Carlsbad current., 1901-02-09
WASHINGTON LETTER
WAsilINarnN. Rrn- 1. 100

WAsnINGToN, FEB, I, lml
The shrewdness of the Hanna Nc.
Kinley bluff in the senate by antagoniz
ing appropriation bills with the ship
subsidy bill cannot be denied. Having
determined that there shall be an extra
session Of congress any way, they could
afford to make this blaif, IL they sue
eeed in getting the subsidy steal
through by 1t, they viii dodge the charge
of arranging for the extra sessions Just
10 get IL through; IL the subsidy bill
fails to get through, thus furnishing
other reasons for the extra session
than Mr.. McKinley's sudden desire to
have congress provide form OF civil
government for ahe Philippines and his
anxiety lest the Cubans should have to
wait few months for congressional
action on the constitution they are now
making Unless all signs are wrong,
there is some partisan deviltry behind
this extra session plan. IL Is easily
conceivable that IL the republicans
intend to do some partisan legislating
10 the iifty.seventh congress, for the
purpose of perpetuating themselves In
power, they would prefer doing II this
spring to postponing II to the regular
session, which will not c,ose until few
months before the next congressional
campaign. The large republican
majority IL both branches OF the next
congress will be great temptation 10
"A certain class OF their leaders to in.
dulge in partisan legislatiea.
There are Indications that the re-.
publicans are going to try TO do in the
next congress what they were afraid TO
do in connection with the re.apportinn.
ment bill passed by the present con
gress--poke their fingers into the in
terual affairs of those southern states
that have constitutional provision cur
failing negro suffrage. Enongh was
said when the credentials OF Senator.
elect simmons, OF \. G. were presented
to the senate tn show that an attempt
is to be made IN the next congress to
get the matter before congress by oh.
jecting to the seating of senators from
the states that have restricted suffrage
NC, SC, Miss, La. Whether. the
attempt will succeed will depend upon
the support it gets from the more con
servatives, many of whom have eaid IN
private conversations they were op'
posed To any agitation OF this sort III
congress, and would have favored the
suffrage restrictions had they lived III
the states that have adopted them.
Democratic senators will 10 man
oppose any and every move to question
the right of senators from the fouI
above named states To take seats III
the next congress.
T.te house judiciary committee by Il
| vote of 10 tn > adopted resolution de
claring that Representative Richardson
Of Ala. Is only entitled To draw SALARY
from Aug. q, 1900, the date of his elec
|
resignation of Gen. Joe Wheeler. II
sanctioned by the house, as itprobably
will be, this decision will serve as Il
precedent. 1t has been contended 10y
some that Mr.. Richardson's salary
should date back To the day Gen
Wheeler resigned and by Others that
| Oh Ini A
beginning of the Fifty.sixth congress
senator Turner, OF Washington, III
u speech against the ship subsidy bill
characterized II as vicious In its princi
pie ana absurd In lis extravaganza; one
quarter government paternalism and
three quarters n lawless, piratical raid
upon the public treasury, its principal
purpose being to enrich few private
individals, by giving S270,0O0,0O0 OF
public money to one favored industry
Mr.. Turner called particular atten
ton tn the fact that instead of opera.
tion for twenty years, as generally sup
posed. a. u cost of sls0OO,0O0, the bill
IL IL became law, would operate fOr
thirty years and cost 270,OO0 90,
Although the ship subsidy bill, IL
not before the house, Representative
Thayer, of Mass, took advantage oi
the wide latitude allowed in the dis
cussion Of appropriation bills to make
a strong speech against II, bristling
/ "a oontnnu Qanap arUumeufE RhnW i "a u
that the measure would not result In
building up our merchant marine. and
concluding with these words: I'll the
American merchant marine Is To be- re-
viyed and rehabilitated 80 as To take a
prominent aud commanding position
among the nations of the world, Il will
be done IN some other way than by the
temporary intoKicant provided by The