The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-12-21

have the treaty ratified without amend
ment. When the time came for
show down did the administration
fight? Not even the tiniest. little bit
On the contrary, Mr.. Mckinley ever
gave his consent to the amendmen
and promised to forward the treaty Il
England after its ratification, but h,
told the Senators who went To inform
him that the amendments would b'
added whether he liked them or no
that he was afraid that England would
never, never accept the amended treaty
that Hay was positively certain il
would not. But that doesn't seem tC
be worrying the Senators. They say
that if England rejects the treaty a:
amended, Congress will adopt a joint
resolution declaring the Clayton
wer treaty abrogated, and that the
construction Of the Canal will go right
along just the same as though England
had accepted the treaty.
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, has pro-
posed an amendment to the Ship
Subsidy bill, authorizing payment OF
bounties on agricultural products ex-
ported. The amounts named being,
ten cents bushel on wheat; fifty cents
/ a Inrrol ~, ,-baof nopr. ton oapfs a
bushel on rye; fifty cents a barrel on
rye flour; five cents bushel on corn;
seven cents per GENITAL on ground corn;
one cent pound on cotton; two cents
pound on hops, and two cents pound
on tobacco. There is, Of course no
probability that Senator Aliens amend
ment will be adopted, but he, and
many others, regard the proposition as
on the same footing with the object
aimed at by the ship-subsidy bill, so
far as principle is concerned, and being
much better way to give away public
money, because it would be more wide
~
The Republicans Of the Ways aud
Means Committee received two defeats
while the House was sitting as a COM
mIttee of the whole to consider amend
ments to the Revenue Reduction Bill.
The House by a vote Of 81 to So defeat
ed the Committee amendment, abol-
ishing one-sixth and One-eighth beer
barrels, on the ground that it was a
discrimination against the small brew
ers Of the country, and by vote Of l06
to 81, adopted an amendment, pro-
posed by Representative ii. G. Smith,
Of Mich, requiring all railroad and ex-
press companies to make sworn state
ments monthly Of their business and
to pay one cent tax for each bill of lad
ing and receipt issued. Later the COM
mittee assisted by Senator Plat, of n.
Y, who is president Of one Of the big
express companies, rallied its forces
and got the latter amendment struck
out just before the final vote was taken
passing the bill.
From being the Gar of the House to
being unknown to a member of the
House is quite plunge for man to
take inside of two years, but the drop
has been made by Hon. Thomas
Bracket Reed, whose law practice now
includes little Congressional lobbying
Mr.. Reed was just coming out of the
House when Representative Cromer, of
Indiana, asked one of the door keepers
who that fat man was. Such is fame.
Secretary Root wants to do all the
lobbying himself that is done by the
War Department; consequently he has
sent a circular letter to the army
officers who are at the head Of bureaus
in that department, calling their atten-
ton to an army relation-"Ehorts to
influence legislation affecting the army
should never be made except through
regular military channels, and direct
ing that all communications that army
officers desire sent to Congress shall be
forwarded through him.
Although the Army Reorganization
bill has not yet been reported from the
Senate Committee on Military Affairs,
and is not likely to be until after the
Christmas recess, which will be from
December q, until January 3, the Re.
publicans are already swooping down
on Mr.. Mckinley with demands of
promises Of appointments that will be |
made when that bill becomes a law,
and it is said that some Republican
senators have intimated to him that
they will not allow the bill to 90
through unless their demands for pap
are met.
Senator Hanna is getting alarmed
about the ship subsidy bill, which he
said at the beginning Of the session he
would get through the Senate before
he holiday recess. He has changed
MS mind.
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