The Harrison times., 1901-03-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

" ASHlNGIOk. u <, Mai lS. 1901
Secretary Hay was given an i'm
possible task when he was told by
( Mr. Mckinley to negotiate a new
/ ''S'' -'-;th England to take the
place OF the rejected >--atv that ~ n
represent the views of Iwo-third- ..
the Senate What the senator.
would agree to would not be agreed
: to by the British Ambassador. In
!, fact, senators who ought to know
have declared that if the treaty Just
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 senator's
are thoroughly satisfied that Eng
land has been tricky in its efforts to
head OF the construction of the Mic
aragua Canal by this government,
and some of them do not hesitate to
express the belief that the admins
tratiOn has been a party to some of
| the trickery. Whether in the face of
| this knO wledge of senatorial sent
Iment, Secretary HAY will try to
carry out his orders as TO the negO-
| tiatiOn of the new treaty is not
known, but it seems absolutely GER
tain that any treaty acceptable to
England will fail in the senate, If ne
gOtiated. Even if the administra-
ton could control the votes of all
the republican senator's, which it
cannot, 1t would be six votes short
of two thirds, and it may be set
down as sure, that those six votes
cannot, under any circumstances, be
had from the democrats, to ratifv a
treaty that gives England even as
much say in the construction OF the
Nicaragua Canal as was given bv
the rejected Hay-Pauncefot treaty.
That's why Mr. HAYS task is amin
possible one.
When one is rewarded for having
turned ones political coat, the size
of the reward is apt to be regarded
as the value put upon the services of
the turpcOat by the other side. Up
on that theory, Hon. Irvine DUNCAN.
who was sent to Congress a few
years ago by the democrats of the |
18th Ohio district. and who turned |
his political coat during the last
and took the stump for
must be very small. Sen |
ator Hanna has just had Mr.. DUNCAN
to a $1,000 clerkship in
the treasury department.
IF some of the good things that
~VrSzss..>-7>
he was alive, this world be much |
more satisfactory place to live, re-
marked philosophic and somewhat |
cynical senator who had been dis !
cussing the praise bestowed upon
the late Hon. Benz. Harrison, by !
prominent members of his party |
who had for years lost no Opportun-
ity to snecr at him. 1t does seem
that the death of a man of prom
inence serves to bring out striking
bits of hypocrisy in other men of
prominence
There is a growing suspicion that
there Is a close connection between
the opposition of some of the big
syndiCates operating in several lines
of Cuban industry against the with
drawal of American authority from
the island and the report that the
Cubans are going to refuse to COM
ply with the conditions imposed by
Congress for American withdrawal,
and that if a close investiga tiOn
were made, it would be found that
these syndicates were using money
to influence Cubans, just as agents
for those syndicates brought influ-
ence to bear upon Mr.. Mckinley for
the purpose of persuading him to
take no steps toward carrying out
the pledge of Congress that our au-
/ thOritv should be withdrawn as
soon as the Cubans were in posi-
tion to govern themselves. Public
sentiment was so strongly in favor OF
keeping our pledge that Mr.. McKin-
/ ley would ->oe he persuaded. 1.-THE
Cubans refuse to fill the conditions
/ American authority will continue
until Congress sees fit to change the
conditions which it might not do at
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