The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-09-22
WAR INVESTIGATION.
President McKinley's Commission Practic-
ally Complete at Last.

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ally Complete at Last.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. = After
many delays President Mckinley is
able to announce that his commission
to investigate the conduct of the war
will be ready to assemble for business
next Saturday. This statement was
given out at the White House to-day.
together with the assertion that the
President has found three eligibles
who are willing to serve on the com
mission. After securing the country
for men who might give weight and
| dignity to the investigation, in which
the whole world is SO deeply inter
ested, it is announced that Gen. An
son g. McCook, of the Fighting Nc
Cook family" of New York; ex-Rep-
resentative VIM. d. Whiting, of Mas
sachusetts, and Gen. VIM. H. Jack
son, owner of the Belle Meade Stock
Farm, of Tennessee, have consented
to become members of the commits
sion.
/ AS constituted, the membership of
the commission is but six certain.
| The other three names announced
semi-of1icially to-day will give the
! President a commission of nine mem
bers, so that Mr.. McKinley's idea of
dividing the investigation into three
branches and allowing the sub-com-
mittees to go to work without delay,
can be carried out. The commission
ers are invited to assemble in Wash
ington next Saturday, when the Pres
! ident will outline to them the scope
| of the investigation. 1t is insisted
that the President has no desire or
intention of staving off any investi
| cation of the same subject by a con
| gressiOnal committee. His long ex-
perience has taught him that Con-
gress is not going to let such fruit
full subject for investigation pass
without due deliberation such as only
a congressional investigation COM
mittee can give it.
1t is quite probable that ambitious
members of the present House of Rep
resentatives or Senators are already
engaged in framing the series of reso-
| lutions they will proceed to unload
at the Capitol on the opening day
of the next session of Congress. The
President has stated to some of his
friends that he is not opposed to a
congressional investigation of the
war, nor is it his purpose to withhold
any information bearing on the sub
ject that may be found upon the rec
ords of the administration. He is
anxious that the truth shall be told,
and to that end he has directed an in
vestigation, which, he insists, was
ordered at the request of Secretary
Alger The President, it is said, de-
sires the inquiry to be made as rapid
ly as possible so that he may have
the benefit of the report of the COM
mission in preparing his annual mes
sage to Congress.
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formally considered at the meeting of
the cabinet to-day, at which Secre
tary Gage and Acknowledgement
Griggs were the only members pres
ent. 1t was recognized that the com
mission should commence its labors
as soon as possible. Next Saturday,
when the commission will have it's
first meeting, it will call upon the
| President to receive instructions. 1t
is not expected that the organization
will be effected before Monday 1t
has not been decided where the COM
mission will sit, but it is regarded as
probable that it will occupy one of
the rooms at the War Department,
where it will be convenient for the
officials to respond to any call the
commission may make for papers or
| testimony.
The gentlemen who are understood
to have agreed to serve on the com
mission, including Generals McCook
and Jackson and Representative
Whiting, are: Gen. Granville NJ.
Dodge, Of New York; Col. James r.
| SaXton, commander in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic; Presi-
dent Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore; DR.. w. w. Keen,
of Philadelphia; Charles DENLY, of
Indiana, former minister to China
Capt. Evan p. Howell, of Atlanta
Messrs. Gilman, Howell, DENLY and
jackson are democrats, and the other
| five members of the commission re-
publicans.
From the Preston "RepubIican."