The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-01-29
Work Accommodating and Both Sen
ate and House Are Kept
Very Busy.
IMPORTANT MEASURES UNDER way.
Southern Interests Receiving Con-
siderable MISUNDERSTANDING of
Opinion Regarding an Isthmian :
Canal-Feelihs on subsidy to COM
merce.
Especial Correspondence
Washington. d. G.. .Ja1


Appropriation bills are accumulating in
the senate and are rapidly being disposed
of in the house, and the chances for an ex.
ira session are beginning to hinge entirely
upon the willingness to be shown by the
senate in considering and disposing of in a
businesshke manner the great measures
which oil the machinery of government aqd
disposition to lag in its work, however dila-
tory the senate may be in emulating the
houses example. 1t cannot be doubted,
however, that with the increased response
bilities 81 our government, with its 75,O0O,-
600 Americans, to say nothing of its 100000
600 or 100000 other dependents in dis
tant parts Of the world, the short sessions
are proving quite inadequate for the proper
transaction of the public business that
crowds upon congress.
The flibusters in the senate are buster
ing as hard as before regarding their DISPOSE
ton to Nhold vi" important administration
measures, in order to force the president to
call an extra session, the manifest purpose
of which is to endeavor to discredit the adj
y,
haps lead to its defeat. The people, on the
other hand, while undesirous of wasting the
public funds are equally DESTROYS of secur-
ing the benefits that flow from beneficial
legislation. To convene congress jim extra
session in order to supply sufficient time for
the disposal of pressing and important mat
tiers which are denied the proper time re-
CURED for their consideration in the regular
sessions will always meet with the peoples
approval whenever the president finds him
self-for any reasons of congressional neg
lect or studied dilatoriness-forced to safe
guard the pation's interests in,that manner
There is growing feeling among many of
our more thoughtful statesmen that the
southern problem will be solved BY those in
the south who, are responsible for the dis
franchisement of colored voters As soon
as the necessity for unity of political action
among the white voters is removed by the
elimination of the possibility of negro dom
nation, immediately there will be a di-
vision among the white voters upon great
national problems that are not influenced
by race questions. The development of the
resources of the south, it is beginning to be
seen by the wiser Of those of that section,
has been held in check by the olgarchy exer-
cised by white voters throughout that entire
section. an oljgarchy that has been > con.
slant menace to representative royernment
and consequently deterrent IN extensive
investment.
The nossibilities beyord tbe oons,r,at3on
of an sthmian canal have onened tba COS
Of many of The more we, So
the south. ouickened as tbey have b up,, NV ~,
their realization of HE almost ,,ntn,abod
rich and All but eyhanstlass rosa,roas of
>their own section. Tbis i fnd;na exnres.
sion in va-1ous forms Inf no,rhe e l p.ra
pointedIv than in the resfive feal;no sh now,
by advanced thinkers and real statesn,en
amonq the conpressional de,eeations eve
senting southern constituencies. Whenever
business men get together in the south to
discuss matters of public interest relating to
their section of the country, they find them
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