Gilpin observer., 1900-12-27
WASHINGTON LEE.
From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington, December 1s, 1900.
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If being in favor of this governments
retaining the right to defend the Mica
raguan Canal in it's own way be jlnRo-
ism, majority of the U. S. Senate are
jinCos, as tho Senate has amended the
Hay-Pauncefote Canal treaty to that
effect. The talk of some Senators during
the debate which led to the adoption OF
the amendment indicated quite strongly
that the Panama lobbyists have not yet
abandoned hope of in some way prevent
ing the passage of legislation for the
construction of the Nicaragua Canal.
There has at no time been any differ
ence of opinion between the majority
and the minority of the House on the
question of reducing the war taxes; the
differences have been as to how the re-
duction should be made and how great
it should be. That being the case, the
minority disappeared for the time being
after it's proposition to make the cut
S7O,OOO,OOO year, instead OF S4O,OOO,OOO,
as in the majority bill. was voted down
and the measure went through the
House with rush. 1t may not have
such an easy time in the Senate. The
administration thinks the bill already
cuts too deep for safety and many Sena-
tors that it should cut much deeper, and
the brewers are going to try to get
more reduction in the beer tax in the
Senate.
The referring of the Oleomargarine
bill to the Agricultural, instead OF the
Finance committee of the Senate,
practically assures its being favorably
reported to the Senate whatever its sub
sequence fate may be. If the oppos-
ton is as vigorous in the Senate as it
was in the House, it can probably pre-
vent vote being had on the bill.
Much interest is felt in the personal
fight that is going on between Senator
Chandler, of N. H., chairman OF the
Senate committee on Elections, and Mr..
Clark of Montana, who resigned his seat
10 the Senate at the last session OF Con
gress to head off the resolution reported
from the Elections committee declaring
that he had not been duly and legally
elected to the Senate. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Clark has been pulling few
wires to add to Mr.. Chambers already
difficult job of getting reelected. This
week Senator Chandler struck by ask
ing that the Clark resolution, which
was supposed to have been put to sleep
to Mr.. Clark's resignation, be sent back
to the committee, IN order that further
action might be taken. What will be
the next move is not yet known. Some
think that Mr.. Chandler is merely trying
to frighten Mr.. Clark into keeping his
fingers out of the New Hampshire Sena-
torial interest; others that he has some
scheme which he thinks can be utilized
to keep Mr.. Clark out of the Senate
after he gets elected by the new Montana
legislature.
Senator Clay, of Georgia, made
vigorous attack upon the Ship Subsidy
bill, now before the Senate, in long
and carefully prepared speech, in which
he declared that the measure was not
what it purported to be, for the general
increase of our merchant marine, but
was for making richer the already rich
owners of the fast steamships engaged
in foreign trade, and that on general
principles he did not regard the ship
owners as a class any more entitled to
government subsidies than the farmers
who produce wheat, cotton or corn.
Representatives of the National Busi-
ness League, from Chicago and New
York, made arguments before the House
committee on Foreign Affairs this week,
in favor of reorganization of the Con
sular service, which they declared. was
too much governed by partisan politics,
on n striclsly business basis. The same
committee heard Representative Aldrich,
of Ala, in advocacy Of his bill for the
establishment, at Washington, of Il Dip
lomatic and Consular school, on the
same basis as the Military Academy at
West Point and the Naval Academy at
Annapolis.
The President this week sent batch
of reciprocity treaties To the Senate in
Guiding an agreement for the extension
one year of the time within which the
treaties with Great Britain affecting the
British West Indies may be ratified; a
treaty with Denmark, relating to the
Island of st. Crox, and treaties with
Nicaragua, Ecuador and the Dominican
Republic.
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