The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
washington E.etter.


+ rom or regular correspondents
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE admnistra
programme Of hushng up the scandal cor
nected with the ENLIGHTENMENT Of Il large suE'
q money from the Cuban Postal receipts by
C. Z. ". Nec!cy, who Las been Chief Financial
AGENT Of The Cuban Postal system, and ctaeEs,
vii! be c2!uhated by the Democrats i'll Con
%rCss, whG rcGard the present as an excellent
tine for = Thorough investigation of all Cuban
receipts and expenditures. Senator Bacon
says he waited rear!y week to give the Re
pubi1ans an opportunity to propose an IL
veetiEation before Offering his resolution IL
strrc:iI- the Senate Committee on rclGtio! $
with Cuba to investigate receipts from al
sources since the occupation OF Cuba by our
troops, uEi exp nd:tGrts 'or all purposes dur
ing that period, ard report to the Senate at tie
earliest possible date. OF his resolution, ST IL
atcr Bacon said: MY purpose is to have II
thorough investigation of the moneys which
have tt: II T.; ceivci and d.soursed in Cub.
We krGw that there has been sGme improper
dishurSe n e1:tS. In view of that fact, it is our
duty 10 thoroughly sift the whole matter. Our
only excuse for being in Cuba is our desire I"
govern the island fOfthe benz fit of the CubanS,
and we ought to see whether we are doing our
duty toward those people" That number of
Cuban officials, including the director of Posts
and tic Auditor OF Postal accounts have been
suspended, is proof tiist the public is being
deceived by Official statements saying that
Nceley is the only Cuban official who has been
i'm p;fcated i'll the stealing. If proper invest
CATION is made. it will probably be asceriained
that there has been ring of thieves working
On The Cuban revenues, but that is inst VIII;
the administration doesn't wish to be ascer-
tanned.
Senator Teller arrsigned tho officers of the
Ordinance Bureau Of the Navy Department for
incompctcncy and ignorance, during the dis
3usson of the arnOr clause of the Naval Ap-
preparation bill, and the arrangement was in
,lorsed by Senator Allison. Mr.. Teller said the
ignorance displayed by officers of that Board
vixen they appeared before Congressional
Committees for the purpose of giving infor-
nation bad hem sometimes absolutely ptifuI.
and that he could ct more information out of
y private citizen in ten minutes than he had
". + teen able TO get out of one of there
.fiirrrs i. n hour; also that there were eli
g.u.ers in civil life who could make infinitely
letter guns than any officer in the Ordnance
30 I'd but that the Board would not listen 70
them.
A;;iatas,t General Hart, of Delaware, who is
i VI ,aGingiHr on business, said of the political
uu-!O.k Of his State: I'VE will elect every
state ciii e from Governor down, and Leg; =
iatu:c that will choose two Democratic Unit. d
-tates Senators. The Republicans are in Il
hueei,s IS state of disorganiztton, and are
!,ea:rn from the start. /: the rest of the coun-
Try will dc rs well as Delaware in November /,
mere won't be much left of the G. o. p"
In oil, in,
preventing any preliminary report being made
!y the Isthmaiu Commission, the rccmbars q
th.t commission have given their personal
opiaiJn of the Investigation to the Senate IL '
tcroccanfc Canal Committee. and those opinions
are al! one way-iu favor of the Nicaragua
route This makes it evident that the position
taken by Ross Hanna, that the Senate should
not act upon the Nicaragua Canal Bill Until t! @
report of the Canal Commissioner is made, is
merely for delay. Another proof was Civ, II
by Eanna insisting that the committee should
grant hearir rs to thY officers and directors of
the new Panama Canal Company. Why should
these men be heard when this government has
sent, ut great expense, all official commissit
OF expert engineers to investigate, and that
commission has given its views TO the commit
tee? There is political dynamite enough in
I.iiS tiilcSilOu W blOW
ton and the Republican msjority in the House
out Of existence, and if Boss Hanna succeeds
in preventing the passage by the Senate, ut this
session, OF the Nicaragua Canal Bill, the explC-
sion will certainly take place next November.
1t is row pretty we'll known why Governor
Teddy Roosevelt paid that extended visit to
Washington. He had doubts of the sincerity
of the rlatt machine, and he wished TO have
The administration make it plain to Plat that
he raust be nominated for Governor of New
York, ard incidentally, by paying him special
attention, to help him convince some of the
Rev Workers, whose confidence and esteem he
had lost. that he was high muck-a-muck in
the councils OF the administration. AS far as
Platt was concerned his visit was success,
and Mr.. Mckinley has PIatt's promise that
Teddy shall be renominated; but it will not be
seen until the votes are counted whether the
visit rehabIltated Teddy in the esteem of the
kicking New Yorkers.