Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-05-10
WASHINGTON LETrEH.
WASHINGTON, May Z, 100

WASHINGTON, May Z, 1900.
Senator Morgan is working faithfully to
try to upset the administration programme
of hanging up in the Senate the Nicara-
qua Canal bill, which passed the House
with only handful of adverse votes. He
fully realizes the difficulties of the task,
but is confident that there are enough Re-
publicans in the Senate who believe with
the Democrats in an American Canal, to
bring success Time will soon tell, but as
Senator Tillman said short time ago, the
Republican party has the best organization
any party has ever had in Congress, and
although there are at times spluttering and
kicking in the end the orders of the boss
are usually carried out to the letter. In
this case, the order is to hang up the Mic
aragua Canal bill. A Senator who wishes
Senator Morgan success. but whose name
is not given, is quoted by local paper as
having said Il am aware, and so is every
body else who has given the subject close
attention, that the administration is OPP
posed to an American Inter- Oceanic Canal,
and in the hope of preventing the consum-
nation of the enterprise, the Hay Paunee-
fote treaty was framed. This cannot be
shown conclusively to the people until a
bill ignoring altogether Great Britain's
claim to consideration in the matter is
passed by Congress and sent to the Presi-
dent for approval. / am satisfied that Mr..
Mckinley will have to veto it, much as be
would fear the result of such an act; then
he and his party could no longer claim
that they were not committed to partner
ship with England in this Canal PROPOSE
tionn Senator Allison very frankly states
that the administration Senators intend to
defeat Senator Morgan and prevent the
taking up of the Canal bill by the Senate
at this session of Congress
Another play was made in the admins
tration's game with England when Secre-
tary Hay and the British Ambassador
signed a new agreement extending the
time within which the two governments
may exchange ratification of the Canal
treaty, now hung up in the Senate, seven
months from the 9Th of next August.
which was the limit set by the last agree
ment. Unless Senators eat their words,
that treaty will not be ratified by the Sen
ate, as at present made up.
The Porto Rican law has already had to
be remedied by additional Congressional
legislation, and the Hawaiian law will
have to be. The latter failed to provide
for collector of Internal Revenue, or for
an extension of the q. S. Postal laws, and
Secretary Gage has informed the Cabinet
that be does not consider the authority
given him by the law sufficient to justify
the payment of the Hawaiian public debt
The country will not forget that the Re-
publicans are responsible for this and other
slip-shod legislation, forced through Con-
gress under the party whip and spur.
Senator Butler, of N. c., Chairman Of
the Populist National Committee, before
leaving Washington to attend the Sioux
Falls Convention, declared that the Con-
yention would nominate Col. Bryan for
President by reclamation, and would
adopt the platform of '96, with new
declarations to meet our foreign problems
and the trust question. Of trusts, Senator
Butler said: The peoples party has al
ways been against trusts, and we believe
that the three greatest trusts relate to
money, transportation and the transmission
of intelligence People who control these
trusts can control the government, and we
will therefore suggest that these three
great factors in the nations Development
should be under governmental controi.n
Democrats would ask nothing better
than Secretary Long, who seems just now
to be the favorite candidate, should be
nominated on the Mckinley ticket for
Vice President Mr. Longs attitude in
the Eehley Sampson controversy has been
such that he would materially weaken the
ticket.
The decision of u S. Judge Lochren, at
st. Paul, Mimi, that the u Constitu-
tIon was extended to Porto Rico on the
day that the terms of the treaty of peace
with Spain went into effect, has greatly
disturbed administration circles, foresha-
dowing, as it does, a similar decision on the
part of the U. S. Supreme Court when an
opportunity is offered. If the power and
influence of the administration can prevent
it, no opportunity will be given the Su-
preme Court to pass on the question until
after the Presidential election.
Representative Dick, of Ohio, otherwise
known as Boss Hanna's man Friday, has
gone to Cincinnati, where the middIe.of
the-road populists will hold their national
convention this week, and there are good
reasons for the belief that he expects to
play leading part in controlling the
action Of that convention. Senators have
been publicly saying for some time that
Hanna's agents were offering free transport
tation and hotel expenses to delegates to
that Convention from various sections of
the country. 1t is Hanna's intention that
this Convention shall nominate ticket of
it's own in opposition to that nominated at
Sioux Falls, which he relies upon to help
the Republicans carry several states by
splitting the populist vote, and Dick has
been sent to see that the intention is
carried out.