The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1897-03-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(FrOm our regular Oorrespondent.l
WASHINGTON, MARCH LIST, 1897

any remaining doubts about Mark
Hanna being the whole thing
under the Mckinley administra-
ton, they must have been dissipat-
ed since Hanna's arrival. He at
tracts more Difference from re.
publicans-than the four members
of McKinley's Cabinet who are in
town do combined, and accepts it
all as his right and speaks with an
air of proprietorship, not only of
the coming administration but of
both branches of Congress. So
big has Hanna's head become that
he is actually allowing himself to
think of trying to take fall out of
Tom Reed, and is now sounding
republican members of the next
House in order to ascertain
whether it would be possible by
the use of patronage to beat Reed
for the Speakership nomination
before the republican caucus with
MChiuloJ Cduuiudte.
Gen, Fitz Lees friends are not
talking for publication abo ut
Secretary Olney's threat to recall
Gen. Lee because he has shown up
the lack of zeal on the part of the
administration in protecting
American citizens in Cuba, but
they are wishing that Olney will
have the nerve to carry out his
threat, because they know it would
make Gen. Lee the most popular
man 10 America.
While at the Capitol to-day Mr..
Bryan called ON many of his
friends among the newspaper cor
respondents and spent some time
very pleasantly with some of those
who served in the House with him.
In company with Mrs Bryan he
will leave for Nebraska to-mor-
row.
II some of the appropriation
bills fail to get through before
Congress closes, as many are pre-.
dieting will be the case, it will be
because a coterie of Senators fe1'
reasons of their own wish them to
fail.
About the smallest piece of busi-
ness in connection with the
inaugural preparation was IT,
taking down of the white an
yellow decorations which were be
ing put on the Treasury building.
because somebody suggested that
the colors stood for bimetailism
! II is nnSle<stcod that the order fol
Aha lrs.sssas.A of--thaxhits ana
yellow came direct from the White
House. This decoration isn't
paid for by the Government but
by The clerks in the Treasury de-
partment.
IL either Mr.. Cleveland or Mr..
Olney can extract any satisfaction
from the part they played in
getting from Spain the pardon of
Julio Sanguily in order to head off
the adoption by the Senate of a
resolution directing the President
to demand the immediate and un-
conditional release of Sanguiiy,
they should be allowed to do SO.
The sentiment in Congress was
pretty nearly expressed by Senator
Morgan, when he said in le
course of his speech on the recent
relations of this Government with
Spain: ''Oh what welcome news
was that pardon! to that President
of ours in the White House, who
for two years has been down on
his hunkers before Spain. How
jo, GUS his honest and noble
American heart must be, and in
what transports of JOY must be
his magnificent person, when he
hears that by a combination be-
tween the crown of Spain and
the President of the U. s.
they have dragged out Of a poor
creature confession which
enables tthhce@to escape the danger
of paying damages AID gives them
the liberty of sleeping and snoring,
like sluggards, while Americans
suffer-"
1t is a matter for all around
eongratulation that the Senate
Committee on public lands quickly
investigated the matter and
unanimously arrived at the con-
clusion that, the land patent to Mr..
Perrine, the husband of Mrs
Cleveland's mother, was regularly
and legally issued.
The farewell address Of Senator
Dubois was a little disconserting
to the republican leaders, who
have been expecting that the re-
publicans would be allowed to
re-organize the Senate at the extra
session without any trouble. Mr..
Dubois told them plain and fiat
that the silver republicans would
not help them and that they would
not be allowed to organize the
Senate 1t will soon be seen
whether Mr.. Dubois spoke for
himself alone or by authority of the
other republican silver Senators.