The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-13
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Washington, June 12.-The near APP
proach of the adjournment of congress
brings into prominence the political
campaign which is to begin promptly
after the. close of the session. Leaders
of both parties are completing prepara-
lions for the battle, which now prom
Uses to be an uncommonly warm one.
AT stake is the control of the next SEN
ate and house of representatives. But
the election of 1898 is of still more i'm
portance because it is preliminary to
the presidential campaign of 1900. Both
Republican and Democratic leaders talk
freely of the present situation. The Re
publicanS are greatly pleased at the re-
suit of the Oregon election. 1t is the
first thing encouraging to them that
has happened this year. If these lead
erS are to be believed, Oregon settles
everything, and this falls elections will
go Republican with whoOp. They ad-
nit that the success of their party in
Oregon was due almost wholly to the
existence of the Spanish war, and the
fact that the people were unwilling to
subject the administration to polit-
zeal reverse in time of war. They rely
implicitly upon the war to save them
this fall The claim is made that
whether the war is or is not over by
that time, the enthusiasm of the people
will continue, and it Will be impossible
to make anything else than the war an
issue in the campaign. 1t is not un-
common for them to taunt their Demo-
cratic and silver Republican colleagues
in congress with: We'll, you forced US
into this war. didn't you? We hope
you are satisfied with your work.
Senator Warren of Wyoming feels as
happy as a boy with new top boots.
That settles it, he says. Wyoming
a.1xr
this fall" The senator thinks Colorado
is about the only state that is safe
from a gold tidal wave. Senator Clark
says less, but he thinks more. He is
closer under the gun than Warren.
Clark has admitted to friends that there
is small comfort in the Oregon cleo
tion-or in anything else for that mat
terror the Wyoming Republicans. He
knows that he is on the political to-
boggan, and it will take more than this
kind OF d victory to save him from
coming with a. sudden, dull and sicken-
ing thud TO the end of his career.
The Democratic congressional COM
mittee had small hope of success in
Oregon. Three days before the election
Chairman White and Vice Chairman
Osborne both admitted to your CORE
spondent that chances were strongly
in favor of Republican success. This
was stated by these gentlemen to be
due to the fact that Oregon was nat
urally a Republican state, and that
some local conditions were operating
against the silver forces. These lead
ers did not minimize the influence OF
the pending war on the Oregon electo-
rate, but they believed that the prodi-
gal use Of money was a. far more potent
factor in the state. The Hanna barrel
was rolled out and unhooped in Null
tonomah county. The result was an
<1syi1o r7on
vote and the Republican majority.
Chairman White says there will be a
great change in sentiment later in the
year, and that the Oregon election in
June is not significant OF what may oc-
cur in November.
Vice Chairman John z. Osborne, in
conversation with your correspondent,
points out that after the war is over,
and it should be long before the fall
elections-unlesS it is prolonged for
partisan purpoSeS-the people Will take
a different view concerning it's conduct.
The inefficiency of the commiSSary de-
partment is already known, and some
queer transactions relative to supplies
will, by that time, be fully investigated.
In the long run the Republican party
cannot profit by the patriotic senti-
ment aroused by a war which it OPP
posed strenuously, and which the adj
ministration has, to say the least not
conducted with signal brilliancy thus
far.
Senator Teller believes the result to
have been mainly due to the prodigal
use Of money. This was employed to
accomplish the election Of a United
States senator to fill vacancy and, in
cidentalIy, the control of the United
States senate. He does not believe the
Oregon election will have any material
effect on the result in other states this
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certain of great national victory in
1900.
Senator Frank J. Cannon says: 1.-THE
Oregon election has only one bearing on
the national situation. and that is that
it teaches the Importance OF closer al
lance between all the elements of the
allied silver forces"
1t is still an open question whether
Utah will get an infantry battalion I'M
der the second call. At present indi-
cations are that the efforts of the Utah
senators to secure this result will be
unsuccessful. The only certainty Utah
has of additional enlistments is that
enough men will be taken to fill out
the batteries and troops already in the
field, and the men she may get in one
of the companies of Colonel Willard
Young's engineers.
The nominations of the field officers
of the Second engineers was completed
this week. They come from various
parts of the Union, but all the men are
highly spoken of by army officers who
know them. 1t is plain that Colonel
Young is going to have pleasant asso-
ciates in the service.
1t is now stated that the Young NOM
ination and the sudden election of
Judd from the office of district attor-
ney were due to vigorous representa-
tons made to President Mckinley by
TOrlSfdpT1f (.pOrnre n Cannon 1IlT-iOcr n c
recent visit here.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has amended the Fort Hall Indian
reservation bill in a manner that
makes the measure profoundly nnsatis-
factory to the Idaho delegation. 1t
has struck out the provision of the
treaty by which the United States
agrees to pay 100000 to the Indians
In it's place the committee provides
that as fast as the lands are opened
for settlement the government shall set
aside moneys received from sales and
place them to the credit of the Ban
nocks and Shoshones." The committee
also eliminates the fixed annuity fea-
ture of the bill and leaves the whole
matter of the amount to be paid the
Indians each year to the secretary of
the interior. The following entirely new
paragraph relating to the price at
which the lands are to be disposed Of is
added to the bill:
''The residue of said ceded lands
shall be opened to settlement by the |
proclamation of the president, and
shall be subject TO disposal under the |
homestead. TOWNSHIP stone and timber |
and mining laws of the United States |
only, excepting the 18th and 36th sec
tions in each congressional township. |
which shall be reserved fe.. common |
school purposes and be subject to the |
laws of Idaho; provided, that all claim |
nts for. lands lying under. the canal |