The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-04-22
Washington Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1897

(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1897.
President Mckinley made num-
Der of appointments this week, among
the most important of which were
President James B. Angel, of the
Michigan State University, to be
minister to Turkey, and Ex-Repre-
sentative Meikeljohn, of Nebraska, to
be assistant secretary of war. This
is not Mr.. Angeles first di plomatic
appointment, as he went to China as
minister during the Hayes admins
tration, especially to secure a revision
of the Burlingame treaty, and sue
ceeded in getting it. He is thought
to be we'll qualified to enforce the de-
termined policy of the administration
in making Turkey pay for the prop
erty of American missionaries de-
stroyed by rioters last year. Mr..
Meiklejohn served two, terms in the
house with credit and will make an
efficient assistant to Secretary Alger.
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Senator Morrill,, the chairman Of
the committee on finance, celebrated
his eighty-seventh birthday this week
and had the honor of making the mo-
ton upon which the first tariff test
vote was taken in the senate-to re-
fer Senator Vests resolution, declar-
ing Secretary Cages order to collec-
tors of customs, concerning the clause
of the Dingley tariff bill making the
duties take effect April l, to be with
out authority-and on seeing his mo-
ton carried by majority of one.
When the Dingley bill is put upon
it's final passage it will have a larger
majority than that.
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A notable feature or the Jefferson
banquet of the silver democrats which
was so manipulated as to seem to en-
dorse Mr.. Bryan for the democratic
nomination in'l900, was the absence
of gold democrats. It was combin-
alton Bryansilver love feast AID only
those who were known to adore the
combination.
There are no longer any sceptics
concerning President Mc-Kinley's in
tention to live up to the St.Louis
platform, by making every possible
effort to bring about the acceptance
of international bimetallism by the
great commercial nations of the world.
In appointing three diplomatic Com
missioners to visit Europe and ascer-
tain by negotiation with other count
ries what can be done to bring about
an increase in the use of silver as
money. he chose men who are widely
known as staunch advocates Of BIZ
metellism-Senator Wolcot, of Colo,
Gen. Paine, of Mass:. and Hon. Adali
E. Stevenson, of ILL.,, these gentlemen
expect to start for Europe in about a
months time, and will probably re-
: main there until the attitude of all
the important European government
is officially made known to them.
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Believing that the Carnegie and
Bethlehem Steel Companies are try
ing to embarrass the government by
refusing to make armor plates for he
naval vessels now building at a ren
sonable price, Senator Chandler has
introduced two bills providing that the
Secretary of the Navy shall take pos
session of the armor- plants of those
two companies and manufacture the
armor plate needed for the three bat
tie ships now under construction land
authorizing those companies to bring
suit in the Court of Claims for their
compensation. Representative Can
non, of ILL.,, who will be chairman of
the committee on Appropriations
when it is appointed, was asked what
would be done to meet the stubborn
attitude of the armor- makers. and he
replied:"I suppose we shall have to
remove the limit of cost and allow
the contractors their blood money.
The ships must be finished, and the
armor must be had. But if I could
have my way, do not think any
armored sea-going vessels would be
built by the United States very soon.
The constant clashes between the
men who made Representative Bryan
of Tex, the leader of the democrats
in the house and those who wanted to
ma Ike Mcmillan. of Tenn, leader are
really amusing: and it is believed that
they are being sly]y encouraged by
"Slippery Jim" Richardson, of Tenn.
and "Silver Dick Bland, of Mo-, both
of whom have aspirations to be leader
of the house minority. Meanwhile
the House continues to meet and ad.
journ every three days.
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