The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-09

Wheh HA~au becomes a state of the
| Union
Colonel w. b. Thompson Of Hudson.
| treasurer OF the Republican congress
| sional committee, says: THE cam
paign Of 1898 is already being outlined.
| The democrats and Populists are at
work and the Republican committee is
| not Idle. The Republicans of all
| factions will make a tremendous effort
TO capture the next house of represent
auVes. The Republican committee is
already preparing to meet them. al
though 1t is eleven months until next
election day."
| An Interesting Event.
| The converting of congress is always
interesting, even to those who have
spent many years in this city, and the
meeting on Monday was a lively one
and very entertaining. In the house of
representatives there are 356 members
They come from every state in the
Union and are really representative of
the plain people of the republic.
All OF these statesmen are personally
acquainted, and when they meet in the
great hall Of the house before the gavel
OF the speaker falls at noon, they rush
and swirl about, going here and there
through the crowd, shaking hands and
asking questions concerning individual
health and prospects. There is very
little talking of politics, and some of
the bitterest political foes are as close
friends as men could be If they were in
entire harmony on all points
When the congress convenes the gall
ieries are always we'll filled with spec
tators. The private galleries are crowd
ed with the wives and children and the
intimate friends Of the congressman.
The public galleries are taken posses
sion of by all sorts OF people. There the
rich and the poor meet together. and
the richly dressed man OF the world has
no more rights than the poor. ill-clad
laborer or workingman out Of a job.
More Orderly Gathering.
Over at the north end of the Capitol,
where the senate meets. there Is just
as great a gathering. but it is more or
derby. The senator's are always digni-
fed and deliberate in their movements
as in their utterances. Their greetings
are stately and there Is no confusion on
the floor Of the senate. One Of the old
er senators, In his apartments at a
prominent hotel entertained a number
of warm personal friends on Sunday
evening. As they were departing he
said in a ocular manner: Here in my
rooms you see and know me as an in
dividual. But, wher you see me step
on the green carpet Of the senate, at
noon on Monday, you will see digni-
fed sage"
The gentlemen laughed at the sally,
but II was true. In private life at
home the senator Is an entertaining
winsome. lovable man. On the noor OF
| the senate he Is as dignified and Sc
date as a wax model.
Everybody asks everybody the ques-
ton: What will this congress do?'
Everybody answers everybody thai
nothing will be done. The regular APP
| preparation bills will be passed, OF
course. That is always necessary In
| order that the government machinery
may continue to revolve. Money mus
| must be appropriated to pay every gov
| eminent employe. from the president
| down to the humblest laborer and char
woman or course. the appropriation
| bills will be passed. and they will ag
| gregate the enormous sum OF $3.50, OOO,'
900.
Prodigality Somewhere.
Ten years ago 1t cost $31S,000OO 600 pei
II
| eminent. Now it costs 5000, 900 in
excess of that sum. Careful economists
say there is a prodigality somewhere
but nobody locates the individuals who
have caused this great increase of pub
lie expenditures.
But, after passing the appropriation
| bills, what will be done? Chief among
pending measures is the bankruptcy
/ senate
in modified form, 1t will pass the house
| of representatives. Everybody believe:
that there will be enacted bankrupt
| CIV bill. Measures of this sort have
been pending for the past six years.
Then comes the annexation OF Ha
vaii. In this matter it will be the dut,
of the senate to act first, after that the
house of representatives will take VI
the subject Everybody believes tina
Hawaiian annexation is simply ques
ton of a very little while. Presiden
Mckinley believes in 1t, as his mes
sage shows. and the leading men in thu
senate and house Of representatives be
ueve i'm IL. Therefore 1t will be done.
In Relation to Cuba.
Rut what else will the congress do
Will there be anything done for Cuba
II does not seem likely There can b
no doubt that public sentiment is In IA
vor of granting belligerent rights to th'
Cuban Insurgents. But President NC
Kinley does not believe that this coun
try should act hastily In the matter
and he is all powerful in the manage
ment of our foreign relations. Th'
congress is disposed to follow his lead
senator Mason of Illinois says: "A'
long as there are postoffices to give on
tbe president can control the congress.
Senator Davis of Minnesota. chair
man OF the committee on foreign rela
lions OF the senate. says: "lnterna
t,onal law forbids any nation from ex
tending aid to insurgent subjects Bu
when the citizens of a friendly nation
suffer loss interference is allowable. GU
citizens have suffered the loss OF up
wards OF s1S,OOO,OOO in Cuba. and OF
that ground this country has right q
interfere and put a stop TO the war IL
Cuba"
Sneaker Reed controls the deipera
tions of the house OF representative
and he does not want Cuban peihg
erency resolution passed. In this he
IN complete harmony with the presi
| paad sees tit II