The age-herald., 1900-06-06
POLITICAL GOSSIP AT
 NATIONAL CAPITAL
BY ALBERT HALsTEAD

Washington June 5.-lSpecial )-After making a determined fight to have the Nicaragua canal bill considered this ses- sion, a fight deemed to be unsuccessful be- cause of opposition to present action on both sides of the senate, Senator Morgan made an excellent strategical move when he secured unanimous consent to have the bill taken up for consideration on Decem- ber 10, just one week after the opening of the second session of the present congress That insures plenty of time for debating the question before adjournment, and seems to promise it's passage. Quite a number of seniors would have been glad to have objected to fixing a date, but they thought it impoltic to do so, and were rather surprised by the Alabama senator's move. Meanwhile the senate committee on inter-oceanic canals will be Investigating the several Panama canal companies and obtaining evidence to show the conspiracy against action on the canal question. It is quite likely that it will be shown that transcontinental railroad interests are fighting the canal, not openly but by plac- ing as many Instructions in its path as possible. The disclosure of this kind of opposition will give Senator Morgan and his colleagues on the committee an addi- tonal argument for passing the bill next session.
 It Is probably too late to change the loea- ton of the democratic national convention, but the democrats in this city and through out the country are exceedingly indignant at the extortions of the Kansas City hotel keepers These extortions are the more irritating as the boomers of Kansas City distinctly promised the democratic nation- al committee that everybody would be treated fairly and that there would be no eXtortionate rates. But now every guest at a Kansas City hotel must pay for four days board and loding beginning from July 4' in addition to paying for each day he is at the hotel prior to July f. It is rob oery plain and simple. Kansas City has secured national convention for the last time.
 All arrangements for the republican na- tonal convention at Philadelphia are com pieted. The convention hall will seat six teen thousand people, the stage alone giv- ing seats for fifteen hundred The hall is admirably ventilated the press facilities and telegraph accommodations are splen- did. In fact those who have visited Phil adelphia and inspected the convention hall say 1t is better than any previous hall oc- cupled by national convention Judging by the way in which hotel accommodat tions nave been gobbled up there will be an im- mense crowd in attendance.
 The idea is becoming more general among democratic politicians that a man from New York state must be nominated for Vice-president. The leaders argue that such nomination would greatly improve the chances of carrying New York for Mir. Bryan, and that as New York must be carried to elect a democratic president the only thing to do is to choose some demo- crat from that state upon whom all fac uons can unite. Elliot Ranforth is most prominently named. o. H. P. Belmont is ambitious, and the fact that he could make a large campaign contribution does not hurt him. Judge Parker still has advo- cates, and George B. Mcclellan enjoys a boom.