The Opelousas courier., 1900-01-13
Washington, ID. c., News.
From our Regular Correspondent.

gress re-assembIed by the reselu
tions calling for information or
various Philippine matters offerea
by Senator Pettigrew and others
but the castigation of its Philip
pine policy received at the hands
Of Senator Hoar, ia q speech il
favor Of his resolution declaring
against imperialism and for the
independence of the Philippines
was the worst punishment yet ad-
ministered. Mr.. Hear is net an
orator in any sense of the word
but he has the lawyers faculty OF
massing facts and plainly stating
his case, and he brought it intc
full play in his speech, which viii!
take high place in the argu:
ments against the departure from
the policy Of Washington and all
the early Presidents, and the sub,
stitutien therefor Of imperialism
with its attendent evils, a, large
standing army, extrayagant public
expenditures and private corrup,
ton. 1t was a warning which de-
serves the attention from the
country that it will not receive
from Mr.. Mckinley and his i'm
perialistic advisers, who answer
it, not by argument, but by call
ing Senator Hear "a traitor
Arguments in favor of the gold
standard bill must be hard to get
when prominent Republicans in
the Senate stand up and say that
the bill is not unfriendly to silver;
that its becoming a law will not
prevent a continuation of efforts
for international bimetalism and
that sort of rot. The object of
this sort of talk is obvious. There
are Republican Senators who will
vote for this bill who have hume
rous constituents who believe in
bimetalism. They are to be bam-
beozled into the impression that
the geld standard. bill is not an
attack on bimeta1ism. Another
defense put forth for the bill il
that it is not really new 1egislatioB
but merely a re-atfirmation of tEb
act of '73. If that be true, WHY
pass the bill at all ? But chtG-t 1t
isn't true, any more than the
statement about its not being an
tagonistic to bimetalism is shown
by the anxiety of the money
kings to get it on the statute
books. It requires no gift of in
spired prophecy to say that the
=. S. will never again enjoy the
blessings of bimetalic currency,
which distributes pro perit t y
among the whole people more
equally than any fern of currency
until the people elect Congress
and a President pledged to wipe
the gold standard law out Of ex-
istencs, and to substitute therefor
a law providing for the double
standard. 1t is for the people to
say how soon that shall be done.
Mr.. Mckinley is getting a little
fidgety because of the leisuraIy
manner in which the Senate is pre-
ceeding with the gold standard
bill. He sent for Senator ALI
son and asked him to use his in
fluence to push the debate aleng
a little faster.
The friends of silver in the Sen
ate are pleased to know that the
Kentucky Legislature will send
Hon. j. G. S. Blackburn, a rock
ribbed friend of the white metal,
back to the Senate in time to par
ticipate in the debate on the gold
standard bill. He will be val
liable recruit. Senator Culbert-
son, Of Texas, is urging his friends
to stop the agitation in favor of
his selection as Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
not only because he has no de-
sire for the position, but because
he thinks Senator Jones fills it in
perfectly satisfactory manner.
Senator Jenes says there is no
truth whatever in the public re-
ports of friction between him and
Col. Bryan, and Democrats in
Congress do not bellies that Col.
Bryan has ever intimateE, even ia
the most indirect manner, that he
wished a change in the head of
the National Committee.
As expected, the Senate
Committee on Elections decid-
ed by majority of one to
report against the seating OF
Mr.. Quay but, owing to the
hearing Of the Clark case, now
geing on before that Committee.
it may be several weeks before
the report of the Committee is
submitted to the Senate. Quay
and his friends are considerably
frightened, but disinterested OBJ
servers still think that the
chances favor Quay's being
seated by a slim margin.
The Senate made a big cut II
the amount that the 'montana wit
nesses in the Clark case will gel
when it adopted a resolution pro
viding that witnesses summoned
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