Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-04

submitted either that Mr.. Hanna was
elected Senator through bribery, OF
that he had any agents carrying on his
canvass for the Senate who were di-
rectly or dmpHedly authorized by him
to resort to corrupt methods or to any
form of wrong doing"
The Government of Germany this
week put an end ito al. talk about its
being unfrlendly to us by ordering its
warshlps out of Philippine waters and
officially asking this government to
take charge of German interests in the
Philippines. This act gave general
satisfaction in Washington. President
Mckinley promptly accepted the task
of looking after the business interests
of Germans in the Philippines. There
has been no doubt in official circles of
the genuineness of Germany's official
professions of friendliness toward us,
but it has been feared that some indis-
erection of a hot-headed German naval
officer might produce a conflict in Phil
ippine waters that would force the two
nations into war This is all happily
ended now, and Congress can go home
confident that all danger of foreign
complications in the Philippines has
disappeared.
The new army bill provides all the
men likely to be needed for the next
two years, and for that reason alone it
was accepted. Had 1t failed, an imme-
diate extra session of the R'ifty-sixth
Congress would have been absolutely
necessary, and that President McKln-
ley and all the Republican leaders in
| Congress wished to avoid for obvious
reasons. Aside from providing the
men the army bill contains much that
is unsatisfactory but all its defects can
| be remedied by army legislation which
will follow whatever recommendations
President Mckinley may make in re-
gard to legislation, either for the army
or for other purposes. Publicly the
Democratic Senators agreed to the
army bill as it now is because they
feared to assume the responsibility of
extra session pretend to regard them
selves as yictors, but actually they are
much chagrined because the bill didn t
fail. They desired an immediate extra
| session because they hoped that the
a lID mi lot ion
Darrassed in carrying out its policy in
the Philippines, but they lacked the
nerve to force it. This is the whole
story in nutshell.
| The House Democratic caucus, by
adopting an anti expansion resolution,
has again demonstrated the correct
ness of the diagnosis of the party
made years ago by Gen. Grant, who
used to say that the Democratic party
could always be depended upon to do
the wrong thing. They could not have
pleased Republicans better than they
did when they adopted that resolution,
and If the national Democratic conven-
tion of next year will only put that un-
American resolution into its platform,
President Mckinley will have a walk
over in his campaign for reelection.
But Republican success is certain next
year, regardless of what the opposition
loes or leaves undone.
The Nicafagua canal amendment to
the Rivers and Harbors pill, as finally
adopted does not provide for the en-
tire construction of the canal, but it
provides for beginning the work, which
practically amounts to the same thing,
as there is no probability that it will
be abandoned after it once gets start
ed.