The evening times., 1900-02-16
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Opposed by the speaker.-If the s

Opposed by the Speaker.-If the st.
Louis Worlds Fair bill is not reported at
this session the st. Louisans will abandon
their enterprise. If the bill is not reported
it will be directly due to the opposition oil
Speaker Henderson. Stripped of all hat-
tering speculation and surmise, the situ-
alton is reduced to the condition Indicated
by the foregoing statements. General
Henderson is antagonistic to the bill not
because he is opposed to the fair, but be-
cause he considers it his party duty to
keep appropriations down to the bare
necessities of the Government on the eve
of a national campaign. The st. Louis bill
in toto carries only six and half million
dollars-a mere bagatelle. it is pointed out,
In comparison with the aggregate of ap-
propriations of seven hundred millions,
which will have to be made at this session. :.
but it is stated that the Speaker, weeks ago,
drew the line at the hundred million
mark. and he subbornly refuses to permit
a cent beyond that vast sum to be taken
from the Treasury In view OF the fact
that General Henderson lives in the
Mississippi Valley, and that Iowa is one
of the leading States of the Louisiana Pur
chase, whose centennial it is desired to
celebrate at st. Louis in 1903, the friends
OF the Worlds Fair bill declare that the
Speakers fatal opposition will return to
plague him in his future political career. If
the Republicans should carry the next
House it is stated that General Henderson
would find his path to the Speakership re-
ri nf hSt acl
Chandler Biacklisted.-It is said that
the name of the Hon. William Eaton
Chandler now adorns in big red letters the
voluminous blacklist kept by the Hanna
machine. Senator Chandler has opposed
nearly every pet measure of the Admins
tration that has come before this Con
gress. and his vote with the Democrats
yesterday against the Gold Currency bill
is supposed TO have completely alienated
him from the party organization. His
strenuous opposition to the Administra
tion's sell-out TO Great Britain on the
Nicaragua Canal enterprise was sufficient
to cause him to be persona non grata at
the White House, and his vote against
the solid party strength in the Senate on
the Gold bill is thought to have put the
finishing touches on his apostacy. Senator
Chandler has hard fight on his hands al
best for reelection at the hands of the
Legislators to be chosen in New Hamp-
shire this year and it is argued that if he
triumphs over the combined opposition OF
his enemies at home and the national ma
chine il will be an indication that New
Hamr shire is rapidly getting away from
Republicanism. The Senator's delightful
personality, of course is a big element in
his favor. and should he be victorious his
triumph Will be a distinct evidence that al
least in one part of The country individual
ity yet is stronger than political organZa-
tion. His defeat would be genuinely re-
gretied by the newspaper corps at Wash
ington. Not only by his keen satire and
brilliant wit on the floor Of the Senate is
Mr.. Chandler an almost dailv source of
JOY to the press gallery, but by his uni
form courtesy and kindness to newspaper
men he has won the esteem OF the mem
bers OF the fourth estate in Washington.
IL is the universal opinion of the press
men that the Senate will be a dun body
indeed when all the Chambers have been
removed