The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1899-03-18

OI DOSS 11auua IOT SeVeTdI Weeks, SOIc'
ly to get rest and recreation. Not by
a jugfnlI, there is politicsl scheming,
and lot Of it, IN the trip. While
they are in Townsville the leading
administration Senators and Represen.
tatives will visit them, aud in addi-
ton to clinching Mr.. McKinley's re-
nomination next year, the question OF
whether the administration will try to
prevent Gar Reeds reelection as
Speaker of the House, will be careful
ly gone over and decided. If 1t were
only question of inclination, it might
be considered as already decided. Mr..
Mckinley and number Of his closest
friends are sore on Reed because of
his attitude towards all of the admin
istratiOn measures that came before
the late Congress, and would gladly
antagonize his reelection as Speaker,
if they thought they coull beat him,
but there's the rub. They are afraid
to fight Reed, unless they are reason
ably certain Of being able to control
enough votes to down him, because if
they do so and fail, they know he
would fight back during the life of
the fif,y-slxth Congress, which will be
as long as that of the administration.
Democrats will! be glad if the Re-
publican party will endorse the claim
Gf Representative Cannon, of Ill, one
of Czar Reeds most obedient hench-
men, that real Nicaragua Canal legis-
lation, which has been commended by
National Conventions, regardless of
party, Was purposely prevented at the
recent session of Congress by the re-
publican House. The blame for the
failure of that legislation had been
placed npon Reed, but when Mr.. Can.
non says: "Fortunately, the House of
Representatives resisted the enact
ment of the proposed legislation" in
the labored commendati0n of Repub-
| lican accomplishments during the
Fifty fifth Congress, he places the
responsibility on the Republican par
ty, and actually gloats over it as
something to be proud of. Will the
National Convention of has party dare
to assume the same attitude ON this
question?
While the friends of Gen. Miles do
not % so far az TO make the direct
charge that the canned meat furnished
our soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico
was horse meat, although labeled
Roast Beef" they do not hesitate to
say that suspicion strongly points that
way. It is kn ,wn that $50, 900 cans
Of the meat was bought in Europe.
where it had been shipped from this
country. The labels on the meat said
it was packed in Chicago, but the
firm alleged 10 have packed 1.-THE
Prairie State Packing Co"-is said to
be unknown either in Chicago or to
the Wholesale trade of the country.
that horse meat is being canned in
Chicago and shipped to Europe is
known, and persons who ought to know
have declared that the meat in ques-
ton was horse meat. II the Military
Court of Inquiry really wishes to get
lat the bottom of this business, it ought
not to be difficult matter. The con-
tractors who supplied this neat could
be made to tell who canned it and
where it was, canned. The Court is
already accused of failure to call wit
nesses known to have information
tending to prove Gen. Miles conten.
ton, and if its members are not care
ful their report will meet with the
srme reception the country gave to
the report Of the Alger Whitewash-
\
ing Commission.
/ Senator Chandler, who has a repu-
ta!ion for talking against things sup
ported by his party, but slways voting
with the party. has an acute attack o.
anti-truatphobia just now. He talks
against the trusts as seriously as though
be wss good Democrat or populist,
but that is no reason to expect that he
will vote against any measures desired
Z by the trusts which may come before
|, the Senate, in the future; he certainly