The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-09-25
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From our regular Correspendsnt.)
WASHINGTON. SEPT. 10, 1897.

WARRINGTON. SEPT. 10, 1897.
Firealarm Foraker and John Sher-
man comforting together reminds one
Of the saying about politics making
strange bedfellOws. Although these
two men have not always been close
friends, they are now in the same
boat-boath are compelled by circum-
stances to seem to desire the election
of Boss Hanna to the Senate and to
seem to be working towards that
result, when neither of them want
Hanna in the Senate. Boss Hanna
would doubtless have been edited,
if not pleased, if he could have heard
the conversation Of Foraker and
Sherman at their long conference, in
the Se~cretary's office at the State
Department.
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee is in
Washington, but State Department
officials declare that his visit has no
officials significance, and that he will
return to Cuba about the first of
October. That is more, however,
than Gen. Lee has said.
Senator German was at the Treas
uiy Department this week and called
upon Secretary Cage for the frat time.
The newspaper men who tried to
interview Mr.. German on politics met
with the usual result. he interviewed
them and found oat what they knew,
but didn't tell them what he knew.
Whether Senator German intends to
retire from public life at the expira-
ton of his present term is a question
that is still being discussed both by
his friends and his enemies, but what
ever may be his intentions about re-
firing, there is no doubt about his
intention to regain Maryland for the
democratic party, o of his conf
dence in his ability to accomplish that
result. His expansive smile when
existing republican dissensions in the
State ale mentioned shows his salts
faction with the situation.
Rev. Sam. Small left Washington
this week for Kentucky States, max
Ing democratic speeches. He has few
equals as an effective stump orator.
He recently had a conference with Mr..
Bryan, and he will probably tell the
Kentucky and Ohio voters some of
the things they talked about.
officials of the Marine Hospital
Service have taken steps which is
now at Ocean Springs, Miss and a
statement has been issued CHASING
the yellow fever at that place as a
mild form of the disease, which is
proven by the small mortality SO far
less than two pe%r-cent-and by the
fact that many of those attacked
have only been slightly Inconvenience
ed thereby for several days. There
is no occasion for any yellow fever
scare anywhere.
While it is generally known in
Washington that Pension Comm s.
sioner Evens has had several wrangles
with the Civil Service Commission,
because of his violations of the civil
service law and rules. and that Secre-
tary Bliss has made him feel his
authority in a more or less humilia-
ting way, upon several Occasi0ns, the
runOr that he has become sufficiently
disgruntled to contemplate resignlDg
nnds few believers. Mr.. Evans says
ne doesn't intend to resign, but they
always talk that way. OF the nine
teen divisions in the Pension Bureau
there is only one hat has the same
chief it had when Mr.. Evans took
charge of the office; the other eigh-
teen have either been reduced or re-
moved.
Senator Bacon, Of Ca, was in
washington this week. He thu.
sized up the condition of the people
OF ms state and section off you mt
a mar in a wilderness he will ulti-
mately get out of it some of the COM
forts of life, and so did our people.
They are o making a little n
not much, but they are growing stron-
ger and steadily improving. Not a
OFT Of it is due to tariff legislation.
Things had to get better. for nothing
could get verse with them. They
had no credit and were compelled to
raise what they consumed. Out Of
this adversely thew are emerging and
will in due time become the people
they were before they sank almost
into the depths of despair. There
has been some talk in the North about
the increase in the price of cotton.
There is no increase that we know of.
Cotton still remains at the same low
figure. If the increase in the price of
our crops would correspond with the
lncreaes in the price of wheat. the
cotton growers of the South would DE
delighted, but there ia as yet no in
dication that there will be any great
rise in the staple which the Southern
country produces"