The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-07
The Subsidy Programme.

The declaration Of Senator Frye that
the Subsidy Job is not dead but VIII be
steadily pressed until the magnificent one
hundred and eighty million dollar steal
has been accomplished, falls upon the
public with the sIckening thud Of super
fiuous information. OF course the scheme
is not dead, and never viii be while the
TRANSFORMATION Trust has a loose million
or SO wherewith to convince doubling
members and make life happy for its
friends in the two Houses.
Mr.. Frye expresses the deepest regret
that a desire TO expedite Senate business
induced him to refrain from answering
the .-cllurnnies'' which had been heaped
1luon his pure and patriotic pet measure.
until now il looks 10 the popular eye ike
a mountain of dead animals Of the species
Felis Anericanisr An he had but the time
he would have shown that the American
Line would only get some Of the bounty,
and that slow cargo boats. such as those
hardy saiIornen. John D. Rockefeller and
James J. Hill. steer over the rolling sea,
would get some, too
As a business prospectus of the old re
liable firm of Fat Frye s, Co, the Maine
Senator'S subsidy prognosis is sufficiently
Interesting. For one thing. We fancy that
it will serve to cheer the Transportation
Trust magnates Who bled at the nose 50
freely for the campaign barrel last spring
and summer. and who were positively
promised access 10 the Treasury vaults.
via the Subsidy steal, before March 4, 1901.
I.atterIy they have been disposed to growl
and mutter under their ciOven brezths re-
marks about broken pledges No doubt
the FRYE defiance IS Intended more for
their ears than for any other purpose
Ii should be quickly followed up with
another utterance. warning the intending
benehciaries of the job that measures like
the Subsidy steal are going 10 come high
in the next Congress. The House viii be
loaded with new members not q man OF
whom is yet supplied with the necessaries
of life-is without gold watch and chain,
diamond studs. and horseshoe scarfpin.
brown-stone front house, or carriage and
pair, dog cart and drag-and has never
yet had his fare and expenses paid to Eu-
rope and back Considering this impOr-
tant fact. IL seems q pity that the lobby
lists who represented the Transportation
Trust magna1es during the late session
were not authorized TO deal more liberal
" with the subject OF obstruction. The
history Of the Philippine and Cuban laws
passed Notwithstanding much opposition
is ample evidence that it would nave
been easy to push the Subsidy steal TO
vote and TO have carried it at one slaI
through the Senate and into the HOUSE
slot, IN twenty-four hours if only tbs
necessary pIacatiyes had been applied L
the soft spots on the other side of the
Chamber.
It WIS that wretched spirit OF penu-
robustness against which IKE warned Mr.
Hanna and his man Frye at the very be
ginning Of the session that defeated theil
efforts to hang the Subsidy corpse TO tbs
necl, of the nation. Senator AIier ofNe
braska may have been accurate IN hi!
statement that there are no Democrat.
in the Senate TO stand by" but whatev.
the people may be called who sold on
TO the River and Harbor bill, AMI tool
their pay in a gold brick. they haC
mouths that could have been gagged
and eyes that could have been shut tight
Ell than reG-nOsed statesman at an all
night sitting, by resort TO those means
which we regret to learn were withheld
through sheer nisgardliness.
Does not Mr. Frye remember the mi
racuIous conversion Of enc of the derces
chronic obstructiOnists in the Senate {
few years age, when cOmplacency ard Z
vote were rewarded by a hilarious fYt
months iUnket 10 Hawaii and japan.
That was something like business 1t /.
the yolUbility Of the circulating medium
that promotes progress Let that precep
sink deep into the minds Of the Subsidy
grabbers, and, next year they may hay,
better ls.eg-