The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-02
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
(Coninl,ln'rated)
WASHINGTON. Ian. %. 1000.

Washington to attend the Grid
iron Club dinner. He is delight.
ed with the reception he has met
with in the East, and says that
the Republicans will be surprised
when the votes are counted, if
they really believe, as they pre-
tend to be, that all of the Eas-
tern States will support Mr.. Nc.
Kinley and the present policy Of
the administration. He says he
has found the Democrats, every
where he has been, preparing to
put up a stiff fight this year, and
encouraged to believe that they
have "a good chance to elect the
next President.
The sturdy opposition to the
ship subsidy job has frightened
Mckinley no little, and it is
among the probabilities that the
bill may be held over until
the next session. This is not be-
cause the Hanna Mckinley crowd
have any idea of abandoning the
job, but because they are begin
ming to be afraid that if it is jam.
med through before the Presiden-
tial election, it will defeat the
Republicans and elect a Demo
cratic President and Congress.
Senator Scott, of West Vir-
ginia, is getting little uneasy
about his seat, Notwithstanding
the big Republican majority in
the Senate. The Democrats are
hot after Scott. Able arguments,
showing the necessity for an ill.,
vestigatiOn were maze before the
Senate Committee. on Elections,
by Judge j. FL. Holt and Mr.
Frank l.. Welles, They told the
committee that a very short in
vestigatiOn would show the lille
gality of Scott's election, and
that among the witnesses they
would like summoned was the
Governor of the State, who
threatened to call out the militia
to force the recognition of rump
Legislature.
Germany has made a formal
protest against custom regula.
lions of the United States, appli
cable to merchandise imported
from Germany, and Secretary
Hay has referred the protest to
Con gress, accompanied by a let.
ter from Secretary Gage, saying
THAT no changes in the regulations
c&l be made without amendment
of the Dingley tariff law.
The growing extravaganza in
public expenditures may we'll be
regarded with alarm by the con.
ServativeS. 1t is not confined to
any one branch of the govern
ment, but may be found in all of
them, and if not checked, will
sooner or later lead to ruin. A
member Of the House Committee
on Naval Affairs, figures that the
cost of educating each cadet at
Annapolis, after the proposed
new building there are now COM
pleted, allowing the legal inter
est on the money invested in the
plant, will not be less than SIS.
600 a year.
The House Committee on Mill
tary Affairs will begin the inves
tigation, ordered by the Sulzer
resolution, of the Idaho labor
troubles and the connection of
United States troops Herewith,
on February 18th. General Mer
riman who commanded the
troops, and the Governor and
the Auditor Of Idaho, have
been summoned as witnesses, and
the names of others will be fur
nished the Committee by Repre-.
sentatives Sulzer and Lentz, who
have been active in pushing the
investigation. Represent a t We
Moody made a hit when he made
a few remarks in opposition to a
bill, authorizing the Secretary of
State to pay to British company
the cost of repairing the Manila
Hong Kong cable, cut by the ca.
bic, cut by Admiral Dewey. He
said with strong emphasis: "Be-
fore we spend any money doing
grace to the citizens of Great
Britain, let that government pay
what it owes to the citizens of the
United States" He suggested
that the Secretary of State, in
stead of urging the passage of
this bill, send to the House list
of the claims against the United
States and Great Britain by the
citizens of those countries, with
a view to legislation for the es
tabdshment of commission to
settle them all. Representative
Adams, of Pa, made an appeal
for the passage of the bill, rec
commended by the President and
the Secretary of State, as an ex-
ample for Great Britain to follow,
but Mr.. Moody Snniled the an.