Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27

| Washington. is discouraged and
says he will leave for home. His
uselessness is now at an end.
The Constitutional Convention of
the republic of Panama held its
first session, and took over supreme
power from the junta, last week.
It elected Dr. Pablo Arosemena for
it's president. He said on taking
the chair, This republic will live
/ less by it's material power than by
the virtues it will practise. It's
security is protected by powerful
people in whose veins runs the rich
blood of those puritans who shook
off with the dust of their sandals
the torment of religious intolerance
and the opprobrium of political
despotism." Yet some people de-
clare that Panama has no govern
ment or political existence.
This is a working week in con-
gress. Committee reports on bills
give both houses enough to do.
Continuous hearings are being had.
Panama has still lively discussion
and the Postoffice department in
[quiry goes on apace. The canal
treaty may be reported this week,
and considered in executive session
The Hepburn pure food bill may be
called up and disposed of, and after
this the house will try to make a
record by passing one appropriation
bill week.
Democratic papers make a great
hullabaloo about republican war
in Ohio, the war" aforesaid being
the difference Of opinion as to
whether the intimate friends of
Foraker or the intimate friends of
Hanna will control the Ohio dele
cation in the Chicago convention
and the resultant patronage of the
state. The republican majority in
Ohio is sufficiently bouncing to
tempt our friends to get up sham
battle at any time, to keep them
selves in fighting trim in the face of
the enemy. A party that is in a
minority that is hopeless never
quarrels over the offices, even IN
fun.
At least one democrat has the
courage of his convictions. Senator
Bailey of Texas is real mad. He
declares that ''the administrations
excuses for the spoilation Of Co
lombia are the same argument
with which kings and conquerors
have always justified their wars of
plumber. Let us denounce the
presidents defiance of law.
would retire from public life before
I would dishonor my state and my
party by assuming that they enter
tain different sentiments" This is
very plucky. Senator Bailey is un-
deniably an able man and his re-
signation would make a hole in the
senate which Texas however could
fill
On the 18th instant Senator
Cullom of Illinois reported from the
senate committee on foreign re-
lations a slight verbal amendment
to the Panama treaty which will
require it's return to the isthmus
for ratification. On reflection it
was thought wiser to have the reg
ular constitutional convention now
in session in Panama pass upon the
treaty than to rely upon the junta
of three men, appointed irregularly,
who looked at the document one
day and sent it back the next. The
statesmen in charge of our affairs
at Washington do not mean to pro-
coed in a slipshod manner.
Our diplomats, as usual, disagree.
Those who are abroad assure the
state department that there is not
likely to be war between Russia
and Japan. Meanwhile both
countries are buying largely Of
flour, beef, hay, canned goods,
ammunition, and other supplies,
and securing the seas for ships Of
war. Those who live in Washing
ton think the first blow of the
Eastern war is only a matter Of
weeks, perhaps days.
Congressman Baker, democrat, Of
Brooklyn, thinks the country is 60
ing to the bow-wows because some
charitable person has opened a.soup
house in Cincinnati, and asks, rs
that prosperity" Of course it is.
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