The Arizona sentinel., 1900-06-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c. May 25.

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 Gen. Leonard Wood, and not al outsider, who discoverd that stea ing was going on in the Cuban postal service, and asked for expert: from Washington to enable him tc
 get to the bottom of it--a task tha.
 is being performed without any
 congressiona. assistance MT. Platt
 then said: "The people have con-
 6dence in William Mckinley.
 will go farther and say that no
 president, while he was president,
 ever held the confidence of the peo-
 pie to the degree that President
 Mckinley hasit The people would
 be glad to leave this investigation
 to him. They know there would
 be no condoning of fraud, no cover
 ing up of crime" He added that
 he would not vote against con-
 gressional investigation Tn Cuba,
 although he saw no necessity for one.
 Somebody must have been open ing the eyes of the Boer envoys,
 who are still Washington, as they
 have taken pains to announce that they are not desirous of stirring up partisanship in American political parties. Although they express disappointment at the prompt de- clination of President Mckinley to do any more than he has already done towards peace in South Afr.ca, they were not surprised The democrats are figuring on making Use of the envoys in series of pub lie meetings in the large cities.
 It has been decided that theWays and Means committee of the House shall sit during the congressional ecess, for the purpose of preparing a bill for the reduction of internal revenue taxes. The understanding is that the bill will be ready to re- port to the House when Congress reassembles, in December. This is a wise move, at the subject is too big to be tackled without careful 
 Mr. Clark's credentials were this week presented to the senate and laid on the table. By request of Mir. CIark's friends, the committee on elections agreed to postpone any action upon the credentials until next week, by which time the cre- dentlals of Mr. Maginnis will also be before the committee. There is little probability that either of them will be seated.
 Senator Jones, of Arkansas, has discovered an ideal candidate for second place on the Bryan ticket, and is booming him with all the machinery at his command as chair man of the democratic national committee. The democratic party being thoroughly tinged with vel low it is fitting that it should put up yellow ticket, and the nomina tion of W. R. Hearst, proprietor of the yellowest of New York's yellow journals, which Mir. Jones is trying to bring about, would make a ticket yellow enough 10 make a smallpox flag. The first step in the boom ing of Mr Hearst. which is under stood to have Mir. Bryan's un- qualified endorsement, was the selection of Hearst to be president of the National Association of democratic clubs. Hearst's mother. widow of the late Senator Hearst, of California, has a barrel, which she is willing to dump into the lemocratic campaign fund, if her Willie Is gwen second place on the 1 Bryan ticket. No republican should 1. place any obstacle in the way of | he construction of ais deal It is 1 loubdfuI whether even SuIzer would weaken the Bryan ticket nore than Hearst would.
 Postmaster-General Smith ln- ormed Chairman Cooper, of t!e iouSe Committee on Insular At- air, that> the post office drpart- lent had nothing to conceal in with the investigation f the crookedn ss in Cuba posta! l fairs and that it would willingly { lrnish the information asked for l the resolution of Representative lay, of Va, calling for reports lade to the post office department y Directory of Cuban Posts Rath l