Middletown transcript., 1899-02-25

| WASHINGTON LEFFER

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES liilliliH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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whether an extra session of Congres
will have to be called. There will b
no necessity for an extra session, unles
! The Democrats filibusser to prevent
vote being taken on the Hull Arm!
BiIl. If they. are willin TO take tha
respons biliiy. they can do SO. An at
! tempt is being made to bring about I
CONG promise that will let y Democrat
who are opposing the Hull Bill, dowI
easy. but Republicans are not concern
ed in 1T, and Senator Hawley chairman
of The mill aiy committee. who bar
charge of he Hill Bill says he viii
accept no compromise; that it sIIsll be
the Hull ELL or nothing
The Military CoaIto of Inquiry, which
was somewhat delayed in getting To-
gelher, by last weeks snow blockade,
devoted its lrst session 10 mapping out
program and arranging the list OF
Witnesses lengthy one-will be call
ed, but this week 1t will begin to take
testimony and the sitlings viii be pub
lie. The Court may sit foi several
weeks, and may visit other places, as
lis instructions are to 60 10 The root Of
the whole business ard settle for good
aud all whether General Miles made his
charges that bad meat was | sued co
the army on coed evideBc or whether
he was imposed upon by tho who
sought 70 use him and his high Office TO
create scandal. The Court will not
seek TO vindicate anybody, or to in
criminate anybody, only 10 get at the
truth, and to give it 20 the President
and the people. General Miles declin-
ed to be swoIn when he appeared before
the War Investigating Commission, but
be will be sworn by this Court.
Hon. Ethan Allan Hitchc3ck has
relieved Mr.. Bliss and as umed the
duties Of the Secretary Of the Interior.
Secretary Hitchcock is NJ stranger in
Washington. and 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 responsible
ily for the failure of Nicaragua Canal
legislatieD at this session. The House
having, by a majority vote, sustained |
the ruling Of its presiding officer, that
the Canal Bill was out of order as an
amendment to the Sundry Civil Bill,
and 1t being certain that no time can
be secured in the House for consider
alton 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 bs blocked by
points of order, by putting the Hep
burn Canal Bill in the River and Har-
Dor Biz. The bill SO amended has al
ready been reported to the Senaies and
there is no doubt that it will pass that
body.
The Naval Reorganiz .tion Bill will
become law in few DAYS. 1t is now
in conference, having been slightly
amended before passing the Senate, but
it will 60 to the President shortly.
Senator Frye has offered an amend
ment to the Sundry Civil Bill. author
izlng the payment of 100000 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 Philippines, provided that the
cable be in work 'ng order to Honolulu
by July LIST, 1900, and to Manila by
January 1st, 1901, and that messages of
tie United States Government be car
ried free forever.
No one was surprised, after the Canal
Bill was ruled off the Sundry Civil
Bill on a point of order to see the item
appropriating $40, ,00O. 900 to carry out
the terms of the Treaty of Peace with
Spain 90 the same road. Butthe money
will be paid. Representative Cannon
has introduced bill making the appro-
priation, which will go through all
right. The attempt Of preventative
Gillett, of Mass, to mix up the appr0-
priation and the McEnery resolution.
adopted ky the Senate last week, will
DO no harm. as the bill will never be
heard of again. y
Mr.. A. E. Noyes, a well-known
Minneapolis lawyer, wagered case Of
against q case Of beer that
the Democrats will not nominate
Bryan next year. The wager was I
taken b. Representative Jones, of :
but when Mr.. Noyes CT !
iered to make the same wager that :
President Mckinley would be renomi- =
mated d reelected. Mr.. Jones de-
,lined
When President Mckinley, in his Il
Boston speech, punctured the imperial q
stic b.lloon which The Democrats in d
Congress have been trying SO hard to
set sufficiently inflated to take it off
he ground. be aIsopanc nred1he hopes
+ numerous Democrats, who, having !.
lcthing else In sight 10 make an issue i
'ut Of, had been hopiug that the straw I
nan Of imperialism they have been n
ryiDg to set up under that balloon. A
night be used: Needless 10 add that
he Presidents remarks pleased the y
republicans 10 Congress, because they
lere in accord with nearly al their
peeohes. There are no advocates Of
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