The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-03-15
From Our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Senator Hanna's project for max
ing the Senate q one.man body, by
the adoption Of Reed rules, has been
postponed, but by no means aban-
doned. The kicking was SO vigor-
Gus at even the mention OF the pro-
lect that it was apparent to Mr..
Hanna that the Senate would be
kept in extra session all summer,
with no certainty Of success in the
end, If the attempt were made to
put the project through at this time.
SO it was decided to let it 60 over to
the regular session, and to spend the
recess in pulling wires to make
voters for it. The adjournment Of
the extra session Of the Senate was
hurried to prevent the growth of
sentiment in favor Of a reorganiza-
ton OF the committees, which would
have deprived number OF senators
OF some OF the patronage they now
control.
Although the published news
from Cuba indicates much kicking
against the conditions laid down by
congress forthe withdrawal OF Amer
lean authority, members Of the ad-
ministration claim to have secret
information which causes them to
expect an early acceptance OF the
conditions by the Cubans. The ru-
mored intention OF the administra-
ton to send more troops to Cuba is
strongly denied in official circles.
Others seeking after official plums
are saying unprintable things about
the greed ofex-senators, who are 60
ing after all the desirable places and
landing them, too. Ex-senator
Carter's appointment as commits
sioner Of the St. Louis exposition
has been officially announced, and
three other ex-Senators, Lindsay,
Thurston and Mcbride, are under
stood to have been promised places
on the same commission.
Tom Carter's appointment, which
carries s. 900 year for three years,
with not very much work to do, was
his reward for having, at the request
of Mr.. Mckinley, talked the River
and Haroor bill to death in his last
senatorial hours. Senators are re-
calling the statement OF Senator
Hanna, regarded at the time as
bluff, that unless the Ship Subsidy
bill was passed, the River and Har-
Dor bill should not.
A proud record in their line is
that Of G, A. Snow & Co., the
Washington patent lawyers, who
have procured more than 22,OOO
patents for inventors-many Of them
for inventions that have played i'm
portant parts in the industrial pro-
Igress Of the past quarter century.
A subcommittee Of the Senate
committee on Military Affairs, has
been appointed to investigate, dur
ing the congressional recess, under
the Pettigrew resolution, adopted by
the Senate, the charge that Col. II.
o. S. Heistand was interested in a
scheme to corner the hemp supply
of the Philippines through official
favortism. Whether the investiga-
ton is to be a whitewashing affair
or is to get at the real facts, is not
yet apparent. If it be the latter,
there are reasons for the belief that
a sensational looting scheme Of large
proportions will be uncovered.
The administration hangs on to
the reciprocity treaty with France,
Notwithstanding the determined op-
position in the Senate, that caused
it and all the other reciprocity
treaties negotiated under the Ding
ley tariff law, to be left unratified,
and an agreement has been signed
by Secretary Hay end the French
ambassador, extending the time in
which the treaty with France may
be ratified to Sept. "a, 1902.
In answer to the Senate resolu-
lou, Secretary Long admits that
commissioned officers in The navy,
promoted from the ranks, are not
allowed to wear the same uniforms
worn by officers Of the same grade
graduated from Annapolis, but de-
hes that the discrimination is made
because one officer went through the
Naval Academy and the other
lidn't, but he failed to give any
,ther plausible reason therefor. He
urther admits the justice Of the
complaint Of those Disseminated
against, by stating that the Navy
is now preparing uni
orm regulation book, "showing all
uniforms and permitting officers
promoted from the ranks to wear
certain insignia and uniform, not
low worn by them, but which are
for other commissioned
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