Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-05-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IO7H Vul El5E dTsIl O0fE0s l771ll .
WASHINGTON. May %, 1900.

WASHINGTON, May Is, 1900.
Republican Senators consented to a Com
q essional Investigation of all Cuban ac-
counts, as proposed by Senator Bacon's
resolution, not because they wanted an
investigation. but because they feared to
defy a practically universal public demand
for one. They are now trying to devise
schemes that viii enable them to keep the
investigation in their own hands, but
Democratic Senators are Wide-awake and
intend to participate in that investigation,
and if possible, they are going to have an
other for Porto Rico, where there has been
great extravaganza in the payment of
postal employees, if no actual stealing. 1t
is also generally believed that affairs are
quite as bad, if not worse, in the civil
branch of our government in the Philip
pines, and there are scandals even in the
Washington City Post Office.
The anxiety of the Republican leaders
to hurry adjournment is amusing. AL
though they have good big majority in
both branches, they act as though they
were afraid that Congress would do some
thing they didn't want it to do, if adjourn
ment wasn't rushed. II is hardly likely
that adjournment will take place June g.,
the date SIT by the House resolution, but
it will as soon thereafter as the Republican
leaders in the Senate can get the appro-
priation bills ont of the way.
To appeal from Caesar Mckinley to the
American people is now the program of the
Boer ENJOYS. They have not abandoned
their idea of making tour Of the country
and arousing public sentiment. They will
begin this week in Baltimore, and from
there will 90 to other cities where they
have accepted invitations to attend public
meetings.
Representative Talbert, of s. c., has
been making another warm speech on the
Pension question, his text being the case
of the Michigan man who draws 81 500 q
year as clerk in the Interior Department
and 81 200 year as private Secretary to
Represent alive s. w. Smith, of Michigan,
and who has been voted by Congress a
pension of $72 month for total disability.
Representative Ii. G. Smith cited the case
of Justice Long, of the Supreme Court OF
Michigan, who draws a pension of $40 a
month as an excuse for this case, and Mr..
Talbert said in reply: s'Two wrongs do not
make one right. The gentleman asks now
UCIducC OnC Aldn 10 4ODUAnE NuQ Piub0CA-
ing the government upjustIy and unmeri-
Ioriously, that another man may be placed
on the pension roll and receive high
pension. That is the trouble about this
Indiscriminate grabbing of pensions. One
man gets in and another man wants to get
in. Members have their friends and they
will not vote against each other. They
will not have the reports read because they
sit here like dummies saying, tOh, they
will reach my case next That Is what is
the matter. You want to do a dozen
wrongs to make one right and you want to
continue to do wrong in order that your
own cases may be favorably acted upon. /
want to see justice done by the old sol
diers and / will help do it every time if
can, but do not want to give any soldier
what he does not deserve"
Senator Morgan jumped on the opposi
ton to the Nicaragua canal, which has
apparently succeeded in hanging up the
bill. in speech in which he did not
mincs words. He began with the six
syndicates, organized under New Jersey
laws for the purpose of controlling canal
routes on the lsthmas of Darien of which
be said Il think the assumption, arrogance,
and brazen faced audacity of these people
have reached climax" He charged that
this government was submitting to the
cutting and badgering of the new Panama
Canal Company, which in conjunction
with the trans-continental railroad, in
spired the opposition to the Canal bill,
because Presidential election is pending
and that it is afraid to tackle any corpora
ton that has or processes to have some
great power, and he asked: rs it to be said
here that the President is a party to this
ambidextrous and cross eyed political
rascality Mr.. Morgan concluded with
these plain words: " The President, who
is candidate for reelection, is in the
hands of his friends, and his friends are
the enemies of the Nicaragua Canal. I
hardly know whether to say l hope for
the passage of the Canal bill at this
session or not. That depends upon two
men upon this floor. If they are con-
trolled by a determination that the reven-
ues for Republican campaign purposes
shall not be cut off from the great rail-
road and canal syndicates, then the bill
cannot pass at this session. The RESPONSE
bIlity, however, must rest on them"
The Spooner bill, making Mr.. Mckinley
Gar of the Philippines, is dead for this
session, and probably for all time. as in
addition to some Republican opposition to
it, the Democrats in the Senate have served
notice that the bill would not be allowed
to pass at this session, and they have the
power to make that notice good by simply
refusing to allow the bill to reach a vote
Mr.. Mckinley who witnessed the eclipse
to-day from Fort Monroe, where it was
total, ought to have got therefrom a good
advance idea of his own total eclipse next
November. OF course he used a govern
ment vessel to make the trip to and from
Fort Monroe; Republican officials seldom
pay for anything they can get for nothing
by making use of their official authority.