The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-07-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. July, 25 1898.

sirable piece of real estate, when Gen.
Miles hoisted "Old Glory on Porto
Rico, and, whatever may be done
with other captured territory, it is
certain that Porto Rico is going to be
ours to keep. In addition to the
troops with Gen. Miles, two other az
mics are to be landed at different
points in Porto Rico at once. Then
the three armies will capture all Of
the smaller places before moving in
concert on the heavily fortified town
of San Juan. Three weeks is the out
side estimate of the length of the cam
paign, although President McKinley's
desire that San Juan shall be taken
without infantry assaults upon the
breast works, if possible, may lengthen
the campaign. For reasons satisfac-
tory to himself, President Mckinley
has deferred the sailing of Commodore
Watson's fleet for the coast of Spain.
The presumption is that he is giving
Spain an opportunity to sue for peace,
of his cabinet has said anything upon
which to base that presumption. Sec
rotary Long, when asked the direct
question, when Commodore Watson's
fleet would start for Spain, said:
Whenever the President issues the
ORDER
The trouble about the yellow jour
nal story of how the war department
got euchred when it contracted with
aSpanish Steamship Company for the
transportation of the surrendered
Spanish soldiers from Santiago to
Spain was the usual one-it wasn't
true. The Spanish Steamship Com
pany will get no advantage whatever
out of the contract beyond the cash
paid for the transportation, while the
War Department made sure by plac-
ing this contract that no complaint
could be made against us in connec-
ton with the treatment of the priso-
ners on the voyage, and that there
would be trouble about their being
landed in Spain. The contract specif-
ically stated that no vessels belong
ing to the company would be allowed
TO leave blockaded ports to perform
the service provided for.
1t is the opinion of President Nc
Kinley and members of his cabinet
that the friction between Gen. Shat
ter, and Gen. Garcia, who commands
the Cuban insurgents in the Santiago
district, which led to Garcia's with
drawing his troops and announcing
that he had rendered his resignation
to Gen. Gomez, the Commander-in-
Chief of the insurgents, is more the
result of misunderstanding than any
thing else. Gen. Skaters instructions
are to treat the insurgents in a mill
tary way. 1t is nonsense for Garcia to
pretend to be disgruntled because
Santiago was not turned over to the
insurgents. 1t has been made plain
to him and all of the other insurgent
leaders that the L. S. intended to as
sumo military control of Cuba as fast
as 1t came into our possession, and to
retain that control until such time as
all the residents of Cuba could be Civ
EN- an opportunity to express them
selves as to how and by whom they
would be governed. 1t was because
of doubt that the insurgents repre-
sented majority of the residents of
Cuba that President Mckinley strove
so hard and successfully to prevent
Congress providing for recognition of
the government.
The [. S. sells more wheat and -four
to Japan than do all other countries
combined, and the official figures in
report from [. 5. Consul Harris, at
Nagasaki, shows steady and healthy
growth in this trade. OF wheat we
sent in 1895, only 4S4,510 lbs, but in
1896 it had grown to 2,451, $50 lbs, and
in 1897 to Il, 467 466 lbs. OF -four we
sent in 1895, 13,SG6,97 lbs, in 1896
81, 40S, 81 lbs, and in 1897 81 1894, $40.
That a protective tariff does not
prevent the growth OF our export
trade, ought to be too well known to
need proof, but in case you have still
a few free traders in your vicinity
who need proof, the following facts
concerning our exports to Canada for
the first eleven months of the fiscal
year 1897, when the Wilson tariff law
was in effect, and for the first eleven
months of the fiscal year 1898, under
the Dingley tariff law, are given.
During the former period, we sold
Canada 37,37O,S25 worth of goods,
and during the latter period, SAC, 251-
22S, difference III favor of protection
of nearly a million dollars a month.
Lieut.. Hobson, who is in Washing
ton in connection with the work of
trying to save some of the ships of
Cervera's fleet was most warmly re-
ceived by the President, members of
the Cabinet, his own personal friends,
and the public at large.
The delivery of the war bond began