The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN, D. c., March 4th.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 4th.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Yes, the second inaugu-
ration of Mr.. Mckinley was certainly
carried through on an imperial scale. AS
in ancient Rome, the people are amused
with gorgeous pageants while they are
losing their most precious possession
liberty. 1t was fitting, perhaps. that a
man who had just been given by a sub
servient partisan majority in Congress
more autocratic power than was ever
possessed by any American President, and
more than many kings are allowed to eX-
ercise, should be given an imperial inau-
guraton. 1t was also in keeping with the
public extravaganza, which has grown to
such stupendous magnitude under his first
administration as to stagger and brighten
the conservative element of the country,
that more public money should be spent
upon his second inauguration than was
ever spent upon the Inauguration of any
augurat;on has cost the public Treasury
will never known, but that it was an
enormous sum anyone can see. Four
companies of Porto Rican troops were
brought all the way to Washington to
march in the Imperial parade-samples of
Colonial subjects, as it were; likewise the
cadets from West Point and Annapolis
who had not participated in an inaugural
40 ,,f'c ofn ri
the regular troops from every military
post in reach. In addition to these, seven
warships were brought near enough to
have their entire crews in the parade. All
of this cost money, to which must be
added the $4,000 which the use of the
Pension office for the Inaugural ball cost
the Government. Like the legislation of
the Fifty sixth Congress, now happily
dead, the second Inauguration of Mr.. Nc
Kinley was conducted regardless of ex-
pense, and the dear people must pay the
bills for both.
Every democrat in the House and four
republicans-Loud.o of CALIFORNIA;; Mccall,
of Massachusetts; Mann, of Illinois, and
Driscoll, of New York-voted against the
Army Appropriation bill, which was rail
| roaded through the House, because of the
Senate amendment making Mr.. Mckinley
Gear of the Philippines, and Mr.. Cooper
| of Wisconsin,, Chairman of the Committee
on Insular Affairs, declined to vote at all
| Democrats made the most of their small
opportunity to condemn the Philippine
legislation Mr.. De Almond, of Missouri
said of the republican policy: They
or two, and rush blindly along the path
way Of imperialism they spit upon the
honor and pledge of the United States
by trades, bargains and connivance the
rights of ten million people in the Philip
pines are to be frittered away. l com
mend to the tyrants here the plumber they
will get For myself, stand true to my
| conception of duty, and l condemn the
infamy they are perpetrating.' Mr.. Hull
of Iowa, Chairman of the House Military
Committee, was jeered by the democrat:
when he acknowledged his connection
with Philippine land and lumber com
pany.
| True to his declared intention of putting
the Senate on record, Senator Morgan
offered his Nicaragua Canal resolution
providing for acquiring the right of way
as an amendment to the Sundry Civil APP
preparation bill. 1t was killed, as he ex
pected it to be. The vote was sc to 1G tC
sustain the chairs ruling that the amend
ment was not in order. Thus ended the
prevent Nicaragua Canal legislation
which is overwhelmingly favored by thu
people of this country and which the re
publcans pretend to favor to the extern
of having the bill passed by the Hous.
before the Presidential election. Senator
Morgan cannot be blamed for having
asked to be relieved of the duties of Chair
man of the Committee on nter-oceal
canals, and he never spoke truer words
when he said: The republicans are no
friends of this canal and they know it "
Mr.. Mckinley didn't like the Hoa
amendment to the Army Appropriation
bill, which heads off much contemplated
looting by preventing the granting o
long time franchises and the disposal Of
public lands in the island but he did no
dare to veto the bill on account of th,
amendment, as that would have been
dead give away, showing his disappoint
ment because the whole looting program
could not be carried out
The Senate Cuban investigation cos
about 900, and amounted to nothing
The report of the Committee says further
investigation is unnecessary, because the
frauds are now being handled by the Gu
ban courts. 1t is understood that severa