The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-07-04
IL GEORGES ENQUIRER UPPER MARlBO ROUGH MARYLANJ

STcSS ana ucclaftu that lne "nplt Ttti-
procity agitation had been an attempt to
take advantage of the well-known dispo-
sition of the American people to relieve n
people in distress to the material advan-
tage of the American Sugar Refining Co.,
otherwise known as the Sugar Trust.
Apropos of Mr. Tellcr's remark, I have
received from unimpeachahe sources tnc
information that it is the intention of the
President to go out to the States whose
congressional delegations opposed his
Cuban policy, before the next session, and
to advocate from the platform a reciprocal
arrangement with Cuba in terms which he
believes will result in creating Il popular
demand for that end which will make it
impossible for the Senators and Rep.c
scntatives from these States to resist the
confirmation of the treaty which he will
send to Congress. Such a course will be
almost without precedent, it is true, but
Mr.. Roosevelt, considers that the national
honor" which a republican congressman
suggests is another term for personal
PRIDE" is involved and that, therefore,
the circumstances warrant an unusual
course of procedure.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Admiral Dewey appeared before the Phil
ippine Committee of the Senate and gave
his version of the initiation of the Philip
pine instruction. There was evident, in
the Admirals testimony, desire to avoid
placing the administration in an unfavor-
able light, and also a strong prejudice
against the Filipinos. Under the cross
examination of Senator Carmack the Ad-
mral several times colored up and APP
peared to be about to resent the line of
questioning. Finally, the Admiral having
admitted that he regarded Aguinaldo as a
thief, but that, so regarding him, he had
advanced him munitions of war and sup
plies, which course he defended on the
Carmack asked him why he regarded
Aguinaldo as a thief in view of the fact
that he knew of no dishonest act on
A guinaldo' part, but at this moment Sena-
toi houSC SullCu lol " lllt luCl ludt
the hour for adjournment had arrived,
and Dewey hastily grabbed his hat, bowed
and left the room without waiting to be
formally excused.
On Thursday the House of Representa-
tives added one more to the measures cal
culated to cast serious reflections on the
republican party. Under the guise of a
merely technical change in the internal
revenue law bill was passed which deals
a killing blow to that portion of the brew
ing interest of the country not controlled
by the trust, the United Brewers Associa-
ton. 1t appears that s. per cent. of the
beer produced in this country is made by
the Trust and Of the remaining II per
cent. a large portion is put up in eighth
barrels" The bill passed by the House
prohibits these small packages and, if
passed by the Senate also, will place the
entire industry in the hands of the Trust
That this would be in entire accord with
republican principles cannot be denied,
but that such a proceeding will meet with
the approval of the people is doubtful.
1t is with no little pleasure that chroni-
Gle the fact that the representations in
this correspondence in regard to the in
famous Union Depot bill railroaded
through the Senate, and which, as | then
related, gave a subsidy to the merged
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio
railway companies valued at between
100000 and 100000, have accom-
plished the temporary defeat Of the meas
ure in the House Committee by means of
numerous protests forwared to that COM
mittee from readers of these letters The
House Committee on the District of
Columbia at first attempted to modify the
more fragrant features of the bill by
changing the location of the depot and 50
curtail the value of the subsidy, but, as
the protests continued to arrive, the Com
mittee concluded to permit the bill to go
over until the next session, pending which
a careful investigation of the subject will
be made, with, it is to be hoped, result
which will mean saving of several mil
lions Of dollars to the people of the United
States.
On Friday evening the democrats of the
House held conference to consider the
action of the republicans during the SEES
sion of Congress practically completed.
Resolutions were adopted condemning the
republicans for sacrificing Cuba to the
don, n1c nf tho anJ ,nDt;nrr
there would have been no difficulty in
passing, in the Senate, the Cuban bill as
passed by the House and that the only
reason for failing to do so was the fact
the profits of the trust to the material
benefit of the Cubans and of the Ameri-
can consumers. The resolutions also re-
affirm the we'll known fact that the repub.
ican party has been, throughout the ses-
sion, dominated by the trusts and monop-
olies; that it has persistently refused to
listen to the counsel, even of members of
is own party, to reduce the tariff on arti-
cles produced by the trust, and that it has,
after passing an antitrust law to tide over
.he election of 1900, which law it has siuce
been demonstrated requires much revision
IN order that it may be made effective,
positively refused to 50 revise that law or
20 take any other steps which would be
contrary to the interests of the truss and
Excursions to Niagara Falls Tn
der Personal Escort.
JULY ) AND Il, AUGUST ,, l6 AND -,
SEPTEMBER p AND OCTOBER 9,