Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-01-16

as re fiection on the personal charac
ter of Mr.. Dingley which he ably de-
Tended from an attack which had new
er been made.
On Thursday the Senate, after learn
ing that Senator Nelson believed he
could conclude his speech on state
hood in about three DAYS adjourned
until today. The status of the State
hood measure, was not interferred with
however. and will be the regular order
at 2 O'Clock to day. The impression
is growing that the opposition will be
eventually forced to yield and admit
the three claimants to statehood, but
at present the republicans are finding
the contest a convenient barrier to
legislation which they do not care to
enact. This is especially true of anti
trust legislation which such men as
Senators Hanna, Aldrich and others
hope to avoid.
The anxiety of the President to please
the people and secure the enactment
of anti trust legislation has resulted in
strained relations between the Admin
iStration and the members of the sub
committee charged with the prepare
ton of an anti trust measure. When
Congress met the House Judiciary
committee appointed a sub committee
insisting of Messrs Lttlefield, Pow
ers, Overstreet, De Almond and Clay.
ton to draft trust bill. This sub.
ommittee asked the President for an
administration measure and 1t Was re-
fused. Then they asked the Attorney
General for his views on the subject.
They were furnished and the commit
tee Immediately set to work to draft
bill embodylng them. Then, to the
amazemeut Of Mr.. Littlefeld and bis
conferees Mr.. Knox sent to Represen-
tative Jenkins, Chairman of the Judi
ciary Committee, two bills with re.
quest that they be introduced. This
was done and only when they appear
ed in print did the sub-colnmfttee,
which had been burning the midnight
oil over its measure. learn that-it had
been completely ignored and that bills
had been introduced which were CAL
culated to render obsolete the bill on
which they had expended so MUCH time
and labor.
Under threat if an extra session the
members of the Senate have consented
to the passage of some ''simple" and
innocuous anti trust measures. These
bills, they say, must be go simple as to
provoke no nightly debate and must
receive the unanimous support of the
republicans which is tantamount to
saying that must be so drawn as to be
incapable of thwarting the intentions
or desires of trusts. The lengthy and
sweeping bill brought in with much
spectacular advertising by Mr.. Hoar
has subjected the venerable Senator
to nothing but ridicule and so upset
has the old gentleman become that On
Thursday he moved the passage of a |
bill which was enacted nearly year
ago and the Senate, following his lead,
passed it.
The President was subjected to what
the French term bad quarter of an
hour at the Cabinet meeting on Friday
and very bad quarter of an hour !:
was. Individually and collectively the
members of his Cabinet reproached
nim with the blunders he has commit.
Jed in attempting to carry into effect
. wholly quixotic and spectacular
Southern policy. The appointment OF
one, DR.. Crum, to be Collector of the
Port at Charleston, s. g., andsthe sus-
pension of the postoffice at Indianola,
Miss. were made the texts for the cur
ain lectures delivered behind the clos
ID doors of the Cabinet room. Repre-
tentative Bartlett, of Georgia, said to
our correspondent. apropos of this
ubject, President Roosevelt is what
you might call a spectacu lar statesman
ond of playing to the galleries. Like
III other professional reformers be has
,ut one object in view and that is to
better bis own personal chances at the
expense and discontinue of others.
lie is after majority of the delegates
o the next National Convention and
lie has been making a grand stand
LAY for the negro votes in the South
BECAUSE he knows that they control
he conventions that create the dele
,ates." Representatives johnson,
Toward, Brantley. Cochran. Patter.
on, Lever, Senator--elect Lattimer and
theirs expressed similar views.