The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-06

,m our regular Correspondent.

From our regular Correspondent
WAsHINGroN, April 2, 1900.-Are lega'
opinions made to order by o. s. officials? Iii.
charg ed that Charles E. Magoon, Law OiIic,i
of the division On insuar affairs OF the Wsr
Department, first wrote All opinion that the L.
s. Constitution was, by force Of the Paris
treaty extended over Porto Rico and tie
Philippines, which he was compelled to sup
press and then to write another, taking exactly
the opposite stsnd. This last opinion has beer
made the foundation for .ne VI hole Republican
imperialistie programme. &aG the Senate h:s
just ordered three tacu5a"d additional copies
oft to be printed. Representative Richardson.
the Democratic leader of the House, Il SifiI.;
to get at The truth, has offered 4 solution call
ing for copies of All OF The 2pi.:3ns wri ten b.
Dir. Magoon.
The administration programme Is to jam Tia
Porto Rican bill, tariff and all, through bcta
Senate and House this week. Ii i5 certain thai
the Senate viii pass it tonnrraw, and probable
that the House will DO likewise later, notwtl.-
standing the talk OF Republican members that
they would vote fer free trade if given another
opportunity.
The Senate and all Washington are still
laughing and are likely to be for days to come,
at the humorous speech of Senator Pettus, il,
which he held Senator Beverage, a would-bc
Demosthenes up to ridicule, for his speech de-
claring his opposition TO the Porto Rico bi,
and his intention to vote for it. The Senate
and galleries were in a continuous roar of
laughter from the beginning to the end of the
remarks of Senator Pettus. After rubbing it
in on Beveridge for charging all those who
didn't agree with him, with enminty towards
the government, Mr.. Eettus eaid 1.-THE gov
eminent in his mind is
Me and my wife,
Ny son John and his wife
Us four
And no more"
Mr.. Pettus told this Biblical story atthe close Of
his speech: 1.-THE Master once had to select a
man to lead the children OF Israel out of Egypt
and through the wilderness to Canaan. He did
not select an orator. No, he selected one o.
those wise men, and his name was Moses. And
he was suffering man, too. But Moses told
his Master to his face that he could not do ii,
because he could not speak to the people, and
what was the reply? "Therc is Aaron. he
speaks WE'LL And they took aaron along, not
in command, that was not allowed; but they
took him along al kind of deputy. And whe1
Noses on his Masters order, went up into the
mountains for the tables, the orator left in
charge had golden calf framed and he put all
the people to worshipping the golden calf
more people worship the golden calf now than
did in those days. But while Aaron and his
people were all down worshipp!ng the golden
calf, the man of God appeared, and he pulled
out his sword and demanded to know WHO'S or
the Lords side?' Then the orator jumped up
from his knees, drew his sword and got on
Moses side and went to killing the lsraelitcs
along with Moses. All these orators will dc
the same thing-the last one of them"
Representative Rhea, of Kentucky, made u
rafting good speech at a mass meeting OF
Washington Democrats, in which he referred
to Chairman Payne, the Republican House
leader, as 1.-THE statesman with the one-night-
stand state of mind" and to Representative
Grosvenor, as the "garrulous gabbler from
Ohio, who acts as mouth-piecc for the White
House Sphinx" After picturug various
phases OF administration waDblng, which he
likened to the track of a snske, Mr.. Rhea said
"Oh, manhood, where is thy shame? Oh, Nc
Kinley, where Is thy blush? Oh, Mckinley,
you are the saddest spectacle that ever raft ed
helplessly around in tile seat filled by Wash
ington, Jefferson and Jackson, and which will
be- filled by Bryan. You are the pitiful creature
of the trusts, the combines and the monopoliG s,
which have made you, maintained you, al d
still feed you"
The Democrats of the House will sntagonize
the naval appropriation bill.asreported on three
grounds-armor-plate,c construction of Shii s i'll
government yards and the general eXtrava
gance of the bill, which carries SGl,UC0,CoJ,
against $50, OOa,O O0 for the current fiscal year
The minority report favOrs the establishment
OF Il government amor plate plant.
IL is suspected thar desire TO increase thu
Republican Campaign TuId !ot this .Gar Is Le-
bind the announcement that the Cabinet l.
Considering the feasibility o! recommending IT,
Congress Il reduction OF the w.r taNCs, whic
are piling up Il surplus in the Treasury, il spit
OF the tact that the receipts from the Dingiey
tariff are many millions below tac advance
estimate of tie Republicans. WItaOut the W L
take; there woald have heea deficit OF mo e
than $4,000, 900, iust0al Of surplus COZ
siderably in excess of that amount. IT is said
that the brewers are being sounded as to IL cir
Willingness to contribute Il proportionate
amount to the Hanna corruption fund, if tt Q
administration will recommend reduction Of