The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-01-14
Washington Letter.

| From our regular correspondent
| WASHINGTON. January 1o.-Mr. Mckinley
| by working overtime and by using shovel on
| the pie, managed to send more nominations to
| the Senate since Congress reassemhled than
| have before gone in i'll any single week since
| he took charge of the pie counter, but II mas
not lessened The pressure on him for pie even
| a little bit. For every hungry mouth he has
| filled there are a thousand asking TO be filled.
| There is Il suspicion that Mr.. Mckinley, instead
| of being opposed to the warm fight that Is be-
| ing made i'll the House for modification oil
| the civil service law, is really in favor OF IT,
| Lacking the backbone to use his authority to
| modify the rules under the pr sent law, he VIII
| do nothing. But if Congress adopts any legis-
| lation he will allow it to become law. proba-
| bly, without his signature. The ground Tor
this suspicion is ample. Many of Mr.. Mchln-
| leys warm friends are engaged in this hight,
and every member of his cabinet has gone on
record as favoring some modification. The
bill now before the House Civil Service Com
mittee limits the law to those positions paying
from 5000 to 81 800 year.
The Senate has taken up the Hawaiian au-
nexation treaty and, if its supporters have
their way, will consider it daily until vote is
reached.
StuaIUE DulIeT. Ol SdEOlI1d, nus OACl-
ed joint resolution proposing constitutional
amendment that would revolutonize the
United States Courts. 1t proposes that
ali United States judges, including those of
the Supreme Court, shall be elected by the
people, for term of eight years, and provides
Tor Il division of the country into circuits for
their election. Speaking of his resolution,
Senator Butler says: There was a time when
all Statns Thought IL pnTDhpUt n them
to appoint their judges for life. Now the life
tenure of judge i'll State is the exception.
l believe i'll placing the power over the judi
ciary in the hands of the people. If the system
of stated terms is good in the States, it ought
to be equally good for the Federal govern
ment.'
Many Democrats in Congress favor begin
ming the Congressional campaign of next Fall
at once, on the floors of Congress, and keeping
up n red-hot, aggressive fight upon the Repub-
licans from start to finish. Among them is
Representative De Almond, of Missouri, who
said OH the subject I'VE ought to be aggres-
ave. We want to force the fighting. We
ought to lose no time in exposing the hypocrisy
and cowardice of our political opponents. We
can lose nothing by being aggressive. Those
who followed the standard of Democracy and
Bryan in the last campaign, are as enthusiastic
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