The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
Communicated.
WASHINGTON.
June I. 1901.

June I. 1901.
Mr.. Mckinley and Secretary
Root had clash of opinion as to
the wording of the rejection of the
action of the Cuban Constitutions
al Convention in making whole
sale additions TO the Platt amend
ment, before accepting it. that
threatened to be serious for a
time. Mr.. Root regarded the ac.
ton of the Cubans as violation
of pledges made by the Cuban
delegates who visited Washing
ton, and wished to tell them so in
plain words. Mr.. Mckinley,
while not doubling the accuracy
of Mr.. Roots view, insisting upon
making the rejection conciliatory.
and, of course, had his way. Sec
rotary Root is very sore on the
subject and has a much smaller
opinion of the Cubans than he
had, and privately calls them
tricksters and similar names.
Representative Livingston, of
Ga, said of the action of the Gov
ernOr of South Carolina, in de.
clining to accept the designations
of Senators Tillman and Nc
Laurin: "Gov. McSweeney did ex-
actly right. Tillman and Nc.
Laurin did wrong in resigning. A
campaign would tear the state all
to pieces and no good would come
to anybody. Such a campaign
would have been full of bitterness.
The people Of the state have
been torn by politics for eleven
years and a hot campaign this
year would undoubtedly have
been detrimental" The same
sentiment has been expressed in
Washington by many other demo
Gratis.
Representative Bankhead, of
Ala, who has just returned from
visit to the Constitutional Con.
vention of that state, now sitting,
said: 81 am confident that wisdom
will characterize their course and
that they will solve the suffrage
problem satisfactorily. Itmay be
some little time before a form is
definitely decided on, but there
is no doubt about proper restric.
tons and qualifications for SUI
trage being provided"
Whether intentional or not, it
looks as though there were a con
spiracy among New York Repub-
licans who visit Washington, 20
make Teddy feel small by booming
somebody else, as New York 5
Candidate for the Republican
Presidential nomination. First.
one of the old Conkling leaders
introduced the Odell boom 70
Washington, and in addition to
telling what fine candidate he
would make, stuck a knife into
Teddy by saying of him, "Oh.
yes! he's good man, but his name
won't figure with the New York
delegation" BY the time the
Odell boom was sufficiently infiat,
ed to be seen at any distance, a
Buffalo republican-Mr. +, ii.
Theobald-who happened to be
III Washington, proceeded to swat
it vigorously. He declared that
Odell would have to do lot of
growing before he reached Presi-
Dental size land then proceeded to
trot out boom for Secretary Root
and 70 say that his name would
be the only one presented to the
Convention by New York. Re-
publicanS who favor candidates
from other states, find much pleas.
ure in this early scrapping among
New York republicans; and the
democrats-it's up to them to
laugh, and they do.
Attorney General Knox has
done part toward avoiding a de-
cidedly embarrassing matter, by
rendering an opinion that claims
resulting from the destruction of
the battleShip Main, in Havana
harbOr, are National and therefor
barred by the Treaty of Paris from
consideration by the Spanish
Claims Commission. But some
lawyers have doubts as to whether
that opinion will stand legal
test, and they are still filing
claims of the Maine victims and
their heirs with the Commission.
In order to decide those claims
either way, it would be necessa ry
to fix the responsibility for the
destruction of the Maine.
Has Mr.. Mckinley deserted
high protection and become a
disciple of Blaine reciprocity and
BabcOck tariff reform! That in.
teresting question has been more
or less discussed in Washington
for some time, and the number of
those who take the affirmative
side is steadily increasing. 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Nc
Kinley was unusually persistent
Ill his efforts to get the Senate to
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