The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-01-12
,ER-UPPER MARLBOROUGH MARYLAND JANUARY y
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. d. c.. January Sth.

WASHINGTON. d. c.. January Sth.
MIR. EDIToR:-The administration has
been kept squrming ever since Congress
reassembled by the resolutions calling for
information on various Philippine mat
tiers, offered by Senator Pettigrew and
others, but the castigation of its Philip
pine policy received to-day at the hands
of Senator Hoar, in Il speech iii favor of
his resolution, declaring against imperial
ism and for the independence of the Pail
ippines was the worst punishment yet ad-
ministered. Mr.. Hoar is not an orator III
any sense of the word but he has the law
yer's faculty of massing facts and plainly
stating his case, and he brought it into
full play in his speech, which will take a
high place in the arguments against the
departure from the policy of Washington
and all the early Presidents and the sub
stitution therefor of imperialism, with its
attendant evils. large standing army, eX-
travagant public expenditures and public
and private corruption. 1t was warning
which deserves the attention from the
country that it will not receive from Mr.
Mckinley and his imperialistic advisers,
! who answer it, not by argument, but by
| calling Senator Hoar "a traitor
Arguments in favor of the gold standard
bill must be hard to get when prominent
republicans in the Senate stanG up and
say that the bill is not unfriendly to silver;
that its becoming law will not prevent
| a continuation of efforts for international
|, bimetallism and that sort of r1t. The OBJ
iect of this sort Of talk is obvious. Th re
| are republican Senators who will vote for
this bill who have numerous constituents
| who believe in bmctalism. They are to
| be bambooZled into the impression that
the gold standard bill is not an attack on
| bimetallism. Another defense put forth
| for the bill is that it is not really new leg
| islation. but merely a reatiirmatlon of the
| act of 113. If that he trr". why pass the
| bill at all? But that ii isn't true, any
more than the statement about its being
| anita gonistic to bimetallsm, is shown by
the anxiety of the money kings to get i,
on the statute books. 1t requires no gift
of inspired prophecy to say that the
United States will never again enjoy the
blessings of the bimetallic currency, which
distributes prosperity among the whole
people more equally than any other form
of currency, until the people elect Con-
gress and a president pledged to wipe the
gold standard law out OF existence and t"
substitute therefor law providing for the
double standard. 1t is for the people to
say how soon that shall be done.
| Mr.. Mckinley is getting a little fidgety
because of the lesurely manner in which
the Senate is proceeding with the gold
standard bill. He sent for Senator ALI
son and asked him to use his influence to
push the debate along a little faster.
| The friends of silver in the Senate are
pleased to know that the Kentucky legis-
lature will send Hon. ]. c. S. Blackburn,
| a rock ribbed friend of the white metal,
back to the Senate in time to participate
| in the debate on the gold standard bill.
He will be a valuable recruit. Senator
Culbertson, of Texas, is III ging his friends
ton as Chairman of the Democratic
Nat onal Committee, not only because he
has no desire for the position, but because
he thinks Senator Jones fills it in a per-
fectly satisfactory manner. Senator Jones
says there is no truth whatever in the pub
lie reports of friction between himself and
| Col. Bryan, and democrats in Congress do
not believe that Col. Bryan has ever lnti
| that he wished a change in the head of the
| National Committee.
AS expected, the Senate Committee on
| Elections decided by majority of one to
report against the seating of Mr.. Quay;
but, owing to the hearing of the Clark
case, now going on before that COMMITTEE e,
| it may be several weeks before the report
of the Committee is submitted to the Sen
| ate. Quay and his friends are consider
ably frightened, bu; disinterested observ-
ers still think that the chances favor
| Quay's being seated by slim margin.
| The Senate made a big cut in the amount
| that the Montana witnesses in the Clark
case will get when it adopted resolution
providing that witnesses summoned by
Senate Committees shall receive So a day
and actual railroad fare to and from their
homes instead of So and mileage, which
| has heretofore been paid them.
The Roberts investigation is on its last
legs. Ex-Secretary Carlisle has begun his
argument against Roberts and when he
closes, which he is expected to do about
the middle of the week, Roberts will be
allowed to supplement the argument he
has already made by replying. After that
the report will soon follow. Roberts is
doomed. He never had chance, but, if
he had, he would have spoiled it himself
by his own talk.