Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.


Unless his present plans are changed
President Mckinley will go to Ohio
just before the election and remain
there to cast his vote. He doesn't
regard his vote as necessary to the
success of the republican ticket, state
and legislative, but he believes that
casting his vote is patriotic duty
that should never be left undone by
any man when it can possibly be done.
He has preached this from the stump
all over Ohio in the many campaigns
in which he has participated, and he
wishes to show his friends that he COD
tinues.to both preach and practice it.
Whether the President viii make a
speech before the election in Ohio is
notyet fully determined. He is some
what inclined to think that it would
not be strictly in accordance with
propriety for him to make a partisan
speech in state campaign, but at
tempts to persuade him to address at
least one meeting, at Cincinnati, are
still being made, and they may sue
coed.
Secre tary Wilson, who is widely
known as an effective campaigner,
because of his straightforward appeals
to the common, everyday, horse sense
of his hearers, has gone to Ohio to
take the stump for few days for the
republicans. Secretary Wilson has no
scruples about a member of the cabi-
net taking the stump for his party;
the issue in Ohio has been made to
involve the policy of the national ad-
ministration, and he thinks it all right
for members of the administration to
take part in the public discussions.
Events of the last few days in Spain
have convinced even the most sensa-
tionally inclined scribblers that a
great many people have allowed their
imaginations to run away with their
Judgment in discussing the attitude
of President Mckinley towards both
Spain and Cuba. The president has
every reason to feel gratifed at the
result of his Cuban policy-the recall
of Gen. Weyler by the new Spanish
ministry-and to expect a still greater
ToSulC-p0aC6 III CQDa.
A tgreat many who regarded the
sending of commission to Europe to
treat with the governments over
there on the feasibility of the adop-
ton of international bimetallism as
chimerical, when it was first proposed
by Sen ator Wolcott, are now convinc-
ed that the Commission has really
been of some service. It has, for one
thing, made the government of Great
Britain for the first time give consid-
Grafton to the subject of international
bimeta llism, instead of CURLY dismiss
ing it, as lit had always previously
done. Of course this doesn't make it
cert ain that Great Britain will event
ually agree to international bimetal-
ism, but it is longer step in that
direction than it seemed possible
for Great Britain to take, and
the credit is certainly due to the eff
forts of Senator Wolcott's commission.
Arrangements have just been perfect
ed for series of conferences between
the Commission and Ambassador Hay
with the British Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and other officials, for the
purpose of fully discussing the matter
in all it's bearings.
Secret airy Gage viii appeal from
the decisionsof the board of apprais-
ers, that the Dingley tariff did not be-
come operative until the minute that
it was signed by the president, to the
Courts, and the question viii be pass
ed upon by the =. s. Supreme court
at an early day, as there is provision
of law un der which customs cases are
advance on the docket of the SUI
preme court. Secretary Gage had
previously decided that the tariff law
was retroactive, and his decision will
be f ollowed by collectors of customs
until it is reversed by the courts. If
the courts uphold the decision of the
Board of Appraisers, the government
will have to refund about!s$300, 900 to
importers whose importations were
entered at the custom houses on Sat-
urday, July "a, before the signing of
the tariff act by the president. Sec
rotary Gage holds that the bill became
a law on the day that it was signed by
the president, and that all goods en-
tered on that day were liable to the
new duties. The bill was signed in
the afternoon, after the close of the
business day at the Custom houses,
and tn decision of the Board of APP
praisers would, if upheld, make all
goods entered that day subject only
to the old duties. Treasury officials
are confident that Secretary Cages