Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-05-11


Letter Reprimandins Chadwick Probably In.
spired by the Baltimore American Supple.
ment which Hangs like the Sword of Damo
cles, Suspended by Hair, Over the Exscu.
tive Head Hanna Realizes that the Fight
will be Hard One Republicans Vote With
the Trusts.
| From our Regular Correspon Dent
WASHINGTON, May 4, 1900.
D"> the Administration really "a.
vor the Nicaragua Canal? In view oil
the known condition Of public senti.
ment, that question may sound odd
bat there were things said in the de.
bate which preceded the passing oil
the Nicaragua Canal bill by the
House which make it pertinent
Representative Hepburn, OF Iowa, who
WAS III charge of the bill, bad a sensa.
tional row with Representative Can.
non, OF Illinois, a 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 tc
the Administration, made a speech
against naming the route OF the canal
in the bill. These things were
enough to arouse the suspicion that
the Administration was not acting in
good faith, and there were others. Ii
is said that the failure of the Canal
Commission to make a preliminary
report was owing to hint from the
Administration. Perhaps Boss Hanna
thinks of working the Panama Canal
Company for big campaign contri-
button. At any rate, it is we'll
known that the bill just passed by the
House will not be acted upon by the
Senate at this session.
Capt. Chadwick has found out tina {
the protection extended TO Rear Adj
miral Sampson by the Administration
does not include all of Sampson's
friends. Secretary Longs letter rep
rimanding Chadwick - the second
within year for the same ofiense.-
published this week, for sluring at
Rear Admiral Schley, was about as
singing document as was ever sent
by a Secretary of the Navy to an Of
ficer; but the universal verdict is that
Chadwick got no more than he de-
served.
Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, has
more nerve than most of the Republi.
can Senators on the trust question.
His Republican colleagues work for
the trusts on the quiet, but he had
the audacity to say in a speech on
the floor OF the Senate that the Stand
ard Oil trust and the Sugar trust were
public benefactors. A few more bene-
factors like them and there will be no
more trusts. Benefactious of the sort
they bestow contain the germs OF
revolution. Senator Pettigrew pre-
sented figures showing that neither of
the trusts named by NJ. Sewell had
done anything which was not directed
toward the crushing out of COMPETE
ton and the increase of their own
profits.
From every direction comes the
strongest evidence that the Republi-
cans have hard fight before them.
Nobody realizes this any better than
Boss Hanna, and he is frank enough
to say so. That there is general re-
volt against the policies and practices
OF the Mckinley administration, is
certain. although its strength is as yet
uncertain. Mr.. II. J. Jackson, a bust.
ness man of Fall River, Massachu-
sets, has been showing his Washing
ton 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
Mckinley to play this year. The
coming of the Boer emissaries seems
likely to stir up hornets nest among
the Irishmen and the German Dutch
sympathizers OF the Beers in this
country. The longer the war contin-
ues the stronger the American senti-
ment seems to grow against England"
Mr.. Jackson says of the political out
look; "The Republicans are going
to have trouble in New England.
There are great many causes to
which this can be attributed" Yes,
and they are going to have trouble in
all the other sections OF the country,
and they are only going to get what
they deserve.
The United States Supreme Court,
after spending two days hearing argu-
ments in the Kentucky case, took a
recess until May IA, when the decision
will probably be made public.
1t looks as though the Republican
leaders in Congress had become afraid
to carry out the imperialistic pro-
gramme mapped out by Mr.. McKin-
ley, until after the Presidential cleo
ton. The Spooner Philippines bill,
which gives Mr.. Mckinley autocratic
control of the Philippines under civil
government, which he now exercises
under military government, is slated
Tor postponement until the next ses-
sion of Congress. Public sentiment
has frightened the Republican steer
ing committee of the Senate and its
members ignored the Spooner bill in
preparing legislative programme for
the remainder of the present session.
This does not mean the abandon.
ment of that imperialistic measure,
but that the Republicans are afraid to
pass it now for fear of its effect upon
the voters.
The Republican majority in the
Senate stood by the trusts and voted
down Senator Berry's antitrust
amendment to the army bill, which
merely instructed purchasers of army
supplies to give preference to bidders
not connected with trust. Not a
single Democrat voted against the
amendment, but Jones and Stewart,
of Nevada, who once claimed to be
POpulis,s but who both seem to have
returned to their Republican affilia.
ton, did. Teller, Pettigrew and Well.