The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1900-02-24
Washington, ID. c., News.
.om our Regular Correspondent.
Washington. Feb. 10. Is

Washington, Feb. 10, 1900.
No President ever made more
abject surrender than Mr.. McKin-
ley has made on the Porto Rican
tariff bill now before the House.
He stated positively in his annual
message that he favored free trade
for Porto Rico, and when the Re
publicans in the House first talked
about putting duty on Porto Ri
can products, he even went so far
as to intimate to Democrats he met
that he would be glad if they
would help defeat the proposed
duty. Now he has turned com
plete sommersault and announced
in advance of it's passage that he
would sign the bill imposing %
per cent duty. No wonder Republi-
licans in Congress laugh when Nc
Kinley is spoken Of as their leader.
The bill providing for a terrific
rial form of Government for Hawaii
now before the Senate, which means
that Hawaii will intimately become
o State, naturally raises the ques-
ton of why the Hawaiians should
be so much better treated than the
Porto Ricans? Surely no one out
side of the clique which is shaping
the Republican policy can see any
good reason for making Hawaiians
and Porto Ricans Colonial subjects.
A caucus of the Democratic SEN
ators was held to discuss the gene
raj line of opposition to the Repub-
can policy towards the island pos
sessions of the United States. A
committee was authorized to con-
fer with the Democrats of the House,
with view to having the party in
both branches of Congress act
along the same line. While no
programme was adopted, there was
a unanimous sentiment in favor of
continuing the opposition, and a
committee was authorized to ar
range a programme.
Ex-Governor Peck, of "Bad Boy"
fame, is one of the two hundred
citizens of Wisconsin who fe
whooping up Milwaukee, as 1he
Democratic National Convention
city. He says that everybody yells
him Milwaukee will win, butt that
the hustling is going to be kefSpp
until the National Committee ds-
cides where the Convention is to He
held.
Notwithstanding numerous de-
mails of the story that Boss Hama
had threatened to take the Repub.
lican National Convention away
from Philadelphia, if the money
promised by the Committee repre-
senting that city to the Republican
National Committee was not forth
coming. Such a threat was made
And as result, Boss Hanna has
received check for $4,000 on ac-
count, and % promise that the Other
S75,O 900 will be raised and turned
over before the Convention meets
The two Democratic members o.
Conference Committee-Se tol
Jones, of Arkansas, and Repre-
sentative Cox, of Tennessee, nov
considering the gold standard bill
PASSED by the House and the sub
situte therefor, passed by the Sen
ate can do little more than exercis'
their right of making a minorit.
report to their respective branche
of Congress, but they can be de
pended upon to do. that in q thor
oughly Democratic manner. Th
| four Republican members Of til
4, Committee-Senators Aldrich an
Allison, and Representatives, Over
street and Brosius, will really max
the gold standard bill that will G
: upon the statute books, and it
not for a moment doubted that
will contain the most objections
; features of both measures now N
: der consideration.