The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-02-06
Washington Letter.

mutual consent, called the iegislstlVe
game today long enough to parti
cipate in doing honor to the memory
of that grand Virginian, John Mar
shall. by attending the joint session
of Congress held in the hall of the
House, and taking part in the inter
esting exercises of the Centennial
celebration of the appointment OF
John Marshall to be Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the Q s.
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 iosist that at all sessions
when this bill is being considered g
quorum should be present
MIR. Mckinley signed The Army
bill Saturday, and the hunt for the
thirteen hundred odd commissions it
places at his disposal, is now in full
cry, and be Is already finding it
several times worse than the grip
Gen Miles has been promised the
Lieutenant Generalship.
Senator Jones, of Ark. doesn't
allow his regret for the failure of the
democratic Senators to act as a unit
in programme of opposition to re-
publican legislation. 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
expressing his own opinion In re
ply to an appeal from Senator Frye.
for vote on the bill, Senator Jones
said alt is remarkable fac: that
this subsidy bill should be pressed
upon Congress during the closing
days of the session, when Ii appro
priation bills, the bill which looks to
decrease Of the burdens of taxa
ton, the Nicaragua Canal bill, and
other measures Of far reaching im-
portance, remain unacted upon.
There must be no Limitation of de
bate, and until the minority has had
ample opportunity to consider this
subsidy bill in ali its phases, will
not give my assent to any agreement
for vote +" Senator Teller indorsed
the remarks of Senator Jones, and
added few sarcastic words for those
inclined to raise fuss because the
right of debate still existed in the
e. s Senate. This does not indicate
an early vote on the bill, even if the
republicans have nerve enough TO
keep it before the Senate at the ex-
pense of all other legisIstiop, as its
steering committee has decided TO DO
Senator GalIioger made some ugly
charges in support of bis resolution
for joint congressional committee
to investigate special pension legisis
tion He said that under the present
practice pension bureau had been
established under the dome of the
Capitol. aud pension attorneys, be
believed for pay, advised clients that
it was easier 20 get pensions through
congressional action than through
the pension bureau He called atten
tion to the fact that one senator had
introduced 1872 private pension bills,
and another l45 +; that the total of
these bills in this congress, had
almost reached 5000, and he predict
ed that they would be doubled in the
next congress if something were not
done to head off present practices
No speech made by democrat at
this session has attracted more atten
sion than the appeal of Representa-
tive Lanham Of Texas for harmony ID
the democratic party By way Of
emphasizing his willingness to re-
ceive with open arms these democrats
who left the regular organization
during the last two national cam
paigns, be inserted this verse iD his
speech +:
"Re,uro, o vanderer, return,
And seek an Injured psrty's grace;
Forszke the sins that made you mourn,
And drove GU from its fond embrace !
Come home Come home
O prodigal child, come bone
Senator Tiliman, in calling atten.
tion to the absence of a qurum in the
senate during the debate on the ship
subsidy bill, in accordance with the
democratic policy of insisting on the
presence of a quorum said 81 want
to give notice that the end of the
aAn.;an in loco than nna month away