The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON, Jan. I, 1900.

The administration has been
kept squirming ever since Con-
gress re assembled by the resolu
tions calling for information on
various Philippine matters. offer.
ed by Senator Pettigrew and
others, but the castigation of its
Philippine policy received to day
at the hands of Senator Hoar, in
a speech i'll favor of a resolution,
declaring against imperialism and
for the independence of the Phil
lpplnes, was the worst punish
ment yet administered. Mr.. Hoar
Is not an orator III any sense of
the word, but he has the lawyers
faculty of maSsing facts and
plainly stating his case, and he
brought it into full play in his
speech, which will take high
place III the arguments against
the departure from the policy of
/ ashington and all the early
Presidents, and the substitution
therefor of Imperialism, with it's
attendant evils, large standing
army, eXtravagant eX Expenditures.
ana pubic and private cOrrup.
ton 1t was warning which
deserves the attention from the
country it will not receive from
Mr.. Mckinley and his imperialis
tic advisers, who answer it not by
arguments, but by calling Sena-
tor Hoar "a traitor"
Arguments i'll favor of the gold
standard bill must be hard to get
when prominent Republicans in
the Senate stand 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 rot. The object of
this sort of talk is obvious. There
are Republican Senators who will
vote for this bill who have nu-
merous constituents who believe
i'll bimetallism, They are to be
bamboozled into the impression
that the gold standard bill is not
an attack on bimetaliSm. An.
other defence put forth for the
bill is that it is not really new leg
islatlon, but merely a reatiirma
ton of the Act of 1878. II that
be true, why pass the bill at all!
But that 1t is not true, any more
than the statement about it not
beng antagOnistic to bimetallism
is shown by the anxiety of the
money kings to act it on the stat.
ute books. 1t requires no gift of
inspired prophecy to say that the
United States will never again
enjoy the blessings of the bimet
allie currency, which distributes
prosperity among the whole peo.
pie more than any other form of
currency, until the people elect
Congress and a President, pledg-
ed to wipe the gold standard law
out OF existence, and to substitute
therefore law providing for the
double standard. 1t is for the
people to say how soon that shall
be done.
Mr.. Mckinley is getting a lit
tie fidgety because of the leisure.
~ manner in which the Senate is
proceeding with the gold stand.
ard bill. He sent for Senator Al. |
lison 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 known that
the kentucky Legislature will I
send Hon. j. q. S. Black burn. a
rock-rlbbed friend of the white
metal, back to the Senate in time
to participate in the debate on
the gold standard bill. He will
be valuable recruit. Senator
Culbertson, of Texas, is urging
his friends to stop the agitation
III favor OF his selection as Chair.
man of the Democratic National
Committee, not OnIy because he
has no desire for the position,
but because he thinks that Sena.
tor Jones fills it in a perfectly sat.
lSfactory manner. Senator Jones
says there is no truth whatever
IN the public reports of friction
between himself and Colonel Brv.
an, and Democrats in Congress
do not believe that Colonel Bryan
has ever intimated, even in the
most indirect manner that he
wished a change in the head of
the National Committee.
As expected, the Senate Com
mittee on Elections decided by a
majority of one to report against
the seating of Mr.. Quay; but ow-
ing to the hearing of the Clark
case, now going on before that
committee, it may be several
weeks before the report of the
committee is submitted to the
Senate. Quay and his friends