The critic., 1891-01-29
THEY ARE ANA'THEMA.
THE PRESIDENTS FEELING TOWARD
THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS

Whose Votes side.Trackcd Cloturc and
the Elections Billie Had No Fear
Of an Extra Session-lIis Very Frigid
Reception of Two Pennsylvania Re-
publican State Senators.
Perhaps the person who feels the smost
chagrin over the side-tracking of the
cloture resolution, whose adoption was to
lie preliminary to the passage through the
Senate of the Elections bill, is President
Harrison. The Elections bill was his pet
measure. He was thoroughly, coldly,
frigidly, geldly in earnest in wanting It
TO become law. He frequently urged
his views upon the Senators and Repre-
sentatives who visited him. When any
of them suggested to him the propricty
and necessity of business rather than po-
ltical legislation, the President would de-
clare in vigorous terms that the sanctity
of the ballot box, the preservation of
liberty and the safety of human life, all
of which, he insisted, were wrapped up
in the Elections bill, were of vastly more
importance than bankers interests or
manufacturers profits"
On the Saturday before the taking up In
the Senate of the cloture resolution two
Republican Senators called at the White
House. The conversation turned upon
the situation in Congress. One OF the
Senators spoke of the danger of an extra
session of Congress. The President de-
clared that an extra session Of Congress
had no terrors for him.
81 want the Republicans in Congress to
make every effort to pass the Federal
| Elections bill, the Apportionment bill and
other measures to which the party Is
| committed. They should be kept at the
| front until they pass both houses of Con-
gress, or until the term has expired by
limitation, even though all the Appropri-
alton bills should fail. The failure of
| these latter, or any one of them, would
make an extra session of Congress neces-
sary. do not fear one, and do not think
| our party has any reason to fear one. IL
| the duty devolve upon me to call the
Fifty-sccond Congress together in special
session, should call it to meet during the
first week in May"
Feeling this way II is no wonder that
President Harrison is in state of frozen
wrath. The Elections bill has been q
hobby with him. He has urged it upon
Congress in season and out of season. He
has dwelt upon it in his public messages
| and private conversations. Senators who
spoke and worked for it stand high in his
favor, while those who opposed il, and par
ticularly those who helped to sidetrack it,
are, in his eyes, anathema.
Proof of the way the President feels
about the matter is seen in his reception
Of two Republican State Senators from
the central counties of Pennsylvania,
Messrs. Wood and Williamson. Accord
ing to story in the Harrisburg dis
patches of the Philadelphia Press, thick
and thin Administration and anti-Cam
eron organ, these gentlemen visited the
| $50,
of what followed is related in the Press as
follows:
They sent in their cards and were ush
cred into the Presidents presence. The
latter met the pair with q degree of frigid
ity that startled them.
Gam to understand gentlemen" asket
the President, that Pennsylvania is still
q Republican State"'
The gentleman from the ,Iuniata Valley
and the Senator from Huntington wer'
spcecbless for an instant, and then, befor
they could offer any explanation or con
done the disgrace which had befallen thei
State, Mr.. Harrison remarked that he wa
very busy, and, excusing himself, lef
them to return as they came.
The looks on the faces of Senator
Wood and Williamson tonight were
sufficient indication of their feelings 81
far as James Donald Cameron is con
cerned.
The story, as told by the Harrisburg
correspondent of the Philadelphia Record
Democratic paper, is neither so long no
so lurid. II is as follows:
Two Republican Senators from th
centre of the State returned from Wash
ington tonight. One of their friends tell
of their treatment by the President:
as Pennsylvania still Republican
State?" President Harrison asked. TIL
, Senators were taken completely by SUI
prise, and before they could recover tn
President said: Good day." and turne
his back upon them. There could be n
mistaking his purpose" one of the Sen
} ators said, 'for when we attempted t
, resume the conversation the President rt
peated: Good day."
There appears to be no reason to dOuh
: that President Harrison bitterly resent
: the action of the Senators who voted
/. take up the Apportionment bill at the eS
: pense of the cloture resolution and tn
Federal Elections bill. II is very eviden
that this latter measure has been in hi
view the present-day shibboleth of RI
publicanism. Now that II has been al
! parentlv disposed of for good and all, h
refuses, like Rachel, to be comforted.