The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-26
TO HEAD OFF BAC0N'S PARTY,
WHY THE ADJUTANT GENERAL Is
GOING TO THE PHILIPPINES.

for the Inquisitive senators-Gage
as the HumOrist of the Cabinet.
Hanna Supposed to BE Listening
to the Buxz of the Presidential
Bee.
Washington. May 25.-There is an I'M
dercurrent of feeling at Washington that
the projected visit of Adjt. Gen. Corbin
to the Philippines means something more
than a mere question of reorganization of
the army there and a reduction of the
clerical force under the civil government.
Senator Bacon and a number of other
Democratic senators, have announced
their intention of going to the Philippines
for the purpose of familiarzing them
selves with the condition of affairs. so
that they will be in possession of much
needed information at the ensuing session
of Congress, next December 1t has been
pretty generally understood that Adjt.
Gen. Corbin was to visit England as the
representative of the United States at the
ceremony in connection with the corona
ton of King Edward VIII but this ar
raugement seems to have been nullifed by
mapping out an entirely different pro-
gramme for the Adjutant General.
Instead of hob-nobbing with royalty,
dukes, marquises and earls Gen. Corbin
will have to content himself this summer
with making the acquaintance of some of
the new citizens acquired by purchase
from Spain. Not a trick is overlooked by
the administration, and when the an
nouncement was made that Senator Ba-
con and a number of his colleagues were
going to our new possessions, a council
of war was held at the White House with
a view to taking steps to forestall any
thing that might afford room for criti-
cism. Consequently when the senatorial
delegation reaches the Philippines they
may expect to find everything in good
shape and every possible preparation
made to give them a good impression of
the new acquisition and it's inhabitants.
There is only one way by which Senator
Bacon and his friends can obtain any
other impression and that is by fixing the
cate for their departure a couple of
weeks ahead of the Adjutant General of
the army.
Gage an Imitator of DooIey.
Secretary Gage is one of the most well
come visitors at the White House and es-
pecially on Tuesdays and Fridays the cab
met days. In addition to being one OF
the ablest financiers this country has ever
known, the Secretary of the Treasury is
an inimitable story teller and particularly
excels in Irish dialect.
He is an ardent admirer Of Philosopher
Dooley and reads the essays of the Chica-
go reporter with great deal more in
terest sometimes than the book of statis-
tics issued by the Treasury Department.
When the cabinet has assembled in the
executive office at the White House, the
usual greeting of the President to Sec
rotary Gage is, What does Doley have
to say about the condition of affairs to-
day?' This is the cue for the Secretary
of the Treasury to take out of his pocket
the latest illusions of Dooley in explaining
to his friend Hennessy what is Transporting
in the world at large, and public business
Is suspended for the time being while the
Secretary of the Treasury enhghtens the
President and cabinet regarding the situa-
tion politically and otherwise in Irish dia-
lect.
This will account for the outbursts of
merriment which are usually the accom-
paniment of a cabinet meeting at the
White House, and which has hitherto
been mystery to those who have heard
the unexpected sounds issuing from the
apartment in which the President and his
advisors are supposed to be discussing
matters of great import. Secretary Gage
possesses the knack of reading or telling
funny story with an unmoved express
sion of countcnance in which he differs
very materially from some of the alleged
wits and yarn-spinners.
The Hanna Boom.
Interest has been revived in the alleged
presidential aspirations of Mark Hanna nv
the announcement that Perry Heath, Sec
rotary of the Republican National Com
mittee, is homeward bound after launch
n ha ~
from home. Speculation is rife as to the
attitude of Col. Heath when he lands In
New York, and is confronted by the inevi-
table group of reporters, who begin the
pumping operation at Sandy Hook, and
never cease questioning until the vessel
is locked at Hoboken.
1t ought to be plain sailing for Sec
retafy Heath in view of the fact that
while he is coyly denying the soft i'm
parchment of being a candidate to sue
coed Mckinley, inasmuch as the Ohio
senator in private converse gives unmis.
taxable evidence that the presidential bee
is really buzzing in his bonnet. During
the course of conversatio recently with
a prominent Republican politician, Hanna
Is said to have delivered himself 10 tne
effect that it only required five hundred
men in the United States 20 nominate a
President. Becoming more confidential
anu poluer, the warwick OF the RepuD-
hcan party followed it up with the dec
laration that about one hundred and fftv
men controlled the five hundred delegates
necessary to bring about a nomination.
Under these circumstances. continued
Hanna, 1T Is obvious that the only reoui-
site is to see that the hundred and fifty
are properly manipulated. After that il
is easy money"
From the tenor OF the Ohio Senator's
remarks it is easy to infer that he has
his feelers out, and some of the wise men
declare that Perry Heath knew what he
was talking about when he made the dec
laration abroad that Hanna would get IN
line If the opportunity presented itself.
Secretary Heath Is pretty clever, and has
had years of experience In the newspaper
business, and among practical politicians.
and he has never yet been accused OF
talking through his hat.
Snowman In Politics.
One OF the closest observers and an
parently unaffected politicians of the day
is Maj. John NJ. Burke. who officiates as
advance agent for Buffalo Bits Wild
West Show. After he has succeeded in
accomplishing a good days work in get
ting as much pure reading matter regard
ing his show as possible, It Is the habit
of Maj. Burke to circulate around the
hotel Hobbies and talk politics and give
his impression of what he has seen and
heard in different parts of the country
While In Washington recently Mai
Burke was the center figure at one Of