Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-10-16
INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLIsn.
Secretary Gage VIII Appeal Cuban
Affairs Going home to Vote.
IRON our Regular correspondent.l


tFrom our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, Oct. II, 1897 I'm
less his present plans are changed,
President Mckinley will go to Ohio
Just before the election aud remain
there to cast his vote. He doesn't re /
gard his vote as necessary to the sue
cess Of the Republican ticket, state
and Legislative. but he believes that
casting his vote is a patriotic duty
that should NOT 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 Ohio friends that
/. he continues to both preach and prac-
tice it. Whether the President will
make speech before the election in
Ohio is not yet fully determined. Heis
somewhat inclined to think that it
would not be strictly in accordance
with propriety for him to make par
tisan speech in state campaign, but
attempts TO persuade him to address
at least one meeting, at Cincinnati,
are still being made and they may
succeed.
Secretary Wilson, who is widely
known as an effective campaigner, be-
cause of his straightforward appeals
to the common, everyday, horse, sense
of his hearers; has gone to Ohio to
take the stun for few days for the
Republicans. Secretary Wilson has
no scruples about a member of the
Cabinet taking the stump for his
party; the issue in Ohio has been
made to involve the policy of the
national administration, and he
thinks it all right for members of the
administration to take part i'll the pub
lie discussions.
Events of the last few days in Spain
have convinced even the most sensa
tionally inclined scribblers that great
many people have allowed their mag
nations to run away with their judg-
ment in discussing the attitude Of
President Mckinley towards 10th
Spain and Cuba The President haa
every reason to feel gratifed at the
visible result of his Cuban policy
the recall of General Weyler by the
new Spanish ininistry-and TO expect
still greater result-peace in Cuba.
A great many who regarded the
sending of commission TO Europe to
treat with the governments over there
on the feasibility of the adoption Of
international bimetallism as chimeri-
cal, when it was first proposed by Sen
ator Wolcott, are now convinced that
the commission has really been Of
some service 1t has, for one thing,
made the government of Great Britain
for the first time give serious consider
alton to the subject of international
bimetallism, instead of CURLY dismiss
ingit as it had always previously done.
OF course this doesn't make it certain
that Great Britain will eventually
agree to international bimetallisn,
but it is longer step in that direction
than it seemed possible awhile ago to
make Great Britain take. and the
credit is certainly due to the efforts of
Senator Wolcott's commission. Ar
rangements have just been perfected
for a series of conferences between the
Commission and Ambassador Hay
with the British Chancellor of the EX-
chequer and other officials, for the
purpose of discussing the matter in
all its bearings.
Secretary Gage will appeal from the
decision of the Board of Appraisers,
that the Dingley tariff did not become
operative until the minute that it was
signed by the President, to the courts,
and the question will be passed upon
by the U. S. Supreme Court at an
early day, as there is a provision Of
law under which customs cases are ad.
vanced on the docket of the Supreme
Court. Secretary Gage had previous
ly decided that the tariff law was retro
active, and his decision will be follow
ed 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 $500, 600 to the inn
porters whose importations We're en-
tered at the custom houses on Satur-
day, July "a, before the signing Of the
tariff act by the President. Secretary
Gage holds that the bill became a law