Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. 1901.

from our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1901.
Democrats and Republicans, by mutual
consent, called the legislative game to-day
! long enough to participate in doing honor
to the memory Of that grand old Yirginian,
John Marshall, by attending the joint SEES
sion of Congress held in the hall of the
House, and taking part in the interesting
exercises of the Centennial celebration OF
the appointment of John Marshall to be
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United State.
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, hut they insist that at all
sessions when this bill is being considered
quorum should be present.
Mr.. 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 he is
already finding it several times worse than
the grip. Gen. Miles has been promised
the Lieutenant-G eneralship.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas dosen't allow
his regret for the failure of the Democratic
Senators to act as unit in a programme
of opposition to Republican 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 reply to an appeal from Sena-
tor Frye, for a vote on the bill, Senator
Jones said ut is a remarkable fact
that this Subsidy bill should be pressed
upon Congress during the closing days OF
the session, when fourteen appropriation
bills, the bill which looks to decrease OF
the burdens Of taxation, the Nicaragua
Canal bill, and other measures of far-reach-
ing Importance, remain Enacted upon.
There must be no limitation Of debate, and
until the minority has had ample oppor-
tunity to consider this Subsidy bill in all
its phases, will not give my assent to any
agreement for vote.o Senator Teller
indorsed the remarks of Senator Jones, and
added a few sarcastic words for those
inclined to raise fuss because the right Of
debate still existed in the United States
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 expense of all other legisla-
ton, as its steering committee has decided
to do.
Senator Gallinger made some ugly
charges in support of his resolution for 6
Joint Congressional Committee to investi
gate special Pension legislation. He said
that under the present practice a pension
bureau had been established under the
dome Of the Capitol, and pension attorneys
he believed for pay, advised clients that il
was easier to get pensions through Con
gressional action than through the pension
bureau He called attention to the fac1
that one Senator had introduced 1852 private
Pension bills, and another las; that the
total of these bills in this Congress, hao
almost reached 5000, and he predicted
that they would doubled in the next Con
gress if something were not done to head
off present practices. 1t will be remem
bered that Promoter Loudenslager is chair
man of the House Committee on Pensions
No speech made by Democrat at this
session has attracted more attention thar
the appeal of Representative Lanham, o.
Tcxas, for harmony in the Democratic
party. By way of emphasizing his willing
ness TO receive with open arms those Demo
Gratis who left the regular organization dur
ing the last two national campaigns, hi
inserted this verse in his speech:
"Return o wanderer return,
And seek an injured party's grace;
Forsake the sin that made i'd , you morn morn
Come homei Come home,
o prodigal child, come home!
Senator Tillman, in calling attention tt
the absence of a quorum i'll the Senate
during the debate on the Ship Subsidy
bill, in accordance with the Democratic
policy of insisting on the presence OF &
quorum said II want to give notice thai
the end of the session is less than one
month away, and we have done nothing
toward passing the appropriation bills
Now, if this administration wants an extra
session and proposes to obtain one by delay
ing everything by this bill, they can have
one, but / want to say that as long as this
debate lasts, and it will last a long time,
am going to see that the Republicans will
have to listen to it.
Senator Turner, whose speech against the
Ship Subsidy bill was alluded to by Sena
tor Frye, as Every amusing and as show
ing 'dense ignorance rave Mr.. FRYE q
scoring ufat he will not soon forget. He
compelled him to admit shat there might
be errors" in some Of his figures as to the
working Of the bill, and then said that Mr.
Frye had vicious job on his conscience
and could not afford to laugh at anybody,
and that he had laughed showed that he
would laugh in grave yard at midnight
that the man who had charge of crime
and was pushing a steal, had no reason tc
laugh at anybody. He referred to Mr.
Frye as "a gudgeon smelling around in the
mud for food and accepting the decayed
with the good" During the latter part Of
the speech Mr.. Frye became so angry that
he left the Senate Chamber and did moi
return until Mr. Turner finished.