The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-06-11
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our Ovn Correspondent.

c'H oosses- IL Is intended primarily
10 quiet the demand for tariff reform,
winch ls growing so loud in several
sections of the country. The egg TINT
Is expected to hatch the trick was
placed in the incubator Mt a White
House conference, by Mr. Roosevelt.
The trick is to consist of a promise of
future revision of the tariff. 1t is cx-
pected to work both ways-tc quiet the |
voters who are advocating tariff re-
vision, and to frighten some of the |
trusts which profit the most largely
under the present tariff into making
big campaign contributions to purchase
immunity in advance. Whether this
promise shall be made in some way
that will seem to be more or less bind
ing on Congress-provision for COM
mission to report what schedules should
be revised or something of that sort
or only by individuals in places where
it is supposed to be needed is yet to be
determined, but the promise in some
shape may be looked for shortly.
The administration has apparently
succeeded in whipping or bribing
enough kicking Republicans into line
to mako it certain that there will be
enough Republicans into line to make
it certain that there will be enough Re-
publican votes in the Senate to pass
the Cuban reciprocity bill. There was
conference to-day between some of the
kicking Republican Senators and the
administration men, with view to 80
arranging matters as to present at
least the appearance of party harmony.
Senator Beveridge must feel heartily
ashamed of the part he played, on the
floor of the Senate, in the latest at
tempt to smirch the reputation of Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, if his sense Of honor
is what it ought to be. A prominent
Republican characterized the act of
Senator Beveridge, in asking Senator
CnlbertsOn IL Gen. Miles furnished him
with the copies of private Wiel's
charges against Lieut.. F. p. Arnold of
cruel treatment of Filipino prisoners,
and Capt. West's report thereon, which
he had read in the Senate just before
the Philippine bill was voted upon, rs
1.-The most cowardly thing ever done
on the floor of the Senate" and he is
by no means alone in that opinion. 1t
was because these copies furnished ad-
ditional and undeniable proof that the
War Department had suppressed Off
cial reports relating to cruel treatment
of Fillipinos that Senator Beveridge
was put forward to make the attempt
of trying to distract public attention
by making charge against Gen. Miles,
knowing that he could not reply. Natu-
rally enough, Senator Culbertson at
first considered the question 30 imper-
tinent that he declined to nay any at
tention 20 It, but on second thought,
without changing his opinion as to it's
impertinence. he made q statement, in
order that his silence might not be
misconstrued, in which he said that the
papers were given to him by ga gen.
tleman absolutely and wholly discon-
nected with the army or the War De-
partment, ara. were given to me with
out any suggestion on my part. They
did not, Of course, come to me directly,
and, 30 far as I know, not Indirectly,
from Gen. Miles." Gen. Miles recon-
mended the court-martial of Arnold
last year, but the recommendation was
ignored
1t having been shown Mr.. Roosevelt
that w. L. Harris, whose nomination
to be postmaster at Charleston, 8. c.,
had been sent to the Senate, was citi-
0f kha
withdrawn. This may keep Senator
McLaurin out of that life-job on the
bench of the Court of Claims, as he
endorsed Harris, and it may lesson Mr..
Roosevelt's confidence in him, but Nc
Laurin hopes his vote for the Philip
pine bill will pull him through.
Oh,-yes! Mr. Roosevelt was one of
the original chief priests of the cult of
ciyn service reforms and many con-
eider chat he really believes in the
spirit OF the civil service law. Maybe
he does. but he this week issued an
official definition of the words 'just
cause" in tbs civil service rule concern
vice which doesn't square with what an
unprejudiced man would expect from
sincere believer in civil service re-
form. Mr. ROOsevelt's definition of
':just cause" will make it easy to re-
move any official in the classified SER
vice, whether intended for that pur-
pose or not. He says, and there is no
appeal from his definition, that '.just
cause" is intended to mean any cause,
ligious, which will promote the effi-
cheney Of the service: and nothing con-
tanned In said rule shall be construed
to- require the examination of witnesses
or any trial or hearing except in the
discretion. of the officer making the
Representative Jones, of Va, made
It very Unpleasant for Cuencapimo, a
who has been brought to Washington
by the administration to be made o
star witness in behalf of the adn,inis-
| tration's Philippine policy before the
House and Senate committees, by con-
fronting him with copy of a certified