The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-23
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
(Communicated)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1900.

w AohlNUAON, EOO' AOS AVVV'
No President ever made a more
abject surrender than Mr.. Nc.
Kinley has made on the Porto
Rican bill now before the House.
He stated positively in his annual
message that he favored free
trade for Porto Rico, and when
the Republicans in the House
first talked about putting a duty
on Porto Rican products, he even
went so far as to intimate to Demo-
Gratis he met that he would be
glad if they would help defeat
the proposed duty. Now, he has
turned a complete somersault,
and ann Ounced in advance of its
passage. that he would sign the
bill imposing a 25 per cent.
duty. No wonder Republicans
in Congress laugh when Mr.. Nc
Kinley is spoken of as their
leader.
The bill providing a territorial
form of government for Hawaii,
now before the Senate, which
means that Hawaii will ultimate.
ly become a State, naturally
raises the question of why the
Hawaiisns should be so much
better treated than the Porto
Ricans9 Surely no one outside
of the clique which is shaping the
Republican policy can see any
good reasons for making Ha.
waiians American citizens and
the Porto Ricans colonial sub
Ijects.
Senator Taliaferro, of Florida,
in addition to making public
and most positive denial of the
story published over the sigma.
ture of Jay G. Holland, an alleg.
ed Florida detective, charging
him with having conspired with
Major G. w. Ruthers, United
States Army, and Mr.. G. B.
Rogers, of Florida, to defraud
the government in connection
with the sale of lot of bacon
has had Holland arrested for
criminal libel, and employed emf
nent lawyers to assist in prOsecut-
ing him. Senator Taliaferro ex.
pressed the opinion that ex-Sena.
tor Call had something to do
with the publication of Hollands
story, but Mr.. Call says he had
nothing whatever to do with it.
Representative John Allen, of
Miss, can deal with facts as we'll
as humor, as he showed while the
House was discussing the respon-
sibility for the confessedly large
number of inefficient clerks on
the government pay rolls in
Washington. When Mr.. Allen
got up to speak, those who can
see i'll him only the humorist, ex-
pected something "funny,n but
they did not get it. Although
inclined to take things humOr.
Ously Mr.. Allen is one of the
hardest working members of the
Appropriation Committee. He
began his speech by saying that
there was sufficient law to get
rid of clerks who become ineffi.
Gent from age or other causes,
and that the department officials
should not be allowed to saddle
the blame for their retention upon
Congress. He said that he had
made an investigation and had
official figures to show that the
average age of eleven hundred
If the clerks reinstated by the
present administration, exceeded |
10 years, and he naturally !
thought these reinstatements ex-
planned large number of the
complaints about inefficient clerks
being. kept,,in office.
A caucusssOts'Dem Ocratic Sena
ltors was held to discuss the gen.
raj line of opposition to the Re-
publican policy towards the is
and possessions of the United
States. A committee was author
zed to confer with the Demo.
rats of the House, with view
% having the party in both
branches of Congress act along i
,he same line. While no pro |
gram was adopted, there was a
unanimous sentiment in favor of |
the opposition, and a
was authorized to ar
range program.
Ex- Governor Peck, of "Bad
Boy" fame, is one of the two hun. |
bred citizens Of Wisconsin who
are whooping up Milwaukee, as
the Democratic National Conven.
ton City. He says that every.
body tells him that Milwaukee
will win, but that the hustling is
going to be kept up until the
National Committee decides
where the convention is to be
held.
Notwithstanding numerous de.
malls of the story that Boss