The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-13

All the Administration and Republican
headquarters gossip serves TO emphasize
The certainty that the combination which
fas extended its hold upon the Government
four years, and perhaps forty. has no idea Of
letting any grass grow under is feet before
reaPing this ye1T-s harvest Accordingly
all hands are talking about the plain duty
CT extending protection 70 our iuzaat mer-
chant marine; thereby meaning that the
Treasury IS 20 be looted OF Ninety million
dollars by way Of additional lining 20 the
pockets of dozen transportation nag
mates. We are assured that Mr.. Mckinley
w,li recommend Su5st4y bill in his forth
coming me. age. withoE; exactly putting it
that way strong language viii be quite
unnecessary. Whatever SIR. Hanna ard bis
associates want, Congress viii give lhem.
recommendation or 40 Recommendation
It is also currently reported that the
December message viii suggest the i'm
portance of al isthmian canal, without
committing its author to any particular
route The wisdom OF such an evasion
is obvious. None of the strong people
now in control of the President and Con
gress has even appeared friendly TO the
-NASS-4 q > 10 lanai pAc4sOS4A2Ol " As LIE
should be so it would be difficult for ou.-
siders to guess. The antagonism of the
trans-eontinental railways has had s5me-
thing to do with it. But, on the other
hand, very close friends of the minis
tratfon are in the Panama deal. II the
combination has arranged with the trans
continental magnates-easier now psr-
haps since Huntington's death-or is
ready to shake them on and proceed to
business, there is a possible business rea-
son why the Panama scheme, worthless
in itself. might appeal more strongly. to
the commercial sense OF the exploiting
party than It's rival
On the Nicaragua Canal. If constructed.
work would be started practically de novo.
and as a national undertaking. This would
involve official responsibility for expen-
ditdres, and the public would elamOr for
accountings. The opportunities for loot.
therefore, would be much less than IN fle
case of de Lesseps' old wreck, the suppo-
sititious assets and securities of which
could be juggIed and iobbed by reergaai-
cation committee to the tune OF many
pleasant millions, So, We presume that
the Panama project will be the popular
and winning one, and viii be provided for
early in the next Congress. if not jammed
through this winter. Incidentally, the
ay-Pauncefote Treaty viii be passed as
a preliminary knockout to the Nicaragua
Canal
Senator Scott of West Virginia, who was
in Washington Sunday, is convinced that
a radical reapportionment of Southern rep
resentation in Congress is needed. He is
also greatly exercised because he fears that
there was Illegal voting down in Kentucky.
We judge from some remarks he is said TO
have made that he took drastic measures
to prevent anything of the same sort in
West Virginia. Three weeks before the
election he had the State poIIed, and knew
approximately what the vote and majority
would be. He does not enIigbten the world
as to how many units Of that vote and ma
5ority are now home again in Pennsylva-
MIA. Virginia, North Carolina. and The Dis
trtct of Columbia. but the number is popu-
larry supposed to be in excess of twenty
thousand.
Trusts are a good thing. as Senator |
Scott said in New York. and as the Ameri
can people said at the polls last Tuesday.
He also thinks that q large Army will be
a good thing to help the trusts along. Not |
that We need more cavalry. because. as he
observes. the Indians are pretty wei dis |
posed of by this time What we need, in
his opinion, is a largely increased artillery
arm: me artillery regiments can serve |
a double purpose They can care fer the
coast equipment For the purpose of queiI-
ing riots in the cities. they VIII be every |
bit as effective as infantry" By this ex- /
pressien We are led to understand that il I
Is not fhe intention OF the combination now |
in the saddle hereafter TO allow the use
Of State troops in municipal troubles: but |
TO depend upon Federal soldiers. Regulars,