The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-12-05
SPEED IS THE IDEA.
RIGHT MINORITY IN CON-
GRESS TO BE CURTAILED.
Some Republican Opposition tc
the Ship Subsidy Steel Is De-
veloping Gossip from
Washington.

WASHINGTON, December 1.-Speed
will be the ruling idea in the house of
representatives this winter, and the
right of the minority to discuss the
measures on which the house is to pass
will be sharply curtailed in the pro-
cess. Not thatit makes much differ
ence, however, for the house as organ
lied by the republicans is about as per-
feet a machine for registering the ideas
of half dozen leaders as could well be
devised Hence, there is every prom
Use that in the three weeks before the
holidays the house will dispose Of a
vast amount of Legislation. All the
chairmen of important committees ar
irving in town announce their plans to
have the notable measures of the ses-
sion prepared either as soon as con-
gress meets or within few days there
after, and in all probability as soon as
the presidents message has been read
the house will settle to hard and con-
tinuous work. Last year the republi-
cars were proud of passing the gold
standard bill and one or two appropria-
tion bills before the holiday recess.
This year the bill for the reduction of
the war revenues taxes, the bill for
the reorganization OF the army, the
river and harbor appropriation bill,
the oleomargarine bill, the Indian APP
propriation bill and some of the APP
preparation bills will probably be be-
fore the house not later than the be-
ginning of The second week of the ses-
sion. 1t need not be surprising it most
of these measures have been sent to
the senate befel the holidays. With
the cloture rules in force it will be en-
tirely feasible for the house to dispose
of all these bills in two or three weeks
ard thus clear the deck for the eight
or ten large appropriation bills that
would remain to be disposed of in Jan
uary and the first half of February.
There will, it seems, be some opposi-
ton to the ship subsidy steal on the
republican side, but probably not
enough to enable the democrats TO side
track it. Representative Burton, head
of the rivers and Earbors committee,
who is the representative from Sena-
tor Hanna's home city, has declared
| himself against it, saying that he does
! not believe it can be passed, but he
stands entirely alone so far in express
ing this opinion The provisions of
the bill are, of course, scandalous. Ii
adopted it will be adopted in the teeth
of the report of the republican com
missioner of navigation, who, curious
| ly enough, is in favor of the bill, al
though his reportNcontalns in every
line facts that prove the prosperity of
American ship building and disprove
the necessity for the bill.
The late Senator Davis of Minnesota
will be sadly missed in the coming ses-
sion, where his sturdy Americanism
| would probably have routed the at
tempt of our AnglOmaniac secretary OF
state to commit the United States to
British domination of the Nicaraguan
canal The treaty proposes that the
United States should build the canal
and leave it free and unprotected to be
seized by the overwhelming might of
Britians navy if trouble should ever
arise between the two nations. Sena-
tor Davis discovered this fact and re-
ported to the senate an amendment
putting the ''defense" clause omitted
by Mr.. Hay back into the treaty. His
advocacy of this will be sadly missed
when the instrument is taken up this
winter.
Commander Lucien Young, who has
charge of the work of removing the
wreck of the Maine from Havana har-
Dor, has issued circular asking bids
for the work, to be opened at Havana
at L o'clock noon on December 10,
1900. The use of explosives will be
prohibited, and all material pertaining
to the wreck and all accessories for
the removal of the same must be re-
moved from the harbor by April /,
1901.