The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-11-01

reau might be maintained without any in
crease of cost and with, perhaps, an in
crease of efficiency. is not denied, but
Representative Hopkins bill will not do
So His bill provides for salary of
$500 for the Director, ex Gov, W. r.
Merriam, an assistant director at $4,000
per annum, and numerous other positions
with salaries varying from So 500 to 81 200.
Undoubtedly with the present republican
majority in Congress there will be no
trouble taking care of the surplus.
The report comes from the White House
that the President is going to introduce
two innovations in his present message.
First, that he proposes TO write it all HIM
self, instead of assigning to the members
of his Cabinet those portions dealing with
their respective departments, and second
ly, that he is going to send it to Congress
in typewriter form, it having been the
custom, heretofore, to typewrite it and
then have it transcribed with pen. The
manuscript copy was then sent to Con-
gress, which body Immediately turned 1t
over to the Government printer who set
it up and furnished, within an almost in
credibly short time, printed copies to the
House and Senate. l understand, too,
that the President will recommend the
establishment of Department of Com
merce and Industry.
In the hope of getting further light on
Secretary of the Treasury Cages financial
beliefs, your correspondent called on the
Secretary and asked him to elucidate his
proposition as propounded to the Bankers
Association in Milwaukee. The Secretary
was so 10th to talk On the subject that it
gave color to the rumor that the President
was not altogether pleased with his state
ments. He said that to enlarge upon the
subject would be to discount his forth
coming report. He would not admit that
the proposition would not appear in pre-
cisely the same form in his report, but
said that he would dwell upon his idea
that 1.-The Government ought to be gotten
out of the banking business" In reply
to the question, Would you not place the
people entirely in the power of the bank
ers, giving them the ability to enlarge or
contract the currency at will:' He re-
piled, The prosperity of the bankers de-
ponds upon the prosperity of the people.
Their interests are identical. My idea is
to get the government out of the banking
business, which is not its province. That
is the business of the banks" He refused
to discuss the matter further, saying, For
further details you must wait for my an
nual report
Notwithstanding President Rooseyelt's
desire to be the first to advise the country
of the conditions of the new Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty, the important features have
leaked out and are as follows. The new
treaty will set aside the Clayton-Buiwer
convention, the United States will be the
sole guarantor of the neutrality of the
canal and she alone will have the right to
fortify it. These features practically
dispose of the opposition met with in the
Senate of the last Congress and it is assum
ed that definite canal legislation will be
enacted by the Fifty-seventh Congress.
The question of route, of course, remains
to be disposed of. While majority of
those interested seem to think that the
Nicaraguan route will be adopted, the
Panama Canal will not down and NJ.
Hutin, of the French Panama Canal Com
pany, is now in Washington to press the
claims of his route to consideration. 1t is
NJ. Hutin's desire to sell their canal to the
Government and it is understood that the
price asked is s35,0O0,OOU. The only
cloud on the canal sky is NJ. Hutin and
his associates, the fear being confidential
ly expressed that the enemies of canal
legislation may use the Panama Com
pany's proposition as means Of delaying
all legislation.
Notwithstanding Senator Frye's assur-
ances that the new ship subsidy bill would
be amended and presented in form that
would insure its almost immediate pass
age, there still seems to be some friction
in the republican camp on the subject.
Representative Minor. of Wisconsin,
recently called on the President to pro-
test against executive support being given
to the bill, even in its amended form.
Mr. Minor pointed out to the President
that the bill was so drawn as to convert
most of the subsidy into the treasury of
the International Navigation Company.
and simply for making fast runs which
they are now making and will continue
to make, whether they receive any sub
sidy or not. Mr.. Minor is in favor of
bill which will give encouragement to the
slower class of freight carrying vessels
and states that if the Frye bill is not so
amended as to provide for far wider
distribution of the subsidies, he will pre-
pare and submit measure which will do
so. 1t is said by the people who have the
Presidents confidence that he was a good
deal annoyed at what he considered a
lack of faith on the part of Senator Frye,
in asking his support for the bill and leav-
ing so much in the dark as to the manner
in which its provisions would work
out.
1t has been made known at the Navy
Department that Rear Admiral Crownin-
shield is to be succeeded as Chief of the
Bureau of Navigation by Rear Admiral
Henry G. Taylor Rear Admiral Crown
inshield will be given command of the
European station, SO that the transfer will
be in the nature of a promotion rather
than otherwise.
CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM.
President Roosevelt has sustained his
reputation as thorough going civil sell
vice reformer v his appointment of Will
liam Dudley Foulk, of Indiana, as mem
hpr If the National Civil Service Cam