The age-herald., 1900-05-06

The Nicaragua canal bill has passed the house and has gone to the senate. Senator Morgan cays it will be taken up by the senate this week.
 Several republican senators, however. are making a vigorous fight against the measure. Hanna is probably behind the opposition. Hanna sees campaign funds from the Pacific railroads. And right now Hanna is on the hot trail of campaign money.
 Four years ago Mark Hanna raised campaign fund of s14.ooO 900 for the repub- lican party. He assessed ali the great cor porations and many of the greatly wealthy individuals an amount equal to one years income tax, based on the income tax law enacted by democratic congress but de- clared unconstitutional by the United States supreme court because of errors in the drafting of the measure. Hanna pledged that the republican party would prevent the re-enactment of a properly drawn and constitutional income tax law in the event of republican success. He has carried out the pledge to date. Tn this campaign MT. Hanna, as the
  sessing the trusts, the steamship lines and the trans-contnental rail- roads. He is promising the latter no Nicaragua canal, and to the steamship lines he is promising the Hanna-Payne shipping subsidy bill To the trusts he is promising no interference. Already he has secured mammoth promises. Judging from the past they will be fulfilled
 Senator Morgan, however, believes that MT. Hanna will not make his collections from the Pacific railroads Nicaragua canal bills have passed the senate several times in the last ten years. Senator Morgan be- 1ieves that the bill which has already pass- ed the house will now pass the senate, and will become a law before the adjournment of congress- The fight in the senate how ever, promises to be a bitter one. Repub- lican senators. under the leadership of Hanna, will make a vigorous fight, and will perhaps resort to all manner of dila- tory tactics to prevent final action. They see in sight the campaign fund and they need it.
 Mark Hanna Is evidently annoyed over the political outlook. He realizes that the republican party must go into this cam paign on the defensive. The Porto Rican biH the conduct of the war the beef sean dals, and various other questions, which are splendid targets for the democratic party, must be defended and protected. He real izes the need of a tremendous campaign fund, and he is seeking it like a keen-nosed dog on a warm fox's trail.
 Senator Jones, chairman of the national democratic committee, the other hand, expresses himself in very confident terms that the democrats will elect the next pres ident Senator Jones is already prepared to make a vigorous contest against the methods of the present republican execu- tive in administering the affairs of the na- tion He believes that the great masses of the people are disgusted and have enough of the present administration, and he ex- presses the opinion in confident terms that the next president of this country will be a democrat, and that that democrat will be William J. Bryan. whose nomina ton at the forthcoming Kansas City convention is assured.
 To return to the Nicaragua canal bill: Judging from the news from Washington. the prospects of this bill becoming q law at this session of congress are good Such being the case, within seven years it is possible that the great canal connecting the