Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-05-23

Lochren Fixed cubans must Suffer
Adjournment.

the rank and file of his friends and !
admirers. he would take the second
place on the ticket to be nominated |
at St Louis. if he cannot get the first |
place, and Governor Mckinley seems /
to come very near to having a mort
gage on that. In fact, there can be
no doubt that the combination of
those two names on the ticket would
give satisfaction to more Republicans
than any other that could be made. |
and aside from those who have per- |
sonal reasons for wishing one or the
other of them to head the ticket. it is
probable that Reed and Mckinley
would be equally as satisfactory as
Mckinley and Reed. Whatever may
be the relations existing between
some of their individual friends,
Speaker Reed and Governor McKin-
ley, although for the second time RI /
walls for high party honor, are on the
most cordial terms with each other;
and they have already proven by |
the great work they did in the fitch |
Congress, after having been rivals
for the Speakership of the House,
that they work we'll in double har-
ness and make very strong team
That neither of these men should /
banker after the Vice-Presidency is
not strange, but they are both thor
ough Republicans, and as such would
not refuse to accept duty imposed on
them by the National Convention.
1t is safe to predict that if the Con-
vention selects these two men neither
will decline.
1t might look little queer to see
Senator Hill make a speech at the
Chicago Convention nominating Mr..
Cleveland for third time but pre-
cisely that prediction was made in
my hearing by gentleman who has
been singularly fortunate in fore
telling political events. Mr.. Hill
must be anxious to see Mr.. Cleveland
get worse drubbing than the voters
of New York gave to David b. when
he ran for Governor against Cover
nor Morton, if he is really thinking
about nominating Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Cleveland has rewarded Com
missioner Lochren for carrying out
his pension policy by giving him a
job as U. S. Judge for the District of
Minnesota. Dominick l. Murphy, of I
Pennsylvania. now First Deputy, has
been nominated to succeed Lochren
as Commissioner, and N. P. T. Dana,
now chief of a division in the Office,
to succeed Murphy. There will be no
change in the Cleveland Pension pol
icy-until after the 4th of next
March.
1t had been evident for some time
that Col. Dupont would not be seat
ed as Senator from Delaware. The
combined Democratic and Populist
vote makes a majority of one in the
Senate, and that was the margin up
on which Col Dupont was kept out
of the seat to which he was entitled.
If the Populists had voted against
Col. Dupont on conviction, there
would be ''no kick coming to the
Republicans, but they didn't
About six men in the Senate will
prevent the adoption of Senator Nor
gan's joint resolution instructing the
President to recognize Cuban belli-
gerency, although all the other Sena-
tors, nine-tenths of the House and
an overwhelming majority of the peo-
pie of this country favor its adoption.
1t is the same old story. This hand
full of Senators have indicated by
their intention to talk all summer if |
necessary, to prevent vote on Sena-
tor Morgan's resolution, and the
other Senators know that the Senate |
rules are such that it is only a ques-
ton of physical endurance that will
stand in the way of the threat being
carried out. Consequently there is
not much probability that the resolu-
ton will be seriously pushed. Some
day the Senate will probably have
rules which will enable the majority
of its members, and not determined |
and obstinate minority, to say what |
shall be done and to do it. Until |
then wise men will not expect too
much from the Senate.
The Seuate wants to know a little |
more about what is being done in be-
half of the Americans who were tried /
by court-martial in Cuba and SEN
fenced to death, than the meagre
story the State Department has made
public, that the Spanish Government
had set aside the sentences and di-
rected that the men be tried again in
civil court, and as the surest way to
get what it wanted adopted without
division, resolution calling on the
President tor the information.
No definite steps have been taken
about adjournment by the Senate,
and it is not expected that anything
will be decided upon until the rest of
the appropriation bills have been
disposed of. In fact, decided objec-
ton has been made by Senators to
setting date for adjournment. 1t is
believed that it will take two more
weeks to finish up the appropriations,
and that adjournment will very
quickly follow as it has been in
sort OF tentative way agreed TO by
both Democratic and Republican
steering committees that no bills
likely to start an extended debate
shall be taken up. That means that
Othi1or of i'm rnrfo-,ra mill be to,-at, II |