The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-07-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON d. c., July 18th.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. July 18th.
Mr.. ED!T0R:-it must have been no.
ticed Ivy all obscrvant readers of war news
that the victories scheduled i'll advance
have invariably failed to be pulled off on
schedule time. and that our greatest vie
tories. such as the destruction Of the Span
ish fleets at Santiago and at Manila have
not been handicapped by advance notices.
affair. That the postponements in taking
that town were caused by orders resulting
from Spanish trickery is more than prob
able, although it is constantly-too con-
stantly, in fact-retc-atcd by those at
tached to the administration, that Mr.. Nc
kinley has issued TO orders about the
movement on Santiago, since it was be-
gun, except that instructing Gen. ohaftcr
not to accept the surrender Of the Span
iards except Internationally. The Span
iards across the Atlantic are trying to
create the impression that they are on the
eve of sucing for peace, and they are sue
cecding, too, with some persons high in
authority and thereby hangs some of the
delays which have so aggravated those
who believed that the quickest way to Sc
cure peace was to lick the Spaniards as
fast as we could get at them
Very few Senators and Representatives
remain in Washington. The most OF the
latter have gone to their districts to look
after their fences, while the former, as
a rule, have gone in search of cooler
places. The Senate left quite number
of small military nominations-mostly
as well as lot of nominations to civil
office Some were not acted upon because
of lack Of time, but the most of them were
hung up because of objection to them by
some Senator.
The announcement of the democratic
Senators that their constitutional objec-
tions to the House bill allowing volunteer
soldiers in camp to vote for Congressman
were sucE that they would feel justified in
rcsorting to any sort Of tactics to prevent
the bill being passed by the Senate, was
sufficient to prevent any serious attempt
being made to take the bill up previous to
adjournment Just to find out whether
the democrats meant business, Senator
Burrows asked for unanimous consent to
vote upon the bill, few minutes before
adjournment, and the storm of objections
at once raised, convinced him that they
did. The democrats objected to the bill
because, like the old Force bill, it recog-
nized Federal control of Congressional
elections, which the democratic party does
not.
Congress was too anxious to adjourn
after the Hawaiian annexation resolution
was adopted, to heed Senator Morgan
when he said: There is absolutely no
necessity for an adjournment at this time:
it is 4 hasty, improvident and dangerous
step" but, unless many are mistaken, the
wisdom of those words will be seen later.
The truth of his other words--"The very
moment that the treaty of peace is signed
by the President and the government of
Spain the military power of the President
will cease, and the legislative branch of
the government must provide a govern
ment for any territory we may acquire by
the war, lis undisputed; yet the legisla-
tive body cannot meet again until next
December, unless called together by Mr..
Mckinley in ovtro session