Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
Washinqton, Jan. Stb, 1900.

Washington, Jan. Sth, 1900.
The democratic attempt to play
politics with the relations between
the U. S. treasury and those national
banks chosen not by favoritism, but
because they put up U. S. bonds to
secure the government from loss, as
repositories for money collected for
internal revenue taxation, was one of
the --LATEST failures ever seen in con-
gress. Instead of delaying action on
the resolutions calling for all the COR
respondence between these national
banks and the secresary of the TREAS
ury. as the democrats were foolish
enough to hope they would do,
the republicans in both house and
senate assisted in putting the resolu-
tions through, and Secretary Gage
promptly put force of clerks to copy
ing the records, in order that no time
might be lost in putting the informa-
ton before congress and the country.
Instead of being opposed TO furnish
ing this Information, Secretary
an official opportunity for showing
exactly how and why he had taken
the necessary steps to keep the money
in circulation, without risk to the
government, which is paid for inter-
nal revenue taxes, instead of hoard
ing it in the treasury and cramping the
business of the country. Instead of
making democratic political capital,
the democrats have added to the es-
TEEN in which the administration is
held by the business interests of the
country, which know that our present
prosperity isn't accidental, bnt the
result of we'll defined policies.
The house will this week begin with
the appropriation bills, the urgency
deficiency bill, mostly made up of
items for the war department., made
necessary by the revolt in the Philip
pines, being first on the list.
Senator Hoar made speech to day
on his Philippine resolution, in which
he said much calculated to encourage
the Filipinos to continue their revolt
against the U. S. This elected ap
plause from the democratic senators
and caused regret to many of Senator
Hoar's Oldest and most sincere admir-
ers. No one who knows the man
doubts the sincerity Of his opinion, but
if ever there was case of mistaken
judgment, it is his. He refuses to see
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and cowardIy for the U. S. to abandon
the Philippines, not to mention the
commercial disadvantage to America
that would follow such all abandon
ment; that the whole civilized world
looks to US to give the Philippines
good government.
The greater part of the present
week will be devoted by the Roberts
committee to hearing legal arguments.
Ex- Secretary Carlisle, leading coun-
sci against Roberts, began his
today and he has until
Wednesday to finish it. Then Roberts
will be given al opportunity to reply,
he has already consumed
two days in argument, which may be
summed up in a sentence-The house
has no right to deny him seat. The
committee may report late this week,
but it is more likely to wait until next
week.
The routine work of congress, such
as the preparation of appropriation
bills, etc., is much more rapidly done
than it used to be. For instance, the
house committee on Indian affairs,
under the old method, when the time
alton bill in shape, would request the
Indian commissioner and several of
his subordinates to come to the Cap
itol; then questions were certain to
be asked that could not be answered
without consulting the records, and
much time was lost. Now, the COM
mittee meets in room at the Indian
bureau, gets all the information it
requires from the records direct and
gets the bill, which is troublesome
one, ready in about e-fourth the
time it used to require.
Secretary Wilson said of Secretary
Hays great diplomatic triumph in Sc
curing guarantees from the leading
European nations of the perpetual
maintenance of the :open door" at all
Chinese ports which he declares sup
plements the work done by our army
and navy and secures our trade rela-
tions with China: GA year ago no
nation would have listened to a prop
osition of this kind, but the whole
world listens to the U. S. now. Some
idea of the vastness of the interests