The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-27
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next winter by the Legislature that
will be chosen this fall. Thus he
will be the storm centre of politics in
Pennsylvania again this year as he
has been at every election for dozen
years or more. He has never yet failed
in the end, but this may be the time.
In deciding as it did, the Senate
has simply followed it's own prece-
dents since 1895. period of rs years,
and before that time the presidents
were divided. In recent years there
have been decided two cases in the
same way, the Mantle case from Mon
tana, which carried with the Allen
case from Washington and the Beck
with case from Wyoming and the
Cobbett case from Oregon. The Senate
undoubtedly stands better and strong
er before the public for having abided
by it's own presidents made in the
cases OF strangers, in the case of one
who had been for twelve years mem
Der of that body.
Another case that has decided, so
far as the first step is. concerned in
way to elevate the Senate in the
opinion of the public, always skepti-
cal of the virtue of it's servants, is that
of Senator Clark, of Montana. The
committee has filed it's unanimous
Judgment in the shape of a resolution
that the election was so tainted by
fraud that it should be declared null
and void, the seat of the sitting Sena-
tor be declared vacant, thus RELOCATING
the whole matter back to the people
of the Mountain State. 1t is not
claimed that there was bribery by
Senator Clark himself or that he
personally knew of any, but that there
was so much of corrupt means used to
secure the election that it could not
in justice to the people of the United
States be allowed to stand. The
methods employed by Senator Clark's
enemies, who are his prosecutors, are
severely characterized, Representative
Campbell, of Montana, who acted as
chief counsel for the prosecution
during the examination of witnesses,
in particular being harshly criticized
There was very warm time in the
House yesterday during the considera-
ton of the Postoffice Appropriation
bill. The item that precipitated the
scene was one of $725, 900 for pneumatic
tube, service, being an increase of
$50, 600 over the appropriation for the
current year. Mr.. Moody, one of the
leading Republicans of the House, OPP
posed the item. He said that if the
pneumatic tube service was entered
upon 1t would add further millions to
the already swollen expenditures of
the Postoffice Department, which are
millions in excess of the receipts. The
tube service, he said, had been con-
structed by contractors who took their
pay in stocks and bonds, the only as
set of the company being its contract
with the Government. All these
statements will appear in full in the
Congressional Record. The immediate
effect of their statement on the floor
of the House was the striking out of
the item for pneumatic tube service.
The Republican State Conventions
that are being held all over the coun-
try are highly enthusiastic meetings,
harmonious andfconfident of success
this fall. President Mckinley and
his acts, course and policy are being
freely and emphatically endorsed
No one here expected anything else,
however, for ante-convention advices
had already discounted what the con-
ventions have done.
In the absence of doubt as to who
will be the presidential nominee at
Philadelphia, interest centres on the
Vice Presidential nominee Charles
Emory Smith, editor of the Philadel-
phia Press, and Postmaster General
is suggested. It's a good suggestion,
for if all the Smith.family would vote
the ticket it would have about five
million majority. Governor Roose-
welt could have had the nomination
for second place had he desired it, but
he insisted that he did not want it,
evidently preferrino ia he 4overnor ~