The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-05-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, d. c., May It'll.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May It'll.
MR.. EDIToR:-Senator Morgan is work
| ing faithfully to try to upset the admins
tration program of hanging up in the Sen
ate the Nicaragua bill which passed the
House with only a handful of adverse
votes. He fully realizes the difficulties of
the task, but is confident that there are
enough republicans in the Senate who be-
lieve with the democrats in an American
Canal to bring success Time will soon
tell, but, as Senator Tillman said a short
time ago, the republican party has the
best organization any party has ever had
in Congress, and although there are at
times spluttering and kicking in the end
| the orders of the boss are usually carried
out to the letter. In this case the order is
to hang up the Nicaragua Canal Bill. \
Senator who wishes Senator Morgan sue
| cess, but whose name is not given, is
| quoted by local paper as having said: Il
| am aware, and so is everybody else who
has given the subject close attention, that
|
| lean Inter Oceanic Canal and, in the hope
| of preventing the consUmmation OF the
enterprise, the Hay-P treaty was
| framed. This cannot be shown conclu-
sivey to the people until bill ignoring
| altogether Great Britain's claim to consid
Grafton in the matter is passed by Con-
gress and sent to the President for APP
proval. | am satisfied that Mr. Mckinley
will have to veto it, much as he would
| fear the result of such an act; then he and
| his party could no longer claim that they
| were not committed to a partnership with
England in this Canal proposition" Sen
| ator Allison very frankly states that the
administration Senators intend to defeat
Senator Morgan and prevent the taking
up of the Canal bill by the Senate at this
| session of Congress.
Another play was made in the admins
| tration's game with England when Secre-
| tary Hay and the British Ambassador
signed new agreement extending the
| time within which the two governments
| may exchange ratification of the Canal
| treaty, now hung up in the Senate, seven
| months from the 9Th of next August, which
| was the limit set ly the last agreement.
Unless Senators eat their words that treaty
will not be ratified by the Senate. as at
present made up.
The Porto Rican law has already had to
! be remedied by additional Congressional
| legislation, and the Hawaiian law viii
have to be. The latter failed to provide
| for a collector of Internal Revenue, or for
an extension of the United States Postal
| laws, and Secretary Gage has Informed the
| Cabinet that he does not consider the au-
| thority given him by the law sufficient to
justify the payment of the Hawaiian pub
lie debt. The country will not forget that
the republicans are responsible for this
and other slip shod legislation forced
| through Congress under the party whip
| and spur.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
| Chairman of the Populist National Com
mittee, before leaving Washington to at
| tend the Sioux Falls Convention, declared
| that the Convention would nominate Col.
Bryan for President by reclamation, and
| would adopt the platform of 90, with new
declarations to meet our foreign problems
| and the trust question. Of trusts, Senator
Butler said: The peoples party has al
| ways been against trusts, and we believe
| that the three greatest trusts relate to
money, transportation and the transmits
sion of intelligence. People who control
these trusts can control the government,
three great factors in the nations develop
| ment should be under governmental con-
| troll"
Representative Dick, of Ohio, otherwise
known as Boss Hannas man Friday, has
| gone to Cincinnati, where the middle Of
| the road populists will hold their national
convention this week, and there are good
reasons for the belief that he expects to
| play leading part in controlling the
| action of that convention Senators have
i been publicly saying for some time that
| Hanna's agents were offering free trans
portation and hotel expenses to delegates
to that Convention from various sections
of the country. 1t is Hannas intention
that this Convention shall nominate a
ticket of its own in opposition to that
nominated at Sioux Falls, which he relies
upon to help the republican carry several
States by splitting the populist vote, and
Dick has been sent to see that the inten-
ton is carried out