El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-17

-Hennd- Hair Now the Thing In
High Society-Opinions On the
South African War And Other
Things.
Special CorresDondence of the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l3.-There us-
ed to be q good old senatorial tradition
that young senators should be seen and
not heard. A man was not supposed to
do spy speaking until his second or
third term. But the rule is getting
frayed out around the edges now,
otherwise Senator Beveridge would not
speech. 1t was pretty good speech
taken by and large, but it did not
please Hoar, Mason and Pettigrew;
Senator Hoar made pro-Tsgslo speech
in answer aud Pettigrew followed with
q rambling statement, q Ia the New
York street procession, looming no
whence ard goingr no WHITTIER" Mason
is saving his energies for South Afri-
can use but intimates that he intends
to retaliate with the publication OF a
self-laudatory autobiography Bever-
idge wrote sometime and somewhere.
just what that has to do with an ar
gument concerning the Philippines is
a secret locked up in back closet of
Senator Mason's cerebrum or cerebel-
lum or something.
Senator Dupuy de Hale is swinging
around the circle toward the jingo
side of the fence. AS starter he pro-
poses 'wby. oh, Why resolution re.
garding the stoppage of American -four
by the British at DelagOa Bay. Sen
ator Hale's prestige suffered q good
deal by his pro-Spanish attitude be-
fore the late war and the sdministra- |
tion didn't stand the pro-rata amount |
of favors a republican senator should |
position.
Disposition of Offices is worrying the |
senate more just now than anything |
else. The sergeant at arms is Col.
Dick Bright. He is good democrat
and a holdover from the senate before
last and the new senate, being strong-I
ly repu blican, wants to swap him off
for somebody else. But Col. Dick be-
ing a wise man and knowing full well
On which side his butter Is Dreaded,
has been fixing for that state of affairs
for some time. All senatorial Offices
are practically at his disposition and
he has been giving the older republi-
can senators more than their quota
share. Allison. for instance. has twelve
appointees placed where he Ia
entitled to possibly six. In q read
lustment such as would be caused
Allison would have to share up with
some of the new senators. Hence ALI
son and some of the others are pro-
B right men and together with the
democrats may be able to keep him.
The newest thing proposed lie however
= com bine of 20 senators formed to
postpone any action until a caucus
agreement can BE made. They will
then make clean sweep of all the
offices leaving the other senators only
The appoin tment of their own private
All of which is another .
departure from old-fashioned senatorial .
presidents.
The house com mittee on commerce
has ordered favorable report ON the
Hepburn bill for digging the Nicar-
aqua ditch. 1t directs the president to
acquire the necessary land from Nj
,aragus and Costa Rics, whereupon he
9 to "direct the secretary of war to l
TX cavate and construct a canal" The
um of s140, OOO, 900 is to be made avail
lble. So Secretary Root may have to
houlder his trenching tools and go
Town to Central America. This bill
nay not pass, but something like it
will some time. A canal is bound to q
ome some day, and the Nicaragua
quite seems the most feasible. 1t has
he meal culable advantage of being
rec from the legal troubles which y
7ould arise from any attempt to do U
on the French line at Papa-
ns aud besides it is much nearer our
erritory, thereby saving several days.
teaming. Mr.. Root, taking time by
he forelock, announces that he will II
ot be a candidate for vice-president.
The president gave his annual re-
option to the diplomatic corps on the
light of the 10th and 1t is conceded to
e the gayest in years. All the diplo- Y