The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-03-04
CALL FOR THE PAPERS.
The Senate Wants all Lees Ceres
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! WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Senator
Hills resolution calling upon Secre-
| tary OIney for copies of all commu-
nicatious to and from Consul Gene
raj Lee. which was adopted oy the
Senate without & dissenting voice, Il
intended to solve the mystery As 70
the truth of the sensational state
ments saving that General Lee had
either actually rendered his resIg-
nation as Consu: General TO Cuoa,
or threatened to do 20, unless the
administration gave him better back
ing than it has been giving him IN
| his fight to secure Justice fe= Amer
icaps arrested in Cuba it Is also
g.Iieved that it was intended as an
front TO President Cleveland It
customary in such resolutions to
soaest the President TO furnish the
/ desired information, If in his opinion
it is compatible with public inter
ests. Senator Hill ignored the
President entirely, and his resolu-
ticn asks Secretary 0lDey for the
information. Congress feels very
ugly towards the administration on
account of its Cuban policy, out
there is no time left to do anything
now, except to pass the approPrla-
ton bills
Mr.. Bryan was in Washington two
days this week, and was the recIpl-
ent of much attention. He was
also the central figure in several i'm
portant political conferences.
REPUBLICANS HAVE IT NOW.
Representative Bailey, of Texas,
gave the Republicans good natured
raking over in speech which did
not overlook the assistant Repubil-
cans, about their embarrassment in
distributing 10000 Offices among
$4,000 applicants, and made the
prediction that every one ef the ft'y
congressional districts which the
Republicans carried last November
by majorities of less than 1000
would 90 Democratic at the next
election "Four years ago, said
Mr.. Bailey, :.you laughed at our
embarrassment; now We laugh at
yours. You have no more chance
of escaping the wrath Of the office
seekers at the next congressional
elections than we had of escaping
the disapproSal of the people for
the maIadministratiouo Of tn admin
istration about to retire from power.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
That majority Of the Republi-
cans in the House would like to see
the civil service law thrown over
board was shown by the hearty
applause with which they received
the assertion of Delegate Flynn, of
Oklahoma, that If he had his way he
would wipe out the civil service law
and fill every Office with a Republi-
can within tEenty-four hours after
McKinley's Inauguration. Repre-
sentative GEosyenor, of Ohio, also
jumped over the civil service law
and declared his belief that it would
be repealed.
Notwithstanding the protest of
fruit importers, who claim that the
foreign fruits do not compete to any
material extent with American pro-
ducts, inasmuch as they are mostly
put on sale at a different season of
the year, the Republicans of the
Ways and Means Committee have
decided to place a duty upon tropi-
cal fruits which inlpo: ters declare
will be practically pFohl bitory.
TROUBLE AHEAD OF HANNA.
There is trouble and heap of it,
ahead of Mark Hanna The publi-
cation of interviews, in which he
states that his first work upon en-
tering the Seuate will be to under
take the job of bossing the passage
of the tariff bill, has aroused the ire
of number of Republican Senators
and Mr.. Hanna may start his sena-
tOrial career by getting himself
mercilessly snub6ed. 1t Is very safe
TO say that he will not be- Senator
long before he will regret annonnc-
ing his intention TO boss the body.
Bosslng the Senate is very difficult
job, as Mr.. Hanna may learn if he
will enquire of Benjamin Harrison
and Grover Cleveland, both of whom
made failures in their several at
tempts to assume the role which he
seems to think is as easy as buying
impecunious delegates to a Republi-