Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MoNIToB.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18th, 1899.

citizens, thoroughly Disguised with
the game of small politics the demo
crat Senators, with five or six excep-
tions, are trying to play for the con-
troll of the democratic party, with the
treaty of peace; but he knows that
they cannot injure him or the repub-
lican party or the country, and that,
although they can delay the ratifica-
ton of the treaty, they cannot pre-
vent it. The most that the obstruc-
ZIONIST can do will be to prevent the
treaty being voted upon at this ses-
sion of Congress. In that case an ex-
ira session will be called to ratify the
treaty. Neither President Mckinley
nor the republican leaders of the SEN
ate. will consent to the compromise
offered by the obstructionists to
amend the treaty by binding this
government to particular policy to-
wards the Philippines.
ssThe right man in the right place"
is the general republican comment
upon Speaker Reeds selection of
Representative Payne of New York,
to succeed the late Representative
Dingley as Chairman of the House
Committee on Ways and Means and
republican leader. Mr. Payne has
been in the House for fourteen years
and has long ranked as leading
member of that body.
The vote on the Nicaragua Canal
bill was delayed until Saturday after
noon, mostly by obstructive tactics,
when twas passed, after having been
amended by vote of 48 to 6. If the
House Commerce Committee would
report this bill as it is, it could be
passed, but it is feared that it will not.
If it doesn't the chance for getting
the bill through at this season is slim.
The River and Harbor bill has been
reported to the House. 1t carries ap--
preparations for more than $12,OOO,-
600, divided among thirty odd states
and is certain to become law.
The attitude of the two political par
ties toward the Philippines was
graphically shown by the following,
from a spirited dialogue between Gen.
Grosvenor, of Ohio, and Representa-
Carmack, of Tennessee: Gen. Grosve-
nor-'sWhat would the distinguished
gentleman from Tennessee do with
the Philippines?" Mr.. Carmack-"I
would turn my back on them and
never look back" Gen. Grosvenor-
'sAnd all the world would brand on
your back the word COWARD"
Representative Bailey, of Texas,
during the running discussion in
which much was said about the slav-
cry of the Filipinos sought to discon-
cert Gen. Grosvenor by saying: "I
would like to ask the gentleman if
this new crusade upon the old slavery
question is to fly in the face of the
Presidents generous offer to take
care of the Confederate graves?" But
he looked thoroughly ashamed of
himself when Gen. Grosvenor brought
down the House by quietly replying:
SIN the graves of the noble men who
fought for mistaken cause was bur-
led the opposition to the great princi-
pies of the republican party in the
controversy for liberty and justice to
all mankind; and therefore it is meet
and proper that the leader of this
country should be the leader of the
idea of protecting those graves; and I
endorse every word he says.7
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the town clerk of Hartford, Conn, a
sworn statement as to the cost Of his
to the Senate, which is as
creditable to him as it is to the Con-
Mr.. Hawley spent no money, except
for postage, and that less So was
spent for that.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota, made
an able speech against the Vest anti
resolution, in which addi-
tional proof of our right constitution
ally to govern the Philippines as col
onies, was produced, and besides he
truthfully said: "Our duty is to
breath into the people of those islands
the life and spirit which will enable
them to enjoy and appreciate the
the government and the privileges
that are to be given them" Mr. Mel
son also gave Senator Tillman, of
South Carolina who tried to put in
his pitchfork, by intimating that Sen
ator Nelson was better posted about
Norway, where he was born, and
Sweden, than about the United States,
a knockout blow by referring him to
numerous histories from which ali the
facts about the people of Norway and