Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-02-17

istratiOn-The State should Hay.
Settled the Homestead Troubles
The Nicaragua Hill Will Prob.
ably 60 Over-Etc.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 3, 1898.
Hon. Don M. Dickinson, who il
regarded as President-elect Cleveland.
personal representative, is in Wash
ington working in the interest of the
Andrews bill for the repeal of the
Sherman silver law, which is to be
taken up in the House on Thursday
and Friday next. Mr.. Dickinson is
outspoken in favor Of the annexation
of Hawaii, and in this he is in line
with seven tenths of Congress, with.
out regard to politics. The Hawaiian
Commissioners arrived today and to.
morrow they will present their peti.
ton for annexation.
There are so many complications
that would have to be met if all act
OF Congress annexing Hawaii is to be
passed, and in the course of the delay
which would necessarily ensue, some
foreign Government might, by revo.
luton or other means, secure control
OF the country, that it is probable that
the outcome will be the adoption oi
some quicker method of asserting
American control and warning foreign
Governments to keep their hands off.
There is no politics in this, simply
Americanism, and, be it said to his
credit, Mr.. Harrison has consulted as
freely with the prominent Democrats
in Congress as with members of his
own party.
Notwithstanding the threats cabled
from London as to what England in
tended to do, it can be stated without
exaggeration that the intentions OF
England or any other nation is cut
ting no figure whatever in this matter.
Hawaii is going to pass under the
control of the United States. That
much is certain, but it is not yet de-
cided just how it is to be done.
Another certainty in the situation is
that Hawaiian sugar producers will
not be paid the bounty of 9 cents per
pound now paid to Americans under
the Mckinley law, which some allege
to have been the cause of the revolu.
ton and application for annexation
whatever the cause, there are many
good reasons for our not neglecting
the opportunity to get control of the
islands.
The majority report of the House
Judiciary Committee, which investi
gated the Homestead labor troubles,
has attracted wide attention. 1t was
written by Representative Boatner
OF Louisiana, who says therein that he
finds nothing in the Constitution
which authorizes Congress to inter.
fere with, regulate, or prohibit the
employment of Pinkerton or other de.
tectives, by persons or corporations
except SO far as they may be engaged
in interstate commerce. "The trouble
at homestead" continues the report
"was beyond Federal or Congressional
jurisdiction. To permit interference
by the Federal authorities. without
demand of the States, or to make laws
which would control or affect the re-
lations of employer and employe i'll
the States, would be to undermine the
just authority of the States and to
interpose Federal authority upon a
subject of which the States have, and
ought to have, Supreme control"
were paired and did not vote.
The investigation of the whiskey
trust, authorized by the House, will
be conducted by subcommittee com.
posed of Representative Bynum, oil
Indiana; Stockdale, of Mississippi
Buchanan Of New Jersey, and Powers
of Vermont.
There was general surprise when
the Senate voted down a motion made
by Senator Sherman to make the
Nicaragua canal bill the unfinished
business" of the Senate, which would
have given it the right of way every
day after 2 o'clock. There is hardly
one chance in ten that this bill can
get through the present House, but il
has been supposed that the Senate
intended to pass it anyway. Per.
haps after all it will go to join the
numerous other matters that are
stated to be left over for the Fifty
third Congress to wrestle with.
Representative Fellows, of New
York, is chairman of the committee
that will investigate the spending o.
Panama Canal money in the United
States. Col. Fellows is shrewd
lawyer, and as a skillful cross-exami
ner has few equals. Furthermore he
is deeply interested in the subject he
is investigating. All of which in
cIeases the chances for the exposure
of somebody, if there is any truth in
the charges that have been from time
to time made, both in this country
and in France, of the bribery of Amer
leans of prominence. Ex-Secretary
Thompson will be one of the witnesse.
heard. He was President of the
American end of the company.
The Senate, which has only passed
two of the appropriation bills, seem,
at last to realize that it is in a hole
Beginning to-day, it will meet at Ii
o'clock.
If the gold in the Treasury is re
duced at much this month as last
Secretary Carlisle will find less thar
the $lOO,O0O,OOO, known as the gold