The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON,
Communicated.
April %. 1901.

Mr.. Mckinley, having talked
the matter over fully with Gener-
al Wood, will receive the Com
mittee from the Cuban Constitu
tional Convention, but it will be
in a cut-it-short this is-my- busy
day manner, which will show them
at once that he is more intent
upon his coming pleasure trip
than upon hearing their requests
for impossibilities. He cannot
change an Act of Congress and he
will bluntly tell the Cubans so,
and that is about all he will tell
them, unless his intentions have
been misrepresented by those who
ought to know them.
The Cablegrams given out at
the War Department as coming
from Gen. Macarthur, concerning
the stealing from the Commissary
Department in Manila, do not
square with either press news or
private advices. According to the
former, there have only been
few cases of petty larceny, while
the latter agree i'll insisting that
there has been a wholesale cam
paign of lOoting, and hint that
more effort is being made to pro-
tect he looterS than to uncover
the stealing and punish the
thieves, although a few arrests
have been made. OF course, no
one can say to a certainty which
is right or nearest right, but on
the general principal that those
who are disintereSted are most
apt to tell the truth the press and
private cablegrams naturally find
the greatest mum Der of believers.
Judge Lambert Tree, of Illinois,
who prides himself on being an
old fashioned democrat, iSvisiting
Washington, where, By the way,
he was born. Asked about polit-
teal conditions in Illinois, Judge
Tree said: 81 do not see that
there are any striking develop
ments in the democratic politics of
Illinois. This is period of evo-
luton, but at present everything
seems to be quieScent. There are
many questions to be looked into
between now and the next ma
tiOnal campaign" Having serv-
ed as United States Minister to
Russia Judge Tree is naturally
much interested in the part Rus
STA is playing in the Chinese
game and has some decidedly
pointed opinions on the subject,
but not for publication.
Judge Winter, of Alabama,
who is in Washington on bust
ness, said on a subject in which
the whole country is interested.
"The people of Alabama would
build bontires and celebrate if the
next Congress should pass a bill
for the construction of the 18TH
mian Canal. We have been dis
couraged by the developments
of the last few months, and
some times | feel that it will be
years before the work on the
canal is begun. prophesy if a
canal is ever completed a decade
will suffice to make Alabama a
greater State than PENNSYLVANIA
now is"
1t is little early to begin the
work of making the next Re
publican candidate for President,
but notice has already been pab-
licly served upon the anti Hanna
Republicans that the votes of the
South in the next Republican
Convention would be given to
the candidate favored by Mr.. Nc
Kinley. The notice was served
by Judge j. W. Dimmick, Fed
eral office holder and National
Committee man from Alabama,
who is now i'll Washington.
One sentence of Aguinaldo's
recently published manifesto,
acknowledging American sover-
eighty of the Philippines and
calling upon the Filipinos to
cease resistance to American au-
thOrity, has aroused more or
less speculation and curiosity in
Washington. 1t is that in
which he refers to the yearn-
ings of the Filipino people "to
see their dear ones enjoying the
liberty and promised generosity
OF the great American nation"
Many think that the promised
generosity relates to promises
made to Aguinaldo personally
and that the willy Filipino put it
in his manifesto so as to make it
matter of official record.
Whether that surmise be correct
or not the language of the mani.
festo indicates that promises
have been made OF which the
American people know nothing,
and naturally there is some curl.
oslty to know what those prom
Uses are.
Sir William, Von IIoa,o ~