The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-01-04

the Senate, to bamboozle the public. Per
haps the republicans will add amendments
solely to provoke fight on the bill by
democratic Senators. Lastly, there is the
decision of the Supreme Court in those
colonial cases. If it be an adverse one
Mr.. Mckinley will be glad to have some
other excuse for calling Congress together
to remedy his blunders.
Senator Hawley has given advance no.
tice of his intention to antagonize the
Ship Subsidy bill with the substitute for
the House Army Reorganization bill if
there is any delay on the part of the Sen
ate in disposing of the latter That is an
other turn of the legislative wise that is
squeezing Hanna, and in this case Mr..
Mckinley will not be Oh his side, as he is
even more anxious for The army bill to
get through than he is for the Ship Sub
sidy bill. One is to pay campaign debts;
the other to keep him and his administra-
ton out of deep and dangerous hole.
He would like to have both, but if be can
only take one, he will take the Army bill
without moments hesitation.
After press cablegrams from Copen-
hagen made it useless to further deny,
officials acknowledge that the United
States is negotiating for the purchase of
the Danish West India islands, and that
our Minister to Denmark had made final
offer of something like $3,5O0,OO0 for the
sc1n a., - -,
to the ratification of the treaty providing
for the purchase by the Senate, as well as
the acceptance of Denmark. Why there
has been so much official lying about this
negotiation, which has been going on
more or less actively for two years, is one
of those things which it would be difficult
to find a sensible answer for.
Although there isn't the slightest proba
bilitv of any formal inquiry or court mar
tial being ordered by the War Department
too much explosive matter lying around
loose-the charges made against Col. H.
o. S. Heistand Adiutant General on the
staff of Gen. Chaffee, by Major E. L..
Hawkes., have been forwarded to China,
where the accused is, for an answer. The
charges are that Col. Heistand was guilty
of conduct unbecoming an officer and gen
tleman when he represented to Major
Hawkes.. thereby inducing him to invest
money which was subsequently lost, that
conf ination had been formed by United
States officials, who were in a position to
fix the tariff, to control the hemp output
of the Philippines. The officials named
as having entered this combination were
Adjutant General Corbin, Assistant Sec
rotary Meiklejohn, Gov. Allen, of Porto
Rico, and United States District Judge
Boyd. The charge recites that after
Hawkes. had invested his money, he was
told by Heistand that the officials named
had withdrawn from the combination to
control the hemp output.
A club with the imposing name of the
National Republican League has been Or
ganized in Washington, of which about
two-thirds are office holders and the ma
jority of the other third would like to be.
The written objects of the league are
about the same as those of other political
clubs, but one of the speeches made at the
organization meeting gave another object
of the league to be to have influence in
determining what persons shall hold office
under the republican administration, and
to get rid of those democrats who are now
holding Office in order that republicans
may get the places. All the members of
League should be known by, are shining
lights in the party which pretends to favor
civil service reform. What hypocrites
these republicans be.