The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1900-03-17

step towards making Hawaii State
by passing the bill providing a teri
; tOriai government for Hawaii. II
there is any logical reason for max.
ing this unjust distinction between
prosperous Hawaii and halfstarved
Porto Rico, it has been carefully
concealed from the public.
The House Military Committee has
iendorsed two pet schemes of the
administration to provide promotion
for favorltes-that to give the Adju-
tant General Of the army the rank,
pay and allowance of Major general
which will be in the nature OF a
reward to Gen. COrbiu for his sub
serviency to Aiger, and his under
baud attacks upon Gen. Miles, his
superior officer; and that authorizing
the President to select retired brig
adler general for promotion to major
general, which is intended to give Gen.
shafter the difference between the
pay and emoluments Of q brigadier
general and major general, retired,
as reward for the Cuban campaign,
the greater part of which be spent
lying in a hammock. Funny" old
world.
Representative Bailey, of Texas,
made the closing spaech on the dem
Ocratic side against the Porto Rico
tBrif bill, and 1t was powerful plea
for the maintenance of the Constitu-
ton as its trainers intend it to he
maintained. HIS last words, which
were received with uproarious ap-
plause by the democrats and the
occupants of the galleries, we're:
"When emotional statesmen We're
asking who would haul down the
flag, l dared to say that l would take
it down from any place where the
Constitution could not follow it. Do
you desire to pre-. ent the anomaly of a
government restrained by the Consti
tuition in one quarter of the globe,
and possessed of despOtic power iu
the rest of the world ? How long is
the Constitution to shield Us and our
children if its protection Is withheld
from the humblest inhabitant Let
me borrow the words of Lincoln:
This republic cannot endure onehaif
free and One.half slave. We must
all be citizens, or in time we must all
be subjects. I did not want to as.
simulate these alien and Inferior races,
and pray God to deliver US from
the task. But il you would take
them, they must share our destiny
with US.
The bin providing for the ship
subsidy job has been favorably re-
ported to the Senate. The report
which was made on tn. bill will he
widely circulated by the republican
for the purpose of trying to create a
public sentiment for the 5000, ,000,0 600
job, but it Is very doubtful whether
they will try to push the bill through
until after the Presidential election,
as word has been passed around
among the republicans in Congress to
keep the tOtal of appropriations
made at this session of Congress
down as much as possible, with the
understanding that the money can
safely be made to fly at the next
session, which will not be held un.
til after the Presidential election.
Of course, the disagreeabe wealth
er in Washington had nothing to do
with the departure for Cuba, via
Florida, of Secretary Root. He is
going to mske AL "official inspection"
of Cuban ports, using a government
transport after he reaches Tampa.
What part his wife, son and daugh
ter, who accompanied HIM, are to take
in the "official inspection" is ques,
ton which he may be able to answer.
To some persons this trip looks like u
winter junket for his family at public