The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-26

From the Chicago Chronicle.
With four states still hopelessly tied
up in deadlocks over the selection of
United States senators, it may be con-
fidently said that the "Millionaire's
club" of that body will suffer no dimin-
utiOn of influence in the next congress.
Even if the members of this organiza-
tion-if it can be called such-whose
togas are in dispute, should fail. still
one third of membership Of the upper
house will be eligible to the club. They
will either be millionaires in their own
right or, representatives of corporate
power. So it will be seen that the
trusts are not unprotected.
The Hanna Elkins-Platt coterie will
not be sensibly weakened by the loss OF
Quay, for instance, should that senator
lose his grasp and fall into private OBJ
security Neither will the retirement OF
German affect the workings Of the
combination which has looked after the
interests of the poor millionaire in tariff
legislation during the past ten years
or so. If Quay is a loser-and it looks
as if the fatal thirteen will destroy
him-then Wanamaker himself a mil
lionaire, or one of his creaturess will
fill his shoes. So it will be observed
that here at least the man with five
figures to tell his fortune need loose no
sleep.
German is no millionaire, yet he has
been accounted as not unfriendly to-
ward protected interests. HIS sue
| cessor, Louis E. McComas, is lawyer.
who owes his elevation to corporate in
terests, who was placed on the supreme
bench of the District of Columbia FOR
the good work he had done in pollt1-
cal way. and who Wilt Is believed
never throw down" his makers Here
again protected interests have little to
| worry over.
Edward J. Murphy, Jr., of New York,
yields more or less gracefully to the
| placid, accomplished smooth and olea-
| ginous Dr. Depew. Here is distinct
| gain. for the doctor is q shining sue
cess as a clubman, has had world
| of experience in smoothing over rough
edges, tops them all in his ability to
| turn a serious discussion into an after
! dinner joke and withal is the official
! representative of the biggest combina-
| ton of corporate interests in the wor!o.
| Should the conflicting interests OF the
| varied concerns which the members OF
| this club hold fast to incite to revolt
| or instruction it will be the part Oh
| the 'easy boss" Platt, Of New. York, to
| still the troubled waters. How ABLY
| the urbane and insinuating doctor Will
|
man.
| If Rough Rider Allen Of Nebraska
| fails to get back into the saddle for
| another six years campaign, VINO can
| doubt that worthy colleague of John
Melton Thurston will succeed him?
White, of California. will not likely
| succeed himself, but the row out in
| the Pacific coast state does not offer
much in the way Of the kind of man
financially-that viii take the place. In
| little Delaware, George Gray, one of the
| able men of the present senate, is ap-
parently doomed to defeat. But for the
failure of the conflicting corporate in
terests of that state to unite, his sue
cessor would have been named long
| ago. Gas" Addicks seems to be the
| leading contestant, although he lacks
! many votes of the needed number. lie
would be an acquisition to the club.
| When March comes in one-th1rd of
| the present senate will be retired. Thlr-
| ty men will have finished the terms TO
| which they were elected. OF that thir-
| ty. four are still without successors,
| fourteen are reelected, and twelve are
| succeeded by new men. Many or the
| new men are young in years, much
| younger than the average of men Sc
| lected for the Office. But the club has
| not suffered to any appreciable extent.
1tcovers wide range Of interests, from
from cattle on the hoof to the finished
product
This so-called club is a singular group
in itself If statecraft and announced
political principles on the part of mem
bers governed them merely, it would
be an extremely difficult and delicate
operation to secure united quorum on
any topic. 1t would be difficult beyond
| the powers of one man-not excepting
| the smooth Dr. Depew or his even ADLER
! COlleague-to count votes enough IN the
| club TO pass a resolution OF eulogy on
a deceased member, so widely do the
| expressed views of the members sep
| arate. But when it comes to passing
| a tariff bill in aid of the oppressed man
| ufacturer, ETC., a quorum speedily ad-
! justs all differences, and substantial
unanimity is the result.
The club runs the gamut of every
/ thing from avowed adherence to the
infallibility of silver as panacea for
| all ills. the sturdy belief that man
who boils sugar anywhere inside or out
| of the United States as expanded
should be looked after. the necessity Of
caring for iron. wool, lumber. cattle
| dead and alive coal, manufactures Of
| all kinds, to expansion. and It's direct
reverse. 1t believes in expansion of
trade and construction of power there
! over 1t numbers--or will in the next
| COnSIeSS- llS lhCiiioSio eAiC pSoS7
dressed man in both houses and pos
sibly the worst. But it represents the
concentrated genius of money and in
S this aspect is Csingularly united in its
every action.
| A WIDE GAMUT.
1t embraces the cool hardihood and
brutal audacity of Hanna and the
placid, smooth, Pecksniffian methods of
Elkins. 1t may lack the cold-blooded.
calculating scheming Of Quay, the
Machiavelli, but it will gain the gentle
insinuating power of Talleyrand De-
pew. 1t runs from, the Stumbling and
ipterminable periods of Jones and
Stewart, of Nevada. to the fierce invec-
| tive of Vest sometimes called the
Thersites of the senate: the ornate.
easy glide of Spooner; the awe-insplr-
| ing Foraker. in his anti-administration
forays and the manner in which Thurs
| ton handles the groundlings. German
| skill as an obstructionist-he tied I'D
| the Wilson bill for weeks until it suit
| ed hirn-Twill be missed, although big
majority Of the club processes Repub-