St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-12
! HILL is THE MASTER
The New York Senator Will
Be the Central Fig
ure.
eTHE PLAYING OF CHANDLER
Nothing Equal to It Since
ii Ben Hills Attack on
~ Malone.
aAFRAID TO TEST GROVER.
Republican Congressman Pre-
fer to Keep Out of Con-
tests With Him.

Ci6VeldIlu, dUIlIlS Tic oiA yea lilehI
he has filed the Office of president
of the United States, has never
failed to- win in a contest with either
or both houses of congress. A con-
spicuous instance of this kind took
place in the closing days of the con-
gress that has just come to an end.
Over in the senate the railroad at
torneys grated on to an appropria-
ton bill nearly 100000 for trans
portation services rendered by the
Southern Pacific. The services have
been rendered, it is true, but the
men who built and control the
Southern Pacific are the same men
and Central Pacific railroads, and
for some years the government has
been holding back all sums due all
the Pacific roads to help in the
liquidation of the immense sums
owed by the Union and Central Pa
cific lines to the government.
PUT DOWN HIS FOOT.
The railroad had the votes to pass
the measure through the house, as
we'll as the senate, but the presi-
dent sent word that if the bill
reached him with that item in it he
would veto the bill, regardless of
what the veto would bring about.
This warning was enough, and the
senate yielded without much pro-
test. The Republican members and
CO a fn or.f1 70 ha II
that some appropriation bill might
fail, and an extra session of the
next congress be necessary, and they
did not breath easy until the last
of the appropriation bills had been
approved.
The Republican leaders were
nightly pleased when the house re-
fused to agree to the half-million
appropriation for the Hawaiian ca
bic, and after little clustering the
senate receded. The president would
certainly have vetoed the bill had
it come to him with the Hawaiian
cable item in it, and the Republican
senators knew it, And it did not
take them long to make up their
IHlHe1S 10 vote TO recede.
There is a great deal of talk
among the new and fresh Republi-
car, members of the next house as to
the trouble they are going to make
for the president. They are going
to investigate the last bond deal.
as well as about everything else
that has been done during the past
two years. But when they meet
next December they will do no such
things. They will find the president
right in his element when it comes
to contest Of this kind During his
first term the Republican senator's.
under the lead of Senator Edmunds.
OF Vermont, entered into a contest
with Mr.. Cleveland, and when it
was over they were all somewhat
disfigured, as they will be in a year
hence if they neglect the business of
the country and go cunning for one
Grover Cleveland.
,e PREROGATIVE AT STAKE.
The United States senate has for
many years been reaching out for
power. If the upper house had won
in their struggles with MIR. Cleveland
during his first administration, the
president of the United States would
be reduced to a mere figurehead.
while all the power would be lodged
in the senate. This is the struggle
that has been going on in France,
and it has made the president of
that republic mere instrument to
carry out the orders of the chamber
of deputies. Eight years ago the
majority in the United States SEN
ate demanded that the president
furnish the senate with his reasons
for making certain removals from
Office.
The president declined to do this.
and the senate commenced war on
him. Nominations were held up, and
a great many speeches denouncing
the position of the executive were
made, but the people took no stock
in the parliamentary warfare. On
the contrary, they were strongly on
the side of the president all the Way
through. His resistance made him
friends, and won the admiration of
all, and the only losers were the men
who started the fight. Edmunds. of
Vermont,
LOST MORE PRESTIGE
in this absurd fiasco than he was able
to regain during the balance of the
time he remained in the senate.
President Harrison had trouble with
the senators, and during his adj
n1inistration they really had things
about their own way. The Indianan
put up a feeble resistance to the
claims Of the upper house. When
Mr.. Cleveland again came into office
the; same old fight was commenced.
although in a different way.
Indeed, it was not until the bill re-
pealing the Sherman silver act came
before the senate was it seriously
claimed that no measure could pass
the. Upper house except by unani-
NOUS, consent, which, it was boldly
declared in this case, could not be
obtained. Although the bill was
held up in the senate until it's power
for good was largely lost, public
sentiment finally came to the rescue
of the president, and the minority
was compelled to yield. In the same
way vote was finally forced on the
tariff bill, after the business of the
country had lain PROSTATE for
months.
HILL WILL BE LEADER.
In the next congress Senator Hill,
of New York, will continue his fight
for change of rules in the senate,
and, while he may not succeed, he
will at least stir up the country to
the absurdity of the position of the
senate. The ''mossbacks'' of the SEN
ate and there are MANY of them hc