The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-18
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON,
(CoAnunicated).
May ii, 1900.

with the embezzlement of a large
sum of money from the Cuban
postal receipts by G. w. F. Nee
ley, who has been chief financial
agent of the Cuban postal system,
and others, will be combated by
the Democrats in Congress, who
regard the present as an excel.
lent time for thorough investi-
cation of all Cuban receipts and
expenditures. Senator Bacon
says be waited nearly a week to
give the Republicans an Opportu-
nifty to propose an investigation
before offering his resolution in.
Structing the Senate Committee
on Relations with Cuba, to inves.
tigate receipts from all sources
since the occupation of Cuba by
our troops, and expenditures for
all purposes during that period,
and report to the Senate at the
earliest possible date. OF his
resolution, Senator Bacon said:
my purpose is to have a thor
Ough investigation of the moneys
which have been received and
dishursed in Cuba. We know
that there has been some i'm
proper disbursements. In view
of that fact, it is our duty to thor
oughly sift the whole matter.
Our only excuse for being in Cuba
is our desire to govern the island
for the benefit of the CubanS, and
we ought to see whether we are
doing our duty towards those
people" That number of Gu
ban officials, including the Di-
rector of Posts and the Auditor
of Postal Accounts have been
suspended, is proof that the pub
lie is being deceived by official
statements saying that Neeley is
the only Cuban official who has
been implicated in the stealing.
If a proper investigation is made,
it will probably be ascertained
that there has been a ring of
thieves working on the Cuban
revenues, but that is just what
the administration does not wish
To he aScprtainad
Senator Teller arraigned the
officers of the Ordnance Bureau
of the Navy Department for in :.
competency and ignorance, dur
ing the discussion of the armor
clense of the Naval Appropria-
ton bill, and the arraignment
was Endorsed by Senator Allison.
Mr.. Teller said that the ignorance
displayed by officers of that board,
when they appeared before Con
SreSsional Committees for the
purpose of giving information
had been sometimes absolutely
pltiful, and that he could get
more information out of a private
citizen in ten minutes than he had
ever been able to get out of one
these officers in an hour; also,
that there were engineers in civil
life who could make infinitely
better guns than any officer on
the Ordnance Board, but that
the board would not listen to
them.
Adjutant General Hart, of
Delaware, who is in Washington
on business said of the political
outlook in his State: "We will
elect every State officer from Gov
ernor down, and a Legislature
that will choose two Democratic
United States Senators. The
Republicans are in a hopeless
state of Reorganization, and are
beaten from the start. If the
rest of the. country will do as
we'll as EDelawa,e in November,
there won't De much left of the
G. o. P"
Although the administration
succeeded in preventing any pre-
liminary report being made by
the Isthmian Commission, the
members of that commission have
given their personal opinion of
the investigation to the Senate
Inter Oceanic Canal Committee.
and those opinions are all one
way-in favor of the Nicaragua
route. This makes it evident
that the position taken by Boss
Hanna, that the Senate should
not act upon the Nicaragua Canal
bill until the report of the Canal
Commission is made, is merely
for delay. Another proof was
given by Hanna insisting that
the committee should grant hear
ings to the officers and directors
of the new Panama Canal Com.
pany. Why shoald these men be
heard when this government has
sent, at great expense, an Off
cial commission of expert engi-
neers to investigate, and that
commission has given its views to
the cOmmftteei There is politi-
cal dynamite enough in this ques-
ton to blow the Mckinley adj
ministration and the Republican
majority in the House out of ex-