The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1901-03-30
Washington, ID. e., News.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, MAR. %, 1901.

WASHINGTON, MAR. 70, 1871.
The traditional bull in china
shop did not create more conster
nation than Representative Bah
cock, Of Wisconsin, is creating
among the trust-bound Republican
bosses by talking up the merits Of
the antitrust bill, which he intro
duced near the close of the last
Congress, and which he will re,
introduce. 1t will be remembered
tEat the bill, as introduced, pro
vided for q repeal of the duty on
all manufactured steel and iron, its
avowed purpose being to prevent
the big steel trust making our peo-
pie pay extortionate prices for its
products. Mr.. Babcock, who is now
in Washington, has received SO
much encouragement of support OF
his bill that he has announced his
intention to broaden it, SO as to hit
two or more trusts,-tin plate and
plate CLASSIFY adding clauses re-
pealing the tariff OH plate glass and
tin plate. He has also served no.
tice Oil the ust-bound Republicans
that the bill will not be pigeon
holed i'll Comittee, and upon Re
publicans i'll general, that it they
do not join him in curbing the
trusts, they will see q party put in
power that will. 1t is certain that
the Democrats will support the bill
in the next Congress, and if Mr..
Bobcock can get as many Repub-
lican votes as he thinks he can, all
the power of the trust cannot pre-
vent its passage by the House.
Senator Burrows has dressed up
the bugaboO of IL reduction in the
Congressional representation of
those States which have disfran-
chised the illiterate voters, and is
coddling it as earnestly as though
it were Il bran new baby and he
were it's daddy. He has also dis
covered and announced veritabIe
mares nest-that congress has au-
thority to make u new congression-
al apportionment at any time.
Through the efforts of d rival
concern, a scandal that was hushed
up by the war department year
ago has become public. The briggs
Seabury Gun and Ammunition Co.,
which was given free use of govern
ment machinery at the Frankfort
Arsenal, to enable it to fill its con-
tract with this government, and
while it was several months be-
hind III its deliveries, it dropped
{. S. work and accepted two con-
tracts for similar work from the
government of Colombia, using the
machinery belonging to the govern
ment to make them. When Secre-
tary Roots attention was called to
the matter, he asked the contrac-
tors to make an explanation, which
they did by saying that the Colon
bian contract was profitable and
that they needed the money, or
words to that effect. And Secre-
tary Root accepted this as u salts
factory explanation, but the end is
not yet. The rival company is
threatening ID suit i'll court, and at
any event the matter will be heard
from in Congress.
Governor Odell, of New York,
who has jumped into notoliety by
his casting off Boss Platt's collar,
is being groomed according to in
side Washington gossip, as New
York's anti-Teddy candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination
in 1904. Senator Fairbanks con-
tinues to be spoken of as the ad-
candidate, but the man
The administration really wishes to
see nominated and will get nomin-
ated if there is the slightest chance
Of doing so without splitting the
party, is Marcus A. Hanna. OIL
course it is Hanna's cue now to
poohpooh any talk OF his being q
but all the same he in-
tends to get the nomination if he
can.
The Hanna Mckinley crowd re-
slize that they have no cinch in the
State campaign in Ohio this year,
SO they are trying to placate all the
hostile elements within the Repub-
ican party. They threw a sop to |
;he Anti-Saloon League by letting
t become known that Lieut.. Gov.
who is counsel for the
State Liquor Dealers Association,
would not be renominated, and then |
% prevent any disgruntlement |
the liquor mon, promised
Caldwell that he should receive a |
good federal appointment. In ad
lition they have made sure that
Foraker's friends will do |
10 kicking, by promising him that
lis candidacy for reelection would
Dc endorsed by the State conven
ion. Still, with all that they seem
% be afraid that the Democrats
will carry the State.
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