The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-14
By r. NJ. Larner-

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Quay
to-day issued a declaration of war
against Senator Mark Hanna by di-
recting Senator Penrose. chairman of
the Republican State Committee of
PENNSYLVANIA to call the State Con-
vention to meet April s.
This is in defiance of Hanna. who
has thus far refrained from issuing
the call for the National Convention,
which should have been done several
weeks ago. 1t is the unwritten law
of national politics that state conven-
tions held in advance of the official
call for the National Convention are
void. 1t is also the practice for the
call to be issued within a day or two
after the convention is located and the
date fixed by the National Committee.
1t is claimed that Senator Hanna has
for personal reasons, which are not
friendly to President Roosevelt, inten-
tionally held back the issuance of the
call AS soon as Senator Quay return
ed from Florida, he was astonished to
hear that Senator Hanna had neglect
ed to issue the call. At the instance
of Senator Quay, Senator Penrose
opened up correspondence with Sena-
tor Hanna on the subject. In the
meantime Senator Quay has had sew
eral conferences with the President,
while Senator Penrose has been wait
ing for a reply from Senator Hanna.
Up to date, Senator Penrose has re
ceived no satisfactory explanation of
the delay in calling the meeting Of the
national convention, hence Senator
n he ~
Hanna, through the action of Senator
Penrose.
To those on the inside of the Repub-
lican camp, Quays defiance to Hanna
is the political sensation of the hour
Quay is past master in political craft,
and he has never forgotten nor for
given Hanna for voting against his
leturn to the Senate, when appointed
by Gov. Stone, few years ago.
Friends of the President are in hear
ty accord with Senator Quay in this
attempt to smoke out" Hanna and
force him to show whether or not he
is in the presidential race or will be
content with another term in the
Senate. Many of the state organza-
lions are anxious to hold early con-
ventions for Roosevelt, and they sus-
pect Senator Hanna has a motive,
known only to his followers and him
self, for breaking all presidents in de-
laying the official call for the national
convention.
For Georgetown HarbOr.
The Secretary of War has trans
mitted to Congress a favorable
report on the preliminary ex-
animation and survey of Georgetown
harbor, with a view of obtaining a
channel eighteen feet deep and 400
feet wide, or such width as may be
practicable from a point one mile
above the limits of the city of George
town, in Sampit river, to the ocean
entrance to Wingot bay, as far sea-
ward as may be necessary to form a
project to secure said depth.
This locality is now under improve
ment with a view to providing a depth
of fifteen feet, by means of jetties and
dredging. The subject has been un-
der consideration by the board Of en-
gineers in charge of river and harbor
projects, and the board sustains the
opinions of Capts. Sanford and Howell,
engineers in charge of the work.
Capt Howell discusses in his report
plans of Improvement by way of two
routes designated as the eastern and
western channels, but he prefers the
route via the eastern channel, because
less expensive. He presents a detail
ed estimate of the cost of providing
an eighteen-foot channel 400 feet wide
by dredging and jetty construction, but
the selection of the eastern channel is