The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-09
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
Communicated Y
WASHINGTON, June 5, 1899.

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MIR. Mckinley has given the
country another exhibition of
lightning change of mind. After
allowing those who talked with
him several days in order to get
the impression that he was about
TO call for volunteers for the Phil
ippines, he suddedly changed his
mind and announced that the
cabinet had decided not to call
for volunteers, but to replace the
volunteers in the Philippines
with regulars, and to authorize
General Otis to enlist natives.
1t is believed that the principal
factor in bringing about this
lightning change, was a cable
gram from Professor Schurman,
President of the Philippine Com
mission, containing a fairy story
announcing the early surrender
of AguinaldO. Similar fairy
stories by the same author were
the basis of the hope Of early
peace INDUCED in by the admin
istration some weeks ago. The
rainy season, which lasts three
months is on in the Philippines,
making it impossible for General
Otis to worry Aguinaldo much for
that length of time. That is why
no early surrender is at all prob
able.
Hon. A. j. Warner, President
of the Bimettalic 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 as full and as strong as
if there were no other issues. |
would be in favor also of making
a declaration against trusts, as if
that were the only issue; and the
same with our declaration against
Imperialism and the Philippine
war. Neither question can be
said to obscure or take prece-
dence of the other, but all COM
bines to make All issue that the
people | believe will support"
Whatever may be the defects
in other branches of the govern
ment service, and they are nu-
merOus enough, everybody knows,
Commissioner Diehl, of the United
State Patent Office, is conduct
ing that office with more eatisfac-
ton to inventors, patent lawyers,
and everybody doing business
Herewith than has geen done for
a long time. He has the business
so nearly to date, that c. A.
Snow Il Co., Washington's most
successful firm of patent lawyers.
make the positive announcement
that they can secure patents for
inventors in from four to ten
weeks.
Representative Gordon, of
Ohio, who is visiting Washing
ton, talks interestingly of the po-
litical situation in his State. He
said: "W hoover thinks the Re
publicans are invincible in Ohio,
this year, will be badly fooled.
There never was time when the
party was so badly split by fac
tlonal dissensions as now, and if
the Democrats are alive to their
opportunity, they will beat Sena,
tor Hanna's candidate for Gov
ernor. | have no idea who will
be named as the Democratic can
didate, but we have plenty of
good material t. draw from.
! Ohio is naturally Republican, but
the people do not take kindly to
political bosses, and they are 60
ing to show their resentment at
the polls this year"
In Austria, a process for max
ing artificial cotton out of the fibre
of the fir tree has been discOv =
cred, and reported to the State
Department, by the United
States Consul at Reichenberg.
He quotes a description of the
process, concluding as follows:
"Artiticial cotton can be produc.
ed so cheaply that the genuine ar,
ticle 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 eel
lulose." The Consul says him.
self: Gin a country such as this.
where forests of fir trees abound
and are made perennial, by con.
slant 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 profit.
} able" This is decidedly inter.
esting, but it need not alarm cot.
ton growers until it is known to
have been put into practical use.