Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-05-03
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1900
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

At Washington, Thursday, there was
some talk of Penrose resigning, and Gov.
Stone appointing Quay in his place but
there was nothing of it. The Pittsburg
Times correspondent said that the
Quay people are still very bitter against
Senators Vest and Hanna. SO far as
the former is concerned, ne merely Kept
his record on such cases straight, ana
the claim that his vote would nave
seated Col. Quay is not based upon a
knowledge of all the facts in the case.
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, did
not vote, but it is well known that, mad
Mr.. Vest voted for Quay, Pettigrew
would have voted against him and the
result would have been unchang-
ed The same state of affairs existed
with regard to Senator Clark, OF Mon
tana. Had he voted to seat Col Quay,
Senators Spooner and Chandler, and IN
all probability Senator Lodge also would
have voted against him. Quay was
bound to have been beaten, no matter
how Vest or Clark had voted. The sen
ators most criticized here are Davis, OF
Minnesota. and Cullom, of Illinois,
being the most prominent who reversed
their records on a purely constitutional
nuestion for personal reasons, and voted
to seat Col. Quay. They have fallen
decidedly in the general estimation.
If it be true that Senator Carter, OF
Montana, another of those who changed
front on the question, is threatening
that the Shipping bill will be defeated
in revenge for Senator Hanna voting
against Quay, it only shows what
''cheap skate" he really is. The Ship
ping bill is before Congress to carry out
an official repeated pledge in Republican
National platforms, and when men ike
Mr.. Carter try to defeat their party on
National question because some senator
dared vote against one of their personal
friends, they will speedily feel the
weight of popular indignation Senator
Hanna never promised to vote for Col
Quay. On the contrary, from the very
first he said it was purely constitutional
question and that he intended to be
guided in voting on it solely by his ideas
of what was its proper solution.
On Friday an effort was made to fix
time for vote ON the Clark case, but
Clark's friends played for delay;
Henry Hall writing to the Times
said there is an aftermath in the Quay
case in the differences which have arisen
between senators from certain states
over the way they voted. In North
Dakota, Senator Hansbrough voted TO
seat Col. Quay, while his colleague.
Senator McCumber, voted against hin.
This seems to have made Hansbrough
very angry and he is reported to be cir
culating letter in which McCumber Is
alleged to have promised to vote for
Quay. In his speech Mr.. McCumber
stated that when he first read the con
stitutional provision relative to senator
ial vacancies, he had thought that the
word "happen" was equivalent to the
word occur" and that the word ''other-
wise" included all possible causes of va
cancy. A closer analysis of the clause,
however, and study of the debates IN
the constitutional convention, had led
him to change his earlier views. 1t is
possible therefore, that Senator McCum-
Der did at first indicate an intention to
vote for Col Quay. 1t is well known
that all the new senators were approach
ed in Col Quay's interest as soon as
Congress met, and possibly earlier.
They were net given any time to con-
slider the case or permitted to await the
committees action, but every effort was
made to have them blindly commit
themselves to the Quay side.
The Mississippi senator's, Money and
Sullivan, are reported to be decidedly
on the outs over the Quay case. Money
voted against seating, while Sullivan
voted for it, following his purpose de |
clared last fall before Congress met |
This shows how much consideration |
he gave the case before announcing how |
he would vote. 1t is stated that Sulli- |
van, in defending himself against |
Moneys criticisms, is circulating ex-
tracts from speech made in the House |
some years ago by r. =. Kennedy, Re |
publican, formerly lieutenant governor |
of and representative from Ohio, in |
which Kennedy made somewhat SEN |
sational attack upon Col. Quay, charg- |
ing him. among other things. with |
being responsible for the defeat of the |
bill to regulate Federal elections. com |
monty called the Force bill. The |
South was very bitterly opposed TO this |
measure and it will be remembered that
when Representative J. G. Sibley came |
to Harrisburg during the senatorial
deadlock in 1890. and tried TO induce the |
Democratic members to vote for Quay, |
he brought letters from Senators Vest, |
Tillman, and Blackburn, in which they |
urged the members to do this, if they |
could not elect jerks, and gave as a
reason the fact that Quay had. opposed
the Force bill"
There was also story that Senators |
Sewell and Kean of New Jersey, had
quarreled over the latter's pairing |
against Quay, but Mr.. Kean denies it. |
He says that Gen. Sewell wanted him |
to vote the other way, but that there |
has been no qua rrel between them be
cause he did not accede to his wishes in
the matter.