Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-02-24
WEDNESDAY,. FEB. 20, 1897
THE POLITICIAN.

encampment of the Department of the
Potomac, said of Gen. Alger, the next
Secretary of War: II was on Gen. AL
gers staff when he was commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army, aud knew
him very well. There isn't man in
the Grand Army who doesn't believe
that Gen. Alger was brave and ii
good soldier and we are delighted to
see him made Secretary of War, 1t is
a matter of considerable congratula-
tion to us that both the President and
Secretary of War will be members of
the Grand Army. We have done very
well in the matter of Presidents since
the war. President Mckinley will be
, the fifth, the others having been
Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison.
Some fears are expressed that one or
more of the regular appropriation bills
: may fail to become laws before the eX-
piration of the Fifty-fourth Congress,
but so far as can be learned they are
not shared by the veterans who com
tions committees. One of them speak
ing of the matter said: The life of
this Congress is rapidly drawing to
close but with the exception Of the
General Deficiency bill which is al
ways purposely kept back so as to in
clude items that may get overlooked
and SO as to give the departments time
to ascertain all the deficiencies, we haye
the appropriation bills which have not
yet become laws well in hanc, and,
nnless one Of them should be vetoed
during the last few days of the session,
l feel certain that they will all get
through, although one or two of them
will as usual have tight squeeze; but
there will be little or no time to de-
vote to anything else from now on"
Although Senator Pettigrew, OF 5.
Oak, denied the charge made by Sena'
tor Chandler, that he betrayed the
sound money convention that sent him
to the St. Louis convention, by boiling
that convention and supporting the
silver monOmetallist candidate for
President, his denial left the charge /
just about where it was when first .
made. 1t has been repeatedly stated .
in Washington that Senator Pettigrew .
pledged himself 10 number Of RepuL- |
licans to abide by the candidates and /
platform OF the st. Louis convention |
before he was elected delegate; also |
that Mr.. pettigrew would not have |
been elected delegate il he had not
made that pledge. Ii he wishes to
convince people that his subsequent
action was blameless he should be a
little more specific. Stating that .
convention which had just come out
tlat-footed for sound money sent him
as delegate TO the national conYcn-
tion knowing that he would bolt the
convention if it declared for sound
money, as Mr.. Pettigrew in substance
does, is not convincing enough.
Although Senator Frye is the second
membe of the Senate committee on
Foreign Relations, he will not succeed
Senator Sherman as its chairman after
March 3rd. Senator Frye is chairman
of the committee on Commerce and
has, it is understood, stated that he
would not care to undertake the ardu- /
Gus duties of chairman of the Foreign |
committee in addition TO those of his |
present chairmanship. which he pre-
&, :
sidered certain that Senator Davis, of |
Mimi, a present third member of the |
committee, viii be made chairman |
when Senator Sherman retires. Mr. /
Davis is thoroughly equipped in geuer
al knowledge for the position, and his
Americanism is of the true blue brand.
There is some talk of combination of
the silver Senators to prevent the re-
tention by the Republicans of the or
ganization of the Senate in the next
Congress, but known conditions do not
warrant belief in the success of such
com bination, even should the attempt
be made.
great many orlght newspaper men
are assuming to tell just what Speaker
Reed will do at the coming extra ses-
sion, but not one of them has given |
Speaker Reed as his authority. 1t
should be needless to say that Mr.. |
Reed, even if he has fully decided upon
his exact course, which is doubtful,
has not taken anybody, outside of the
leaders of the republican party, into
his confidence, and that neither he nor
they are in the habit of furnishing ad-
vance programmes to newspaper men.
Some things may be surmised with a
fair degree of correctness by almost
anybody who is fully conyersant with
the situation, but when any attempt
is made TO enter into details about the
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