Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL coRRRsPoNDENcE OF THE MoNITcR.


tor Lodges resolution, which was
adopted by the Senate, asking for full
information as to beet sugar and
what, if any, foreign sugars it comes
in competition with, and what effect
if any, the Importation of Hawaiian
sugars has or could have upon the
beet sugar production of the United
States, is expected to knock out one
of 1.-THE arguments which have been
used by the sugar trust lobby to make
certain senator's, whose states are
large and increasing producers of
sugar beets, doubtful of the policy of
annexation, by showing that no in
j ury to the beet sugar interests of
this country will, or possibly can fol-
low the annexation of Hawaii. It is
not surprising that senators should
have been temporarily caught by the
specious arguments of the agents of
the sugar trust against annexation
because of the injury it might do to
the sugar beet industry in this coun-
try Secretary Wilson was himself
once doubtful on the subject because
he believed annexation might injure
the American beet growers, but in
vestigation convinced him that it
would not, and his facts on the cub
ject will convince the senators who
have doubts. There are hourly con-
Trajectory stories around Washing
on as to the attitude of senators
toward the annexation treaty, but
Senator Davis, who is inIcharge of the
treaty, is still confident that it will be
ratified with votes to spare.
Senator Wolcott's speech bears out
Senator Chandler's recent statement
that President Mckinley does not re-
gard as final the efforts made by the
commission. which visited Europe in
behalf of international bimetalism,
and that he does not regard their
failure to get England committed as
ending all hope for an international
agreement. Senator Wolcott believes
that the visit of the commission to
Europe materially advanced the idea
of international bimetalism, and that
it will yet become an accomplished
fact.
Attorney General McKenna's nom
nation to the Supreme Court would
have been confirmed last week had
not Senator Allen seen in it an OPP
portunit y to secure a little notoriety
for himself. When Senator Hoar pre-
sented the report of the judiciary
committee in favor of Judge McKen-
ma and asked that vote be taken,
Senator Allen was the only objector
ing it plain that his only object was
to draw public attention to himself.
He first asked for postponement of |
two weeks, but was in the end salts
fed to get the vote postponed until
next Friday. There is nothing I'M
tirmation. At the outside, there isn't |
likely to be more than six votes cast
in opposition, and it is possible that |
there will be none.
Representative jenkins, of Wiscon
sin, has introduced bill providing
for the establishment of a National
Military Park, at Appomattcx, Va,
and for the erection of Peace monu |
ment upon the spot where the agree
ment to cease hostilities was execut- |
ed. There are several bills of this /
nature, including that providing for |
making a National Military Park of |
the Vicksburg battlefield, and the
general sentiment in Congress is /
favorable to them, but they are all
likely to be shut out at this session |
under the general rule that no bill
carrying an appropriation for a new
project shall be passed by the House,
until the receipts of the government
exceed it's expenditures.
Notwithstanding the use of whole
week in the discussion of civil service
matters, the House has made good |
bling of Congress. 1t has passed the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Appropriation bill, the Urgency De-
ficiency Appropriation bill and the
Agricultural Appropriation bill, and
is now considering the Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation bill.
Whatever may be the personal
opinion of President Mckinley as to
the business of the DAMAGE awarded
to British subjects for losses alleged
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