The Washington times., 1894-05-13
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the chemical schedule have been disposed Of
but these have been 80 unimportant that the
| real wonder is that they were not passed
much sooner.
And now there is getting to be serious doubt
| whether the tariff bill will ever become Law
with the committee amendments. At the rate
thar progress is being made in the Senate II
have passed that body. Then It will have "a
| go to the House, and undoubtedly will meet
| opposition in conference and ON the House
| floor. Several leading Democrats in that
body have announced in plain language that
the bill will not pass II they can help it in Its
present form. and mean to put up q ve-y hard
| fight.
| II November should come and the House
and Senate be wrangling over fhe ultimate
form Of the bill, 1t is hard 70 foresee the con-
sequences. There might not be Democratic
majority in the House in that event, and then
| tariff reform would be the shadow OF dream.
As matters stand the outlook Is far from,
bright.
Senator Harris, who is Vice President of the
Senate pro tem., occupied the chair yesterday
In the absence Of Vice President Stevenson,
showed his prompt spirit In the matter Of dis
posing OF business by an astonishly rapid
passage of bills which came up for considera-
tion About half dozen were rushed through
WAN u SpCCd WOAtbJ VI tHC CiOSihS hOuES VA
session.
Generally elderly men are inclined to pro-
lixity in their methods. The Tennessee Sem
ator has about as little Of it In his nature as
the youngest Senator on the floor.
Mr.. Lee Phillips, Of the Congressional Lii
brary, who Is one of the best authorities on
American maps, especially from the discovery
OF America down to the beginning OF the
present century, has made very interesting
discovery recently concerning tine first project
for canal across Nicaragua. To a history OF
the South sea. published at Paris in 1871 by
Didot-wbose firm, by the way, is one OF the
oldest in the book publishing business In
Paris and is continued to-day-there is a
monograph attached, entitled Notes on the
possibility. advantages. and means Of opening
up a canal in North America for communicat-
ing the Atlantic to the Pacific" I he author was
Martin de la Bastide, former secretary to the
Count de Broglio, and at the end Is folded
map Of Nicaragua lake and the San Juan
river, on which two proposed routes are
marked out, one OF which is identical with
that adopted by the canal company.
Mr.. Dunphy was one Of the New York Con-
gressmen out in the lobby of the House be-
hind a copy OF the Herald as soon as the New
York papers arrived at the Capitol yesterday,
reading with interest the latest news concern
ing Croker's resignation.
Mr.. Dunphy is Of the impression that
great deal remains to be known about the
matter II is not all known We; by a great
deal. He says he has expected such 4 result,
but not quite SO quickly. He had hardly
believed that the Croker rule was tottering 50
fast MIR. Dunphy called special attention to
the fact that the trouble in regard to Tam
many came more from within the organization
than without. and thought it was largely due
to the number OF active and brainy young men
who had Joined Tammany for what there was
in it. Many of these latest recruits were col
lege graduates, who had the same capacities
for leadership as the present Tammany chiefs.
and great deal more intelligence. These
men formed an impenetrable net between
themselves and their ambitions and were now
making hole In 1t.
The opposition to ring rule OF every sort
and in every party. according to Mr.. Dunphy,
represented the feeling outside the halls Of
the great New York Democratic stronghold.
The people were now beginning to take real
interest in politics. and tina, meant that they
proposed to do their own thinking. Very
likely the course of affairs in Tammany had
had IA great deal to do with this, but the re-
action was inevitable. and would have come
sooner or later in any event.
Until Mr.. PETER informed the Senate Of the
fact yesterday very few people knew that he
and Senator Quay were boys together in
Pennsylvania. They lived In Cumberland
county. where PETER taught school when only
Is years of age.
But PETER has been great wanderer; in
fact. regular Gil Bias. He has moved from
one state 70 another with a rapidity equaled
by no other man in public life. From Penn
sylvania he went to Indiana. FROM Indiana to
Missouri. from Missouri to Illinois, from ILL.,
nOis to Tennessee, and from there TO Kansas.
II is almost unnecessary to say that those
who profess his political views have been
almost rs remarkable.
Representative Joseph, Of New Mexico, is
working anxiously for the admission of bis
territory to statehood. and hopes that his
enabling act will pass the House in about two
weeks. As to the Senate. he feels quite sure
that it will receive favorable action there and
that New Mexico will have a Congressman
and two Senators this Fail. As to the politics
OF the territory, Mr.. Joseph declared that the
question OF admission is OF SO much interest
to the people of the territory that the politics
of the state would for years be the politics OF
the party admitting them into the Union.
The fact is that New Mexico has been prac-
tically cheated out of admission.
When Mexico ceded California and New
Mexico to the United States she included in
the treaty provision that at the earliest pos
sible Opportunity, although. OF course, at the
discretion OF the American Congress, the two
states should be admitted into the Union
This stipulation was made by Mexico because
it had felt at the time in Mexico that the peo-
pie OF the ceded terT.ory Should at least be
guaranteed the rights OF citizenship from the
American government. which they possessed
when in the Mexican republic.
California was at once taken in in 1850 be-
cause the gold fever Of 40 and the consequent
booming Of the newly-aequirej territory
made such action possible. but the admission
OF New Mexico was delayed largely through
lack Of determined effort, and she remained a
territory.
An effort was made by Stephen B. Elkins
from 1916, when he was territorial delegate,
to secure the admission OF New Mexico with
California. hut through technical error the
proposition was DISTRACTED and since 1894
Dir Joseph. the present delegate. has made
persistent but unavaiing efforts to secure the
statehood demanded by the people OF the ter
r;tory.
Strange to say. during this forty-foar-year
fight the enabling act has been passed three
times 10y Congress, and in 1850, so confident
was the territory o; admission, that It actually
elected two Senators and sent them to WASH
ington, where their credentials were refused.