Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-05-12
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to a few but which it would be
both iniudicious and unpatriotic
to make public now, which there
is every reason to belle. will re-
suit in as crushing blow to the
power of Spain as was the loss of
it's Asiatic fleet and of the Philip
pine islands. There is a general
feeling that the war is to be
pushed now and the war fought
to speedy and victorious close.
That is certainly the intention of
the administration and of con-
gress. Porto Rico, Cuba, the
Spanish navy, all are marked as
our prey.
The postmaster general issued
a very significant order this week.
1t provides for the Establishment
of postal service in the Cuban
port first occupied by the U. S.,
and appointed a special agent to
organize the service, and that
special agent has been authorized
upon his arrival with the mail at
such port in Cuba as may first be
occupied by the U. S., to rent
suitable quarters for handling
the mails, if they cannot be fur
nished free by the military
authorities.
Orders haye been issued re-
quiring all army officers to wear
the uniform of their rank at the
places where they may be sta
| toned. These orders will facili-
tate the business of the war and
navy departments III various
ways, and will be of much SER
vice to business men having
dealings with those departments
by enabling them to know the
difference between the officers at
tached to those departments
and the civilian employees at a
glance. 1t will also save army
and navy officers who are un-
known to the employees whose
duty it's to watch every person
who enters the building the
annoyance of being held up until
they have been identified.
The senate finance committee
gave Secretaries Gage, Long,
and Alger impossible tasks to
perform in asking them to fur
nish the committee with accurate
estimates of what the war will
cost. The best that any man can
| do is to guess, owing to the un-
certainty as to the length of the
war. Secretary Cages guess
was that the war expenses fol
the fiscal year beginning July /
next, provided, of course that The
war continued that long, would
be about $500, 100000; Secretary
Alger thought about half of tha
would be needed by the war de
partment, and Secretary Lons
said he would do some figuring
before submitting his guess
$4,000, 900 will have been spen
on account of the war befor
July l. Meanwhile the fnanc
committee is trying to agree OF
the war revenue bill passed b,
the house last week. An agree
nent may be reached at an
time, but it will not be surprisin.
if the bill is not reported to th
senate until next week. Th
. clause for the issue of bonds
, being bitterly fought, but it
the opinion both of its opponent
and supporters shat it will b
left in the bill.
The president doubtless Offend
ed few people prominent in th
political and social world whe
: he announced that under no Gil
cumstances would he give a ger
erals commission in the voluntee
army to man who had not ha
experience as a soldier, but b
5 pleased thousands, and his actio
e will make him new admirers a
d over the country, among thos
4 who belieye that the princip;
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