Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-06-15

Obnoxious to Republican Bosses Bryan
Sends Letter to Congress Defining His Posi-.
ton on Trusts Anti. Trust Bill Hung Up by
Republicans "A Senatorial Junke: to Porto
Rico.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June s, 1900
The Democrats could not make the
Republican majority in Congress re-
main in session and transact the bust
ness which they were elected to tran
sact, but they could, and did, thor
oughly expose the hypocrisy OF the
Republican treatment Of such import
ant matters as the Nicaragua Canal
bill, the trust question and the reduc-
ton OF war taxes, before adjournment,
and they did more. In the debate on
the armor plate clause of the Naval
appropriation bill, the Democratic
Senators made their fight on the ar
NOR trust so hot that Senators Hanna
and Elkins actually championed that
trust on the floor Of the senate, thus
furnishing conclusive proof that the
administration and the Republicans
in Congress were favorable to trusts in
general, and to that trust. especially.
Instead of openly voting to pay the
armor trust the price it demands for
armor plate, the Republican majority
whipped the Devil around the
stump" by authorizing the Secretary
of the Navy to purchase the armor
that will be needed during the coming
fiscal year, if he can do so at what he
considers reasonable" price; other
wise to establish a government armor
plant. 1t is dollars to broomstraws
that the Secretary of the Navy will
consider the trust price for armor
reasonable" and that he will not use
the authority conferred upon him,
to establish government plant and
break tho grasping monopoly. If
Boss Hanna had not been certain of
that he would not have allowed the
authority to be given him. Anyway,
it WAS cowardly for the majority in
Congress to shift the responsibility for
favoring this trust from themselves to
Secretary Long.
A fight between the Coast Survey, a
civil bureau, and the photographic
bureau OF the Navy Department, over
an appropriation in the Naval bill
heightened the session one day.
Senator Pettigrew stirred I'D the
Republicans by delving into political
history. He charged, on the author
ity of Mr.. Cramp himself, that Mr..
Cramp contributed 100000 to the
Republican campaign fund of 1892,
with the express understanding that
he was to be repaid with profitable
contracts to build ships. When Sena.
tor Carter, who was chairman of the
Republican National Committee
which handled the campaign funds of
that year, denied that any such agree
ment had been made with Mr.. Cramp
mind you, not that Mr.. Cramp had
contributed the money-Mr. Petit
grew stated that he had converse
ton with Senator Carter, repeating to
him what Mr.. Cramp had said, and
that Carter had replied laughingly,
al guess we did hit the old man pretty
hard" Mr.. Pettigrew also gave Boss
Hanna a few swipes that even his
thick hide could not keep from hurt
ing, reading extracts from the memoir
al presented to the Senate charging
Hanna with having bribed his way
into the Senate, dwelling with empha-
sis upon the charge that Represents.
tive Dick, now secretary Of the Repub-
lican National Committee. and Major
Rathbone. recently suspended as Di-
rector OF Posts in Cuba, were Hanna's
agents in carrying out the bribery.
Mr.. Pettigrew added as his own com.
ment: 1--WE see now in what school
this man Rathbone was educated"
Mr.. Hanna's reply consisted largely of
calling Mr.. Pettigrew a traitor to the
Republican party, which was not very
convincing.
Representative Cummings, OF New
York, aroused the Democrats of the
House to enthusiasm by reading a
letter from Col. Bryan, denying that
he had ever said that he favored an
antitrust constitutional amendment
or believed one to be necessary, unless
the Supreme Court should hold that
Congressional legislation against trusts
was unconstitutional. and adding that
the Republican party has shown in
this Congress that it does not wish to
destroy trusts, by supporting a propo.
sition to give the national banks con.
troll OF the currency, and thus create
paper money trust.
| Tho Senate by vote of 43 to %
carried out the Republican programme
of hanging up the antitrust bill
passed by the House, by referring to
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Senate by q vote of 80 to SO re-.
lected the nomination of ex-Congress-
man Bynum, of Indiana, to be Gene
raj Appraiser at the port of New York,
an 5000 position, which the law says
shall be filled by q Democrat, and
which was given to Mr.. Bynum as a
reward for work done for Mr.. McKin-
ley in '96. Mr.. Bynum called himself
gold Democrat, but the Democratic
Senators commended that he was not a
Democrat and there we're enough Re-
publicans who agreed with them to
defeat the nomination.
Senator Pettigrew said of the two
labor bills passed by the House recent
ly, and the language is equally appli-
cable to the bill ordered favorably re-
ported by the House Judiciary COM
mittee, limiting the meaning of the
word I" conspiracy" and the use of re-
straining orders and injunctions in
labor troubles: "Were these bills
passed by the other House with the
intention that they should become
laws? Oh, no. Mr.. President, they
seem to have been passed by the other
House for the purpose of holding
them over labor during the coming
summer, with the promise that their
political course and conduct shall af.
feet the legislation on these subjects
next winter"
The Senate committee ON the Pa.
chic Islands and Porto Rico, of which
Senator Foraker is chairman, was pro.
vided with a free trip to Porto Rico at