Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-04-07
The Politician.

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Senate. and added his belief that pub
lie sentiment would endorse the bill
when its workings are more fully COM
pretended. The Republican leaders
of the House have no doubt that the
bill will be sent to the President SUBJ
stantially as 1t passed the Senate.
The general Republican sentiment
towards Admiral Dewey's announce
ment of his candidacy for the Presi-
dency is that of sympathy for the Ad-
mlral. who is believed to have allowed
himself to be pursuaded into doing a
foolish thingtby an ambitious wife and
a schemng brother-in-law. Mr.. John
II. Mclean, his brother-ln-law, Is gen.
orally understood to have been in SYM
pathy with the movement engineered
by ex-Senators German and Hill and
other eastern Democrats to defeat Mr..
Bryan in the Democratic convention,
and it looks as though they intended
trying to use Dewey TO do ii, and in
the event of failure to make Dewey an
Independent candidate. Republicans
regard the denomination ani re-elec-
tlon of President Mckinley as so cer-
tain that they are net seriously con-
cerning themselves about other candi-
dates.
SolicltorGeneral Richards has filed
a brief in the United States Supreme
Court against the application for q
writ of habeas corpus for native of
Porto Rico who was convicted of lille
gal voting by one of the military
courts on the islanG, which strongly
presents the legal position of the Ad-
ministration, that the Constitution
without an act of Congress, and that
consequently the United States SUI
preme Court has no jurisdiction over
the case presented,
Representative Mcpherson. OF Iowa
who was this week nominated by
President Mckinley to be Judge of the
United States Court for the Southern
District of Iowa, has received many
congratulations. The confirmation CT
his nomination by the Senate is likely
to be unanimous, as his reputation as
a leading member of the Iowa bar has
been long established.
Senator Foraker'8 remarks in a
shcrt speech just before the Senate
passed the Porto Rico bill, containing
the tariff clause, stated the position OF
President Mckinley and the support
ers of the bill in nutshell, and should
be carefully considered by those Re-
publicans who have allowed them
selves, for one or another reason tc
antagonize the bill He said: 1--WE
are going to give absolute free trade
20 the people cf Porto Rico. 1t will
;ome in less than twenty-three months
in this bill Indeed, in six months
they may have free trade if they viii
only take advantage of the opportun
ty given them under this bill to ash
for it. We are violating the recon-
mendaticn of the President. We are
approximating to it absolutely. He
did not say that it should come now
right away. day before yesterday, but
that we should have free trade, and
that we should bring it about by legis-
lation. This legislation we are now
enacting, but it cannot be put into cp-
GRAFTON at once. Free trade now
would leave the Porto Ricans in a
state of helplessness."
While President Mckinley and every
member of the Cabinet agree in the
belief that the condition of the Treas
ury, in which surplus is steadily ac-
cumulating, is such as to warrant a
material reduction in the internal rev.
enue taxes imposed to meet the eX-
penses of the war with Spain, the time
remaining of the present session of
Congress is so short and the matters
10 be considered in the formulation of
legislation making a reduction so COM
plicated and important that the Cabi-
net and the President have decided
that it is ineXpedient to recommend
any legislation along that line at the
present session. Meanwhile Treasury
officials will investigate and report en-
the receipts from internal revenue tax
alton, so that the President may in
clude recommendation for reduction
of that class of taxation IN his annual
| message at the opening of the next ses-
sion of Congress.
Secretary Hitchcock promptly ac-
| cepted the resignation of Hon. Web
5ter Davis as Assistant Secretary Of
uhe Interior. Mr.. Davis leaves the
| government service in order that he
might be free TO take the stump for
the Beers without compromising the
Administration. While not doubling
his sincerity in the least, the best
friends of Mr.. Davis think that ne has
made mistake. Nothing can be
gained either for the Beers or for cur
selves by agltating the matter
The House has passed its substitute
for the Senate bill providing a terri
torial government for Hawaii. The
differences between the two bills are
not radical, and no trouble is antlci-