The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-06-07

the total appropriations had reach
ed the sum of $1,2sO,OOO, and yet
with $S00,O0O unaccounted for,
Commissioner General Peck came
to Congress and secured an urgent
deficiency appropriation Of$l69,600.
The total appropriations for the
commission now aggregate 1,44S,-
900, of which less than 100000 have
been accounted for to Congress-.
This is not the only case in which
the Republicans have been extrav-
agant. The Democratic leaders
have managed to place in the Con-
gressional Record statement
showing the amount of money
spent by the administration in con-
nection with the large number of
commissions and special commits
sioners appointed by the President
since the beginning of his term.
The Democrats think the people
have a right to know what these
various bodies have accomplished
and whether the game was worth
the candle. There have been %
seperate commissions with a total
personnel, including clerks, at
taches and experts of various kinds,
of probably 1000. The following is
given as an approximate, but con-
servative estimate: William J..
Calhoun, special commissioner to
Cuba, $4,000; Monetary Commis
sion, $1,000; Queens Jubilee Com.
mission, $25, 1000; Special Cemmis-
sioner M. P. Handy, Paris Exposi.
tion $4,000; Reciprocity Commits
sioner Kasson, $4,000; Commits
sioner to Japan in connection with
seals, Hamlin, $4,000; ommission-
er to Russia in connection with
seals, Foster, $4,000; Paris Peace
Commission, $l5O,OOO; Cuban and
Porto Rican Evacuation Commas
sion, $65,OO0; War Investigation
Commission, 100000; Philippine
Commission, $l5O,OOO; High Joint
Commission, 100000; Commission
to Disarmament Conference, $685.
900; Samoan Commission, $4,000;
Nicaraguan Canal Commission,
$250,000, Isthmian Canal Commits
sion, 81 100000; Hawaiian Commits.
sion, S25,0O0; Paris Exposition
Commission, $3.50, 900: Tariff Com
missioner to Cuba, r. p. Potter,
$4,000; Industrial Commission, per
annum, 100000; Insular Commits.
sion $25,O00; Present Philippine
Commission, $4,000; Total $685.
900.
The House resolution proposing
an antitrust amendment to the
Constitution has been defeated,
failing to receive the necessary
two.thirds majority. No one ex-
pected it to pass, and recognition
of the true intent of the legislation
| caused a most curious scene in the
House this week, the Republicans
being unable to secure even an
audience to see them 60 through
the motions of debating their bogus
resolution. Indeed on the con-
trary, the casual sightseer, drifting
into the galleries and bearing In
mind the stories Of pension nights,
might have thought that the House
was engaged In passing n few hum
dred private pension or claim bills.
rather than seriously discussing
the first step in altering the funda-
mental law of the land, 80 few and
far between were the members
present. On each day, as soon as
the debate got well under way,
the members began to silently sift
from the hall of the House. Many
went to the restaurant, others
sought the clOakrooms, lobbies and
corridors. Even this mild dissipa-
tion palled on them after a while
and one by one they stole into the
cloakroom, seized their hats and
vanished to return when some
more interesting, II less important,
topic was under discussion. No
one took the proposed amendment
seriously.
John X. HAZEL, the Buffalo poll
tician appointed U. 8. District
Judge by President Mckinley, at
the behest of Senator Platt over.
the protests of the bench, bar and
people of western New York, has
been shown to have admitted in
court under oath that he had re-
ceived $4,000 for selling TO the Navy
Department for war purposes a
yacht SO worthless that the govern