The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
THE REED MORGAN FEUD
WHY THE "CZAR" AND THE "JINGO"
DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER.
Trade With Sister RepubIics-Power
Welded in Politics by ~~evvers-
Silverites With Gold Mines.
Special to the indianapolis journal


contempt for certain senators seems to be
genuine. BY yielding to the temptation to
refer unexpectedly to them he has gained
| their personal ill-will 10 such an extent that
| the mention of his name is enough to cause
| them to boil over" Senator Morgan, for
| Instance, never let's an opportunity pass to
| jab the big Speaker. Every time the Ala
bama senator engages in debate some I'M
! friendly allusion to Mr. Reed is confidently
looked for, and disappointment is rare. AL
| though given to indulgence in these SPLEEN
| etic demonstrations, it is noticed that all
! reference to the Speaker is expunged from
! the reports of the debate as it appears in
| the Congressional Record. The reason for
! this is that while the senator considers that
| he has a right to pay his respects to the
| Speaker orally, it would be undignifed and
unparliamentary to let his tart remarks be-
| come part of the records of Congress. To
| laymen this might seem to be fine dis
tinction, but it is plain to the senator. The
| feud between Senator Morgan and the
| Speaker is said to date from chance
mark dropped by Mr.. Reed that he never
went into the Senate chamber that he
didn't find "Old man Morgan standing on
his legs talking to himself" and more of
the same sort. The speech was carried to
"Old Man Morgan" who forthwith put the
Speaker on his blacklist.
An analysis of our trade relations with
! the countries to the south of us shows
| that, while we are gaining in some direc-
| lions, we are losing in others. The United
| States has been increasing it's business with
Mexico at a strong and healthy rate, both
in sales and purchases, but the tendency is
| the other way with several of the South
| American nations The balance of trade is
! heavily against us with South America. We
buy products there annually to the value of
between $125 100000 and $3.50, 100000, and sell
only about $40,0O0,00O worth. In ten years
our export trade with South America
gained $6OO0000, while imports in
creased about $50 1000 00O Europe has been
| beating us in competition for the favor of
the South Americans. This is partly on ac-
count of the better banking and transporta-
ton relations established by the old world
| interests for the accommodation of the peo-
pie in that section of the world and partly
on account of the heavy and diversified
| European investments there, but more than
| anything to the reversal of the policy of
reciprocity. It is not improbable that the
record of the next four years will show con-
| siderably recovery in the volume of our out
| going trade with our Southern neighbors
|
| John Russell Young, the new librarian of
| Congress, enters upon his work with almost
youthful enthusiasm. He expects within a
| year to have the books and pamphlets now
in process of removal from the old library
quarters properly arranged and catalogued
in the new and splendid building That
done, the way will be cleared for the sys-
temaic upbuilding of the greatest library
in the world. No one knows how many
books and publications there are in the
Congressional Library. Hundreds of thou
sands of volumes have been buried and lost
| sight of for years, and hundreds of other
thousands have been and are still stacked
| up in hopeless confusion. 1t will take
months and possibly years, to disentangle
the mass and put the treasures in shape
| to be available, although, Mr.. Young
says I'VE will see daylight inside of a
year" To make the library what it should
be, Congress will have to appropriate large
sums of money to enable the librarian to
buy extensively in the markets of the
world, for the institution, as it now stands.
is shockingly deficient in many embarrass-
| ing particulars. All of this will take time,
toll and infinite patience. Mr.. Young has
| laid out work that will keep him busy for
ten years, and that, too with the active
and hearty cooperation of Congress.
President Mckinley is five months into
his term, and he has not had a single row
with Congress or with any of the party
| leaders, so far as the world knows. Not
| only that, but he has avoided to an ex-
| traordinary degree giving personal offense
! to the individuals who constitute the army
of tens Of thousands of disappointed office
| seekers. And yet, through all the jammng
and pushing and hauling. the President
seems to have had his way about COM
| pletely as either of his predecessors, Mr..
! Cleveland or General Harrison. President
Mckinley is as self-reliant as either CT
| them but he has a different way of i'm
pressing himself upon men, and a different
way of gaining a controverted or contested
| point Mr.. Cleveland was mountainous and
overshadowing; General Harrison dgnihed
and unyielding; President Mckinley a will
ing and Interested listener, patient and
kindly of manner, serious but not austere,
! counting personal contact with the people,
yet repelling familiarity, a diplomatic "jol-
Her." but never for a minute descending
to deception or forgetting that he is Pres
| ident. He is, brief the best mixer who
| has tenanted the White House since Lin
coin, and that can be said without dispar-
agement to any of his distinguished prede-
| cessors. -
"Why are those who have the shaping
of party policies and of party legislation in
| Congress in such fear of the brewers?" L
asked one of the political leaders day or
| two ago. We had been talking about the
sudden abandonment by the Senate of its
beer schedule and the incidental partial
! Senate surrender to the House as a result.
Because" he answered I'VE have to be
| afraid. The brewers pretend to represent
a great foreign-born vote and threaten any
! party with it that dares to put an addi-
tional tax on the poor mans beverage
| That is all rot of course. The foreign
vote does not care any more about the
| brewers than it does about the shoemakers,
! or the tailors or the backsmiths on mat
| ters relating to taxation and revenue rails
| ing, but the beermakers are nevertheless
a political factor of consequence, and l, for
one, do not believe in going out of the way
to make them my political enemies. They
are concentrated power which can be ex-
! erted Extensively or defensively with great
| effect, ard in close States or districts they
| can do considerable good harm, as their
| interests lie The brewers are not numer-
| ically strong. the entire number of brewer
| les in the United States being only about
| two thousand, but there is more than $780,
| 600 900 invested in the business. The brew