The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-01-06
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Gen
eral About Washington.
communicated,
WASHINGToN. Jan. 2nd, 1899.

WAsHINGToN, Jan. 2nd, 1899.
Mr.. Mckinley is 50 anxious for the
Senate to promptly ratify the treaty OF
ueace that he took occasion TO broach
/ the subject to anumber of Senators VINO
/ shook hands with him at the New GeaG
reception, At the White House, to-day
/ 1t is the antics of Aguinaldu, believed
/ to have both Spanish and German in
spilatior, which are causing Mr. Me
! anXie.y. He told the Senators that
: his hands were tea, tutside OF the ter
/ rltiy already occupied 10y our trO
urtll the Treaty was ratified. Demo
cratic opposition to the treaty itself has
/ almost entirely disappeared, tut Demo
cratic OPP ,sition to keeping the Phil
/ ippines permanently appears t. tie in
creasIng. Present indications are that
/ whatever delay there may he III reach
ing vote on the treaty, which will 90
/ the Senate tins week, will come from
/ Republican Senators, such as Hoir,
/ Hale and Perkins. Nearly all the
Democrats say that the treaty should
/ be- promptly ratified because ii DOES not
( commit this country To keeping the
! Philippines, and delay may result in
serious trouble.
/ Col. DENLY, one of the Democratic
members of the War Investigating
Commissions, dropped hint that indi-
Gates surprise for somebody when the
report of the commssisslon is made,
which will he inside Of four weeks.
He laid: "When they make their
r,plrt thiok that all fair minded peo-
i, l..
e. heir work conscieniously and that
il is ! OF 50 much of Il whltewash COM
mission as many persons have mag,
iutd.
The magnatAs of the beef trust have
been trying t. scare General Mics ever
since h told the investigating commits
SION that "embalmed" beef 10 Cuba
ANA Porto Rico was utterly unfit for
us and expressed the opinion, backed
up by tina, Of phy sicans, that Nh IN
forced eating OF ii had beeu responsible
lpi much OF the sickness, but they have
n It succeeded, aud are not likely to.
y, a t4eler, they threaten to >ue Gen
ERA. Mi e. for leaYy damages, but the
thirt. vas quickly dropped when Gen
eiAl Miles sal / that court OF law was
lr clSIy where he would ike To get
Iue men VITO sold that "euuauuei'
beet h. the War Department. swift X
Go. s,ad Arm ,ur X Co.. members of the
beet rust, have sent long communicu-
to- t. The commission. telling how
90 q the heef that was Condemned by
General Miles aud other Offices, an,
an eN->rtgeamt of volunteers, Low IN
the emf 10y of the COMMISSION, has over
Il 1 llA l.Nr 81.
beef sent u Cuba aud eaten 10y his IeLi-
ment was better than mos OF the meu
have had since they were mustered
out. TINS same wltucss was made to
admit that a lot of beef issued 10 his
regiment was condemned 10y the phys
I lciaus, but the TO qualify the udulls-
SION ny saying that he didn't see apy-
thlug The matter with the b ef. y
! Board OF Survey, composed OF army
officers, has been appointed To lnvv,tl.
I gate The beet, both canned aud refrigrr
atrd, turni he'd the army.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, is the lat
est Republican Senator 10 declare
against expansion. He said: II ani not
All eXpausionisl, hut think the trca' Y
viii be ratified at this session. The rat
tication Of the treaty, however, will not
commit this country To the expansion
idea. The retention or disposition of
the Philippines md other matters lel At
ing relating t. expansion will have to
be settled la,er ON. The subject is to-
BIZ To he passed upon hastily. | admit
that popular sentiment seems to be in
favor of the eXpahsOa idea at present,
tut later look for u change. The
people apparently do not comprehend
just what expansion means"
The announcement from New York
that Mr.. Croker had selected Represent
tatlve Sulzer as candidate for Speaker
OF tie next House, aud consequently
me leader of the Democrats in that
body, was not received any too pleas
antly 10y Democrats in Washington.
There l. no personal oj sction to Mr.. Sui
ger, who Is extremely well liked, con-
slderlng the short time he has been in
Congfess, but resentment Is expressed
towards Mr., Croker for trying to med
die with this matter. There has been
more or less talk among Democrats
about this or that mau being selected to
illl the place in the next Congress that
Representative Bailey, does in the pres
ont House, but, according to Mr.
Balley's friends, he will be the man.
Representative Swanson, of Virginia
said: Friends of Mr.. Bailey have
made most careful aud conservative
canvas of the Democrats elected To the
next House. He has pledges anu as
surances from more than ninety and
when the time comes will get more than
100 votes. Outside of about twenty
llte he has the second choice of all
those who will vote for other candi-
dates ON account of local considera-
tons"
Pressure upon the administration
was strong enough to cause the cabinet
to instruct Secretary Hay to saueIch
the Pacific Gable Company, by exercis-
ing his right to disapprove the conces-
sion for cable monopoly obtained by
TINS company from the late Government
OF Hawaii, inside of six months from
date OF accession. The six months ex-
pred to-day This is the companv
that wanted this Government to grant il
subsidy of 100000 year for twenty
years-enough to build the cable from
California to Hawaii.
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