The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-10
WASHINGTON.
from our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, May 7, 1900.


Does the administration really favor
the Nicaragua Canal i? In view of the
known condition of public sentiment,
that question may sound odd, bu,
there were things said in the debate
which preceded the passing of the
Nicaragua Canal bill by the House
which made it pertinent. Represent
alive Hepburn, of Iowa, who was in
charge of the bill, had a sensational
row with representative Cannon, OF
ILL.,, man close to the administration,
whom he charged with working in the
interest of the Panama Canal ring, in
trying to defer action on the bill
Representative Burton, of Ohio, also
a man close to the administration,
made speech against naming the
route of the canal in the bill. These
things were enough to arouse the sus-
plcion that the administration was not
acting in good faith, and there were
others. 1t is said that the failure oI
the Canal Commission to make a pre-
liminary report was owing to hint
from the administration. Perhaps
Boss Hanna thinks of working the
Panama Canal Company for big
campaign contribution. AT any rate,
1t is well known that the bill just pass
ed by the House will not be acted
upon by the Senate at this session.
Capt. Chadwick has found out tha,
the protection extended to Rear Ad.
miral Sampson by the administration
does not include all OF Simpsons
friends. Secretary Longs letter re-
primanding Chadwick-the second
time within year for the same Of
fense-publIshed this week, for slur.
ing at Reat Admiral Schley, was about
as singing a document as was ever
sent by Secretary of the Navy to an
officer; but the universal verdict l:
that Chadwick got no more than he
deserved.
Senator Sewell, of N. J., has more
nerve than most of the republican
Senators on the trust question. Hi:
republican colleagues work for the
trusts on the quiet, but he had the
audacity to say IN speech on the
floor Of the Senate that the STANDARD
Oil trust and the Sugar trust were
public benefactors. A few more bene
factors like them and there will be no
more trusts. Benefactions of the sort
they bestow contain the germs o.
revolution. Senator Pettigrew pre-
sented figures showing that neither o.
the trusts named by Mr.. Sewell had
done anything which was not directed
toward the crushing out of competition
and the increase of their own profits
From every direction comes the
strongest evidence that the republi.
cans have a hard fight before them
Nobody realizes this any better thar
Boss Hanna, and he is frank enough
to say so. That there is genera
revolt against the policies and prac
tees of the McKinleG administration
Is certain, although its strength is a:
yet uncertain. Mr.. II. ]. Jackson,
a business man of Fall River Mass.
has been showing. his Washington
friends letter written him by a
prominent citizen of Massachusetts,
from which the following is quoted
''From this distance it looks as though
the game of national politics is going
to be hard one for President Nc
Kinley to play this year. The com
ing of the Boer emisaries seems likely
to stir up hornets nest among th'
Irishmen and the German-Dutcl
sympathizers of the Beers in thl
country. The longer the war con,ln
ues the stronger the American sentl
ment seems to grow against England.
Mr.. Jackson says of the political out
look: "rhe republicans are going tt
have trouble IN New England. Their
are great many causes 10 which thl
can be attributed Yes, and they ar
going to have trouble in all the othe
sections of the country, and they are
only going to get what they deserve
The United States Supreme Coul
after spending two days hearing argu
ments in the Kentucky case, took
recess until May "a, when the deci:
ion will probably be made public.