Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-04-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1897.

The treaty negotiated by the last admin
stratiOn, with Great Britain, defining a
portion Of the boundary line between
Alaska and Canada, will never be ratified
in its present shape. By pretense of
llberality in giving the United States
about fourteen square miles of territory
which we already had legal claim to)
the willy English diplomates made trap
which was intended to cost the United
States all the territory worth having in
that section, by shutting out our claims
within what is known as our thirty mile
strip" and its Intersection with the 141st
meridian, and it came very near to succeed
ing too as the treatywouldhave been ratified
sometime ago had not Senator Stewart
objected. Mr.. Stewart objected on the
general principle that the matter was too
important to be hastily disposed of, and
now that the contents of the treaty is
understood, he is being congratulated for
having prevented the Senate making q
bIunder.
According to current gossip, ex-Repre-
sentative Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, must be
a queer sort of duck. The story goes
that he took advantage of Mr.. McKinley's
financial obligations to him to force
promise that he should be appointed As
sistant Secretary of State. When the
promise was made, Mr.. Mckinley did not
know that StOrer was not on speaking
terms with Senator Foraker, or with either
of the Republican Congressman from Gin
cinnati, and now Storer insists on that APP
pointment being made, although he can
not get the endorsement of either Senator,
or any one of the Congressional delegation.
He has fused to accept a foreign appoint
ment, because his rich wife wishes to
figure in the official society of Washington
1t is said that Mr.. Mckinley has told
Senator Foraker that there was nothing
IL # for him to do but nominate Storer for
the place, and that he added that any fight
made on the nomination in the Senate
would not be regarded by him as a fight
on the administration. The nomination
will almost certainly be rejected, and
Storer must know it, yet he insists on
being nominated.
Certain Republican Senators, among
them Mantle, Carter, Shoup, Warren and
Burrows, have demanded of the Republic
cans of the Senate Finance Committee that
duty of not less than two cents pound
shall be placed on hides, and that the duty
On WOOL SklhIl DC IdtOctA ~ nCCb q CCttcUu1C
submitted by them, and the demand is &C
companied by threat to defeat the tiriff
bill if their wishes are not complied with.
It is clearly within the power of these FIVE
Senators to defeat the tariff bill, but it is
not the opinion of those best informed that
they will make use of that power TO such
an extent. They are simply exercising
their right to make big bluff in the
interest of the products Of their States, in
order to get as much of the protection swag
for their constituents as possible, but in
the end they will take what is given them
and vote for the bill.
Having satisfied themselves that Demo-
cratic Senators would make no further con-
cessions, the Republicans accepted the last
proposition made by the Democratic steer
ing committee, and the vacancies in the
Senate Committees will all be filed in a
few DAYS. Politically speaking the COM
mittees will stand substantially as they did
al the close Of the last session. An agree
ment might have been reached before, but
the Republicans wished to punish the silver
for supporting Bryan, and the
Democrats insisted. that it should not be
done, and it was not done.