The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-12-23
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington, D. c., December Is, 1910
Mr.. Editor:
The events of the week in Congress
have been full of interest and there are
indications pointing to what the nat
tional, legislature may be able to ac-
complish during the present short
session. Among the most interesting
is an apparent agreement between the
insurgents and the regulars in the
Senate on the tariff question, relating
particularly to the consideration OF
special subjects, az for example, the
woollen schedule, the cotton schedule,
lumber, coal, ETC., separately and with
out consideration of the tariff question
as a whole. There is also apparent
ly a much closer agreement IN
Congress with reference to the support
of bona fde tariff commission for
thorough and honest investigation and
report upon this question.
The capital of the United States is,
IS is usual during the Congressional
session, the arena of conventions, or the
stage from which great enterprises are
launched. What could be grander than
the proposed national park to extend
from Baltimore to Washington and to
include two hundred thousand acres of
that the cost will be six millions of
dollars. The two cities are practically
forty miles apart, but they are connect
ed by two steam roads, two electric
roads and by boulevard almost COM
pleted, over which automobiles pass in
less than an hour.
There is much lobbying in Congress
by two provincial cities, New Orleans
and San Francisco, to have Congress
appropriate for an international
Exposition in celebration of the COM
pletion of the Panama Canal. Both of
these cities, are, as it were, on the
jumping off, places of the country,
one of the Cuffs edge and the other on
the Pacific, both of them remote from
centers of populations; and while they
claim that they do not want fnancia.
assistance, but only national recognition
everyone knows what that means in the
beginning. The proper situation for s
National Exposition in celebration Of
| so great an event, should be at thu
cspital of the country. sThere is grea1
an event, should be at the capital Of
| the country. There is now no city il
| this hemisphere better adapted to al
International Exposition than Washing
ton, D. c. The Potomac Park i!
practically within the center Of the
city, easily accessible to every part O.
it, and Washington is within five hour
of Nav Io-k, three hours of Phladel
phia, forty-fve minutes from Baltimore
and within twenty-four hours 20
Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Atlanta and all intermediat,
! places.
Andrew Carnegie, whose benefaction
amount now to 100 millions of dollars
has just added a donation of tel
millions of dollars for the promotion O
peace throughout the world. Th'
natians will continue to build battleship
and levy armies, but it is impossible
that donation so munifcent shall no
have the influence of its inspiration
The Secretary of War has just returned
from trip around the world and ha
started Congress by confidential
document sent to the House of Repre-
sentatives stating that this country
is unfit for war, lacking the right kim
of men, guns, ammunition and forti
ieations. This confidential report il
sad to be sensational in its details. II
view of Mr. Carnegie's ten million
dollar donation to the cause of peace
this report from the Secretary of Wa
is peculiarly clashing.
| Representative Hebson of Alabama
he who sank the old ship in the harbol
entrance at Santiago, has introduced :
bill in Congress for the appointment Of
a Board of National Defense, the OIL
ject of which is to secure cooperation
between the executive and Legislative
branches of the government with E
view to harmony in a defensive policy.
By the terms of the bill the War Secre.
tary is to be president of the council,
and the other members the Secretary
of the Navy, the -Chairmen of the
House Military and Naval Affairs, ahd
also the Senate and House Finance
Committees.
Mr.. Carnegie bravely continues hi,
fight against dying rich but the odds
are against him.
Mr.. Rockefeller's proposed founda.
ton gift Of more than 500, 900, 900 is
again before Congress which seems tc
be appalled, at the immensely of the
benefaction and afraid it may have g
flare back.