The Worthington advance., 1897-02-04
: Washington Letter.
x: Urdtn Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. %, 1897

Senator Sherman has been noted
throughout his long public career for
disinclination to allow himself to be
placed in false position. He show
ed this when he stated in open Senate
that there was no truth in the numer-
GUS rumors about his having made
an agreement with Secretary Ofney
concerning the Cuban policy to be
maintained during the remainder Of
this administration and that to be
adopted by President McKinley's
administration. He showed it again
by this fat-footed announcements con
cerning the stories of his having ac-
cepted the Secretaryship of State as
part of a bargain: my acceptance
of the portfolio IF Secretary of State
was without any reservations or con-
ditions. Gov. Bushnell has about
six weeks yet before it will be neces-
sary to appoint my successor in the
Senate. There seems to be general
desire that Mr.. Hanna should be Sc
lected for the seat, and, while I have
no assurance on that point, ] believe
that Gov. Bushnell will appoint him. -
The Ohio republicans in the House
are unit in saying that there. is no
truth in the printed stories of dis
agreements among the republicans of
that state over who shall succeed
Senator Sherman. They say that the
Ohio republicans were never more
harmonious than they are now.
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The Senate committee on Foreign
Relations has not yet arrived at a
decision as to the nature of the re-
port that will be made on the Arbi-
tration treaty. Amendments have
been proposed which will make it
clear that neither the Monroe doctrine
nor our right to controle the Nicar-
aqua Canal, when it is constructed,
shall ever he submitted to arbitra-
ton; also,one striking out that clause
of the Treaty which authorizes the
King of Sweden to choose the umpire
when the English and American re-
presentatives cannot agree upon one.
Although none of these amendments
have been formally accepted by the
committees, it is probable that some
| if not all of them will be.
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The House by vote of 1877 to 81
passed private pension bill for liz
relief of Jonathan Scott, who served
in the Fifth Iowa Cavalry and who
now lives at Oswego, Kans., over the
Presidents veto. The Senate now
has several bills to act upon which
have been passed over the President's 8
veto by the House.
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Representative Hartman, of Mon
tana, gave the New York papers
which are constantly sneering at the
west sharp rap, which was fully ap-
preciated by the House when he Of
fered an amendment to the regular
Indian appropriation bill providing
for an appropriation of 81 l,OOO,O 100000
''for the education and civilization of
the Seeley savages of the Manhattan
reservation" Mr.. Hartman made no
remarks on his amendment. None
were needed. Everybody saw the
point at once, and the amendment
had done it's work before it was ruled
out on point of order.
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Senator Lodge exposed the source
of the opposition to the immigration
bill by reading copy of a telegram
sent broadcast to the west by the
Chicago agents of the North German
Lloyd Steamship Co., requesting
those who received it to wire their
Congressman, at the Chicago agents
expense, to vote against the Imlnigr
tion bill. Mr.. Lodge allowed the
kilograms to do their own talking,
contenting himself with saying: Il
am very glad to have this opportuni
ty of proving the truth Of what said
in the Senate, that the opposition to
the restriction emanates entirely from
the steamship companies that bring
them" The same kilograms read in
the Senate by Mr.. Lodge were read
in the House by Representative
Stone, of Pa. The House showed it's
appreciation of this method of fight
ing legislation by agreeing to the re-
port of the conference committee on
the immigration bill. The bill would
probably have been passed anyhow,
but the North German Lloyd Steam
ship Co. probably gained it votes.
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Representatives Grosvenor. Brom-
we'll and Van Voorhis,were appointed
a committee by the Ohio republicans
in the House, at meeting held this
week, to make arrangements for a
dinner to be given Senator Sherman
on the first day of March by hi COL
leagues in Congress.
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The election of HoA. John G.
Spooner to succeed Senator Villas, of
Wis, whose term expires March 3,
brought great deal of pleasure to
Washington, both in and out of Con-
gress, and it must have given equal
pleasure in Wisconsin,. Col. John
Hicks, of Oshkosh, who was U. S.