The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-02-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
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in the contest which is now on in the
Senate, and which will determine
! whether an extra session of Congress
will have to be called. There will be
no necessity for an extra session unless
the democrats filibuster to prevent
vote being taken on the Hull army bill.
if they are willing to take that respon-
sibility, they can do go. An attempt Is
being made to bring about a comprom-
Use that will let the democrats who are
opposing the Hull bill, down easy, but
republicans are not concerned In 1t.
and Senator Hawley, chairman of the
military committee. who has charge OF
the Hull bill saws be will accept no
compromise; that it shall be the Hull
bill or nothing.
The Military Court of Inquiry, which
WAS somewhat DELAYED in getting to-
gether. by last week g snow blockade.
devoted its first session to mapping out
a program and arranging the list OF wit
nesses-a lengthy one-who will be
called, but this week it will begin TO
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public. The Court may sit for several
weeks, and may visit other places, as
its instructions are to go to the root Of
the whole business and settle Tor good
aud all whether Gen. Miles made his
charges that bad meat was issued to the
army on good evidence or whether he
was imposed upon by those who sought
to use him and his high office to create
a scandal. The Court will not seek to
vindicate anybody, or to incrIminate
ANYBODY; only to get at the truth, and
to give it to the President and the peo-
pie. Gen. Miles declined to be sworn
when he appeared before the War In
vestigating Commission, but he will be
sworn by this court.
Hon. Ethan Allen Hitchcock has re-
lieved Mr.. Bliss and assumed the duties
OF the Secretary of the Interior. Sec
rotary Hitchcock IS no stranger in
Washington, ard there is no doubt of
his making success Of administering
the affairs of that great department Of
the Government.
Senators are determined that they
shall not be charged with the failure of
Nicaragua Canal legislation at this ses-
sion. The House having, BY majority
vote, sustained the ruling OF it's presid-
ing officer. that the Canal Bill WAS out
of order as an amendment to the sun
dry Civil bill, and it being certain that
no time can be secured in the House
for consideration of the Hepburn Canal
BILL which was made a substitute for
the Morgan bill and reported to the
House, the Senators propose giving the
House another opportunity to act upon
Canal legislation, that cannot be block
ed by points of order, by putting the
Hepburn Canal bill in the River and
Harbor bill The bill so amended has
already been reported to the Senate,
and there is no doubt that it will pass
that body.
The Naval Reorganization bill Will be-
come q law in few days. 1t is now in
conference, having been slightly am
ended before passing the Senate. but it
will go to the President shortly.
Senator FRYE has offered an amend
ment TO the Sundrv Civil bill, author
izing the payment Of 100000 a year for
twenty years, by the government for
the use of a Pacific cable. from some
point in the United States to China and
japan, via Hawaii, Guam and the Phil
lppines, provided that the cable be in
working order to Honolulu by July ],
1900 and to Manila by Jan. ], 1901, and
that messages Of toe United States lie
carried free forever.
No one was surprised, after the Canal
bill was ruled off the Sundry Civil bill
on point of order to see the item APP
propriatins 500 100000 to carry out the
terms of the Treaty Of Peace with Spain
90 the same road. But the money will
be paid. Representative Canned has
introduced a bill making the approp-
ration, which will 90 through all right.
The attempt of Representative Gillett,
Of Mass, to mix up the appropriation
and the McEnery resolution, adopted
by the Senate last week, will do no
harm, as the bill will never be heard of
again.
Mr. A. H. Moves, well-known Mimi
eapolis lawyer, wagered a case of cham
payne against case of beer that the
democrats will not nominate Bryan
next year. The wager was taken by
Representative Jones, OF Washington,
but wnen Mr.. Moves offered to make
the same wager that President Mckin-
ley would be reuominated and reflect
ed, Mr. Jones declined.
When President Mckinley. in his
Boston speech, punctured the imper-
ialiStic balloon which the democrats in
Congress have been trying SO hard to
get sufficiently inflated to take it off the
ground, he also punctured the hopes Of
numerous democrats. who, having
had been hoping that the straw man of
imperialism they have been trying to
set up under that balloon, might be
used. Needless to add that the Presi-
dents remarks pleased the republicans
) in Congress, because they were in &C
cord with nearly all their speeches.
There are no advocates of imperialism
in this country, nor is there likely to
be, simply because there is no room for
such under our form Of government,
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