The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-01-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Oorrespondent.l


those who believe that the Senate will
fail to ratify the treaty for the annexa
ton of Hawaii, which is now consider.
ing. He has an abiding faith in the
wisdom of annexation and that the wis.
dom will be 80 apparent before the de.
bate is closed that the necessary two.
thirds vote will be secured and the treaty
ratified. Senators Thurston, OF Neb.,
and Gear, of Iowa, have been in doubt
about annexation, largely because of
their belief that it might result in injur.
ing the rapidly growing sugar beet in.
dustry OF their respective states. Both
Senators were at the White House this
week, upon other business, and the
President took advantage of the oppor
tunity to personally combat the idea that
annexation would injure the sugar beet
industry of this country and also to pre-.
sent other arguments in favor of annex.
alton. Later the President expressed
the opinion that both Senators would
vote for annexation.
Ex-senator Edmunds was the spokes
man of the monetary conference, which
was this week given hearing on the
bill it has recommended, by the House
committee on Banking and Currency.
Secretary Gage was at the hearing and
displayed much interest in the remarks
of Mr.. Edmunds, expressing his agree.
ment with much that was said by EN-.
phatic mods of the head.
There is wide Misrepresentation of the
object of the Republicans in the House
who are opposed to the civil service law
and rules as now interpreted; consequent.
ly there is disposition to regard them
as having been defeated because the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial ap.
preparation bill, upon which there was
week of spirited civil service debate,
was passed without an attempt being
made to strike out the approprtion for
the Civil Service Commission. No such
attempt was ever seriously contem.
plated. It was suggestee as an alterna.
tive, if there was no chance to get the
bill providing for modification OF the
civil service law voted on, but was re.
jected. It is almost certain that the
modified civil service bill will get
hearing in the House later in the sess.
ion. There has been no defeat yet.
Senator Fairbanks, Of Ind, in speech
on the immigration bill said: "The
bill before the Senate offers a partial
cure for the exils of the present immi.
grafton system it is one which is sim
pie and just, and, honestly administered,
will 60 far toward removing the disquiet
prevalent throughout the country. The
new classification which it makes will
result in debarring large per cent. of
the most Objectionable elements which
now have unrestricted admission.
Speaker Reed, to delegation repre-
senting the G. A. R., the Army of the
Tennessee, the Loyal Legion, the Vics.
burg Association, and the soldiers of
Illinois, who called on him to secure his
aid in obtaining consideration for the
bill making National military park of
the Vicksburg battlefield, indicated very
plainly that no new legislation carrying
an appropriation is likely to get through
the House at this session with his con.
sent. He told them that the question
of keeping expenditures within the rev.
enues of the government was an in]unc.
tion against many steps which were de.
sirable.
The Senate Judiciary Committee care.
fully sifted all the objections to the
nomination of Attorney General Nc.
Kenna to be an Associate Justice of the
U. S. Supreme Court, and then decided
to make favorable report on the nomi.
nation.
Boss Croker, of Tammany, aspires to
boss the Democratic party of the entire
country. 1t has been known for some
time that he was dickering with Senator
German, ex Senator Hill, and others for
the purpose of so manipulating things
that free silver would not play the con.
spicuous part in the next Democrrtic
platform that the Bryanites think it
will. Altgeld, of ILL.,, who has been a
radical free silver man, has joined hands
with Croker and German, apparently.
That is the only construction that can
be put upon the throw-down Altgeld |
this week gave to Representative "Buck"
Hinrichson, of Ill who had been agreed |
upon by the extreme silver Democrats |
as chairman of the Democratic Congress
ional Campaign Committee. This week |
very much to the surprise of "Buck"
he was informed by the other Democrat.
ic Representatives from Illinois that
they had changed their minds about |
selecting hlm to be the Ill. member of
the committee. 1t was unnecessary for