The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-21
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL
From Our O.cn Correspondent.

From Our Opn Correspondent.
WAsHINGToN, D. c., Nov. II, 1900.
Washington is looking forward with
great pleasure to the coming three
years of Congress. Washington de-
reads o;i the Government for existence.
A Republican Congress always. brings,
not only vastly larger and moro waste
full appropriations than does Demo-
cratic one, but it attracts coterie of
wealthy men, trust lnagnates, Lobby
lists and the like, who come to solicit
favnrs that they would never :::are 10
ask from the Democrats. Thcse men
spend their money freely and produce
prosperity" here. Then again, the
result Of the election insures the reten-
tion of most Of the present clerks in
their positions and frees them from
fear of the rotation of Office" advoca-
teddy the Democrats. OF course. the 9TH
er side of this appeals to those who are
outside and want to have their turn at
the public table, but these latter are
not in Washington to any great extent
while the former are. Last session. al
though the appropriations werc the
largest in the history of the country
whether in peace or war, still there.was
some curb on them in view of the ap-
preaching elections. Now there will
be none, and q riot of jobs may be ex-
pected. The river and harbor bill will
probably be the largest in history. the
public building bills will cost millions,
the ship subsidy and army and navy
appropriations will be almost without
limit, and o goodly portion of all of
these will find their way into Wash
ington pockets. Hence, Washington
is happy.
Representative J. II. Bankhead, of
Alabama, who is the ranking Demo-
cratic member of the Committee on
Public Building and Grounds and also
a member of the River and Harbor
Committee, was in Washington yester-
day to escort some Of his colleagues to
an inspection Of the Coosa River, and
in an interview on the results of the
elections said: ~ do not look for any
immediate reorganization of the Demo-
cratic party. The defeat at the recent
election was by no means q death blow.
The party has survived much worse
defeats before. 1t is not time yet to
talk of reorganization or candidates..
Some man will come forward for the
emergency when the time is at hand"
at the same time, most Democratic
leaders agree that it will be necessary
to reorganize before the next election
in order to meet changed conditions.
In the past the South has had O certain
number of votes which is alw ,ys cast
for the Democratic candida.a and
which, with New York and Int :ana
gave it splendid chance to Win,
Hereafter, it will have nothing OF the
sort, even if it wins back the border
States which it lost in the last two
elections, and even if it retains it's
present voting strength. There is no
reasonable doubt, however, that it will
not retain this. The Republicans in
tend to cut it down in proportion to the
disfranchised iiliterate negro vote. IF
only twenty votes are taken away from
the South by this means (and it is more
probable that the number will be forty)
the commanding position of the South
will be gone. and issues will have to
resign itseIi to continued defeat.
One of the schemes which will un-
doubtedly be pushed to fruition in
Congress this winter is the shin sui, jidy
bill. which grants enormous bopnties
to American built ships. The bill pro-
vides that a man who builds q great
and speedy ocean steamer shall be paid
bounties in twenty years amounting to
twice the whole cost of the ship. The
bounty to be earned even byca slow
freight steamer, with n speed of less
than ii knots, will amount every year
to more than 8 per cent. Of her cost
when new. On the faster steamers,
like the best belonging to the Inter-
national Navigation Company, the
bounty will be rather more than 10 per
cent. Of their cost when new. It is
admitted by the advocates Of the bill
that the b6unties will be large enough
to pay ali the salaries and wages Of the
officers and crews who man the ships.
The right under this bill TO contract
for twenty-year bounty will expire at
the end of ten years. During ten years
ship owners will have the privilege Of
contracting to receive bounties for
twenty years from the date of the con-
tract; but ships built after the ten
years have expired will receive no
bounty. The result will be that in ten
years every American ship will be un-
der bounty contract for the full ex-
pectancy OF it's years of usefulness.
New ships without bounty can not
compete with the subsidized shins. and