The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-02-01
Through the Non-Partisan Ma
tional Board of Trade Con-
gratulate the President
On Prosperity.
Might Makes Right According to
the Extraordinary Grounds
Taken BY Senator Me-
Emery


Trade, a non-partisan body represent
ing great business interests of Sec
tions of the country, now holding its
annual session in Washington, closing
with these words: "We congratulate
you, Mr.. President, upon the prosper
perity of the country and the success
of your administration" The Presi-
dent replied: 81 cannot conceal the
pleasure it gives me and the honor 1
feel in this call on the part of the
National Board of Trade, represent
ing as it does great and varid and inn
portant interests of our country. 1
rejoice with you all upon our univer-
sal prosperity, and l trust that that
our prosperity may be long continued
to the American people,"
Now that Brigham H. Roberts, the
polygamist, is out of the House for
good and all, he probably has a great
er respect for the moral sense of the
country which he outraged by becom-
ing candidate for election to Con-
gress, and the people of Utah have
been taught that the men they send
to Congress must be free from the
talent of polygamy.
Representative Littletield, of Maine,
who fills the seat so long held with dis
tinguished honor by the late Nelson
Dingley, by his speech in the Roberts
case, which was his maiden effort in
in Congress, placed himself in the
front rank of the ablest lawyers in
the House, and it was all the more
creditable to him, as a lawyer, that
he spoke in favor of the minority re-
port of the committee, of which he
was member.
Senators Pettigrew and Allen have
seemingly by the tacit consent of the
Democrats assumed the Democratic
leadership of the Senate. Perhaps it is
because the Democratic Senators are
ashamed to do such dirty work, and
are still offering new resolutions,
which they know to be both useless
and meaningless, and the Senate is
still fooling them by adopting them
without opposition.
That any man should dare to stand
upon the floor of the United States
Senate and advocate the doctrine OF
might makes right is astonishing, but
Senator McEnery, of Louisiana, die
that very thing in a speech against
Senator Pritchard's S resolution declar
ing the proposed disfranchising amend
ment to the constitution of North
United States constitution. And he
added to the astonishment by ac.
knowledging in reply to questions
that he declared a similar amend.
ment to the Louisiana constitution to
be unconstitutional, and saying that
the amendment having been adopted
he felt it to be duty to his constitu.
ents to support it and to defend it in
the Senate. If the people of Louis
lana are not ashamed of McEnery and
his defense, they ought to be.
Mr.. Montague White, formerly di
plomatic agent for the Transvaal in
London, and who was credited with
being in this country on a diplomatic
mission, called on Secretary Hay thi.
week, and informed him that he hat
no official credentials of any sort from
the Boer government, but was in the
United States for the purpose of doing
all that he could legitimately do tt
work up public sympathy for the
Beers. Secretary Hay courteously
listened to Mr.. White, as he would tc
any other intelligent foreigner wht
might call on him as a private indi
vidual, but he said very little, beyond
emphasizing the neutrality of this
government.
The report for and against the seat
ing of Hon. NJ. S. Quay were this week
submitted to the Senate, and an early
} vote is expected on the case. Mr.
Quay's supporters display more conf
dence in their ability to seat him thar
his opponents do in their claim that
they will be able to keep him out.
Aguinaldo's latest dodge, a reques,
through New York paper to send d
commission of Filipinos to the United
States to express the desires of theil
people, was thus etfectually disposed
of by Postmaster General Smith
whose relations with President Nc
. kinley are close enough to enable
him to speak for him: SIT is all il
. Aguinaldois hands. He knows per
fectly well the terms of peace, which
means surrender acknowledgement
of American sovereignty and the full,
lest measure of self-governmeht
which will be framed after fully as
; certaining the desires and capabili
ties of the Filipinos." That says al
that need be said. This government
stands ready to do the right thing by
the Filipinos, and will do it in the end
but it is in the power of Aguinaldo tC
hasten matters oy an unconditional
surrender. He has been told more
than once that there would be no ne
, gotiation.
| The Democrats of the House are
many of them dissatisfied with tn,
leadership of slippery Jim" as Rep
resentative Richardson, of Tennessee
is sometimes called, and it would no
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