Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-26
From our Regular CorrespOn lent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1900.

WPiy.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1900.
How little Mr.. McKinley's promise
to furnish any desired information to
Congress meant was shown when the
Senate, under orders from the White
House, voted down Senator Petit.
CREWS amendment to the Hoar resolu.
ton of inquiry, asking that the Senate
be furnished copy of Mr.. Mckinley
instructions to the Commissioners who
negotiated the treaty of peace with
Spain. That information would
there are good reasons to believe, show
that there is contradiction in the
policy Mr.. Mckinley claimed to have
when he gave those instructions and
that followed by him since the treaty
was negotiated, and in order to avoid
making a public exhibition of himself
by going back on his word. he called
on the Republican majority in the
Senate to save him, and his orders
were obeyed.
The Senate has agreed to vote on
the gold standard bill February Is.
The Roberts Committee by a unan
imous verdict found him guilty of DO.
lygamy, and his seat will be the pen.
atty. The majority report favors de-
claring his seat in the House vacant
and the minority report, signed by two
members, favors seating and then ex.
polling him. In either case it is good.
bye Roberts.
The administration is trying to
bring Boss Platt around to its way OF
thinking on the Vice-Presidential
question by trotting out the Western
candidate bogv to brighten Plat into
the belief that New York will lose the
place if he doesn't accept the Hanna
Mckinley programme, without altera-
ton. OF course, Mr.. Mckinley, and
Senator Plat, know that there is lit.
tie probability of the nomination of a
Western man for second place, but it
pleases the former to pretend other
wise, and it may please the several
Western men, including Senators
Davis and Spooner. who are being
mentioned" as possible candidates.
Senator Hoar says of ex-Minister
Barrett's charge that q speech made
by the Senator caused the Filipinos to
revolt: ."Only a silly head would tell
such a story, and only q sillier head
would believe it. Gen. Otis report
tells the story of the beginning of the
insurrection. Mr.. Barrett's statement
is too absurd to discuss" Mr.. Hoar,
in speech in the Senate specifically
charged Mr.. Mckinley with having
caused the revolt, qualifying it by ex-
pressing the opinion that Mr.. McKin.
ley was coerced into it by the rabid
imperialists OF his party.
Senator Vest, whose health has not
allowed him to take the active part he
once did in the business of the Senate
made II speech this week, protesting
against the policy OF the imperialists
in calling every man y traitor who
dares to question the imperialislic for.
eign policy of the Mckinley admins.
tration, that WAS full of his old-time
v;gor, as may he seen from this ex-
tract therefrom: d" disclaim now DOS.
itively any intention to indulge in apy
line of remark that may encourage op-
position to the authority OF the United
States anywhere. But as a Senator of
the United States. representing in part
sovereign Stale, deny the right of
any man in this chamber or out of it,
to muzzle mo and prevent an honest
expression of opinion in regard to the
policy of this country for fear that /
may be denominated n traitor and q
public enemy.
am sorry our foreign relations
are in the condition we find them TO.
day, and yet all the world knows that
so far we have been most unfortunate.
We have the huhonic plague added to
the leprosy in Hawaii, starvation in
Porto Rico, unrest and disquiet in
Cuba. and war Of indefinite length,
80 far rs human foresight is concerned,
in the Philippines. Is it treason to
make this statement? Or shall we
who opposed the Paris treaty, and pre-
dicted the disasters that have come
and will come, be so cowardiy and re.
creant TO the trust imposed in us by a
free people Ms to cit here silent for
fear of vitriolic denunciation on the
other side, and decline to discharge
our duty as the fearless representa-.
tives of great people2 Are we to re.
main silent, refraining even from or.
binary criticism as to the conduct oil
the war, for fear that we are to be de.
nounced as the allies of Aguinaldo
and opposed to the authority OF our
country"
Ye gods. what a change in Congress.
sional sentiment! II Democrat had
a few years ago used the language oil
Senator Chandler, when negro peti
ton for anti-lynch legislation was pre.
sented to the Senate, this week, there
would have been Republican howl
that would have Jared the earth; and
what he said WAS so manifestly true
that no Senator commented upon it.
Mr.. Chandler said: There is no
power in Congress to prevent or 70
punish crimes committed in the vari.
GUS States"
Representative Richardson, the
Democratic leader in the House, made
calm speech showing how unsatis.
factory Secretary Cages reply to the
national bank resolution of inquiry is,
notwithstanding its 348 printed pages
that single New York bank-the
same that was allowed to juggle with
the title OF the old New York Custom
House, which it bought from the gov.
ernment-was given deposits large
enough to leave it the continuous use
for periods as long as six months OF
more than $l0.OO0,0OO of government
money. This is the same bank that
demanded favors of the Treasury be.
cause of p 'litical work done by its di.
rectors in the last Presidential cam.
paign. IL has certainly had them.
Dem.