The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-02-07
Work Accumulating and Both Sen.
ate and House Are Kept
Very Busy.
IMPORTANT MEASURES UHDEa WAY.
Southern Interests Receiving Con.
stderable Attention-Unanimit OF
Opinion Regarding an Isthmian
Canai-Fceiing on Subsidy to Com-


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 disposng of in q
businesslike manner the great measures
which oil the machinery of government and
keep it from stopping. The house shows no
disposition to lag in its work, however diia-
tory the senate may be in emulating the
houses example 1t cannot be doubted,
however, that with the increased RESPONSE
biities of our government, with its 75,000,-
600 Americans, to say nothing of its 10000
600 or l5,0O0,OOO 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 filibusters in the senate are bluster-
ing as hard as before regarding their DISPOSE
tion to "hod up 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 ad-
ministration before the country, and per-
haps lead to its defeat. The people, on the
other hand, while undesirous of wasting the
public funds, are equally desirous of secur-
ing the benefits that flow from beneficial
legislation. To convene congress in extra
session in order to supply sufficient time for
the disposal of pressing and important mat
ters which are denied the proper time re-
quired 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
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guard the nations 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 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 ogarchy exer-
| cised by white voters throughout that entire
section, an oligarchy that has been con-
slant menace to representative government
and consequently deterrent to extensive
investment.
The possibilities beyond the construction
Of an isthmian canal have opened the eyes
of many of the more progressive people of
the south, quickened as they have been by
their realization of the almost untouched
rich and all but exhaustless resources Of
their own section This is finding express
sion in various forms, but nowhere more
pointedly than in the restive feeling shown
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among the congressional delegations repre-
| 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
selves handicapped and restrained from
joining in unity for the legislation which
they deem essential to their rapid and per-
manent development by finding that the
| only methods at their command clash with
| the economic predictions of those who
manage their political affairs.
One of the most significant illustrations
| of this is found in the unAnmity with which
southern industrial and commercial organi-
cations unite in pettioning congress to en-
act legislation that shall build up the coun-
try's mercantile marine. Freed from the
| shackles Of racial controversies there would
be no difficulty in the real wishes Of south
ern business men finding clear and cogent
| EXPRESSIONS so Frequently and so generally
as to force upon their representatives in
congress either change of policies or else
a change of representatives. The direct SUBJ
sidy to commerce involved in the construc.
ton of an isthmian canal cannot be gain
| said and the south to-day is almost up il
in its behalf. for the very fortunate reason
that, although it is not a new question, it has
never become partisan one
But the very course OF reasoning that sun.
ports the demand for the construction of an
isthmian canal. preciseIy the same basic
! principles being involved as there are in the
Improvement of rivers and harbors. apply
4 without deviation to, the problem of restor.
inp our ships to the seas. The ,atter can
only be solved through a government sub.
sidy. lust as the construction of an isthmian
canal has on all sides been conceded to be
mere matter of government "undertak.
ing"-the latter word taking the place Of
| the tabooed word subsidy" There can be
| applied to an isthmian canal construction,