The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.


| Difference to the opinions of members
of his party than Maj. Mckinley does,
and no President has ever taken more
| pains to ascertain the opinions of his
callers upon public matters. While
! there is no question of public import
! ance upon which President Mckinley
has not well defined opinion of his
of the opinions of others and is not so
self O pinionated as not to be sometim es
convinced that his own are erroneous.
Just now he takes every opportunity of
drawing out the opinions of his callers
on matters of VIII ch his annual mesa re
to Congress Will treat. While his mes
sage, which will be a long one, has been
all blocked out, what he hears between
now and when the final revising is done
may make material difference IN por-
tons of it.
Ifthere isn't an arbitration treaty be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States before the adjournment of this
session of Congress, il will not be the
fault Of President Mckinley, as he in
tends to send new treaty to the SEN
ate early in tie session, drawn to meet
the expressed objections to the one
that was rejected by the Senate at the
last session.
Representative Doiiiver, of Iowa,
whose prominence in republican coun-
ellis makes his opinion upon legislative
matters of value, passed through Wash
ington on his way home, where he eX-
poets to eat his Thanksgiving dinner.
from an Eastern trip.
In reply to the question as to Whethe-
he thought currency legislation prob
able at this session of Congress, he said:
81 doubt if bill can be framed that
viii meet with the approval of both
Houses OF Congress. 1t is not unlikely,
however, that the House Will take up
legislation il line with the recommend
atoms of the Presidents message.
These, take it, will be reasonable and
conservative, and strictly along the line
of the record and platform Of the re-
publican party" Mr. Deliver says he
thinks the early annexation OF Hawaii
absolutely certain and regards that and
the settlement of the Union Pacific
Railroad debt as among the admins
tration's most creditable work. His OPP
inion of Congress taking the Cuban
question ~, as advocated by democrats
and anti administration newspapers, is
worthy of more than passing thought.
He SAID: ''If the combined wisdom of
the Executive and the State Depart
ment is not equal to solving the CUBAN
problem, l do not believe it would help
matters to throw it into Congressional
joint debate"
Attorney General NcKenna is pre-
pairing the papers that will be necessary
in foreclosure proceedings against the
Central Pacific Railroad, which will, in
January next, owe the United States
Government nearly $53 100000, SO that
no time will be lost in case the Com
pany defaults, as it is expected it will
do. If foreclosure proceedings are
taken, they are likely to include the
Western Pacific Railroad also.
Experts on the cultivation and mar
keting of the export tobaccos of Ken
lucky and Tennessee are invited by
Secretary Wilson to write what they
know on the subject, to be used IN a
Sc ries of tobacco bulletins to be issued
by the Department of Agriculture.
Accepted contributions will be paid for
at the rate of SIS thousand words,
and while no length limit is set, it is
not desired that any single communica
ton shall exceed ten thousand words.
The conclusion of the members of the
Executive Committee of the Indianap-
oils Financial Convention oflast winter,
which has been holding monetary
conference in Washington for some
time past, not to make their report pub
lie until after President Mckinlev's
message and Secretary Cages annual
report have been submitted to Con-
gress, probably means that the measure
which the committee will recommend
to Congress Will be in the main along
the same lines as the financial recon-
mendations that will be made in Sec
rotary Cages annual report and en-
dorsed by President Mckinley. In a
statement just issued by this committee,
much more confidence is expressed in
the passing of financial legislation by
this Congress than there are indica-
tons in sight to justly.
President Mckinley doesn't believe
in the brass band method of ANNOUNCE
ing in advance what he intends dong;
he prefers to allow his acts and accom-
plishments to speak for themselves.
He has done more to maintain our ma
tional prestige abroad since the fourth
of last March than his predecessor did
during his full term of four years, and
not the least of his plishments in
that line was securing the release of %
American citizens from Spanish prisons
in Cuba.