The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-17
WHEELER NOT A CANDIDATE.
HIS WITHDRAWAL RELIEVES CON-
SIDERABLE ANXIETY.

He Is Looking for n Place In the
Regular Army His Record lis
Unique in That He Is Perhaps the
Only American General who Saw
Service An the Civil War, Cuba and
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Washington, May 16.-Gen. Joe Wheeler
has relieved the anxiety of his constitu-
ents in the Eighth Alabama district by
giving them formal notice that he will
not be a candidate for reelection to Con-
gress this fall.
He had already announced that he
would not be a candidate for the short
term created by the refusal of Speaker
Henderson to recognize his credentials as
long as he held a commission in the vol
unteer army, and who even went so far
as to declare that his resignation of that
commission made no difference so long
as he was holding his commission at tho
time Congress convened. A good many
lawyers in Congress-better lawyers than
the Speakt r-believe that Gen. Hender-
son had no right to assume the RESPONSE
bilty for keeping Wheeler out of Con-
6iSSSp Dhl the OptdheT Is a PfOlCnHldn,
with a Scotch head. and having made
up his mind enc way refused TO change 1t.
This statement by Gen. Wheeler is
equivalent 40 the announcement that
President Mckinley has given him a
definite promise that he is to be given a
commission in the regular army. 1t is
well known that this has been Gen.
Wheeler's greatest ambition Such step
will round out his career, making It m
many respects the most unique in Ameri-
can history. Educated a West Point,
he was an officer in the regular army
when the Civil War broke out How he
followed his state and became the brill
liant cavalry leader of the Confederacy
is history with which everybody rs of
course familiar. For a man who was
once the most dreaded of &he Confederate
leaders to have won fresh laurels while
wearing the blue in Cuba and the Philip
pines and then to round out his career
as a general officer in the regular army
it is indeed unique. He is one man of
seventy-fve millions.
Gen. Wheeler believes tha. he Is the
only officer of the former Confederacy
VINO saw actual fighting ana had part in
Il during che war with Spain; and he be-
EieVes, further, that he is the only man
who was a general commanding troops
in the Civil War, the war in Cuba and
He Is certainly the only former Confed-
crate to attain to such distinction, and
Il Is very likely that no other man in
the United States can show such a rec
ord.
His ambition to round out his career in
the regular army is easily understood
when these things are considered. He
could keep on going to Congress as long
az he chose, and there Is no certainty
that when he IL on the retired list of the
army ne will not again get into politics.
The ship Subsidy Bill.
When Senator Chandler, with the bland
and child-like innocence which he as
sumes when he Is saying something par
ticulary mean. declares that he knows
of no purpose to refrain from passing the
shipping bill at this session of Congress,
he knows that he is getting under the Gu
ticle of his good friend Senator Hanna.
Senator Hanna wants that shipping bill
and wants II bad; he doesn't see why he
should not get anything he wants through
the Senate but he has gradually learned
that there are other Senators Neither he
nor Senator Frye expect 10 see the bill
pass the Senate at this session. When
Senator Frye was asked to-day about the
outlook from a shipping bill standpoint,
he summed II up in one word. Gloomy"
said he. That was all.
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