The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-02-08
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Feb. 4, 1901.

Feh. 4, 1901.
Democrats and Republicans. by
mutual consent. called the legis
latiye game today long enough to
participate in doing honor to the
memory of that grand old Viz
gilman, John Marshall. by attend
ing the joint session of Congre s
held in the hall Of the House,
and taking part in the interest
ing exercises of the Centennial
celebration OF the appointment of
John Marshall to be Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
The Republicans will this week
try to hold night sessions Of the
Senate to force the Subsidy bill
through. The opponents of the
bill are not particularly opposed
to night sessions, but they insist
that at all sessions when tins bill
is being considered quorum
should be present.
MIR. Mckinley signed the Army
bill Saturday, and the hunt for
the thirteen hundred odd com
missions it places at his disposal,
is now Ill full cry, and he is al
ready finding it several times
worse than the grip. Gen. Miles
has been promised the Lieuttn-
ant Generalship.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas.
doesn't allow his regret for the
failure of the Democratic Senators
to act as a unit i'll program of
opposition to Republican legi>la
ton and especially to the Ship
Subsidy bill, which the whole
power of the Republican machine
Is now trying to force through
the Senate to prevent his express
sing his own opinion. In reply
to an appeal from Senator Frye
/ Tor a vote on the bill. Senator
Jones said; 1T is a remarkable
fact that this Subsidy bill should
be pressed upon Congress during
the closing days OF the session.
when II appropriation bills. the
/ DILL which looks to a decrease Of
the burdens of taxation, the Me
aragua Canal bill and other
measures of iar-reaching import
ance, remain Enacted upon
There must be no limitation of
debate, and until the minority
has had ample opportunity to
! consider this Subsidy bill III all
Its phases. | will not give my as
sent to any agreement for Il vote"
Senator Teller indorSrd the re
marks of Senator Jones and add
ed few sarcastic words for those
inclined to raise a fuss because
! the right of debate still existed
III the United State Senate. This
does not Indicate an early vote on
the bill, even if the Republicans
have nerve enough to keep it be-
fore the Senate at the expense of
all other legislation. as its steer
ing committee has decided to do.
Senator Gallinger made some
ugly char es i'll support Of his
resolution for a Joint Congress
sional Committee to investigate
special pension legislation. He
said that under the present prac-
tice pension bureau had been
established under the dome of the
Capitol, and pension attorneys,
he believed for pay, advised
clients that it was easier to get
pensions through Congressional
action than through the pension
bureau. He called attention to
the tact that one Senator had i'll
troduced 162 private Pension
bills, and another 145; that the
total of these bills in this Con
gresS, had almost reached 3. 600.
and he predicted that they would
be doubled in the next Congress
if something were not done to
head of present practices.
No speech made by a Democrat
at this session has attracted more
attention than the appeal of Rep
resentative Lanham, of Texas,
for harmony in the Democratic
party. BY way of emphasizing
his willingness to receive with
open arms those Democrats who
left the regular organization dur
ing the last two national cam
paigns, he inserted this verse in
his speech:
"Return, o wanderer return,
And seek an injured party's grace;
Forsake the sins that made you mourn,
And drove you fl, IN It's fond embrace,
Come home. come home.
. prodgal child, come homer
Senator Tillman, in calling at
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