The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-02-20

| largely colored, the former would have
to transact his business wholly with the
whites while in such community the
majority of the patrons Of the postoff1ce
might be black Much has been made OF
the fact that Senator Nelson was absent
from the committee when the vote was
taken, hut the fact is known to your cor
respondent that Mr.. Nelson knew the
vote was to occur and he deliberately re-
NAMED away as he did not wish to vote
for Crum and vet hesitated to vote against
him Had his vote been necessary to in
sure Crum's defeat he would have been
present and voted nay.
Great credit is being claimed for the
President and his party for he anti trust
legislation accomplished at this session
of Congress and yet, to those acquainted
with the inside history of the session, 1t
is known that the President has receded
from the strong position he assumed
about the first Of the year and has attempt
ed to make the best of wholly inadequate
and unsatisfactory legislation. Like the
razors which were made to sell and not to
shave, the anti trust Legislation passed at
the short session of the Fifty seventh
Congress has been enacted for political
effect and not for the control of the trusts.
The publicity p: DIVISIONS of the Nelson
amen dment are farcical and will in no
way effect the trusts already in existence.
Their only possible usefulness will be to
demonstrate the unreiability of some of
the get rich quick schemes which are be-
ing constantly explnited but when it
comes to the great c,mbina tions Of capt.
tai which nnhesitatingly use their wealth
to debauch Legislators and even III Ike aud
unmake political parties. they
will prove useless. Even the Elkins
hill, which was supported by most of the
democrats in the House and received no
dissenting vote in the Senate. abolishes
| the criminal provisions of the present
status and leaves only fine as the penal
tv for infractiun. The democrats voted
or the bill because they believed it a
step in the right direction, although very
short step
Minister Bowen has brought to sue
cessful conclusion the negotiations with
Germany, Cheat Britain and Italy, and
has secured for Venezuela as favorable
terms as could be expected. The greatest
| triumph of MIR. Bowen's diplomacy, how
ever, lies in the fact that he has forced
tn cl,,,v hor l., nd nd
strate to the world that, in her alliance
with Great Britain, she was actuated SOLE
| ly by selfish interests. Cash payments
were demanded by each of the allies and
Mr.: Bowen suggested that they name the
sum they thought proper. All named a
cash payment of $27 500, including Count
Won Quadt, who was then acting for Ger
many. AS the prospect of a peaceful set
Germany instructed her ambassador to
withdraw her agreement and demand the
full amount of the claim named in the ulti-
matum to Venezuela. This was done,
settlement would have been impossible,
but in the interest of peace Great Britain
and Italy adhered to their original agree
ment and by the terms of the protocol
just signed they get $27,5OO, while Ger
many receives S347 900, nearly thirteen
times as much as her partners in the
transaction. Baron Won Sternberg urged
his Government to modify this demand
but to no purpose and Minister Bowen
confidently predicts that Germany's
rapacity means doom to her trade in
South America.
Speaking of this phase of the Venezue-
ian situation, Representative Adams, OF
Pennsylvania, who for twelve years has
been striving for reform in the American
consular service, remarked to your CORE
spondcnt, eff only We had properly edu
Gated consuls of adequate business ability
to send into South America this would
prove a golden opportunity for extending
the trade of the United States in that
direction, but with broken down politi-
clans. what are popularity k1n W u lame
ducks" to represent the great interests OF
the United States, men who, in most in
stances, cannot speak the language of the
country TO which they are sent, what pros.
pect is there Of our being able to take ad'
vantage of the situation?'
The Alaskan treaty has been ratified
and it is lumored that Secretary Root and
Senators Lodge and Turner will be the
Commissioners whom the President will
appoint under the terms of the conven-
ton. Much has been written on the sub
ject of the Alaskan boundary, most of it,
evidently, by men unfamiliar with the
actual conditions. There is no question
in the minds of those who have examined
the evidence that Great Britain has some
ground, in the inaccu racies of the treaty
negotiated by Great Britain and Russia in
1925, on which to hang her contentious.
That she is correct in those contentious
no American of note believes and it is
confidently expected that the present com
mission will clear up all doubt. 1t is
worthy of remark that in 1897 Secretary
Olnty sent to the Senate general arbi-
tration treaty with Great Britain which
provided for a similar commission of six
persons to settle the boundary dispute.
There is practc lily NJ change in the