The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-01-26
OUR WASHINGTON
NEWS NOTES.
NEWS OF THE SECRET ORDERS
BRIEFLY NOTED.
THE SWAYNE IMPEACHMENT
It is believed that the Senate Will
Acquit Him. Case Has Taken on
Political Phases. Williams May Re
sign.

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Political Phases. Williams May Re
sign.
Opinion is general that the Senate
will not find Swayne guilty. The his
torical fact is recollected that no pro-
ceedings in impeachment have ever
been sustained where a man was de-
Tended. Humphrey and Pickering
were not defended. Belkap, like Pres
ident johnson, was acquitted. Sever
al men have been driven out of Office
by impeachment proceedings, but
Swayne does not intend to resign un-
der fire. His friends cali attention to
the way the anti-Swayne support has
been steadily dropping, and say that,
were the roll to be called the majority
of five by which the test vote was car
ried would be reversed. Even that
was in some degree attributable to
Gen. Grosvenor's tactics, and to his
indiscreet course in making public a
letter from Judge Pardee in Swayne's
behalf, which, is is agreed, was a grave
improperly, regardless of the merits
of its contents. The subject has be-
come political. With only n Re-
publican in seven voting to send the
case over to the Senate, the prose-
cution will have difficulty in %convinc-
ing the Senate, which stands ffty-sev-
en- Republicans to thirty-three Demo-
Gratis, with a two-third vote required
for conviction. In spite of the hesita-
ton with which the House at the last
moment entered into this enterprise, it
is felt that the impeachment proceed
ings will raise the tone of the FEEDER
al Judiciary in many places; some of
the anti-Swayne men go so far as to
predict a few designations in the near
future. They say it will have a whole
some effect on the country to have the
state take up for serious consideration
these questions involving judicial pro-
priety.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
cabled to Gov. Davis of the canal zone
calling attention to reports of the
prevalence of yellow fever on the 18TH
mus and asking for a report on the
case. No answer has yet been received
owing to interruption Of the cable ser
vice. The commission accredits the
cases that already have occurred to
carelessness Of the patients in going
into the Chinese quarter or into other
insanitary sections and is anxious to
secure an official report showing the
exact conditions at this time. The
commission is shipping a large amount
of medicinal supplies to the canal zone
to aid in the sanitation of that region.
Immense quantities of rolled sulphur
land insect powder have been sent
there, an average of 1000 pounds of
the latter being shipped weekly, while
in the first two weeks this month 425
vaccine points have been shipped for
use by the medical authorities .
The influence of the administration
is to be strongly exerted in favor Of
the Curtis Philippine tariff, now pend
ing before the House Committee on
Ways and Means, which proposes to
admit all products of the islands except
sugar and tobacco free Of duty and to
reduce the duties on sugar and tobac-
co to 25 per cent of the Dingley rates.
The effort to induce the administration
to consent to so per cent of the Ding
ley rate on sugar and tobacco rather
than take the risk Of having a bill
providing for 25 per cent defeated, has
fallen through owing to the liability
Of the men favoring this compromise
to secure assurance that it could be
put through the Senate. It is under
stood that Senator Teller Of Colorado
held out against the agreement, and
the supporters of the administration
have a fight for the bill it is better to
fight for Is per cent than for 80 per
cent.
President Roosevelt appointed c. v.
G. Van Deusen special examiner in
the Department of Justice, with the
single task of investigating natural
ization frauds. His previous expert
ence as deputy superintendent of cleo
tons in New York city had given
him the necessary preliminary exper-
fence. One result Of his years work
is the bill, in the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and designed to meet, COM
prehensively, existing abuses in the
naturalization Of aliens. The meas
ure is expected to meet the approval
of the President and Secretary Hay.
The only information the state de-
partment has officially obtained of the
exciting incident at St. Pc
tersburg is a cablegram from
Ambassador Mccormick stating that
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