The times., 1901-03-13
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

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resigned said J. B. Hertzog of Whining
ton. yesterday at the Raleigh. They
/ have been for considerable period of
| time with only one Senator in Congress
| and I suppose they can get along for a
while without any.
There is a little bit of sentiment con-
| nected with this situation which has not
! so far been brought out. | think. If the
| history l learned was correct. the So
| called lower counties of Delaware were
| the first to sign the Federal Constitution.
| The main feature Of the Federal Consti-
| tuition which distinguished 1t from ali
| other efforts to form government for
! the United States was the uniform repre-
| sentation for States in the Senate. Now
! Delaware finds herself, in a certain sense.
outside that Constitution. Her position is
without parallel, for she has voluntarily
| done away with her Senatorial repre-
sentation. There have been times when
| States were without both Senators, but
there is no case on record like that of
| Delaware. The most famous instance of
State being without representation in
the Senate was while Garfield was Presi-
dent. Owing TO quarrel with the powers
that were in the political world, Coukling
and Platt both resigned. They expected,
Of course, to be reelected. but they were
not. For about six weeks New York was
without United States Senators. Then
Warner Miller and Elbridge Lapham were
appointed.
''Of course that was not case in which
the State voluntarily went without repre-
sentation. any more than the cases or the
States which seeded during the war /
think that Delaware has learned what it
has TO expect from the Republicans. and
VIII be found in the Democratic column
the next time it has an opportunity
The State of Montana could not have
settled upon a more suitable man to rep
resent it than Paris Gibson, said Martin
Maginnis in the lobby of the Arlington
Yesterday Mr. Gibson is a man of fine
parts and a stanch Democrat. He has
been the best sort of Democrat all his
life. lie is now nearly seventy years OF
age but is robust and hearty, and IN the
full vigor of his mind. lie VIII MAKE IN
nv opinion as good a Senator IA the
Commonwealth of Montana has ever
had"
The committee which was appointed to
| look into the refurnshing of the Hall of
| the House Of Representatives has decided
upon its recommendations, and has turn
ed over all the work to Mr.. Wood, the
Architect of the Capitol In the office Of
the Architect plans are now being pre-
pared for the additional seats, new gal
Iery chairs and new floor. Prof. Wood
bridge the ventilation expert from Ros-
ton, is expected in Washington soon to
take charge of the work of relaying the
floors and arranging the piping for the
heating and ventilating apparatus. The
plans for the new desks have been prac
ticaliy completed. They are merely sug-
gestive, as yet, however, and have not
been accepted. In design. they present
quite "A departure from all other desks
which have been in the House, particu
larry because of the amount of metal
which will be used in them Practically
all the wood used will be in the box of
the desk, the rest will be of brass, or
bronze. The dimensions VIII be but
slightly different from those now IN Use.
The wing of space will be accomplished
by making the desks slightly wedge
shaped. so they may be placed closer to-
gether Mahogany will be- the wood
used. Across the front of the top Will
run a carved and fretted ornamental rail
of brass: the standards a each side will
be hollow brass tubes, braced by fret
work similar to the rail on the top. These
standards will be used TO conduct the
heated air TO a small distributing box
under the desk. in a manner similar TO
that employed so successfully in the
Senate. To accommodate the new mem-
bers provided for under the Reapportion-
ment bill the big lounges in the lobbies
before the clOakrooms viii have to be
removed. on each side OF the aisle new
row of eight seats will be put, and il
necessary second row after that
I put no faith i'm the reports that
England has sent through the Govern
ment Of Jamaica peremptory orders TO
Ecuador regarding the Jamaica negroes
who are being employed upon the Quito |
Guayaquil Railroad said Perry NJ. De |
Leon, United States Consul General at
Guayaquil at the Riggs House yesterday.
Il consider that the press dispatches are |
sensational in the extreme. and that is |
also the opinion held by the State De |
partment. / do not deny that there may |
have been trouble between the negroes |
and the contractor. 1t is more than like |
ly, for a more worthless set of human |
creatures than those brought over from |
Jamaica | never saw. They are lazy and |
riotous, drunken and quarrelsome, and |
always grumbling whatever is done for |
them.
The situation in Ecuador is this. The |
Government of Ecuador contracted with
a syndicate of English Scotch and
American capitalists for the construction |
of the railroad from Guayaquil to Quito. |
pledging it's customs receipts to guarantee |
bond issue of S12,50O.OO5. This syndicate. |
called the EcuadOrean Association, let |
out the contract for building the road to !
Mcdonald an American contractor I'm |
road for the British Government, and
when he took up the Ecuador contract he
made an agreement with the authorities
of the island by which he was allowed |
20 take his negroes with him To Ecuador. |
paying their passage both ways. You
see, then. that the negroes are really |
British subjects.
The charge is that the iails and peni-
tentiaries Of Jamaica had been opened |
and all the criminals slowed away on the !
ships as part of the force of men that
Mcdonald was to bring to Ecuador The |
action IF the negroes since their arrival |
has done a great deal to substantiate this |
charge, for they have burned plantations |
robbed murdered, and done everything |
that is against the law. They tried at |
first to desert in a body. but they We're |
all brought back to work by troops. a
thing which inCensed them and made |
them even more vicious.
Before / left Ecuador the contractors
We're so thoroughly dsgUsted with the
whole lot that they were planning to
ship them all back to Jamaica, and to
employ American negroes in their stead
An American negro is worth dozen Of
those taken to Ecuador from Jamaica"