The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1900-05-12
Washington, d. C., News.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, May 7th, 1900.

iIliHStAdtlolI PlSSI ouihiO WI AIlS
ing up in the Senate the
Nicaraguan Canal bill, which
passed the House with only a
handful of adverse votes. He
fully realizes the difficulties of
the task, but is confident that
there are enough Republicans in
the Senate who believe with
the Democrats in an Ameri-
can Canal, to bring success.
Time will soon tell, but as
Senator Tillman said a short time
ago, the Republican party has the
best organization any party has
ever had in Congress, and al
though there are at times splut-
tering and kicking, in the end the
orders OF the boss are usual y car
ried out to the letter. In this
case, the order is to hang up the
Nicaraguan Canal Bill. A Sena-
tor who wishes Senator Morgan
success, but whose name is not
given, is quoted by local paper
as having said II am aware, and
so is everybody else whe has CIV
en- the subject close attention,
that the administration is opposed
to an American Inter-Oceanic Ca
nal, and in the hope of prevent
ing the consummation of the en-
terprise, the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty was framed. This cannot
be shown conclusively to the peo-
pie until bill ignoring altegeth-
er Great Britain's claim to CEN
sideratiOn in the matter is passed
by Congress and sent to the
President for approval. | am
satisfied that Mr.. Mckinley will
have to veto it, as much as he
would fear the result of such an
act then he and his party could
no longer claim that they were
not committed to a partnership
with England in this canal pro-
position. Senator Allison very
frankly states that the admins
tratien 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
administrations game with Eng
land, when Secretary Hay and the
British Ambassador signed a new
agreement extending the time
within which the tive governments
may exchange ratification of the
Canal treaty, now hung up in the
Senate, seven menths from the
5th of next August, which was
the limit set by the last agree
ment. Unless Senators eat their
words, that treaty will net be rat.
fled by the Senate, as at present
made up.
The Porte Rican law has al
ready had to be remedied by addl-
tionaI Congressional legislation,
and the Hawaiian law will have to
be. The latter failed to provide
for Collector of Internal Reve-
nue., or for an extension of the
U. S. Postal Laws, and Secretary
Gage has informed the Cabinet
that he does not consider the au-
thority given him by the law sufi-
cient TO justify the payment of
the Hawaiian public debt. The
country will net forget that the
Republicans are responsible for
this and other slip-shod legisla-
ton, forced through Congress un-
der the party whip and spur.
Senator Butler, of N. c., Chair
man of the Populist National
Committee, before leaving Wash
ingten to attend the Sioux Falls
Convention, declared that the
Convention weuld nominate Col.
Bryan for President by accIama-
ton, and would adopt the plat
form of '96, with new declara-
tions to meet cur foreign prob
LENS and the trust question. Of
trusts, Senator Butler said : "The
Peoples Party has always been
trusts, and we believe 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 tn at
| these three great factors in the
nations Development should be
under governmental control"
| Democrats would ask nothing
better than that Secretary Long
who seems just now to be the ia.
vorite candidate, should be nemi
mated on the Mckinley ticket fol
Vice-President. Mr.. Longs at.
titude in the Schley-Sampson con.
troversy has been such that he
would materiallyweaken theticket
The decision of U. S. Judge
Lochren. at ST. Paul, Mimi, tha'
the q. S. Constitution was ex
tended to Porto Rico on the da.
] that the terms of the treaty O
Peace with Spain went into effect
has greatly disturbed administra
| tion circles, foreshadowing as i
:. does similar decision of th,
Supreme Court when it is offered