Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-11-21
Observation-Disclosures
Permanent Headquarters
for the National Com
mittee,
ANOTHER WAR SCARE.
Secretary Herbert Promises
Elevation.
Gone to Pieces.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
WA.u1NaroN. Noy. 10. lsee.

ARLINGTON, Nov. 10, 1898.
Chairman Hanna has written a
Washington friend virtually confirm
ing the rumor that the Republican
National Committee would shortly
open permanent headquarters in Wash
ington, from which the educational
against the free silver fallacy, which
is to go right along until the truth has
been argued into the heads OF all mis-
guided people, shall be directed. This
move would have been generally COM
mended anyway. but the announce
ment that the silver committee, the
populist committee, and the demo-
cratic committee intended TO main
tain permanent Washington head
quarters and to keep up the distribu-
tion of silver literature, made it al
most necessary.
The silver sentiment would not have
been half so extensive if its opponents
had met argument with argument, in
stead of wasting time laughing at the
silver men sending out campaign lit
erature several years ahead of the
campaign, and doing nothing them
selves. Mr.. Hanna knows how hard it
was to undo in few weeks the work
that the silver men had been doing
FOR several years; hence he las from
the day of the campaign closed favored
a continuation of the education of the
voters on the silver question.
MANY BILLS TO BE PASSED UPON.
There is enough work on the bills
already passed by the House to keep
the Senate busy until the close OF the
last session of the iifty-fourth Con-
gress, but how many of those bills the
Senate will act upon, or even devote
any time to, is more than any man car
really say Among the important
bills passed by the House and left IN
acted upon by the Senate are the Ding
lev Emergency Revenue bill. the bill
to protect the Gold Reserve and pro
vide for temporary deficiencies in rev
cnue, the bill to amend the customs
administrative law, the Bankruptcy
bill, the immigration bill and the Pen
sion bill Doubtless other bills would
have been acted upon by the Hous'
had not the disposition OF the Senate t
| do nothing been so apparent. How
much of that disposition remains viii
not be certain until after Congress
meets, Notwithstanding the opinion
pro and con which some of the Sena
j tors have recently made public.
1t will be noticed that men like Sen
\ ator Morrill,, of Vermont, The Fathe
! of the Senate" are not attempting t
say what the Senate will do Mr.. Nor
riil is in Washington for the winter
but he isn't making any prophecies.
ANOTHER BLUNDRR.
Mr. Cleveland's administration al
TO spring on the public. Having jus
gotten rid of the principal causes c
friction with England by negotiating
treaty providing for the submission {
the Venezuelan Boundary dispute wit
ENGLAND to arbitration, the SPANS
war scare is trotted out in new dres
While no official statement has bee
made to that effect, friends OF the &C
ninistration say that it has trustwcl
thv information that Spain intends
force 3. war with this country If he
prese 1T campaign against the Cuba
revoIut;Onists fail, and the admlnlstr'
ton is accordingly preparing to hgn
II Spin really had any such lntentio
il would be wise to prepare Tor wa
and in any event it Will do no harm
But it isn't at all likely that Spain hi
aDv such intention. There has bee
enough to prove to the world that Il
men, or women, who are running u
government of Spain during the mino
ity of the king are not models OF WI
dom, but that is no reason why the
should be foolish enough to provoke
war with the United States 1t mi
be that some Spaniards are ignora
enough to believe that a One-horse n
tion, like Spain. is in the same Eighth
class with the United States, but 1t
impossible to believe that men OF sui
cient education and intelligence to
entrusted with official positions und
the Spanish Government, share suI
absurd belief. A any rate, there IS
reason for any body TO lose any sic
over the probabilities OF war vi
Spain. If the Dons haven't any Dett
sense than to get up rumpus with
they will find that the thrashlng tn
will receive will be too sudden al
thorough to be dignified by the mar
of war.
sRcRETARY HERBERT's PROSPECTS
Mr.. Cleveland has decided to q
Secretary Herbert place on the pen