The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-05-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Ou- Regular C,rrsspondeu..
WASHINGTON. d G., May. 81, 1897.

One OF the best things about Presi.
dent Mckinley is that he never go,s off
half cooked. He always knows when
he starts just where he wants to go.
When he sent the message to Congress
asking that $4,000 be appropriated for
in Cuba he went as far as he desires to |
90 ia that direction at present; and he |
was not affected by threats OF Senators
to side track the Cuban beligerency
resolution was not adopted, nor tariff
contemplate tactics of the Democrats in
The House, who delayed the appropria
ton three days merely to embarfass the
administration and to Seek for popular
ity through the known sympathy ex
listing among our people for Cuba, by
trying to combine the recognition of Cub
an beligerency with the appropriation
While all this has been going on Presi.
dent Mckinley persued the even tenor
Of bis way He has more real sympathy
, for Cuba than some of those who have
been making blood and thunder speech.
es in Congress, as will in due time be
seen. He is looking forward to some
thing great deal better than the recog
milton Of the belligerency of the Cubans,
and when the proper time, in his judg.
Ii ment, shall arrive, he will act, and his
action will be in keeping with the man,
firm, resolute, and above all thoroughly
American. He doesn't believe in doing
sensatioal things, nor in being 80 hasty
that important consequences are over
looked. With the destitute Americans
in Cuba provided for, there is no occasion
for haste in any further action towards
Cuba, while there is every reason for
haste in getting the tariff bill, which will
be- taken up in the Senate next week.
enacted into a law. The first duty of
Congress and the government is to help
our own people; then we can devote
some time to helping the distressed and
oppressed elsewhere.
Representative Wilber, of N. Y, who
has been studying and working on the
subject for long time, thinks method
has been found that will make it i'm.
possible for base limitations TO be
sold in English markets as genuine
American cheese. MIR. w. A. McNight,
member of the Liverpool and Man.
chester Chamber of Comerce, has been
III this country working in conjunction
with Representative WILDER, and he
promises to aid in suppressing the sale
Of imitation American goods and the
consequent extinction OF the sale OF the
genuine, on his side of the Atlant
Secretaries Gage and Wilson are thor
ougnly in favor of this project, and the
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue has
already given the necessary orders to
government officers at New York and
Chicago to put it into effect.
, Elk Senator Ingalls,, of Kans., is in
Washington, but he says that politics
has nothing to do with his visit, and
that he is not All applicant for Office.
Senator Hawley took occasion during
, the Cuban talk in the Senate to reiterate
, warning words upon subject he ii
thoroughly familiar with He said
3 "We are in no condition as a country tc
: step forward into the arena OF the worlC
!, aud say we are going to see justice dons
to every poor peoCle everywhere; tha
!, We will declare belligerency, or that We
will declare war. The Senator from III
r inois Mason) asked with vigor once o.
twice if We were afraid of war. Yes,
i am, am afraid OF war on the part of al
D unprotected nation. declare that W,
: ale not fit to undertake a war agains
any but the very weakest nations OF th'
! earth, and this is the text upon which
d have been preaching these ten or twelve
n years, more or less. My hope is to se'
: our coast defences and our navy put in
a 10 such condition that we can conduc
an international debate, for we canno
= have an international debate withou
|, the guns; and when We have something
I OF an armament that is beneftting ou
n great place in the world, we can affor'
S to assume the responsibilities the Al
s mighty has placed upon US by reason Q
o our wealth and our power" In speak
Il ing Senator Hawley made no pretense Q
= representing the administration, or il
n TACT any body but himself.
e The order closing the doors of the In
RI ternational Postal Congress to the pub
s lie and to the newspaper men has beel
l. rather unjustly criticised as an act G
q exclusiveness, when in reality it wa
= merely following precedent The othe
"a Postal Congresses were held benin
J" closed doors, and foreign delegates OF
is jscted to the publicity which followe
IT the experiment of holding this one wit