The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-02-08
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON LETTER,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. 4, '0l.

Democrats and Republicans, by
mutual consent, called the legisla.
tive game today long enough to par,
ticipate in doing honor to the mem
ory Of that grand old virginian,
John Marshall, by attending the
Joint session OF congress held in the
hall Of the House, and taking part
in the interesting exercises of the
Centennial celebration OF the ap-
pointment Of John Marshall to be
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
Of the U. S.
The republicans will this week
try TO hold night sessions of the
Senate to force the Subsidy bill
through, The opponents of the
bill are not particularly opposed to
night sessions, but they insist that
at all sessions when this bill is be-
ing considered quroum should be
present.
! Mr.. Mckinley signed the Army
bill Saturday, and the hunt for the
thirteen hundred odd commissions
it places at his disposal. is now in
full cry, and he is already finding
it several times worse than tn : grip.
Gen. Miles has been promised the
Lieutenant Generalship.
Senator Jones, Of Ark, doesn't
allow his regret for the failure of
the democratic Senators to act as a
unit in program of opposition to
republican legislation, and especial
ly to the Ship Subsidy bill, which
the whole power of the republican
machine is now trying to force
through the Senate, to prevent his
expressing his own opinion. In re-
lply to an appeal from Senator Frye,
for vote on the bill, Senator Jones
said: "It is remarkable fact that
this subsidy bill should be pressed
upon congress during the closing
days OF the session, when IA ap.
preparation bills, the bill which
|. looks to the decrease of the burdens
of taxation, the Nicaragua Canal
bill and other measures of far reach
ing Importance, remain unacted
! upon. There must be no limita-
tion of debate, and until the minor
; rIity has had ample opportunity to
consider this subsidy bill in all its
|phases, | will not give my assent to
any agreement for a VOTE" Sen
ator Teller indorsed the remarks OF
Senator Jones, and added a few sar
castle words for those inclined tc
raise fuss because the right Of de-
bate still existed in the U. s. Sen
late. This does not indicate an early
vote on the bill, even if the republi
cans have nerve enough to keep i,
before the Senate at the expense ol
all other legislation, as its steering
committee has decided to d..
Senator Gallinger made some ug
J Ily charges in support of his resolu-
ton for joint congressional com
mittes to investigate special pension
Legislation. He said that under the
present practice pension bureau
had been established under the dome
of the Capitol, and pension attor
neys, he believed for pay, advised
|clients that it was easier to get pen
sions through congressional action
than through the pension bureau
He called attention to the fact tha
one senator had introduced 1872 pri
vate pension bills, and another 145
that the total Of these bills in thi,
congress, had almost reached 5000
and he predicted that they would bt
doubled in the next congress j
something were not done to head Of
present practices.
| No speech made by a Democra,
at this session has attracted more at
tention than the appeal Of Repre-
sentative Lanham, OF Texas, for har-
mony in the Democratic party. BY
way Of emphasizing his willingness
Ito receive with open arms those
Democrats who left the regular or
ganization during the last two ma
|tional campaigns, he inserted this
verse in his speech:
l"Return, o, wanderer retdrn,
i And seek an injured party's grace;
!. Forsake the sins that made you mourn
4 And drove you from its fond embrace
lCome home Come homel
o, prodigal child, come homev"
Senator Tillman, in calling atten
tion to the absence OF a quorum in
1.-THE Senate, during the debate on thu
Ship Subsidy bill, in accordance
with the Democratic policy Of in
sisting on the presence Of quorum
said: 81 want to give notice tha
1.-THE end OF the session is less thar
|. one month away, and we have done
nothing towards passing the appro
, priation bills. Now, If this admin