Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-10-15
WASHINGTON LETTER
President Mckinley Will Go
Home to Vote.


It is Patriotic Duty The Policy To-
wards Cuba The Bi-metallic Com
mission When the Tarin became
Operative.
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 neoes.
sary to the success. of the Repubh-
can ticket, State and Legislature, but
he believes that casting his vote is a
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 ia which he
has participated, and he wishes to
show his Ohio friends that he con
tlnues TO both preach and practice
1t. Whether the President will
make speech before the election
in Ohio is not yet fully determined.
He is somewhat inclined to think
that 1t would not be strictly in ac-
oordance with propriety for him to
make q partisan 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,
because of his straight forward APP
peals TO the common, everyday,
horse-sense of his hearers, has gone
to Ohio to take the stump for few
days for the Republicans. Seore-
tary 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 Administra-
ton, 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
sensationally inclined scribblers
that a great many people have al
lowed their imaginations to run
away with their Judgment in dis
cussing the attitude of President
Mckinley towards both Spain and
Cuba. The President has every
reason to feel gratified at the visible
result of his Cuban policy-the re-
call of Gen. Weyler by the new
Spanish ministry, and to expect a
still greater result--peace in Cuba.
A great many who regarded the
sending of a 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 pro-
posed by Senator Wolcott, are now
convinced that the Commission has
really been of some service. It has,
for one thing, made the govern
ment of Great Britain for the first
time give serious consideration to
the subject of international bime-
tallism, instead of curtly dismissing
it, as it had always previously done.
Of.course this doesn't make it cer-
tain that Great Britain will event.
ually agree TO international bimetal-
lism, but it is a 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 Woloott's
Commission. Arrangements have
just been perfected for a series of
conferences between the Commits
sion and Ambassador Hay with the
British Chancellor of the Excheuqer
and other officials, for the purpose
of fully discussing the matter in all
its bearings.
Secretary Gage will appeal from
the decision of the Board Of Apprai-
sers, 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 in upon the Uuited States
Supreme Court at an early day, as
there is q provision of law under
which customs cases are advanced
on the docket of the Supreme Court,
Secretary Gage had previously de-
cided that the tariff law was retro
active, and his decision will be fol-
lowed by collectors of customs un-
til it is reversed by the Courts, If
the courts uphold the decision of
the Board of Appraisers, the Gov
ernment will have to refund about
$500, 900 to importers whose impor-
taions were entered at the custom
houses on Saturday, July gath, be-
fore the signing of the tariff act by
the President. Secretary Gage
holds that the bill became 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 the decision of the Board Of Ap-
praisers would, if upheld, make all
goods entered that day subject only
to the old duties. Treasury officials
are confident that Secretary Cages
decision was right and that it viii
be upheld by the Supreme Court.
Caci.I cunnar