The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-04-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN, d. c., April Sth.

H. llC io'ttiS
scored an important point when Secretary
Root decided that the Hoar amendment
to the Army bill, prohibiting the granting
of concessions in the Philippines, did not
prevent the issuing of licenses to cut tim
Der on public lands under the regulations
promulgated by Gen. MacA rthur last July.
While it will not be as profitable to cut
timber un Ger license, requiring that the
to seven cents a cubic foot for all that is
cut, according to grade, quality and value,
as it would have been under outright con-
cessions of the right to cut timber III GER
tain sections of the islands, it will still be
profitable and will save the money that
has already been spent by the looters in
preparing to handle the concessions they
expected to get
Although hardly pushed to furnish Off
cial salaries for republican lame ducks
who are still unprovided for, Mr.. Mckin-
ley was not prepared to select a governor
of Porto Rico from that class, or else he
.
Allen, who came to Washington for the
express purpose of resigning that office,
by telling him that he must hold it while
longer. Being one of Mr.. Mckinley's
disappointment as best he could and
promised to return to Porto Rico about
the 1st of May. By the way, speaking Of
Porto Rico, there is a wide difference be-
tween the rosy views of existing condi
tions, commercial and industrial on the
island, expressed by Governor Allen and
those which come from reputable news
paper correspondents and other sources
Some sensational developments are ex-
pected in connectio IN with the swindling
of the government out of $2,5C0,000 by
Capt. Oberlin NJ. Carter, now serving q
five year term in the Leavenworth Mill
tary prison, while he was in charge of the
harbor improvements at Savannah, Ga.
An official of the department Of Justice is
quoted as having said: 1--WE have traced
every cent of the money stolen by Garter,
ohu a. PiSoSu9 L Sol Ohi say Gildl tuS III
vestigation will result in number of ar
rests. We know where the money has
been hidden and invested, and it will soon
be turned over to the L. S. Treasury.
can also say that when Carter serves out
his time he will be arrested on criminal
charges, but 1 am not at liberty to state ut
present the exact nature of these charges
Notwithstanding all the talk of deals
between the administration and the Pana-
ma Canal Company, Representative Hep
burn, of Iowa, author of the Nicaragua
Canal bill, which passed the House but
failed in the Senate of the last Congress,
expresses confidence that the next session
of Congress will authorize the construc-
ton of the Nicaragua canal. Mr.. Hepburn
is republican, but it was made plain
more than once during the late Congress
that he was not in the confidence of the
republican bosses. Consequently his ex-
preston of confidence is not as convincing
as it might be.
The talk of Aguinaldo's being allowed
to come to this country is wide of the
mark. The administration has work for
Aguinaldo to do in the Philippines for
months to come, and it will see that he
stays there to do it or, refusing to do it,
that he stays locked up. There is no
junketing ahead Of him for awhile.
Senator Simmons, of North Carolina,
u-hp in "och;prton
official business, says he was given to I'M
derstand that the cases against several
North Carolinians, who have been indicted
in the Federal Courts for alleged viola
tions of the election laws last November
will shortly be abandoned and nolle
pressed, because of the opinion of the
prosecuting officers that the law will not
hold in the cases in question. Speaking
of the rumor that ex Senator Butler, of
his State, Chairman of the Populist
National Committee, would be given a
Federal office, Senator Simmons said: Mr.
Butler would probably be able to advance
some argument why this should be done,
for the Populist parry in North Carolina
certainly contributed to the re election of
President Mckinley as far as was in their
power. Mr.. Buffers own county, where
there are more populists than democrats
and republicans combined, gave Mr. Nc
kinley majority. 1t was also true all
over the State that the populists to con-
siderable extent voted the republican
ticket"
Arguing from the belief that the people
endorsed the government Of this country
| by trusts when they re elected Mr.. Nc
Kinley, as Senator Hanna has several
times practically said they did, the choice
| of Mr.. P. G. Knox, who has grown rich
by giving legal advice to trusts, for At
torney General in Mr. Mckinley's Cabinet
was perfectly logical one. But arguing
| from the belief that one of the duties of
the Attorney General should be to utilize
| the Federal laws, such as they are, to try
to curb the power Of the trusts, as the
plain people believe, it was about as illog-
ical choice as could possibly have been
| made. That Mr.. Knox is a LAWYER of
marked ability is proven by his having
| been employed by the usts, but to expect
him to turn against those who have made
him rich, and from whom he doubtless
expects to get more fees when he leaves
| the Cabinet, is to expect human nature to
reverse itself. He may not do anything
| directly for the trusts while he is Attorney
General, but he will hardly be like to do
| anything directly against them or their
interests.
Worth Considerations,