Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-02-01
BAYARD WILL BE cENsURED.
The Davis ResoIution-A Sensible
Senator from Kansas.
from our regular correspondent.l

Louis convention, should he be fortu-
nate enough to capture the prize Of
the Republican Presidential nomina-
ton. That modest way of wearing
his honors is one OF the many reasons
Why almost everybody likes Senator
Allison, but if it is also source of
weakness to him as a candidate for
the Presidential nomination, because
it causes some people to think that
he lacks aggressiveness.
Strange to say Gen. Harrison S visit
to Washington was not followed by a
flood OF Presidential talk. One reason
for this somewhat unusual exception
was that Gen. Harrison himself pos
itively declined to discuss that subject,
saying that for the time he was out Of
politics.
In adopting that American resolu-
ton the Senate gave the world to
understand that Congress is willing
to go to any length in supporting the
President in protecting American citi-
zens in foreign countries.
A lot of tomfoolery has been widely
circulated concerning the opposition
in the Senate to the Davis Monroe
doctrine resolution which was last
week reported to the Senate from the
Committee on Foreign Relations. 1t
can be stated upon the authority of
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,, who
has made careful and thorough cam
vasS OF the Senate, that the resolution
will be adopted, and that at the out
side there will not be more than eight
votes cast against it in the Senate.
1t may not be voted upon for ten days
or two weeks yet, as many Senators
wish to make speeches upon it, and
the free coinage substitute for the
House bond bill is still taking up the
greater portion of the time of the Sen.
ate. But that bill will, it is expected,
be disposed of this week, and then
there will be clear deck for the Mon-
roe doctrine speeches, and for Senator
Davis to press his resolution to vote.
The career of Representatives and
Senator-elect Money, of Mississippi,
as viewed from the Washington end Of
the line, furnishes a somewhat strik-
ing picture of the ups and downs Of
the Southern politician. Mr.. Herman
do De Sofa Money-isn' to blame fol
his name at any rate-made his debut
in National politics as Representative
of the Fourth Mississippi District in
the Forty-fourth Congress. He re-
manned in the House until the close Of
the Forty-eighth Congress Then he
became cheap Congressional lobby
ist, and remained such-his appear
ance indicated that he had a hard time
too-until he succeeded in getting
himself elected to the Fifty-third Con.
gress from the same old district. Then
things began to go his way, although
some of them who had employed him
as a lobbyist must have given him
some bad half-hours after his return
to Congress. He was reelected tc
/ the present House, and last week was
elected for a full term in the Senate,
beginning the day his term in the
House expires-March 4, 1897. There
is more than one ''ex' hanging around
Washington, lobbying little, borrow
ing a little and drinking great deal
who would like to find out how Mr.
Money managed to get up again aftel
his first knock down.
| Senator Baker, of Kansas. made {
! good impression with his speech il
favor of the coinage of the American
product Of silver, in accordance will
his amendment to the free coinag,
substitute for the House bond bill
which is now before the Senate. HI
divided the money ranks into tire,
classes, gold nonometallists, silver
monometallist5 and bimetallists, an
nounced his own allegiance to the las
named. He said he was very positiv,
that the question of tariff and financ
would be settled by the Republican
party. Mr. Baker isn't a great ora
tor, but he seems to have a supply 0
hard, horse sense that is likely to b.
beneficial to Kansas and to the Repub
lican party during his Senatorial term
1t is now practically certain that tn,
House committee of Foreign Affair
will report resolution censuring Am
bassador Bayard for those anti-Ameri
can speeches he made. So much ha.
been agreed to by the subcommittee
consisting ofDraper, of Massachusetts,
Pearson, of North Carolina. and Dens
more, of Arkansas, to which the mat
ter was referred. 1t would be com.
paratively easy for the Republicans on
the committee to get any sort of a
resolution passed by the House that
they might choose to report, even to
the extent of recommending Bavard' S
recall; but as they wish the matter to
be shorn of all partisanship by having
the resolution reported unanimously
from the committee, the resolution to
be reported will be merely one of GEN.
sure and SO worded that it will be sup.
ported by the Democratic members OF
the committee, who agree with their
Republican colleagues in believing
that Bayard deserves to be ceusured.
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