Show The filexlcan Treaty Washington 18General tyrant still remains in Washington apparently to the terror of all small fry politicians who get up new stories about him every day First it is said he is hero as a lobbyist for Jay Gould and then the report is circulated again that he is a candidate for the presidency and working up a boom for himself The truth is he came hers as one of the commissioners who negotiated the Mexican reciprocity treaty He and Trescot met the Mexican Mexi-can representatives nearly every day at the state department The commissioner commission-er will probably remain until the Senate accepts or rejects the treaty Sugar men are shrieking over the prospect pros-pect of Mexican sugar coming in free and they are legally responsible for all the talk about the treaty being schemed in the inerest of tbe Jay Gould syndicate syndi-cate of southwestern railroads They are wild in their fight against the proposed pro-posed treaty particularly since Secretary Folger reported adversely upon their proposal to abolish the Hawaiian treaty |