The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-05-18
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Nav IL, 1900

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From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, May IS, 1899.
An extra session Of Congress will
be called early in the fall, if public
opinion does not object sufficiently to
frighten Mr.. Mckinley out of issuing
the call. That is the only. reason it
has not been officially announced. 1t
has been decided upon, but Mr..
Mckinley wished to appear to follow
public demand, so the announce
ment was deferred until his friends,
who are now talking extra session in
every direction, could try to work up
the public demand.
Ex-senator Quay is using the
Speakership contest to make votes for
his admission to The Senate on the
appointment OF the Gov. of Pennsyl-
vanla. That is why the Pennsylvania
delegation is unpledged, and why there
is talk of putting up a dummy Penn
sylvanla candidate for Speaker, who
the delegation can pretend to support
until Quay orders them to vote for
one of the other candidates.
Senator Stewart was asked whether
he favored an extra session of Con-
gress in September. "No, certainly
not" he replied ''nothing would be
gained by 1t that would be useful. 1t
would simply mean three or four
months of talk before they got down
to business. instead of three or four
weeks, which invariably follows the
assembling of the first session of a
new Congress.
Great efforts are being made to
have the Navy Department join in
trying to persuade Admiral Dewey to
come home by way of San Francisco,
instead of New York. A railway COM
pany has offered to furnish him with
out cost the finest special train that
ever crossed the continent, to bring
him from San Francisco to Washing
ton. The Republican politicians are
not disposed to help along this idea
at all. They are afraid of Dewey as it
is, and they don't know what might
happen If he was made the hero of a
series of popular ovations in every
town between San Francisco and
Washington. They would much pre-
fer his coming to New York, trusting
the rest 10 his modesty.
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Representative Payne, of N. Y,
seems likely to fare badly in the Speak
ership fight. Senator Platt has prom
ised to force him to withdraw as q
candidate for Speaker, in favor o.
Sherman, and it is understood tha
Henderson and Hopkins, the two lead
ing Western candidates, have made {
deal whereby their strength will bt
combined to nominate the stronges
of the two, and the one who fails tt
get the Speakership shall be made
Chairman of the Ways and Mean
Committee and floor leader OF th'
Republicans, a position to which Payn'
was advanced after the death of Nh
Dlngley and which he would like t.
keep, if he can't get the Speakership
Should Sherman win the chances art
that he would have to promise th'
chairmanship of the committee OF
Ways and Means to some other state
So it looks as though Payne wa
bound TO lose no matter who wins
The Robert E. Lee Monunen
Association was organized in WASH
ington this week for the purpose {
erecting an equestrian statue of Ger
Lee upon a site overlooking Arlington
the old Lee homestead. The site ha
been donated to the association, an
prominent Southern women will unde
take the task of securing the none
to pay for the statue.
1t seems that one of the ways
which our new possessions are to /
Americanized is to allow them to /
overhowed by Chinese coolies. I'll
order issued several weeks ago, e,
tending the laws and regulations go
erning immigration to the Unite
States to all territory under milital
control, was taken to mean that Oh
nese coolies would be excluded fro
Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippine
But that didn't suit those who are i
terested in filling those islands Wi
Chinese and they had pull enoul
with the powers that be to get an