The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-03-15

from Cuba indicates much kick.
ing against the conditions laid
down by Congress for the with
drawal of American authority.
members of the administration
claim to have secret information
which causes them to expect an
early acceptance Of the conditions
by the CubanS. The rumoTed in
tention of the administration to
send more troops to Cuba is
strongly denied in official circles
Other seekers after official
plums are saying unprintable
things about the greed OF eX-
Senators, who are going after all
the desirable places and landing
them. too. EX Senator Carriers
appointment as Commissioner of
the st, Louis Exposition has been
officially announced, and three
other eX-Senators = Lindsay,
ThurSton and McBride-are un-
derStood to have been promised
places on the same commission.
Tom Carriers appointment,
which carries $4,000 a year for
three years, with not very much
work to do. was his reward for
having. at the request of Mr.. Nc
kinley, talked the River and
Harbor bill to death in his last
Senatorial hours. Senators are
recalling the statement of Sena-
tor Hanna, regarded at the time
as bluff, that unless the Ship
subsidy bill was passed, the River
and Harbor bill should not.
y proud record in their line is
that of c. A. Snow Il Co., the
Washington Patent lawyers, who
have procured more than $4,000
patents for inventors. many of
them for inventions that have
played important parts in the in
dustrial progress of the past
| quarter century.
4 committee of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs
has been appointed to investigate,
during the Congressional recess,
under the Pettigrew resolution.
adopted by the Senate. the charge
that Lieut.. Col. II. o. S. Hell
i stand was interested in a scheme
to corner the hemp supply of the
Philippines through official ia
VoritiSm. Whether the inveSti-
cation is to be a whitewaShing
affair or is to get at the real
facts, Is not yet apparent. If it
be the latter, there are reasons
for the belief that sensational
looting scheme of large proper
tons will be uncovered.
The administration hangs on
to the reciprocity treaty with
France, Notwithstanding the de
termined opposition in the Senate
that caused it and all the other
reciprocity treaties negotiated
under the Dingley tariff law to
be left unratihed, and an agree
ment has been signed by Secre-
tary Hay and the French Ambas.
sador. extending the time in
which the treaty with France
may be ratified to September "a.
1902.
In an answer to the Senate
resolution, Secretary Long admits
that commissioned officers in the
navy, promoted from the ranks.
are not allowed to wear the same
uniforms worn by officers of the
same grade graduated from An.
napoliS. but denies that the dis
elimination is made because one
officer went through the Naval
Academy and the other didn't.
but he failed to give any other
plausible reason therefore. He
further admits the justice Of the
complaint of those Disseminated
against, by stating that the Navy
Department is now preparing a
uniform regulation book. "show.
ing all uniforms and permitting
officers promoted from the ranks
to wear certain insignia and uni
form, not now worn by them. but
which are permitted for other
commissioned of1icers.n All of
which shows how thoroughly i'm.
pregnated with Sampsonian snob
bishness our Navy Department
has become and the necessity for
Congressional action to restore
American methods and DESTROY
the illusion in many Naval Off.
GERS minds that a course at An.
napolis makes them better than
the people who put up the money
for that course.
Senator Morgan, who told some
| plain and bitter truths about