The Harrison times., 1901-02-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Prom Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON. DC. Jan. IS. 1901.
Democrats aud Republicans, by
mutual consent, called the legislative
game today long enough to particip-
ate IN doing honor to the memory of
that grand old Virginian. John Mar
shall. by attending the joint session
of Congress held in the hall of the
House, and taking part in the in
ting exercises of the Centennial
celebration of the appointment of
John Marshall to be Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the U. 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 par
ticularly opposed to night sessions.
but they insist that at all sessions
when this bill is beng considered
quorum should be present.
Senator Jones. of Ark, doesn't al
low his regret for the failure of the
democratic Senator's to act as unit
in a programme of opposition to re-
publican legislation. and especially
to the Ship Subsidy bill, which the
whole power of the republican ma
chine is now trying to force through
the Senate, to prevent his expressing
his own opinion. In reply to an ap-
peal from Senator Frye, for vote,
on the bill, Senator Jones said: at
is remarkable fact that this sub
sidy bill should be pressed upon
Congress during the closing days OF
the session, when IA appropriation
bills, the bill which looks to de-
crease of the burdens of taxation,
the Nicaragua Canal bill, and other
measures of far-reaching Importance,
remain unacted upon. There must
DC NO sinisaeiUn of debate, and until
the minority has had ample op-
portunIty to consider this subsidy
bill in all its phrases, will not give
my assent to any agreement for a
vote Senator Teller indorsed the
remarks of Senator Jones, and added
few sarcastic W ords for those in
clined to raise fuss because the
right of debate still existed in the U.
s. Senate. This does not indicate an
early vote on the bill, even if the re-
publIcans have nerve enough to keep
1t before the Senate at the expense
of all other legislation, as its steer
ing committee has decided to do.
Senator Gallinger made some ugly
charges in support of his resolution
for Joint Congressional Committee
to investigate special Pension legis-
lation. He said that under the pre-
sent practice a pension bureau had
been established under the dome of
the Capital, 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 fact that one
Senator had introduced 162 private
Pension Bills, and another 145; that
the total of these bills in this Con-
gress, had almost reached 5000,
and he predicted that they would
be doubled in the next Congress if
were not done to head off
practices.
No speech made by democrat at
this session has attracted more at
tention than the appeal of Repre-
Lanham, of Texas, for |
-."=mony in the democratic party.
BY way of emphasizing his willing
lngness to receive with open arms
those democrats who left the regular
organization during the last two |
campaigns, he inserted this
verse in his speech:
Return, o wanderer return,
And seek an injured party's grace;
Forsake the sins that made Won
mourn,
And drove you from its fond en-
brace,
Come homei Come homel
Prodigal child, come homel"
Senator Tillman. in calling at
ention to the absence of a quorum
n the Senate. during the debater on
Ship Subsidy bill, in aS.tcordance
! the demosratis >Policy of insist
On the pEesence of quorum said:
wanCto give notice that the end
the session is less than one month
vay, and we have done nothing
towards passing the appropriation
bills. Now, if this administration