Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-03-28
PLAYING A WAITING GAME.
Cuban ResoIutions-Lamont's Mis-
take-keciprocity Singular Methods.

take-keciprocity Singular Methods.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Mar. ga day spent
with Republican Senators and Repre-,
sentatives, trying to ascertain which,
of the Presidential candidates is the
ranking favorite in Congress, has con-
WINGED me that the average man, in OF
| out of Congress. always sees future
political events as he hopes they will
be. The Mckinley men will not adj
NIT that any other candidate for the
nomination is really in the race.
Many oil them claim his nomination
on the first ballot, and nearly all Of
them not later than the third The
Reed men are quite as confident that the
Speaker is bound to win. The Alli-
son men claim that they will hold the
balance of power and that after there
has been sufficient number of bal
lots taken to show that neither
Mckinley nor Reed can win that AL
lison will be nominated with hur-
rah. The Morton men and the Quay
men are not saying much, except
that they are PLAYING waiting game
and expect to win. while the Cullom
men, the Henderson men and the
| friends of several other candidates say
just wait; this is going to be dark
horse campaign, aud our mans
chances are as good as those of any
body else.
Those Cuban resolutions have now
been before Congress for four weeks,
aud while it is expected that they will
be disposed of this week, there is
nothing certain about it. If Senator
Morgan's joint resolution for the rec
ognition of the belligerency of the
Cubans had cometo the Senate through
the committee on foreign relations, it
might be adopted, but the Senate very
seldom ignores its committee reports.
Therefore it may be set down as GER
tain that the end of the matter when
ever it comes will be the adoption of
the committee report, in favor of ac-
cepting the House resolutions as a
substitute for those originally adopted
by the Senate
If Secretary Lamont intends to re-
main in politics for the purpose of be-
coming the Democratic candidate for
governor of New York, as many be-
lieve, he made a great mistake when
he wrote that letter attacking Gen.
Nelson B. Miles, by inputation, if
not directly, in order to prevent Con-
gress passing the bill providing for
revival Of the grade of Lieutenant
General OF the Army for Gen. Miles.
Already it must have become mani
fest to Secretary Lamont that he has
stirred up regular hornets nest.
Gen. Miles has many friends, espec-
tally among the old soldiers, and they
have already began to take steps to-
wards heading of any political aspira-
tons Secretary Lamont may have
Nearly all the answers received to
the circular letter sent out by the
House Ways and Means Committee
to importers aud manufactures inter
ested in the export trade strongly fay
or renewal of reciprocity treaties,
but there is not much probability that
such bill will become law until af
ter a Republican President takes his
seat.
From London Congress gets un-
doubtedly authenic information that
Secretary Oiney and Lord Salisbury
have resumed the Venezuelan nego-
tiations just where they were brought
up to the Monroe Doctrine communi.
cation, but at the State Department
in Washington, neither Congressman
or newspaper men can get word
about what is being done 1t may
have occurred before, but your cor
respondent does not remember to
have heard what our state department
was doing in important international
matters tor the first time by way of
the European cables until the Cleve-
land administration came in with its
mysterious policy and dark lantern
methods of conducting public business.
1t has been the rule during the last
three years to find out what our gov
eminent was doing through the pub
lished utterances Of officials in foreign
capitals.
Those who have anything to say
either for or against the Nicaragua
Canal will be given a chance to be
heard before the House Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce de-
cides what sort of report shall be
made. These hearings will begin this
week.
Secretary Carlisle hasn't made any
friends by his letter to the Senate Com
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, opposing the joint resolu-
ton providing for the erection of
bronze statue of Gen. Spinner, FORM
erly U. S. Treasurer, on one of the APP
proaches or buttresses of the Treasury
building. And he wasn't satisfied
with opposing the resolution as it
now is but added that there was no
place for the statue in the grounds at
tached to the Treasury building. Gen.
Spinner was popular official, and the
money to pay for this statue was
raised by popular subscriptions. But
he was also Republican.
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