The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-30
Mr.. AUDD AND TIE sENATE.
his Candidacy. He Says. Would Be
Opposed By the Leaders.

HIS candidacy. He Says. Would Be
Opposed BY the Leaders.
Representative AIudd vas subjected to
| considerable gQod-natured chatting yester-
day over ID Interview which said ;he Re
publican leaders Of Maryland are opposed
10 amendpg the ballot law because it
would interfere with Mr.. Mudd's ambition
10 80 TO jhe Seate Mr. Mudd Seemed to
think the interview was ironicaL T. a
| reporter ne said.
If there is any movement or feeling of
anxiety upon the part Of any Of those who
consider themselves lenders OF the Re
publican party of the State of Maryland to
help me to get to the United States Senate
the information to that effect has not yet
reached me- II the alleged anxiety of any
such leader over a call for an extra ses-
sion is based upon what 3 said 10 be a
| Tear that it may hurt my alleged candida
g for the United States Senate that infOr
nation has not reached me as yet either
The fact IS. as almost everybody who
knows anything about Maryland politics
knows, very few of those who are pTomi-
nent enough to be called leaders Of the
Republican party in Maryland would be
found fayoring any candidacy Of mine for
any such candidacy That candidacy IS
about in the same position now that it has
been on one or two former occasions.
namely, in newspaper rumOrs and perhaps
! in the minds of some OyeT-paTtial personal
friends.
so far as the census enumeration is
concerned. [ know Of nothing out of the
usual in connection with that in my eoun-
try or section Of the State except one fact,
which perhaps may require some eXpla-
nation. and that is that persons resident
upon the Government lands at Indian
Head. in Charles county. were enumerated
as a part Of the population of Charles
county and for this very plain and, I think
all win admit. sufficient reason.
Some time during the tendency of the
Naval Appropriation bill last winter the
law office Of the Navy Depas tment, in
making a historical investigation of the
acquisitions Of land down there by the
Government. discovered what il seems
had heretofore been overlooked; tina.
there had been an omission TO obtain an
act of the Maryland Legislature ceding
Jurisdiction over said lands to the Ger
eral Government.
There IS on the statute book today an
act which provides that no appropriations
shall be made fer acquiring land by the
Government until and after such an act OF
cessiOn is obtained
1T was not thought by the Navy De-
partment. however. that this omission ia
any way invalidated the Governments ii
tie TO the land, but it leaves the land in
the same position precisely as to geo
graphical and jurisdicticnaI questions as
if 1t was owned by an ordinary citizen
In pursuance Of this fact the proper
Federal authorizes directed that the res
ideGts Of What otherwise would have been
considered a National Government reseT-
walton should be credited 10 the popuia-
ton Of the State of Maryland and Charles
county. I take Il that no lawyer viii any
where be found who viii dispute the cor
rectness of this conclusion and action.
This fact viii TO some extent at least
explain the slightly increased ratio of
population TO voters in Charles county
over that in counties adjoining, as these
people are not on the registration lists,
as they have generally been under the i'm
prssi0n that they could not vote because
Of living on Government lands"