The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-06-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINeroN. d. G. June A. /

ments between House and Senate on
the several items in two appropriation
bills which are now in course of set
Element, and adjournment this week
is certainty, although the Senate
has not yet adopted the House reso-
luton, which provides for adjourn
ment Wednesday. While there are
several measures Enacted upon which
many Republicans would like to have
seen passed at this session, taken as a
whole, the work of the session has
been satisfactory to the Republicans,
and the record made is one upon
which they will be proud to stand
during the coming campaign.
The Senate by unanimous consent
agreed that the Nicaragua Canal bill
should be taken up December 10, and
remain the unfinished business until
disposed of. That shows how far out
of the way are those who have been
saying that the Republican leaders in
the Senate did not intend to allow
that bill to pass. The bill would have
been passed before adjournment, if it
could have been done without an ex-
dragged the session into midsummer.
1t was discovered some time ago that
there was an agreement among Dem
ocratic Senators opposed to the Mic
aragua Canal, who are more numer-
Gus than is generally known, to pro-
long the session indefinitely, if an at
tempt was made to bring the bill to a
vote. That and other good reasons
made the Republicans willing to allow
the bill to go over.
If the Democratic party had the
slightest regard for consistency, it
would, after the Democratic members
OF the House defeated the joint reso-
luton proposing a constitutional
amendment giving Congress power
to regulate trusts, forever keep mum
on the subject of trusts. The Repub-
licans did not have votes enough to
adopt the resolution, two-thirds being
required for that class of legislation,
and only five Democrats had the nerve
to defy their party caucus and vote
SO short of the requisite two-thirds.
Representative Littlefield, of Maine,
made another great speech on this
question, in which he scored the Dem
ocratic party for the record of its lead
ers, including Mr.. Bryan, on trusts
and trust legislation, closing with
these words: I'VE are ready to go to
the people in November and to submit
ment whether the Democratic party
that has proved itself incompetent to
deal with this question, shall be trust
ed, or the Republican party. If the
people of this country shall register
their verdict in accordance with the
proposition that you can fool some
of the people all of the time and all of
the people some of the time, but you
cannot fool all of the people all of the
time then, when the sun rises upon
the morning that sees William Nc
Kinley's denomination in Philadel-
phia, it will be as the sun of Austen
litz, illumined by the honor of the
Republican party Everytime a
Democratic demagogue howls against
trusts he should be confronted with
the vote on this resolution, the most
practical antitrust legislation that
has been before Congress, and asked
why the Democrats defeated it.
Senator Hanna surprised both his
enemies and his friends when he jump
ed into a running debate on the Nav
al Appropriation bill and tackled Sen
ators Wellington, Tillman, Allen, Pet
tigrew and Teller, and got the best of
each of them, and proved that he
could take care of himself in that
most dangerous of all Senatorial fights
running debate.
The Senate added an amendment
to the Military Acadamy Appropria-
ton Bill that will make General Miles,
a LieutenantG and General
Corbin MajorGeneral, if agreed to
by the House and it probably will be.
In leaving the settlement of the
Senatorial dispute to the voters in
Montana, who will this year elect the
Legislature, which will next January
meet to fill the seat now claimed by
Mr.. Clark and Mr. Maginnis, which is
the practical effect of the postpon-
ment of consideration of the creden-
tials of the claimants by the Senate
Committee on Election, the Senators
took the easiest way out of a mess.
Knowing that the Littlefield bill,
amending the Sherman antitrust law
would be passed by the Republicans of
the House, regardless of which way
they voted, all of the Democrats, pro-
badly hoping to square themselves
for defeating the antitrust Constitu-
tional amendment resolution, voted
with the Republicans for the bill.