Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-07-02

the possession Of Gen. Shafter when he
gets there. His object in going is, not |
TO supercede Gen. Shafter but to make |
Santiago the base from which the oper- |
atoms against Porto Rico, which are to |
follow its capture, may be conducted,
provided that our boys stand the elm
ate fairly we'll. Santiago is several
days nearer Porto Rico than the near
est port on the Florida coast. Like
the President, Gen. Miles is perfectly
satisfied with Skaters work as far as
it has gone.
S. VS. TRICKERY.
If the report from Madrid saying
that a new ministry was at once to be
chosen for the purpose of sueing for
peace was started with the hope or eX
pectation that it would cause the
slightest cessation in the vigorous pros
ecution of the war by this government
; its originators must have been entirely
| ignorant Of sentiment on this side of
the Atlantic. and may as we'll prepare
| for disappointment. Spain can get
peace by asking for the terms of the
u s., and accepting those terms with
out the slightest change, and in no
other way. Having taken the trouble
and gone TO the expense to get ready
to crush Spain, this government will
not order the slightest delay in the
crushing in response to Spanish trick
cry.
BANKRUPTCY BILL.
Senator Hoar, Chairman OF the SEN
ate committee on TIE Judiciary, says
of the compromise Bankruptcy bill,
which is now awaiting President Nc
KinleS's slgture to become law: ''In
getting it through we have been oblig-
ed to leave in it some crudities and i'm.
projections, which must be remedied
by subsequent legislation. The bill
will enable from loo, 900 to 2O0OO(
, bankrupts to get on their feet agaia
1t will enable manufacturers and mer
chants TO get a fair division of ther
debtors property, and will prevent
: great deal of fraud, embezzlement, ant
Q Wasteful dealing with property"
The Currency Reform bill, recent,
reported from the House Banking All
], Currency committee, will not be push
II ed at the present session of Congress-
n In Difference to some of the member
of the committee the bill has been re
u called from the calendar, which leave
1t it occupying the same position it di
re- before it was reported to the Hous
~ This is just as we'll. as it is well know
that the Senate would not have acte
81 upon the bill under any circum stanc'
b. at this session. While the country
D. engaged in carrying on a war is hard
"A the proper time for Congress to hand
q subject as important as the one tn
IN bill deals with. No time will be lost
ad deferring action by the House.
~ sHAFTER's ARMY RAPID.
sh The attention of the would-be mi
en- tary critics, who seem to think it
lie, easy to move an army as it is to ira
no lines over 8 map with pencil, is ca
ac- ed to the fact that Gen. Skaters arr
M was moved so rapidly after lRndi
or in Cuba, although the movements We
lp- made in the face of fighting enen
TO that the supply trains found it diffic
to keep up with the men.
HAWAIIAN RESOLUTION.
ant No one will be much surprised shel
vas the opposition to the Senate voting
the the resolution for the annexation
raj Hawaii utterly collapse during
n present week, as many believe it W
. in The stand Of President Mckinley 9