The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-03
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON,
lCommunicated).
April %. 1901.

April %. 1901.
Mr.. McKinley'S record break
ing Presidential free excursion
left Washington today on its
little iaunt of 1851 miles. The
special train consists Of seven
Pullman cars, each selected as
the most elegant of its kind.
The trip will cost thousands of
dollars, but it is doubtful
whether a cent of it will come
out of the pockets of any one of
the So passengers. Secretary
Cortenyou was thoroughly alive
to the advertising possibilities of
the trip, when he arranged that
more than one fourth of the pas
sengers should be newspaper
men, and he took good care that
there should be artists among
them. Also, that a good photog-
rapher should be on the train, as
well as telegraph operators.
There are nine ladies to keep Mrs.
Mckinley company, and DR..
RiXey is on hand to look after her
health, and that of the rest of
the party.
The members of the Cuban
Committee left Washington hug.
cling the deluSion that Mr.. Nc
kinley's promise to appoint Com
miSSiOnerS to negotiate a recipro.
city treaty with Cuba, as soon as
Cuba had a government to nego-
tiate with, meant something tan
gible. Unless the Senate should
treat it better than it did the
whole bunch of reciprocity trea
ties negotiated by he present adj :
miniStration, the actual negotia
ton of such treaty would be
meaningless. Still, the promise
sent the Cubans home in good
humor and that was doubtless all
it was intended to do. The Gu
bans on there side promised to do
their best to get the Constitution
al convention to accept the Platt
amendment. 1t will soon be an
parent whether their promise was
worth any more than Mr.. McKin
ley's.
If the movement that has been
started III Washington to make
the daughters of the American
Revolution an auxiliary to the
machine that is booming Senator
Fairbanks, of Indiana, for the
Republican Presidential nomina.
ton i'll 1904, is successful, the d.
A. Il. will probably have a split
on its hands and will certainly
suffer III the esteem of those who
are on principle opposed to the
participation i'll partisan politics
of such organizations. This move
ment, which is understood to have
been started with the knowledge
of Mrs. Fairbanks, President Gen.
eral OF the ID. y. IL. and wife of
the Senator, is to have the ID. a.
r., National Board unotlicially
request every chapter in the
country to use the influence of its
memberS with fathers, sons. hus
bands and friends, to secure sup.
port for he Fairbanks boom. 1t
was because they wish to keep the
movement secret that the Nation
al Board of the ID. a. IL. recently
decided that the press should be
rigidly excluded, not only from
the Board meetings, but from flu.
ture National Congresses of the
organization. That decision pro
voked such adverse criticism that
The Board has since announced
that 1t had been temporarily
abandoned. 1t has from its or
ganlzation been plain that the ID.
a. IL. had nothing to do with par.
tiSan politics, but the same claim
has been made for organizations of
men, which are constantly dab.
bling i'll partisanship.
Nothing but praise is heard of
the action of Mr. Mckinley, taken
In response to a written request of
Senator Daniel, of Va, in order
ing that the Washington relics,
which have for some years been on
exhibition i'll the National Museum
be restored to their proper owner,
Gen. &. W. Z. Lee, Of Va, a son
of Gen. Il. L. Lee, from whose
house, at Arlington, the relics
were taken at the opening of the
Civil War WhiIa ~ ,un., ,.+;a.