The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. Il, 1901.
President Mckinley has practically
recovered from the attack of the grip,
but DIR. Rixey will not let him take
any chances of a relapse; consequent
ly he is, as yet, doing very little work.
Being a man of robust health natural
ly, the forced confinement to his room
has been particularly hard on the
President, and it required all the per-
suasion of Mrs. Mckinley to make
him obey the doctors orders.
Friends of the army reorganization
bill are disappointed that the meas
ure has not yet reached a vote in the
Senate, but they find some consola-
ton in the positive promise of lead
ing Senators that the bill will be pass
ed this week. The delay is particu-
larly aggravating to Secretary Root,
because it keeps all his arrangements
for bringing the volunteers home
from the Philippines up in the air so
to speak.
When the House took up the River
and Harbor bill it was confidently eX
pected that it would pass after about
two days debate, but the general de
bate only came to an end to-day. The
debate has consisted largely of com
plant of the leaving out of projects
in which members are interested.
Eulogies on deceased members are
usually of the perfunctory order in
Congress, but those on the late Sena-
Davis and party of friends occupied
seats in the Executive gallery during
the delivery of the oratiOns, of which
a veteran newspaper man said: In
recent years in the Senate, no more
beautiful, heartfelt and eloquent eu-
logies have been pronounced upon
the memory of any Senator.
The d. b. Hill boom for 1904 reach
ed Washington forty-eight hours ago
in charge Of Bird S. Coler, Comptrol-
Ter of the City of New York. That it
is not a secret boom may be seen
from Mr.. Coler's very frank reply
when asked what brought him to
Washington: 81 have been seeing
Democratic Senators and Represent
atives in the interest of David b.
Hills nomination for President. |
believe Mr.. Hill will be the nominee
in, ,i,,Iy hn hox I,oc
port of Democrats of every state in
the Uuion. His friends have taken
hold of this matter in earnest, and
are going to push his claims for the
nomination with great vigor from
this time on. | have not heard a
single objection to Hills nomination,
and l have talked to many leading
Democrats from different parts of the
country. On the contrary, what
have heard confirms me in the belief
that Hill will be the next Democratic
nominee for President. The inva-
sion of the Hill boom seems to have
taken the thick and thin Bryan Dem
ocrats by surprise. Their private talk
indicates that the Hill Democrats and
the Bryan Democrats may indulge in
little figurative throat cutting be-
fore long.
The Burleigh Reapportionment bill
only needs President McKinley's sig
nature to become law, and that it
will get during the present week. 1t
went through the House by major
ity of G3 and through the Senate with
out a division.
At single sitting the House passed
10 private pension bills, which was
the largest number disposed of in one
day since the fifty first Congress
BY vote of 80 to 10, the Senate has
again put itself on record in favor OF
the Philippine policy of President
Mckinley. The vote was an amend,
ment to the Army Reorganization bill
offered by Senator Hoar, providing
that no further military force shall
be used in the Philippines, except
such as might be necessary to keer
order in places already in the peace
able possession of the United States
The effect of the amendment, if it had
been adopted, would have been tc
encourage the Filipino rebels tc
gather big army in any portion Of
the islands not actually garrisoned by
our troops, without fear of molesta
ton, while supposedly in the interest
of peace, such an amendment would
actually operate to prolong hostili
ties. History has taught that rebel
lion cannot be put down by Pacifi,
legislation; that those who appeal t.
arms against the powers that be mus
be whipped into subsection. Tha
has been true even in advanced civil
lied nations. Any other method o
ending a revolt of the semi barbarou
Filipinos would convince them tina
the Americans were afraid of them.
Senator Plat, of Connecticut, STATED
the case in a nut shell when he salt
of the Democratic pretense of beliey
ing that the President would abus
the discretion vested in him by tn