The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-06-01
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent.

1
WASHINGTON, May 2s.-Republican sena.
tors consented to a Congressional investiga-
ton OF all Cuban accounts. as proposed by
Senator iiacOn's resolution, nor because they
wanttd an investigation, but because they
feared TO defy practically universal public
demand i"r ore. The ) are NOW trying to de-
81 schclI, IS hat v iii Iiiabe them to crp the
inv, nIi@Gtion in their own Eats, but Demo-
~ ~ Senator'S are wide awake ard intend to
participate i'll that investigation, and If posi-
| bic, they are going to have another for Porto
Rico, where there has been great extrava-
gance in the payment of double and In some
cases triple salaries to postal employees, if no
| actual steaiirg. 1t is also generally believed
that affairs quite as bad, if not worse. in the
civil branch of our government in the Philip
pines, and there are fcandals even in the
Washington City Pcstcffice.
he anxiety of the Republican leaders to
| hurry adjournment is amusing. Although
they have a good big majority in both
branches, they act as though they were afraid
that Congress would do something they didn't
want it to do, if adjournment WAS rushed. It
is hardly likely that adjournment will take
place June 6, the date set by the House reso-
luton, but it will as soon thereafter as the
appropriation bills out Of the way. To ap-
peal from Caesar Mckinley to the American
people is now the programme of the Boer en-
SoyS. They have not abandoned their idea of
making a tour of tine country, and arousing
public sentiment. They will begin this week
in Baltimore, and from there will 20 to other
cities where they have accepted invitations to
attend public meetings.
Representative Tslbert, of S. c., has been
making another warm speech on the Pension |
question, his text being the case Of the Michi- |
gan man who dra " 81 800 year as q clerk /
in the Interior Department, and 81 200 a year /
as private Secretary to Representative 8. w. |
Smith, of Michigan, and who has been voted /
by Congress n pension of ST2 a month for /
total disability. Representative II. c. Smith, |
cited the case OF Justice Long, of the Supreme
Court OF Michigan, who draws a pension OF |
s140 month as an excuse for this case, and |
Hr. Ialheit said in reply: Two wrongs do
not make one right. The gentleman asks
now because one man is robbing and plumb
erng the government unjustly and unmerit.
oriously, that another man may be placed on
the pension roll ard receive high pension.
IHat is the trouble about this indiscriminate
grabbing of pensions One man gets in and
another man.watts to get in Members have |
their friends and they win not vote against |
each other. They will not have the reports |
read because they sit here like dummies say
ing: oh, they will reach my case next That
is what is the matter. You want to do u
dozen wrongs to make one right and you want
TO continue to do wrong in order that your
own cases may be favorably acted upon.
want to see iustics done by the old soldiers and
will help DO it every time if can, but do
not want to give any soldier what he does not
Deserve"
Senator Morgan jumped on the opposition to
ne Nicaragua Canal, which has apparently
in hanging up the bill, in q speech /
II which he did not mince words. He began !
With the six syndicates, organized under New
Jersey laws for the purpose of controlling
canal routes on the Isthmus of Darien of
which he said: II thhak the assumption, AFRO
rance, ana bfaHen faced audacity of these ]
people have reached climax" He charged
hat this government was submitting to the
uffing and b3dgering of the new Panama
ANAL Company, which in conjunction with I,
he trans-continental railroad, inspired the op.
position to the Canal bill. because a Presi- /,
lential election is pending and that 1t is afraid
o tackle any corporation that has or pre- 9
esses to have some great power, and he asked: =
is it to be said here that the President is ]
larty to this ambidextrous and cross-eyed
ascality?" Mr.. Morgan concluded with these !
,iain words: 1.-The President who is a cardi- l
late for reelection, is in the hands of his !
riends, and his friends are the enemies of the /
Canal. hardly Snow whether. to f
ay hope for the passage Of the Canal bill at
his session or Dot. That depends upon two s
sea upon this fio1r. II they are controll- l
d by determination that the revenues for
ioputIican campaign purposes shall not be !
at or from the great railroad and canal I
/; indicates, then the bill cannot pass st this :
ession. The responsibility, however. must i
est on them"
Mr.. Mckinley who wlSu assed the eclipse to-
ay from Fort Monroe, where it was total,
ught to have got therefrom good advance
aea of his own total eclipse next November.
If course be used a government vessel to :
make the trip to and from Fort Monroe; Re- n
ublican officials seldom pay for anything they {
an get for nothing by making use Of their
iiicial authority.