Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-02-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Election OF Senator's by Direct ote.
Our Array En Cuba
For GenernIs Nash and ra~idsn.
Especial Correspondence.l

Before the winter is over the muse
VIII again be called upon to passlpon
the question OF electing senator by
the direct vote of the people. The
house committee has made n favoable
report upon the bill introduced by
Representative Corliss PROPOSING an
amendment to the constitution permit
rect vote of the people. In its report
fhe committee says:
1T is evident from an examination
of the constitution that ii was the
original Intention to leave to the eiti
zens OF each state the right to daer
mine when, where and i'm what manner
the election of senators should be heia.
and the exception and restriction to
the legislatures were the result OF a
compromise and contrary TO the juig-
ment of the great constitutional law;
yers n members of congress-. inciud-
ing Hamilton and Jefferson. through
whose wisdom and genius this marvel
Gus instrument was conceived"
a bill of this character has already
. btth dbtlttd ny ar III -
congress at three different sessions.
but the bill was smotiIered to death in
a senate committee Representativ.
| Coriiss say hc. Vii
! ure at the earliest opportunity. 1t is
| almost certain Ia pass the house. In
the senate There is i strong sentiment
/ against it. Notwithstanding petitions
svam ii number OF state legislatures
1 11V pE 49,, .,,,f.a,l t.,., N.ira.r for IRpiG-
lation of TINS character
Our Ar~,s In cuba.
Many OF III" army s-uSSipS are MAX
ing deductions from the tact that the
war department * s!musI.ng Il great
deal of money IL Cuba for the quarter
ing of the troops on the island In the
province OF Puerto Principe. for in
stance. where the suI;IicrS have been
quartered III tents, the war depart
ment will expend fully $4,000 in the
construction of permanent and sub
tantia barracks for the soldiers
The force in that province was for
merry quartered in the old Spanish bar
racks. but only for a shor period. as
there was fear of c~outagion in the OLD
buildings. The troops have been kept
in the open under canvas and viii be
Kept so until the $4,000 barracks are
completed.
The funds are taken from the island
revenue. and the work is being done
for the most part by hired labor Some
of the army officers believe the lavish
expenditures of the government in Gu
ba Indicate there will not be an imme
date withdrawing of the troops. The
best construction IS being carried on
aud there is no attempt at economy
say the army quartermasrers-
Monuments For Continental GEN
erals.
"One of the most m~eritoriouS little
measures before this congress" oh
served Representative Kitchin of NORTH
Carolina the other day, lis that to erect
monuments to the aemOry OF Genera.
Francis Nash and General William lie,
Davidson of the Old North State Way
bach in the early days tile continental
congress by vote requested Governor
Casweli of North Carolina TO erect &
monument over General Nash at Il cost
of $500. the expense 10 he borne by the
United States That was in November
III. and -four years later the Cont
nental congress passed Il similar reso
lutlOtI ttedltii-- 'tISl ii La CSOAi
who commanded the militia of the dis
trict OF Salisbury, \. G.. and was killed
in battle Feb. |. ISL
Neither of these resolutions was
ever put into effect, although in the
Twenty-sixth and Fifty-fourth con
crosses efforts were made to authorize
substantial monuments TO these Revo
~lutionary heroes This has
been asked TO appropriate 5000 fol
the erection Of each monument"
n Dropped Her lunch.
Their was Il genuine sensation in the
senate ellauah"r oup day this week. The
senate was frott,sIing with business il
its usual orderly and dgnItiet manner
when
Sqap~h
Something fell win the genuine dull
sickenln- tIud of the dime novel.
\ man who wf~ seated on a sofa un
dernvath the pgblic gallery gave 9
jump ~ y very large SatcleI OF the
kind carried ty ladies when shopping
fen ~ kss fest II must have beer
filed with clSlarsi pie so ~oggily il
fell. At any rate, il ~optaine4 3 lunch
for some siic1-S ct bread were plainly
visible.
Up in the gallery a pretty q wo
man with gay ptnk ribbons around hel
neck WAS almost III Mysteries Shs
threw her bead tack ON the seal ana
hid her face rs hsT n and bIushet
and laughed Long after a page had
rescued her unr.i Salchei and had re
stored it TO her Der face was as red a.
a peony-
RecoEnizee the Governor.
When Governor Lon \ Stephens o.
Missouri went up TO the capitol tbs
other day. be lid not know that tbs
chief magistrates of sovereign states