The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTI X.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 5t

| WASHINGTON. D. c., June 9th.
| Mr. EDIToR:-Mr. Mckinley has given
| the country another exhibition of Il lial :
ming change of mind. After allowing
those who talked with him during several
| days to get the impression that he was
about to call for volunteers for the Phil
| iprines, he suddenly changed his mind
| and announced that the Cabinet had de
| cided not to call for volunteers, but to re
place the volunteers now in the Philippines
| with regulars, and to authorize Gen. OTIS
| to enlist natives 1t is believed that the
| principal factor in bringing about this
| lightning change was cablegram from
Prof. Schurman, president of the Philip
pine Commission, containing a fairy story
announcing the early surrender of Agui-
naldo. Similar fairy stories by the same
| author were the basis of the hope Of early
peace INDUCED in by the Administration
| some weeks ago The rainy season, which
| lasts three months, is on in the Philippines,
making it impossible for Gen. Otis to
worry A guinaldo much for that length of
| at all probable.
Hon. A J. Warner, President of the
Bimetallic League, is in Washington. He
said of the probable democratic platform
of next year: "The democratic party will
stand by the Chicago platform. The
money plank will be made rs full and as
| strong as if there were no other issues. l
| would be in favor also of making decla
| ration against trusts, as if that were the
| only issue; and the same with our declara-
ton against imperialism and the Philip
pine war. Neither question can be said
| to obscure or take precedence of the other,
but all combine to make an issue that be-
lieve the people will support"
Whatever may be the defects in other
branches of the government service, and
| they are numerous enough everybody
knows, Commissioner Duel!, of the United
| States Patent Office, is conducting that
office with more satisfaction to inventors,
patent lawyers and everybody doing bust
| ness Herewith than has been done for a
long time. He has the business so nearly
to date that c. A. Snow & Co, Washing
tons most successful firm of patent law
ycrs, make the positive announcement
that they can secure patents for inventors
in from four to ten weeks.
| Representative Gordon, of Ohio who is
of the political situation in his state. He
said: whoever thinks the republicans are
invincible in Ohio this year will be badly
fooled There never was a time when the
party was so badly split by fac:ional dis
sensons as now, and if the democrats are
awake to their opportunity they will beat
Senator Hanna's candidate for Governor.
have no idea who will be named as the
of good material to draw from. Ohio is
naturally republican, but the people do
not take kindly to political bosses and
they are going to show their resentment
at the polls this year
In Austria, process for making artifi-
cial cotton out of the fibre of the fir tree
has been discovered, and reported to the
State Department by the United States
Consul at Reichenberg He quotes de
scription of the process, concluding as fol-
lows: Artificial cotton can be produced
so cheaply that the genuine article can
hardly compete with it, and one cannot
say that it is a sham, for it is composed,
exactly as the natural cotton, of pure
cellulose." The Consul says himself: In
country such as this, where forests of fir
trees abound and are made perennial, by
constant replanting as the large trees are
cut down, and, where all the cotton used
in the numerous factories must be brought
from far India and the United States, such
a device should be profitable" This is
decidedly interesting, but it need not
alarm cotton growers until it is known to
have been put into practical use. 1t may
be like the chemical process by which real
diamonds can be made which works all
right, but the made diamond costs more
| than the natural diamond of the same size
sells for, which renders the process useless
to the commercial world.
The friends of Representative Sherman,
of New York, are claiming that he was
buncoed by the Henderson Sherman
! Speakership combine into which he en-
tered short time ago, and there appears
to be foundation for the claim. The com
bine has already made Henderson the only
| Western candidate for Speaker and given
him an apparent walk over for the Speak
ership. 1t is intimated that it was formed
to do that very thing, and that the admin
istration was party to it, having decided
that Sherman;s friendship for Reed, and
Reeds influence over HIM, made him un
| desirable speakership timber There may,
of course, be a slip up in the program, but
| it is the general impression in Washington
that Henderson already has the Speaker
ship clinched, and predictions are freely
made that Sherman will find it advisable
| to withdraw in Henderson's favor, long
before Congress meets, in order to get
Payne's place at the head of the Ways and
Means Committee, which carries with it
the floor leadership of the party. The
Withdrawal! of Hopkins in favor of Hen
derson, is believed to have been the work
of Joe Cannon, who wants his old place
at the head of the Committee on Appro-
priations, and has probably been promised
it, although some say that Hopkins is after
the Ways and Means Committee for him
self.
MIR. HENRY WILL MS.