The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-03-08
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent,

President Mckinley doesn't particu-
larly favor the idea of having Congress
lay down conditions for the acceptance
of the Constitutional Convention of
Cuba, in advance of the action of that
| convention, which is now considering
supplementary declaration, setting
forth the relations that shall exist be
tween Cuba and the O. s., although he
i is not opposing the attempt that is now
being made in that direction with the
hope of escaping an extra session of
Congress The Presidents present plan
| is to take no action on the Cuban Con-
stitution, which General Wood has
been instructed not TO officially forward
to Washington, until the Convention
has acted upon the supplementary
declaration it is now considering. As
soon as that shall have been made, it
and the Constitution will be forwarded
to Washington and President Mckinley
will issue a call for an extra session of
Congress TO consider them, provided,
of course, that the action of this Cong
ress has not made one unnecessary.
The House has everything in good
shape for the last week of the session,
but only legislative experts can untangle
the mixture in the Sanate. Fortu-
nately, many of the Senators are legis-
lative experts, and when they say that
all of the appropriation bills, with the
possible exception of the River and
Harbor bill, viii get through, the lay
man must perforce take their word for
| it and watch and see.
In the Senate, the House bill, APP
propriating S., 900, 900 for the st. Louis
exposition, before. being passed was
amended to provide for closing the ex-
position on Sunday, and TO appropriate
$3.50, 900 for government exhibit at
the Charleston, S. c., exposition.
Senator Morgan stirred up some bad
blood in his efforts TO get the Nicaragua
Canal bill before the Senate, by eharg-
| ing the republicans with trucking to
Great Britain, because they had decided
that it would not be courteous TO act
upon the bill while the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty was unacted upon by Great
Britain. Senator Spooner reminded
him that it was the Senate that made
the delay by. amending the Hay
| Pauncefote treaty, and that the Senate
could not pass the Canal bin while its
own amendments were being considered
by Great Britain, without a breach of
international courtesy and decency.
President Mckinley has issued a
proclamation calling the Senate in extra
session, March 4, at u O'Clock noon.
This is always done in Inauguration
years, the Senate being called together
to act upon executive nominations,
and has nothing whatever to do with
the contemplated extra session of Cong
ress.
1T cannot be denied that there are a
great many wide-awake Office seekers
in this country. Within twenty-foul
hours of the publication of the death oi
Mr.. Rousenville Wildman, who was
Z. S. Consul at Hong-Kong, and his
family, through the sinking of the
steamship Rio de Janerio, outside the
Golden Gate, no less than seven appli-
cations for his place has been filed al
the Department of State.
Everything is in good shape for the
Inauguration of President Mckinley
and Vice President Roosevelt, next
| Monday. Places have been assigned
in heparade to organizations, military
and civic, numbering nearly forty
| thousand men. Thanks to the public
spirit of Secretary Long, the Navy viii
be more largely represented than in
any previous Inaugural parade The
crews of seven vessels of the Navy viii
march in the parade.
| Opinion differs as TO whether the
OIeomargarine bill viii reach vote in
the Senate. 1t is generally admitted
that if voted upon it viii be passed
The Revenue Reduction bill will not
fail. Aftes stubbornly standing fol
their respective bills long enough tc
frighten those who did not wish to SCI
the bill fail, the conferees began to tall
| compromise, and it is now said by then
that compromise bill viii be the re