adjourn from last Thursday to
Monday, and it is said that he intends to
do the same thing every week, in order to
make sure that no more private bills are
passed.