The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-02-03

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-Anti Imperialstic
sentiment will have full swing in the Senate
this week, as nearly every Senator " no opposes
and who has not IL ready spoken against i'm
pnIialisr, has given notice of intention to
speak. The Treaty of Peace will be voted upon
February 9Th, ard the chances favor its ratil-
cation, bee Use nothing would he gained by
rejecting it. motion 10 reconsider would he
made by one o. its friends, and it woul require
II maj gritty 10 tablet. That MT iDrity its opp
net is have not So, if it were rejected February
9th all Mr.. Mckinley would have to DO would
be to call an extra session of the Senate, in
Man CHI when it would he promptly ratified.
Within the last we, k, Mr.. Mckinley has been
personally harshly CT ticSed in both House and
Senate, and in each body one Of the critics was
IL Rcpub ican. In the hCuse, Representatives
Jerry simpson, and Johnson. of Ind, jump ped
on him for bowling to pub ic opinion, right OF
wr ny; sn in the Senate, Senators German
and Hoar gave him fits for declining to furni b
The Senate with copies of the ms Iuctions give n
to the Peace Commissioners.
Scna or German has never posed as an alarm
ist. but he never fears TO Speak the nth be"
cause it may be alarming. Just before the
Senate passed the regular pension appropri,:-
tion bill, which carries Sl45 ,00u, 900. MIR. Cor
man made a speech, calling attention TO the
fact that although it was est mated that Il Z
war with Spain would add $4,000 names to the
pension roll. unless our troops were recalitG
from the TROPICS byf fore the sickly season, no
provision, whatever. had been made in the iil
for the increase. MIR. German concluded with
this significant prediction: Within three
years from this date, the pens on roll will
amount to S.G5,G0 1000. If you add TO that,
the cost If maintaining your army Zone thou
sand dollars maE), tie Aver can republic
will in the year 1900, e1pend more Tor its army
and pensioners than any o;her nation on the
face OF the earth That Is fact, which the
American people will have to face, and they
ought TO know now. in advance, what's coming
to them, if the SCH, mes and projects which are
being forced upon us are carried cut"
The attempt of the Republicans TO get Dem-
ocratic support for the Hull bill, which will be
voted upon tomorrow, Icy amending it so as to
make any increase OF the regular army
above $4,000, discretionary with the President,
was not a success. 1t made no real change.
Tue Democrats proved by their votes for he
first war appropriation, that they were not
afraid to trust the President, but that did ! OF
change the principle of the party against the
concentration of authority in the hands of one
man. Such concentration does no harm At
long as the right man exercises the authL rity,
but who can say when the wrong man will come
along? The change was made for effect in The
House, where partisanship will put the bill
through, but in the Senate, where its fate will
be very much in doubt, un'ess the support of
Senators, who are Inclined to oppose ii, can be
secured. The subterfuge was so pGlp&ble that
Representative Loud, of Cal, II Republican,
made a hot speech against it, plainly telling his
party associates that they could not hope to
catch suckers with such bare Look.
Gen. Miles is still piiiag up evidence, official
and unofficial, that the beef furnished our
soldiers in Cut and Porto Rico, was unfit to
eat. lie has already about convinced every
body. except the members of the administra-
ton, and of the War investigation Commission,
that his charge was true. but they sec n deter
mined to stick to it that the beef was good.
Secretary AIger put another slight upon
General Miles in connection with the finding OF
the Eagun court-martiaI. The army regula-
tons provide that he finding of a court-martial
shall be forwarded to the Secretary of War
through the co nmunding general OF the army.
but Alger instructed the Ju@ge Advocate to
ignore Miles and hand the finding to him direct
IL, and it was done. While nobody outside the
court and Cilicials can swear what the verdict
was. everybody is certain that it was guilty,
ana that the ntence was d enissal from the
army. In handling this verdict, Mr.. Mckinley
would better be careful or he will sign his own
political death warrant; the people have de-
cded that Eagan should be punished, ard if
Mr. Mckinley exercises his authority TO shield
him, he may find that he may have the punish
ment TO bear himself.
Senator Butler, in presenting q resolution of
the North Carolina Legislature for the election
of Senators, by vote of the people, called after
ton to tn 8 being the twenty-fourth Legisla-
ture to adopt such resolution, and said that
constitutional amendment ought to be Mt
once adopted, citing the sever al existing dead
locks and scandles in Legislatures us an argu-
mCnt in its favor.