The St. Johns herald., 1898-10-22
WARRINGTON LETTER.
Some News Notes From shc Ma.
 ftona1 Capital.
Washington. Oct. 10. 1898

tional Capital.
 Washington. Oct. 10. 1898.
 Lawyers for the defense seldom brins
 out any testimony against the accused
 The members of the Mckinley war in
 vestigation Commission-s The AlgAI Relief Commission. js what local
 paper calls it-who have pnt the ques-
 tiOn- to the witnesses wi,o have 20 far
 testified may not consider themselves
 Secretary Alger's lawyers. bni, if thev
 were, their questions could nut ;n the
 opinion of many nnp- -jMiicsd persons
 have heen more carefully prepared io prevent the giving undesired evid- sn.:e-. One witness = Col. Lee, who
 stS' ted tO tell about some of the War Departments nismsnasement, in the
 matter of transportation. without heinz questioned upon the subject. was at once rxl,ed down and informed that the Com
 mission WAS not ready 10 enter that hranch of the investigation. He took the hint and thereafter only snswe ed such questions as were asked Gen H. V. Boynton reiterated his theory that flies were responsible for sn much sick ness st Camp Thomas, and another wit ness. brigade surgeon indorsed i, In. stead of trying to find ort. the c"mn,is. sion appearsto he trying not to nnd out anything dsrogasor to Secretary Alser's management of the War Department. II appears to desire only svidepce tl,.. will be complimentary 10 she Depsrt- meat.
 There is much sympathy expressed for Mrs. Mckinley, who left Waahins- ioa sos s'saSon 0!.io, 6slnySay night. to attend tha fansrst 0f her brother, who WAS killed, supposedly by 8 jt alous woman, Friday evening. She was te have started to the Omaha Exposition today. with Mr, Mckinley =.d . pa..y of officers and their wives. The party went and will he joined at Canton by ur Mckinley, hut Mrs. McKinley will probably nft 20.
 The arrest oi Senator Quay, for con. ssiirary in connection with the failure of Philadelphia hank. has been much talked about in Washington. Opinion is not unanimous as to whether Senator Qnsy is innocent or guilty of this part. cular charge. hut, aside from a few men who are under personal obligations 10 him, the letters fr' m Quay to the Cash fer of the Bank, who committed suicide
 after the hank closed it's doors. have added 10 the opinion long beld dv most persons who know his hnsiness hai its that Qnay IS utterly unfitted to hold | seat in the U. S. Senate. Quay is. and has been for years, regular stock | and has never hesitated to | make use of knowledge obtained in his official capacity to gamble in stOcks for his own profit. He was one of the most prominent of the Senatorial sugar spec ulatOrs, whose operations shocked the and brought about sn allege,. while the tariff wss under hy the Senate Finance At the investigation. Quay adopted blnffing meti,"is told the Com miItpe that he specnlated in anre or anything e'se wlre never fe wished to, and m effect asked what the Committee was S"ing 10 do about il, N" real pa friot will deny that the scouniry would be better of if all such msn as Quay were drivel cut of the Senate and kept put.
 Nothing conld show more encourage nent for drm"rrats n the tongr~ssiO- nal campaign than ih" fact that repnh- icons acknowledge t,e fear 9, losing our ont uf the eleven Iowa disirIets. aow all represented t.v Tepui:irans Al gain Oi t,Ii.th seais is aii 'h.t K neeGed " the democrats T." pnt the 'eI.uhiican- n min, rity in the next lIou-.. and ,h- prospects, If getting them and mauy more, very bright at tAi- time
 ExSs9atOr Rlarkbnrn, of Ky, now n Washington. said: "The political outlook ln ker lucky is as at;siartor, IS democrats could wish Of,ha eleven - congressional D stricts they wi,l carry line certainly, ard q. she rem timing two ,here is more than an even rhanre of :arrying one the Louisville district II 'eems to me that there is every reason 70 regard the condition Oi ibe q ti.inocrac. throughout the Nation, with comp acency. and believe than the gam. made hy the party in Novemher. will he large in majority of tue states."
 Col Phil Thompson, oneeaa memher nj the House from Ky, who spends much of his time in New York has been trll- ing h's Washington friends about the Campaign. He said: I b"Iiva that J ,dxe Van wyck will beat C"I Roo-e- welt, for Governor. hy heavy majority There is sn element in the republican