The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-03-22
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ingtOn.
W ASHINGTON,
March II. 1901.
Communicated

+ new treaty with England 10 take
{ the place Of the rejected treaty
( that will represent the views Of
two thirds of the Senate What
/ the Senators would agree to
would not be agreed to by the
British Ambassador. In fact,
Senators who ought to know have
declared that if the treaty just
rejected by England, were to be
accepted Just as it was, by Sec
rotary Hay and the British Am,
bassador, aud again sent to the
Senate. it would fail Of ratitica-
tion until ii had been amended.
Many Senators are thoroughly
satisfied that England has been
tricky in her efforts to head off
the construction ofthe Nicaraguan
Canal by this government. and
some OF them do not hesitate to
express the belief hat the admin
iStration has been a party to
some of the trickery. Whether
in the face of this knowledge of
Senatorial sentiment, Secretary
Hay will try to carry ont his
orders as to the negotiation of
the new treaty il is not known.
but ii seems absolutely certain
that any treaty acceptable to
England will fail in the Senate,
if negotiated Even if the ad-
miuistration could control the
votes Of all the Republican Sen
ators. which ii cannot, it would
be six votes short OF two. thirds,
and it may be set down as sure.
that those six votes cannot.
under any circumstances, be had
from the Democrats. to ratity
treaty that gives England even
as much to say in the c0nstruc-
ton Of the Nicaraguan Canal as
was given by he rejected Hay
Pauncefote treaty. That's why
Mr., Hays task is an impossible
one.
w hen one is rewarded for hav
ing turned oue'S political coat,
the size of the reward is apt to
be regarded as the value put upon
the services of the turncoat by
the other side. Upon the theory,
Hon. Irvine DUNCAN, who was
sent to Congress a few years ago
by the Democrats of the Thir
teenth Ohio District, and who
turned his political coat during
the last campaign and took the
stump for Mr.. Mckinley, must be
very small. Senator Hanna has
Just had Mr.. DUNCAN appointed
to a $1,000 clerkship in the
Treasury Department.
''If some of the good things
that are said of a man after he is
dead were said of him and to him
when he was alive. this world
would be a much more satiStac-
tory place to live" remarked a
philoSophic and somewhat Gym
zeal Senator who had been dis
cuSsing the praise bestowed upon
the late Hon. Benjamin Harrison,
by prominent meYberS of his
party who had for &ars lost no
opportunity to Sneer at him. 1t
does seem that the death of a
man Of prominence serves to
bring out striking bits of hypoc-
riSy in other men Of prominence.
Why. is one OF those mysterious
things which no one is ever able
TO account for in any satiStac-
tory way. 1t is known to all the
world that while he was Presl.
dent and since, Mr.. Harrison was
hated heartily by nearly every
prominent member Of his party.
for one or another reason, but
since his death. these men have
been trying TO Guido each other
in saying eXtravagant words Of
praise of him. The public is
very torgetful, but it is not so
forgetiul as the talk of these
men indicates them to believe.
The friends Of Nj. Meikleiohn
late Assistant Secretary of War,
and the present candidate for
the United States Senate before
the Nebraska Legislature, are
saving publicly that he retired
from the War Department voluu-
tarily. while in private they are
saying unprintable things about
Secretary Root. for pushing Mel
kleiohn ont, which they fear will
queer whatever chances he had
for election 10 the Senate. See
rctaIy Root was doubtless act.
uated largely by selhshness in
getting an assistant secretary
who would perform the work Of
that oilice-duriug the past six
months Meiklejohn has been
away from Washington practi-
cally all OF the time, out has reg.
uIarly drawn his Salary-but
even if he was, his dong so was
creditable as an indication of his
belief that a man should not
draw a public salary without per.
forpinp any ublip dufipS II j.