Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspond

Editor Press
81 am afraid the Republican
Senators will die like poor Pat
O'Brien," said Senator Hans
brough yesterday, when ! asked
him how the Philippine debate was
coming on. "How was that ?" /
asked. I'll tell YOU" replied the
Senator. Poor Pats got to hang
said friend of Pats to a mutual
friend, one evening. No he hasn't
replied the friend. 'Shure an he
has said the first speaker. He's
been convicted of murther in the
firsht degree. He's got to hang.
It's tn law. NO, no, man re-
piled the friend, 'Ye're behoind
the tonnes altogether; they've got
a new way o killing min now.
Shure he'll die by elocution.' And
if the Democrats keep on that will
be the fate of the Republican sena-
tors" concluded Mr.. IIansbrough.
The Democrats still continue to
play on their single string and are
prolonging the Philippine debate to
the last possible moment but there
is reason to believe that the vote
will come some time this week.
What bill will follow the Philippine
measure has not yet been definitely
settled and Senator Allison, chair
man of the Republican steering
committee, assured me that he did
not know himself, when | saw him
Saturday. 81 get all my inside in
formation from the bright young
men who represent the press, these
days, and, as you have the inside
track on that, you probably know
more than | do" facetiously re-
marked the Senator when / tried
to pump" him. There is a rumor
abroad that Congress will adjourn
without acting upon either the
Cuban reciprocity bill or the Mica
raguan Canal bill and as soon as /
heard it [ had sought the senior
Senator from Iowa. He said he
hardly thought Congress would do
that but when | asked him to con-
firm positive statement which he
made to me some weeks ago, that
the canal bill would be considered
at this session, he refused to do SO.
Some Republican senators believe
that the canal bill will be consider
ed first and others that the Cuban
bill will take precedence.
The passage, by the Senate, on
Thursday, of the bill providing for
the erection of union railway
station in Washington was a serious
disappointment to Senator Hans
brough who had conceived and
formulated substitute which pro-
vided for the erection OF the new
station by the government with a
view to renting its use to the rail
roads. AS the measure passed
carries a considerable appropriation
of public funds the Senator from
North Dakota believed the govern
ment should retain it's ownership
and his proposition attracted much
favorable comment from the resi-
dents of the District of Columbia
but so much time and labor had
been spent ON the bill
which eventually passed by the
Committee on the District of
Columbia that the Senator's ''mun-
icipal ownership idea was rejected.
Ex-senator Manderson of Ne
braska appeared before Senator
Platt's committee this week and
offered the first important testi-
mony derogatery to Cuban 'reci-
procity. He claimed, among
other things, that there had started
a flow of emigration from Iowa
and Nebraska to the cheap lands
of Manitoba which flow could be
effectually stopped by encourage
ment to the beet sugar industry,
but that the passage of the propos-
ed bill would seriously augment !
that immigration, Mr.. II. G. !
Leavitt, also of Nebraska, testified |
against the bill which, he claimed,
was entirely in the interests of the
Sugar Trust. 1t is probable that |
if, at reasonably early date,
Senator Platt finds that he has
sufficiently strong following in the
Senate to pass straight Cuban
reciprocity bill such a measure will
be reported and passed, but until
the Senator so decides the bill will
remain Sin committee. "