Washington sentinel., 1899-10-14
Whore some OF the Nations Money
has Gone.

mas GOne.
Charles A. Hamlin was ap-
pointed a commissioner to visit
| Japan so that he might be able to
tell the President all about the seal
ing controversy. He went to
Japan, returned to the United
States, and never gave up until the
Treasury was $4,000 lighter.
Former Secretary OF the Treasury
Foster. smoothest individual who
ever visited the national till on
foraging expeditions, was at the
same time sent to Russia to inquire
into the seal business there, so that
the President might not be mIsled.
Knowing his business better than
the inexperienced Hamlin, Foster
refused to quit talking about the
Russian seal business until his
commission Of which he was
president, secretary and treasurer,
had drawn $50, 900 from the Treas
ury, and he had been named
member OF another commission
with a salary OF $4,000 a year.
The Paris Peace Commission
Day, Davis, Gray, WhitelaW Reid,
etc. cost the Government $aoo,-
600, besides the S2o,ooo,ooo it
asininely bestowed upon Spain tor
the transfer OF Sovereignty in the
Philippines. Under the careful
tutelage of Senator Fairbanks, OF
Indiana; Foster, Of Ohio; PAYNE,
OF New York, the Joint High Com
mission to formulate treaty with
Canada has up to date cost the
Government 100000 and everv
member is still on the payroll, with
no treaty in sight. The War Inves-
tigation Commission, which white
washed Alger anil worked tor the
Beet Trust so openly and notori-
ously that the Administration was
forced to suppress the evidence it
took, cost the nation SIso,ooo. Its
findings were so grossly and flag
rantly in opposition to the sworn
evidence OF army officers and civ
ilian witnesses, that the Admins
tration deemed it best to squelch
it. For the Cuban and Porto Rican
Evacuation Commissions, the tax
payers have paid $4,000. The
Cop omission to the Disarmament
Conference at The Hague-com-
posed of Reformer Seth Low,
Andrew d. White, Captain Mahan,
the great paper strategist, and
otheIs-found it thirsty work, and
there are now on file bills aggre-
eating SIS, 900 for that peace talk
in the woods, which the United
States Treasury has paid. The
Commission to Samoa TO ascertain
the bone OF contention between
two copper-colored kings, over
whose domain We exercise tripar-
tice control with England and
Germany, has thus far spent $780,
600, with every prospect OF the two
kings falling out and fighting be-
fore Commissioner Bartlett Trip,
brother in-law to Senator Cush-
man K. Davis, Of Minnesota,
reaches his Western home. SEN
ator Cullom, OF Illinois; Senator
Morgan. of Alabama: Representa-
tive Hit, of Illinois, and others |
not so we'll known, composed the
Hawaiiln Commission, which ate
poi with the Hawaiian bellies and
reported code OF laws Tor the new
territory. Congress refused to
adopt the suggestions OF the com
mission, and the President"OKed"
the $50, 900 it cost the Government.
The Industrial Commission, lust
now investigating Trusts, is cost
ing the nation annually SI5o,ooo.
But It exists by law, and not by
favor. And though its member
ship may not be conducive to be-
lief in its good intentions, it has
a chance to accomplish much and
confuse its detractors. President
Mckinley appointed Nicaragua
Canal Commission. 1t spent S25o,
900, and reported that the canal
route was feasible; its construction
practicable; its cost SII8,ooo, 900.
That did not please the White
House Syndicate. For reasons oi
its own, it did not want the work
ol building the Nicaragua Canal
begun Just yet. There was more
money to be made by postpone
ment. A lobby ol tremendous
proportions and rich bank account
was swarming about the Capitol
and the White House. 1t was
anti. canal. And it won. BY Re-
publican votes in House and SEN
ate, the Administration forced
through the Burton amendment to
the River and Harbor Bill. This