The Opelousas courier., 1899-02-11

| Auti-imperialistic sentiment will have
| full owing in the Senate this week, al
I neatly every Senator who opposes anC
! who has already spoken against i'm
! per!aiism, has given notice OF intention
| to speak. The treaty Of peace will bt
/ voted upon Feb. 9th, and the chances
| favor its ratification, because nothing
! would be gained by rejecting it. A mo-
| ton to reconsider would be made b.
| one Of its friends, and it would require
! a majority to table it. That majority
| It's opponents have not. so, IT it were
I rejected Feb. 9th, all Mr.. Mckinley
/ would have to do would be to oa!l an
! extra session Of the Senate in Malcii
! when it would be promptly ratified.
/ Within the last week, Mr.. tickinie.
has been personally i%larsi,ly criticised.
| in both House and Senate, and III each
can. III tho House, Representatives
| jumped en- him FOR bowling to public
| opinion, right OF wrong /; and III the
1 Senate, Senators German and IiOaI gave
him fits for declining to furnish the
Senate with copies OF the instructions
given to the Peace Commissioners.
Senator German has never posed az
al alarEis;, but he never fears to speak
the truth because it may be alarming.
Just before the Senate passed the reg
ular pension appropriation bill, which
carries Sl45, 600, 600, Mr.. German made a
speech calling attention to the fact
that although it was estimated that the
wal with Spain would add $4,000 names
to the pension roll, unless u troops
were recalled from the tropics before
The sickly season, no provision, what
ever had been made in the bill for the
increase. MI. Golman concluded with
this significant prediction "Witl!in
three years from this date, the pension
roll will amount to S1GJ, 900, 900. Ii you
add to that, the cost Of maintaining
your army tome thousand dollars Il
many, tho American republic will in the
year 1900, eNpcnd more for its army and
pensioners than any other nation on
the face of the earth. That is q fact
which the American people will have
to face, and they ought to know now
IN ad vance what is coming TO them, it
the schemes and projects which are
being forced upon us are carried OUT
The attempt Of the Republicans to
get DamncratIc support for the Hull
bill, which will bo voted on Tomorrow,
by amending it so as to make any in
crease of the regular army above $50
coo discretionary with the President
was not . success. 1t made no real
change. The DrmncgatspI proved by their
votes TO! TIE first war appropriation,
that they were not afraid 20 trust the
President, hHt that did not chang. The
principle oi thn party against tn" on
ccntEHtioi al authority in the hand of
m man. SnGh concentration does no
harm as long rs the tight man exercises
the authority, bat who can say when
the Wong man will core along? The
change uas moi mSHn for effect III The
~Ilous", "irr" raitiaansIilp viii put the
bill thtnn1i, hut III the Senate, where
its fate Hiii tu E"yY much in doubt, m
less the support Of Senators who are
now inclined to npnna@ it, can h" Sc
cured. The snbteiiuge Was so pal
pablo that Representatives Loud, Of
Cal, u Republicans, mad" y Hot speech
against Ii, plainly telling his party rs
sociates that they could not hope to
catcl! succOrs with such a bare hook.
Gen. Miles is still piling up evidences,
official, that the beef furnished our sol
dIers in Cuba and Porto Rico, was unfit
to eat. He has already about convinced
everybody, except the members of the
administration and Of tho War ~Iuvesti
eating Commission, that his charge was
true, but they seemed determined to
stick to it that the beef was good.
Secretary Alger put another slight
upon General Miles in connection with
the Eagan court martial. The army
regulations provide that the finding of
c~ourt-martial shall be forwarded to
Tue Secretary of War through the com.
handing general of the army, but
.lger Instructed the Judge Advocate to
.gnore Miles and hand the finding to him
directly, and it was done. While no.
body outside the Court and officials canI
swear what the vesdict was, everybody |
5 certain that it was guilty, ard that
he sentence was dismissal from the
army. In handling this verdict, Mr..
Mckinley had better be careful or he
will sign his own political death warrant;
he people have decided that Eagan
be punished, and if Mr.. McKin-
ey exercises his authority to shield him,
&c will fiDd that he may have the pun
shment to bear himself.
Senator Butler, in presenting a reso-
ion OF the North Carolina legislature
or the election of Senators, by vote of
he people, called attention to this being
he twenty-fourth legislature to adopt
UGH a resolution, and eaid that a con-
tltutlonal amendment ought to be at
nee adopted, citing the several exist
ng d~eadlocks and scandals in legisla-
uresa as an argument in its favor.