Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-08-05
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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ness said: cit looks as though the
republicans in the constitutional con-
vention OF Alabama might have de-
Gliding vote, although they are only 10
or 20 out of 155 delegates. It is al
ready evident that the democrats are
! badly divided among themselves. On
/ the suffrage plan they have presented
| two different reports, and the best
! democrats in the convention and Of
the state are against the grandfather
| clause. Senator Pettus has declared
| that it's adoption would be unwise,
and Senator Morgan has said quite as
much. Then there's perplexity about
] the payment of the poll tax as pre-
requisite for voting. One of the
! democratic members of congress has
investigated and found that the
negroes in the black belt pay $4,000
poll taxes, where the whites pay 5000.
To be sure, the negroes are largely in
the majority there, but the democrats
are not certain that the poll tax pro-
vision will give them any great aid in
suppressing the negro vote. The con-
vention will probably be in session
until Christmas before it straightens
out all the tangles.
If Mr.. James L. Norris, the Dis trict
of Columbia member of the demo-
cratic national committee knows what
he is talking about, Mr.. Bryan has
lost his hold upon the committee,
although be had been generally sup
posed to thoroughly dominate
majority of its members, as we'll as
upon the Ohio democracy. Mr.. Norris
declares very positively that he has
| rec sived letters from a majority of
the members of the democratic nation
al committee, endorsing the action of
the Ohio convention in throwing
Organism overheard. That declar-
alton ought to furnish Mr.Bryan with
material for little serious reflection,
because, if true, it means that he has
been deposed as the democratic
leader.
Secretary Long has approved the
report of the naval examining board,
the first of its kind for many years,
that Lieutenant Amman Hartrath is
morally disqualified for promotion
from the engineer corps to the line,
and recommended to the president
that Hartrath be dropped from the
naval list with years. pay, as pro-
vided by law. Hartrath was appoint
ed to the Naval Academy from Mihc-
higan, in 1884, and since April, 1901,
has been attached to the receiving
ship Independence, stationed at Mare
Island Navy Yard.
Colonel Dick Plunkett, who lives in
Oklahoma, said just before leaving
Washington, in order to be present at
the distribution of the lands in that
territory, to be opened to settlement,
August 9Th: 81 am glad to see that
Elk Governor Richards, of Wyoming,
assistant commissioner of the general
land Office, is to be in charge Of the
drawing of lots. This lottery business
is new proposition and if it should
not prove successful, there would be
Richards is a western man and the
settlers know this and feel that he
will look out for their interests and
give equal justice to all. He familiar
lied himself with the location of the
tract to be opened up, and I feel that
Secretary Hitchcock could have m ade
no wiser selection.''
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden followed up Postmaster GEN
eral Smiths orders for such execution
of the law as will shut out all public
atoms not clearly entitled to the privi
lege of second class mail, with letter
to postmasters, informing them that
their bondsmen are liable to be held
for any losses incurred by the govern
ment through their failure Or neglect
to carry out the law in accordance
with the Postmaster Generals orders.