The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-03-08
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON,
March 4, 1901.
(Communicated).

OF Mt. mckinney was certainly
carried through on an imperial
scale. AS in ancient Rome, the
people are amused with gorgeous
pageants, while they we're losing
their most precious possession
liberty. 1t was fitting, perhaps,
that man who had just been
given by a subser> lent partiaan
majority in Congress more auto
cratic power than was ever pos
seSsed 10y any American Presi-
dent, and more than many Kings
are allowed to exercise, should
be given an imperial Inaugural.
ton. 1t was also in keeping
with the public extravaganza
which has grown to such stupen-
dous magnitude under his first
administration as to stagger and
Tighten the conservative ele.
ment of the country. that more
public money should be spent
upon his second Inauguration
than was ever spent upon the in.
auguration of any other Presi.
dent. Just how much this in
auguration has cost the public
treasury will never be known,
but that it is in enormous sum
any one can see. -Four com.
panies of Porto Rican troops
were brought all the way to
Washington to march in the i'm.
perial parade-samples of colon
ial subjects, as it were-likewise
the cadets from West Point and
Annapolis, who had not partic-
ipated i'll an inaugural parade,
since Grants second, before, and
the regular troops from every
military post in reach. LII addi.
ton to these, seven warships
were brought near enough to
have their entire crews i'll he pa
rade. All of this cost a great
deal of money, to which must be
added the $50, 900, which the use
of the Pension Office for the in
augural ball, cost the govern
ment. Like the legislation of
the Fifty Sixth Congress, now
happily dead, the second inaugu-
ration of Mr.. Mckinley was con-
Quoted, regardless of expense,
and the door people must pay the
bills for both.
Some wag started the story
that two Colorado performing
bears that were carried in the ill.,
augural parade by fool election
better, were captured by Teddy
during his recent hunting trip,
and all along the line was con
Stantly heard: "Here comes Ted
dy's bears" Mr.. Roosevelt is
said to have been made quite
angry by the story and especially
0y the continued public refer
ence to it.
Every Democrat in the House
and four Republicans-Loud, of
California; Mccall, of Mass;
Mann, of Ill. and Driscoll, of
New York - voted against the
Army Appropriation bill, which
was railroaded through the
House, because of the Senate
amendment, making Mr.. McKin-
ley Car of the Philippines, and
Mr.. Cooper, of Wisconsin,
Chairman of the Committee on
lnsular Affairs, declined to vote
at all. Democrats made the
most of their small opportunity
to condemn the Philippine legis-
lation. Mr.. De Almond, of Mo-,
said of the Republican policy:
"They shrink from discussion,
even for an hour or two, and rush
blindly along the pathway of I'M
perialism; they spit upon the
honor and pledge of the United
States by trades, bargains, and
connivance the rights of ten mil
lions of people to be frittered
away. | commend to the tyrants
here the plumber that they will
get. For myself, l stand true
to my conception of duty, and
condemn the infamy they are
perpetrating" Mr.. Hull, o
Iowa, Chairman of the House
Military Committee was jeered
by the Democrats when he ac-
knowledged his connection with
Philippine land and lumber
company.
True to his declared intention
ofputting the Senate on record.
Senator Morgan, offered his Mic
araguan Canal resolution, pro
vidlng for acquiring the right of
way as an amendment to the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.
1t was killed, as he expected it to
be. The vote was SO to 16 to
sustain the chairs ruling that
the amendment was not in order.
Thus ended the disreputable
though successful fight to pre-.
vent Nicaraguan Canal legisla-
ton, which is overw helmingly
favored by the people of this