The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-11
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON,
May Z. 1900.
(Connunicated).

faithfully 10 uFy TO upset the ad-
ministration program of hanging
up in the Senate, the Nicaragua
Canal bill, which passed the
House with only handful of adj
verse votes. He fully realizes
the difficulties of the task. but is
confident that there are enough
Republicans in the Senate who
believe with the Democrats in an
American Canal, to bring success.
Time will soon tell. but as Sena.
tor 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. A senator who wishes Sena.
tor Morgan success, but whose
name is not given, is quoted by a
local paper as having said: 81 am
aware, and so is everybody else
who has given the subject close
attention, that the administration
is opposed to an American Inter.
Oceanic Canal, and in the hope of
preventing the cOnsummation of
the enterprise, the Hay Paunce
fort treaty was framed. This can
not be shown conclusively to the
people until bill ignoring alto
gether Great Britain'S claim to
consideration in the matter is
passed by Congress and sent to
the President for his approval.
| 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 partnership
with England III this canal prop
oSition." Senator Allison 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
administrations game with Eng
land, when Secretary Hay and
the British Ambassador signed
a new agreement extending the
time within which the two gov
ernmentS may exchange ratitica-
tions of the canal treaty, now hung
up i'll the Senate, seven months
from the 9th of next August,
Which was the limit set by 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 al
ready had to be remedied by ad-
ditional Congressional legislation,
and the Hawaiian law will have
to be. The latter failed to pro-
vide for collection of Internal
Revenue, or for an extension of
the United States Postal laws,
and Secretary Gage has informed
the cabinet that he does not con-
slider the authority given him by
the law sufficient to justify the
payment of the Hawaiian public
debt, The country will not for.
get the Republicans are RESPONSE
BILE for this and other slipshod
legislation, forced through Con-
gress under the party whip and
spur.
Senator Butler, of North Caro-.
lima, Chairman of the Populist
National Committee, before leav-
ing Washington to attend the
Sioux Falls Convention, declared
that the convention would nomi.
nate Colonel Bryan for President
by reclamation, and would adopt
the platform of 1896, with new
declarations to meet our foreign
problems and the trust question.
OF trusts Senator Butler said:
"The peoples party has always
been against trusts, and we be-
lieve that the three greatest trusts
relate to money, transportation
and the transmission of intelli-
gence. People who control these
trusts can control the government,
ana we will therefore suggest
that these three great factors in
the nations development should
be under governmental CONTROL
Democrats would ask nothing
better than that Secretary Long,
who seems just now to be the IA
vOrite candidate, should be nom
mated on the Mckinley ticket for
Vice President. Mr.. Longs atti.
tude in the Schley- Sampson con.
trOversy has been such that he
would materially weaken the
ticket.
| The decision of United States
Judge Lochren, at st. Paul,
Mimi, that the United States
Constitution was extended to