The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-02-04
|DOLE PUTS His FOOT IN
Annexationists Not Pleased by
His Presence In Washington.

His Presence In Washington.
MORGAN TALKS TO EMPTY BENCHES
-Four Days of Eloquence With None to
Listen or Applaud = Some Washington
Scientists and Their work-The National
Geographic Society.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-[Speoial. THE
arrival in the capital of President Dole of
Hawaii has stirred anew interest in the
fate of the annexation treaty now pending
In the senate. 1t has leaked out that Mr..
Dole came here wholly on his own motion
and that the friends of annexation are lit.
tie displeased because he did come. They
think he should have remained at home
attending to his duties. They are particu-
larly offended because President Dole, since
his arrival in the United States, has ad
mitted that there Is no danger of Japan
gobbling up the islands in case the United
States declines to take them. Inasmuch as
this has been one of the strongest argu-
ments used by the annexationists, they
think Mr.. Dole should have informed him
self little better as to the conditions of
the battle here before putting in his word.
One OF the odd features of the Hawaiian
situation Is the dispute between ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland and Senator Morgan as to
the attitude of the former concerning Ha-
wall while he was in the White House.
Mr.. Morgan claims Mr.. Cleveland was in
favor OF annexation at one time, but Mr..
Cleveland comes out boldly and says he
was never in favor of it. Mr.. Cleveland
appears to have the best of the argument,
as the public does not doubt that Mr..
Cleveland knew what he wanted and what
he didn't want. But Mr.. Morgan explain
ed in clever public speech. For once the
Hawaiian question was brought up during
an open session. 1t would never have done,
Of course, for Mr.. Morgan to explain in an
executive session, for then all he said
would have had to remain a secret.
Morgan's Wasted Sweetness.
Recently Mr.. Morgan made one of those
four day speeches for which he is famous.
There never was clearer case of wasting
sweetness upon the desert air. Mr.. Nor,
gan's speech was delivered in secret ses-
sion. No newspaper reporters were present
to take down what he said or even part
thereof aud scatter it to the four corners of
the earth. Even the official reporters were
absent. Furthermore Mr.. Morgan spoke
without an audience. Senators tell me
that after the first two or three hours of
his long effort he was deserted Scarcely
a senator sat to listen to him. The vice
president and one or two trusty employees
of the senate had to listen, because their
duties required them to do so or to pretend
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Alabama senator was alone, all alone. A
queer scene it must have been-no one in
the senatorial seats, no one in the gal
leries, no one anywhere paying any atten-
ton, and this able, forceful old statesman
pouring forth his wisdom and his philos-
ophy and the result of his laborious inves-
LEGATIONS hour after hour and day after day.
Mr.. Morgan is one of the ablest men in
the senate In all that pertains to our for
eign relations he is perhaps the best in
the house was praising Mr.. Morgan the
other day in the presence of Speaker Reed.
Morgan is a WONDER" said the con-
gresham. she simply knows everything
about our foreign affairs. He is a walking
arsenal Of facts
eyes" said Speaker Reed, morgan
tioning the name Of another senator who
in his own opinion at least is great di-
plomatist.
A Scientific Center.
The national capital is great center Of
scientific activity and learning. Our gov
eminent is a liberal patron of the sciences,
and we have here remarkable number Of
men who have attained distinction in their
special fields. Some of them have won
recognition throughout the world although
they are little known in their own country.
For instance, not many Americans have
ever heard of Professor Schott of the coast
and geodetic survey. Yet he is known all
over the world as perhaps the highest liv-
ing authority on terrestrial magnetism.
A book on the earth's winds which Is
standard all over the world was compiled
by Washington man who never was gen.
orally known in his own country, Mr..
Coffin. Another, Mr.. Maury, is known
throughout the world for his most elabo-
rate and useful collation. Of facts concerning
the ocean, its tides and currents. It is safe
to say that Professor Langley of the Smith
sonian institution has greater reputation
in Europe than he has at home.
The same thing may be said of Professor
1OWolA VI ouo ScOlO&lCdA survey WuOS0
monographs are read everywhere as clas-
sics In the faculty of the Columbian uni
versity of this city is a modest young man,
Professor Gore, little known to fame in
the United States, but recognized by scien-
tif1c men everywhere as q great authority
on the shape of the earth and all the gray
ity and other determinations by which
geodesists measure our globe.
The Late Gardiner @. Hubbard.
Recently the scientific world of the
American capital lost it's best friend in the
death of Gardiner G. Hubbard, president
of the Geographic society. Mr.. Hubbard
enjoyed large means and he was ever ready
to help all efforts for the promotion of
knowledge. His place will be hard to fill,
but as president of the National Geographic
society, which is now only second to the
Royal Geographic society of London in in
fluence, he has been succeeded by his SON.
in-law, Professor A. Graham Bell of tele-
phone fame. Professor Bell has thrown
himself into the work with characteristic
energy, and those who know his breadth of
view and ability predict that he will prove
a worthy successor to his much loved kins-
man. Mr.. Bell hopes to make the National
Geographic society fully equal to its Eng
iish prototype in usefulness and influence.
An important part of our social circle