Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-26
HE IS NOT PLEASED.
HANNA'S CHOICE TURNED DOWN
FOR A LIGHTWEIGHT.
The Negro Question Is Giving Roosevelt Some
TroubIe-Ths Lilly Whites" Protest-Lon.
don Dockase Bill Defeated - The Territor.
ial Bill - French Reciprocity of Tariff
Char9es prODoxcd

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don Dockase Bill Defeated - The Territor.
ial Bill - French Reciprocity of Tariff
Charges Proposed.
tFrom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. IL, 1902.
There is little doubt in the minds of
those in q position to know, that the
President has made grave error in
connection with the Japanese minis
try, he having announced that he
would appoint Mr.. John Barrett, now
Minister to Siam, to succeed Minister
Buck, resigned. The appointment
meets with no favor from the Japan
csc Minister in Washington who has
been led to believe that Mr.. Barrett is
a very lightweight statesman and the
appointment has incurred the enmity
of Senator Hanna whose candidate for
the position was Mr.. Lloyd C. G riscom,
now Minister to Persia. Mr.. Hanna's
close intimacy with the Griscoms is
we'll known and this affront from the
White House which also involves his
nearest friends and supporters will not
be easily forgiven by the Senator from
Ohio.
The Presidents recent letter, in
which he stated his determinatio to
consider the fact that q man was q
negro is no bar to his holding Office, is
already making him trouble and Mr..
Roosevelt is face to face with . very
unpleasant dilemma. He has been
put in his present position by Senator
Petichard of North Carolina, "high
priest" of the Lily White" move
ment. The question OF reappointing
one S. H. Wick, a negro. IS Postmaster
at Wilson, N. c., has come to the
President for decision and Senator
Pritchard has filed an emphatic pro-
test. His grounds are two-fold, that
Wick bitterly opposed the Senator's
plans in the State Convention and that
his appointment would be unwelcome
to majority OF the patrons of the
postoffice. Wick frankly admits his
opposition to the Senator's plans,
which he says contemplated the exclu.
sion OF the negro from North Carolina
politics, and says that the argument
that the majority of the white patrons
OF the Office would prefer white Post
master would prove equally true Of
every public Office in the Southern
States. The President has asked time
to think the matter over and the poll
ticians are interestedly awaiting his
decision.
The Shipping Syndicate, OF which
Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan is the head, is
claimed to have shown its teeth for
the first time this week when the
London Dock bill was defeated on the
floor of tho House. It has long been
the custom of the dockowners of Lon
don to charge q toll of AZ cents per
ton on all freight unloaded at that
port which was shipped from the Unit.
ed States. With view to ending this
determination, Parliament enacted .
law forbidding the collection OF the
toll and the dock owners got around
the law by having the charge embed.
led in the bill.of. lsding negotiated on
American soil. The bill just defeated
prohibited the making of the charge
in bills-of-lading made in the United
States. At first, the milling, lumber
and packing industries cordially sup.
ported the measure. but for some mys-
FERROUS reason the support of the two
latter industries was withdrawn this
week and, ~ . result, the measure
failed. It is now intimated that an
arrangement has been effected between
the shipping combine and the larger
shippers by virtue of which the latter
will share in the tolls exacted from
the smaller shippers and that the Nor
gan lobby in Washington is response.
BILE for the defeat of the bill.
For bitter charge and acrimonious
invective the territorial fight, which
was opened up in the Senate yesterday
BY the taking up of the territorial bill,
and which has been waged for . week
in lobby and committee room, prom
ises to surpass anything which has
lately taken place in the Senate. SEN
ator Quay, who is determined to press
the bill and secure tho admission to
Statehood of Oklahoma, Arizona and
New Mexico, is being charged by his
Republican colleagues with "commer.
cialism" and self-interest and ugly
stories are being circulated in regard
to the ownership of an Arizona mine
by Senator Penrose's brother. Sena-
tor Quay 10 also charged with owning
railroad properties which would be en-
HANGED in value by the admission of
the Territories and he admits the au.
thorship OF . letter stating that it
would DO better for the Territories to
Ego Democratic" in the last election
in order that the Democratic minority
in the Senate might be preserved solid
for admission.
In connection with the Territorial
fight it is claimed by the Democrats
that the Republicans would be glad 10
have the Territorial bill occupy 40
much time in the Senate a. to render
impossible the consideration of any
antitrust legislation At this session
and that they are urging on both sides
to the controversy.
The opposition to the President's
policy of modifying the tariff by the
negotiation of reciprocity treaties, in
accordance with the original intention
Of the trainers of the Dingley law,
found expression yesterday when Sen.
ator Cullom gave notice in executive
session of his intention to ask consid-
GRAFTON of the French reciprocity
treaty. Senator Hoar, Aldrich, Lodge
and Depew gave notice of their objec-
tions to such a course and expressed
the wish that the treaty be referred to
the Finance Committee for further
consideration, it being we'll known
that reference to the Finance Com.
mittee would mean that the treaty
would never again be heard of in the
Senate. Senator Cullom adhered to
his intention. saying that he was act
ing in accordance with his own con-
victions and the wishes OF the Presi.
dent. DEN.