Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-03-21
Current Topics.
MCKINLEY IN GEORGIA.
Scheming for denomination. Net
Beef but Horse Meat.

scheming for denomination. Net
Beef but Horse Meat.
From our regular correspondent)
Washington, Mar, ID 1892
Mr.. Mckinley hasn't gone to Thomas
vile, Ga, where he will be the guest of
Boss Hanna for several weeks, solely
to get rest and recreation. Not by a
jugfull, there is political scheming, and
a lot of it in the trip. While they are
in Thomasville the leading administra-
ton Senators and Representatives will
visit them, and in addition to clinchine
Mr.. McKinley's denomination next year,
the question of whether the admins
tration will try to prevent Czar Reeds
reelection as Speaker of the House, will
be carefully gone over and decided. II
it were only question of inclination, il
might be considered as already decided
Mr.. Mckinley and number OF his
closest friends are sore on Reed because
of his attitude towards all of the admin
stration measures that came before the
late Congress, aud would gladly antag
onize his reelection as Speaker, if they
thought they could beat HIM, but there's
the rub. They are afraid to fight Reed,
unless they are reasonably certain oi
being able to control enough votes to
down him, because if they do so and
fail, they know he wcula fight back dur
ing the life Of the fifty-sixth Congress,
which will be as long as that of the ad-
ministration.
Democrats will be glad if the repub-
lican party will endorse the claim of
Representative Cannon, of H., one of
Gar Reeds most obedient henchmen.
hat real Nicaragua Canal legislation.
which has been commended by National
Conventions, regardless OF patty was
purposely prevented at the recent ses-
sion of Congress by the Republican
House. The blame for the failure OF
that Legislation had been placed upon
Reed, but when Mr.. Cannon says: "For-
tunately, the House OF Representatives
resisted the enactment of the proposed
legislation" in his labored commend
alton of republican accomplishments
during the Fifty-fifth Congress, be
places the responsibility on the Repul
lican party, and actually gloats over i,
as something to be proud of. Will the
National Convention of his party dare
to assume the same attitude on this
question?
While the friends of Gen. Miles do
not go so far as to make the direct
charge that the canned meat furnished
our soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico was
horse meat, although labeled "Roast
Beef they do not hesitate to say that
suspicion strongly points that way. 1t
is known that $4,000 cans of the meat
was bought in Europe, where it had
been shipped from this country. The
/ labels on the meat said it was packed in
Chicago, but the firm alleged to have
packed it-'sThe Prairie State Packing
Co.'s said to be unknown either in
Chicago or to the wholesale trade of the
country. That horse meat is being
canned in Chicago and shipped to Eu-
rope is known, and persons who ought
TO snow have declared that the meat in
question was horse meat. If the Mill
tary Court of Inquiry really wishes to
get at the bottom of this business, it
ought not TO be a difficult matter. The
contractors who supplied this meat
could be made to tell who canned it and
where it WAS canned. The Court is al
ready accused OF failure to call wit
nesses known to have information tend
ing to prove Gen. Miles contention, and
if its members are not careful their re-
port will meet with the same reception
the country gave to the report of the
Alger Whitewash Commission.
Senator Chandler, who had reputat-
ion for talking against things supported
by his party, but always voting with
the party, has an acute attack OF anti
trustphobia just now. He talks agsis st
the trusts as though he was good dem
ocrat or populist, but that is no reason
to expect that he will vote against any
measures desired by the trusts which may
come before the Senate, in the future; he
,rrtainlv has not done so in the past.
Navy Department officials say that arm
or for our war-hips cannot he bought for
300 a ton. me l.li - af ID l. Cong
r .s A st entr t f.fs chquse
Naval Committee shows conclusivel. aai
it could be if there was not an arnlai
trust, formed to bleed the government.
One of the members of this trust sold
Russia three thousand tons Of the same
armor for $240 ton. twas claimed by
n repres entative of the company that $40
600 was lost on that order, for the purpose
of introducing their armor in Europe
This claim was a direct admission that
the armor only cost 1886 tonyeu,the
trust got the price fixed at $3.50 ton IN
the bill as first passed by Congress. The
reduction was made by the Senate. That
is the sort of business that makes rich
trusts and disgusts those who believe IN
old fashioned honest dealings with the
government as we'll as with individuals
III the trust can make armor for 1888 a
ton. which it's agents say it can. 1t car
certainly afford to sell il to the govern
ment for $500 ton, but, Of course, that