The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-03-22
tFrom our Regular corresponiont.)
WASHINGTON LETTER.

" fehiNSivN. - ~, MAR. 10, VI 4.
Secretary Hay was given an i'm
possible task when he was told by
Mr.. Mckinley to negotiate a new
treaty with England to take the
,place Of the rejected treaty, that will
represent the views Of two-thirds OF
the Senate. What the senators
would agree to would not be agreed
10 by the British ambassador. In
TACT, senators who ought to know
have declared that if the treaty lust
rejected by England, were to be ac-
cepted Just as it was, by Secretary
Hay and the British Ambassador.
and again sent TO the Senate. it
would fail Of ratification, until it had
been amended. MANY senators are
thoroughly sct.siied that England
has been tricky in its efforts to head
of the construction of the Nicara-
qua canal by this government, and
some of them do not hesitate to ex-
press the belief that the administra-
ton has been party to some OF the
trickery. Whether in the face Of
this knowledge of senatorial senti-
ment, Secretary Hay will try to
carry out his orders as to the nego-
lt;atIon Of the new treaty, is not
known, but ii seems absolutely cer-
tain that any treaty acceptable TO
| England will fail in the Senate, if
negotiated. Even if the aiminis-
'tration could control the votes of all
the republican senator's, which it
'cannot. il would be six votes short of
two-thirls, an1 it may BE- set down
A. snre, that those six votes cannot,
Under any circumstances, be had
from the democrats, to ratify a
treaty that gives England even as
much say in the construction of the
Nicaragua canal as was given by the
rejected Hay Pauncefote treaty.
That's why Mr.. Hays task is an
impossible one.
When one is rewarded for having
turned cne's political coat, the size
Of the reward is apt to be regarded
as the value put upon the services
Of the turncoat by the other side.
Upon that theory, Hon. Irvine Dun
gan, who was sent to congress few
years ago bv the democrats of the
Thirteenth Ohio district, and who
turned his political coat during the
last campaign and took the stump
tor Mckinley, must be very small
Senator Hanna has Just had Mr..
DUNCAN appointed to a $l20O clerk
ship in ths Treasury Department.
IF some of the good things that
are said OF a man after he is dead
we're said of him and to him when
he was alive, this world would be a
much more satisfactory place %
live" remarked a philosophic and
somewhat cynical senator who had
been discussing the praise bestowed
upon the late Hon. Benz. Harrison,
by prominent members OF his party
who had for years lost no oppor-
Itunity to snser at him. Ii does
seem that the death Of prominent
man serves to bring out striking bits
of hypocrisy in other men Of prom
linence. Why, i one Of those mys-
tarious things which no one is ever
able to account for in any satisfac-
tory way. 1t il known to all the
world that while he was president,
and since, Mr.. Harrison was hated
heartily by nearly every prominent
membs sr OF his party. for one or an
other reason, bu, since his death,
these men have been trying to out
DO each other in saying extravagant
words OF praise for him. The pub
lie is very forge;ful, but it ISM quite
so forgetfu a. the talk Of these III IN
indicates .hem to believe.
Ths friends of Mr.. Meiklejohn,
late Assistant Secretary of War.
and present candidate for the U. ).
Senate, before the Nebraska legis-
lature, are saying publicly that be
retired from the War Department
voluntarily, while in private they
are saying unprintable things about
Secretary Root, for pu7hing Meikle-
john out, which they fear will queer
whatever chances he had for cleo
ton to the Senate. Secretary Root
was doubtless actuatcd largely by
seliishness in getting an assistant
secretary who would perform the
work of that Off C -1uring the past
six months Meiklejohn has been
away from Washington practically
all Of the time, but has regularly
drawn his salary--but even il he
was, his doing 50 was creditable a.
an indication Of his belief that man
should not draw public salary
without performing any public
duties. Ii Il also creditable 70 Mr..