The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-01-28


hand of the Administration. They re-
tire with the feeling that.they have snc-
ceeded only in impressing the country
with the idea that they were merely try
ing to embarrass the President and were
insincere in their display of Cuban
heroics and Mysteries. They knew as
we'll when they opened this fight that
they would lose it as they did after it
was all over. When this plain fact be-
comes known to the country it will be
impossible to convince thinking men
that they were either honest or in earn
est in their declamatory efforts. 1t will
be perfectly palpable to every one that
their purpose was not to aid Cuba but to
embarrass the Administration, put the
Republicans in hole and make political
capital for themselves without real
thought or care for the interests of the
struggling islanders or the people of the
United States. Having signally failed
all along the line, their raid is apt to
prove boomerang, and the political
capital they have manufactured spurious.
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One thing stands out very clearly as
the only tangible result Of this Cuban
furry, now that the fog of demagogic
debate has lifted. That is that the Re-
puhicans purpose standing by President
Mckinley in his management of the
matter. The remarks of Mr.. Hit,
chairman OF the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, have great significance and give
the country and congress better under
standing of the Presidents purposes in
the premises than they had heretofore.
There is no doubt that the President hopes
and expects that the Cuban troubles will
be settled, not only without war between
the United States and Spain, but to the
honor and satisfaction of all the parties
to the troubles and their settlement
M
President McKinleyHon Saturday sent
to the Senate the name of Governor John
w. Griggs to be attorney general of the
United States, as the successor of Judge
McKenna, who was confirmed on Friday
as Associate Justice Of the United States
Supreme Court. The nomination was
referred the Judiciary Committee, which
at its meetings, Friday, reported it favor
ably to the Senate, and it was confirmed
on Tuesday.
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The Teller resolution, reaffirming the
declaration of the Stanley Matthews
resolution of twenty years ago, that the
bonds of the Government of the United
States principal and interest, are legally
and properly payable in silver, passed
the Senate yesterday. OF course it will
not pass the House. Its failure there
will rob it of most of its Importance. 1t
will stand simply as the formally ex-
pressed opinion of a certain number of
Democrats, Populists, and Republicans
who favor the free, unlimited, and I'M
limited, and independent coinage of
silver by the United States. simply
that and nothing more. 1t will have
neither weight, force, nor effect.
Representative Sherman of the Com
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com
MERGE has reported to the House an San
tiscalping" bill which is stringent in its
terms and which, enacted into claw
would break up and prevent the scalping
of tickets so far as Interstate transporta-
ton is concerned. The scalpers are do
ing everything they can think of to pre-
vent the passage of the measure, but
their efforts will be in vain. They are
relying chiefly on two things, petitions of
the kind known as machine made" and
a certain labor organization. One thing
business men who travel have been con-
tending for is 5,000-mile interchange
able ticket. It would be vast conven-
fence to every firm and man who has to
be on the road considerably. It is USE
less to expect any such thing until ticket
scalping is broken up by being placed
under the ban of the law, as certainly
will be done. E. w. B.
A. BLAIR KELSEY has been appointed