The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-03-19
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL
From Our O,un Correspondent.

so .iso DcuOcEoCS or the House |
Will hold the balance OF power when it |
comes to deciding upon the question of |
reciprocity for Cuba is strongly proba-
Die, owing to the continued Republican
spit On that question. The fourth
caucus OF the Republicans ON the aues- !
tion was held this week. It lasted un.
I'll after midnight, and it was decid-
edly lively scrap from etart to finish.
oy the use of all the tricks in their,
stock in trade and with the active and
open assistance of Mr.. Roosevelt the
republican bosses succeeded in de.
feating the proposition of the anti-re-
ciprocity wing Of the party to adjourn
the caucus indefinitely, but it was q
close vote, 20 against and 61 for. Later,
the caucus adjourned for q week, as
Speaker Henderson, who is bossing the
job Of trying to whip tho antis into line,
was afraid to attempt to force commit
ting the caucus to the bill for recipro-
city prepared by tho majority Of the
ways and Means Committee. The
tight is still on, and if the antis live up
to their present declarations not to be
bound by the caucus if it endorses the
reciprocity bill, the balance of power
will be in the hands of the Democrats,
If the Republican bosses allow the bill
TO get before the House.
Heretofore Mr.. Roosevelt has been
secretly laying wires to secure dele
gates to the next Republican National
Convention fo: himself. Now, he is
working openly in that direction. Sew
eral days ago hesent friend to Judson
j. Lyons, the negro Register Of the
Treasury, who holds down that office
by the influence of Senator Hannn, as
reward for manipulating negro. dele
gates from the South, to sound Lyons
who must shortly be reappointed.
Lyons very frankly told Mr.. Roose-
velt's representative that if Senator
Hanna was o candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination he should work for
him, regardless of whether he was re-
appointed Register of. the Treasury or
not. but that if Mr.. Hanna was not q
candidate he would support and work
for Mr. Roosevelt. Hanna is said to
have the same sort of hold on many of
the Southern machine Republicans.
The Boer envoys were in Washing
,tonswhen the news of the great Boer
victory was received. They took it as
a. matter of course-jnst what might
haye been expected Of men who are
fighting fol their liberty. The ENJOYS
were treated with distinguished con-
sideration while in Washington.
Among the entertainments in their
honor was Q dinner given by Gen. An
ION Mills, which was attended by Sena-
tors Culbertson and Hoar, ex-senator
Henderson,, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Gen.
Sinclair, Col. Henry w atterson, Repre-
sentatives Slayden, Cochran, Shafforth
and Burleson, and other prominent
gentlemen. Before leaving Washing
ION for the; West, Mr. Vessels, one of
the envoys,S made the following state-
ment: "a number of mistakes have
been printed about our mission to this
country since we came to Washington,
and the worst one is that we are trying
to get intervention. We know that
this is not possible, and as matter Of
fact we don't want it,. What we do
want, however. and what We have laid
befors the American government, is
request that civilized warfare be in
sured in South Africa. That is all we
want now. We have not put before
the authorities any request that this or
that plan be adopted to insure the car
rying ont Of the rules of civilized war
fare, but we will leave that wholly to
the government to take whatever steps.
1t secs fit. We want q fair and square
fight. We are confident that we will
be able to keep this war going for q
number Of years yet and we think
that all civilized nations, especially the
United States, are interested in the
proper rules of warfare being carried
out. p President Kruger is not, seeking
intervention in Europe, and all stories
of that kind may be denied whenever
they are,seen. The Beers have moth
ing to lose and all to gain by keeping
UP this fighting. They may call it
guerrilla warfare if they want, but it is
at least humane warfare
TIE administration probably sees the
shadow OF coming events in South
Africa, aB it recognizes that the Trans
wal republic still exists by providing in
the Diplomatic and Consular appro-
prlation bill, which was prepared at
the State Department, for a q. 8. con-
sui at Pretoria, South Africa Repub-
lies, !" even IL Secretary Hay did refuse
TO apply to the British Ambassadors for
8 passport Sor Rev. Hiram W.Thomas
aud wife, of Chicago. who, were chosen
10 distribute the funds collected in
illinois for the suffering Boer women
and children. Representative Burle-
ION, of Texas, made o few pertinent re-
marks lin the House this week ON Sec