The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-11

| son very frank states that the administration
Senators intend to defeat Senator Morgan and
prevent the taking up of the canal hI'l by the
Senate at this session -! Cor -, Is.
| Another play was made ia the a.:nIiIistI "a
| tiofi game with Eng aud, whe II Secretary HI y
and the British Ambassador signed rev
agreement: extending the time within whit h
| III" two governments may cAclsnge rltifc .
'':: Gf tl.,. s:,.. sTH,v hurg zip III -
Senate, seven months from the 9th of n "
August, which was the limit set by the losi
agreement. Unless Senators eat their words
that treaty will not be ratified by the Senate
as at present mace up.
The Porto Rican law has already had to be
remedied by additional Congressional legisa-
! ton, and the Hawaiian law will have to be-
| The latter failed to provide for collector oc
! Internal Revenre, or for an extension of the
| L. s. Pnsta! laws, and Secretary Gage has in
formed the Cabinet Thai he does n consider
| the GuthCr:ty given him by The law sufficient
| to Justify the payment of the Hawaiian public
debt. The country will not forget that the Re
| publicans responsible fer this and other
siip-shod legislation, forced through Congress
under the party whip and spur.
| Senator Butter, of N. c., Chairman of the
! Populat National Committee, before leaving
Washington 10 attend the Sioux Falls Con-
ven;iU.i, declared that the Convention would
nominate Col. Bryan for President by accia-
nation, and would adopt the platform of '0S,
with new declarations to MET our foreign
problems and the trust question. OF trusts
Senator Butler said Tho peoples party has
i. va Lecn againss trusts, and we believe
that the three greatest trusts relate to money,
transportation and the transmission OF intclli-
gencc. People who control theae trusts can
! control the government, ana we will, there
fore suggest that these three great factors in
the nations DEVELOPMENT should be under gov
ernmental coECrcl"
Democrats would ask nothing better than
that Secretary Long, who seems Just now to be
the fs.vori:c candidate, should be nominated
rn the Mckinley ticket for Vice President Mr.,
u:ls5 attitude in the Schiey-Ssmpson con-
trovocsy has been such TINT he would mater
ia:ly wcaSen the ticket
The decision of UGitei States Judge Lochren,
ri St. Paul, Nina, that the q. s. Constitution
was extended to Porto aco on he day that tic
terms OF thytrcaty of peace wish Spaia went
into effect, has greatly disturbed adminiStra-
ton circles, fureshaGowing, as it does, similar
decision on the part of the U. s. Supreme
Court wheo an opportunity is offered. IF the
power and influence OF the administration can
prevent il, no opportunity will be given the
Supreme Court to pass on the question until
after the Presidential election.
representative Dick, Of OHIO, otherwise
known ~ boss Hanua's man Friday, has gone
10 Cine mat, where the midd:e-of-Ih e-roaG
Pcpu!ists Will hold their national convention
this week, aud there ale good reasons for the
belief that ne expects TO play Il leading part in
controlling the action of that conr, ntion.
Senators have been publicly saying for some
time that Hanna's agents were Offering free
transpoI tation and hotel expenses to delegates
to that Convention from various sections of
country. 1t il Hanna's intention that this
Convention shall nominate ticket OF its own
in opposition to that nominated at Sioux Fails,
which he relies upon to help the Republicans
carry several States by splitting the Popuiists
vote, and Dick has been sent to see that the
intention is carried out.