The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-01-25

loi lhc itt>tlN al lOH al I'm gldtIu =
interests. 1t Just happe;lcd that
the administration BOSSES forced
"auro> Of Il uhur Senators
the y arasd +. 80.
tac Hay an ~.
der con locrda ~ ur nllti~.
government In other ao.G,. Il
majority of the Uultcd y ate
Senators III urm> the world Thar
1t has turned the question Of
whether the Nicaragua Canal
shall be provided for al this SeS
sion over to the British govern
ment. All and all this is one of
the most remarkable instances of
trucking to foreign nation in
the history of the Senate, and it
is not surprising that four Re
publican Senators should have
revolted and openly said that
they would not be bound 10y the
action OF the caucuS-the sur
priSing thing is that a majority
of them should have been willing
to make such an exhibition of
| themselves. If the British gov
eminent wishes to prevent Mic
aragua Canal legislation at this
session of Congress, it has only
to defer making known its action
on the treaty, until after the 4th
of March. Naturally the Pana-
ma lobbyists are jubilant. This
is playing right into their hands.
AS the administration does not
wish to take any more chances,
the c0ntereeS on the part Of the
House on the Army bill, have
orders to agree to the bill as it
passed the Senate. 1t is expect
ed to 90 to Mr.. Mckinley in a
day or two, and mouths are al.
ready watering for the nice little
commissions that he will distrib-
ute under the new law.
The Ship Subsidy bill has been
patched up so as to placate Re
publican opposition, and it is now
claimed that it will get the vote
of nearly every Republican Sen
ator, if it gets voted upon. 1t is
to be considered in the Senate
whenever no regular appr0pria.
ton bills are on hand, for a time,
but Senator Aldrich reminded
Senator llama that the time
would be limited when he gave
notice that the Finance Commit.
tee would, during the present
week, report the Revenue Reduc-
ton bill The prediction has
been made by a Senator that if
the Ship Subsidy bill was not
passed before the Revenue Re
duction bill, which will have the
right of way, got before the Sen
ate, it would not pass at all. If
the Democratic Senators choose
they can easily prevent the Ship
Subsidy bill getting to a vote,
but they may conclude that it
will be good party policy to al
low the Republicans to pass it.
While protesting all the time
that he would not be candidate.
Senator Hanna is constantly busy
laying wires to bring about his
nomination for President by the
Republicans in 1904. His latest
move in that direction was to
make bid for the soldier vote,
by announcing his intention to
join the G. a. II. If the Demo
cratic leaders can help Hanna to
get that nomination, they will
certainly do so, because of their
belief that his nomination by the
Republicans would assure the
election of any Democrat.
! "That Pull" under this adj
miniStratiOn is stronger than the
Civil Service Law, is nothing
new, but a disgraceful proof of it
has just been given by the APP
pointment of William Hammett,
of Maryland, who was forced to
resign as a general inspector OF
the POstOffice Department, for
having hired out his government
railroad pass, to an inspector in
the Baltimore Custom House. In
other words, a man who has
shown his unfitneSs for the posi-
ton under one department of the
public service, has been given an
equally responsible position in
another. The secret of Hamlett's
"Pull" is his ability, or his sup
posed ability to control the
negro voters of Maryland.
Senator Teller said of the FIJI
ipino petition, presented by him,
which he wishes to have printed
as a public document, and which
is now i'll the hands of the Senate
Committee on the Philippines;
"My Filipino petition represents
what might be called the great
middle class of the Philippine
Islands. 1t is no protest from
the National Filipino govern.
ment. There is not in this list oil
1000 and more names, that OF