Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-01-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. 5, 1900.
Congress hasn' done ANYTHING
at all exciting since it reassen1-
bled. Resolutions have been Of
fered in both house and senate
calling upon the secretary of the
treasury for all correspondence
with national banks SINCE March
March 4, 1897. These resolutions
are intended to bring out the
facts connected with the deposit
ing Of internal revenue collections
in national banks, aud prove
the truth or falsity of the allega-
tlons of favoritism. Senator Hoar
gave the majority fatherly sort
OF lecture on their propensity to
oppose resolutions offered by the
minority asking for informa ton
concerning Philippine affairs.
Senator Chandler offered an
amendment to the financial bill.
which now has the right OF way
after the morning hour, providing
fer a ontifitadficeo of tthe sffoff- efforts IS to to
secure international bimetallism.
Subscriptions to the Lawton
fund closed tonight. The total
amount received Will be in The
neighborhood of 100000, which
makes it certain that the widow
and children of the gallant officer
will be we'll provided tor.
The senate committee on privi-
leges and elections held a meeting
today which was given up en-
tirely to consideration of the Quay
case. The belief that a majority
of the committee will vote against
the seating of Mr. Quay is still
prevalent, but there is division
of opinion as to how the senate
will vote, the majority believing
that Quay will be seated by d mar
row margin. Senator Chandler,
chairman of the committee, saws
the report will be made inside of
two weeks.
Advocates of government own
ership of transportation lines are
saying that the government is
furnishing an object lesson of
how easy it can be done. For
some time the gov ernment has
run Il regular line of steamers
from New York to Cuban and
Porto Ricaii ports and this week
Secretary Root ordered the estab-
lishment OF a government line OF
steamers III the Pacific, to run
regularly between San Francisco,
Honolulu and Manila. Of course,
these lines are the result of mill
tary necessity, and were not es-
tablished to accommodate ordi-
nary traffic, but they will never
.theless furnish texts for able
speakers and writers.
1t is natural that any American
should feel pleased at such an
American diplomatic triumph as
that by which we have secured
the guarantee of the European
nations concerned that American
commerce with Chinese ports
shall have all the privileges en-
joyed by the most favored nation
In other words that what has be-
come known as the "open door"
commercial policy shall be main
teined at all ports of China China
gardless of the nation in control
of the port. While success has
been expected ever since this gov
ernment made what was practi-
cally a demand for the guarantee
upon the European governments,
it was only during the present
week that success was officially
assured. There are numerous
senators and representatives not
in accord with the administration
who are pleased, not only because
the guarantee makes it certain
that we will get our share of Chi
nese trade but because it removes
What might have made an excuse
by this government to grab
slice of China, including al port,
as England, Russia; Germany
and France have done in the in