Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-01-30
TUESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1900.
Washington Letter.
IFrom our Regular Correspondent. |


WAsHINGToN, January 26, 1900
No president ever received higher
or more deserved compliment than
was paid to President Mckinley by
ex-Gov. STANDARD, In a speech In be-
half the National Board of Trade,
a non partisan body representing
great business interests of all sections
Of the country. now holding its an
aual session in Washington, closing
with these words: I'VE congratulate
you, Mr.. President, upon the pros
perity of the country and the success
OF your administration" The presi-
dent replied: L cannot conceal the
pleasure it gives me and the honor |
feel in this call on the part Of the
National Board of Trade, represent
ing as it does great and varied and
important interests of our country.
L rejoice with you AL upon our uni
versal prosperity and | trust that
shat prosperity may belong continued
TO the American people"
Now that Brigham II. Roberts, the
polygamist. is out OF the house for
good and all, he probably has a
greater respect for the moral sense of
the country which he outraged by
Becoming a candidate for election to
congress, and the people of Utah
have been taught that the men they
send to congress i...ist be free from
the taint of polygamy.
Representative Little6eld, Of Maine,
who fills the seat so long held with
distinguished honor by the late Nell
son Dingley, by his speech in the
Roberts case, which was his m tiden
effort in congress, placed himself in
tke front rank of the ablest lawyers
iii the house, and it was all the more
credtable to him, as q lawyer, that
he spoke III favor of the minority re-
port of the committee, of which he
was member.
Senators Pettigrew and Allen have
seemingly oy the tacit consent of the
Democrats assumed the Democratic
leadership of the senate-perhaps it
Is because the Democratic senator's
are ashamed to do such dirty work
and are still offering new resolutions,
which they know to be both useless
and meaningless, and the senate is
still fooling them by adopting them
without opposition.
That any man should dare to
stand M on the floor of the United
States senate and advocate the doc
trine of might makes right, is aston
sshing; but Senator McEnery. of Lou
Esiana, did that very thing in speech
(. ,aiust Senator Pritchard's resolu-
ton declaring the proposed disfran
chising amendment to the constitu-
ton o. North Carolina to be a viola
eion of the United States constitution.
And be added to the astonishment
by acknowledging in reply to ques-
tions that he had declared a similar
amendment to the Louisiana consti-
tuition to be unconstitutional, ana
saving that the amendment having
been adopted he felt it to be duty
10 his constituents to support it and
to defend it in the senate. If the
people of Louisiana are not ashamed
of McEnery and his defense, they
ought to be.
Montague White, formerly diplo-
matte agent for the Transvaal in
London, and who was credited with
being in this country on diplomatic
n3ission, called on Secretary Hay
this week and informed him that he
had no official credentials Of any sort
from the Boer govern ment, but was
In the United States for the purpose
of doing all he could legitimately do
to work up public sympathy for the
Beers. Secretary Hay courteously
listened to Mr.. White, as he would to
any other intelligent foreigner who
might call on him as a private indi-
Vidual. but he said very little aside