The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

pleased, as they have every reason to
be, with the news from Cuba. Gen.
Skaters campaign has been a success
from the moment his army was landed.
Every fight with Spanish has resulted
in a victory for his men, and each day
has seen his army nearer Santiago.
He is free to use his own Judgment as
to whether he will at once storm the
heavy Notifications at Santiago, de-
Tended by an army more numerous
than his own, the men of which be-
ing acclimated do not suffer from the
heat as our men do, or whether he will
await the arrival of the reinforce
ments now on the way to him, and of
those to be sent this week fromTampa.
If he decides to go right ahead, news
of big battle may be expected at any
moment.
There is no truth in the report sent
from Washington that Gen. Miles was
going to Cuba to take charge of the
campaign against Santiago. Gen.
Miles expects to go to Santiago in a
few days, but he calculates to find it
in the possession of Gen. Shafter
when he gets there, His object in 60
ing is, not to supercede Gen. Shafter
but to make Santiago the base from
which the operations against Porto
Rico, which are to follow its capture,
may be conducted, provided that our
boys stand the climate fairly well.
Santiago is several days nearer Porto
Rico than the nearest port on the
Florida coast. Like the President,
Gen. Miles is perfectly satisfied with
Skaters work as far as it has gone.
If the report from Madrid saying
be chosen for the purpose of sueing
for peace was started with the hope
or expectation that it would cause the
least cessation in the vigorous prose
cutiOn of the war by this government
its originatOrs must have been entire
ly ignorant of sentiment on this side
of the Atlantic, and may as well pre-
pare for a disappointment. Spain can
get peace by asking for the terms of
the United States, and accepting
those terms without the slightest
change, and in no other way. Hav-
ing 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 re-
spouse to Spanish trickery.
Senator Hoar, Chairman of the
Senate Committee on the judiciary,
says Of the compromise Bankruptcy
bill, which is now awaiting President
Mckinley's signature to become law:
I'm getting it through we have been
obliged to leave in it some crudities
and imperfections, which must be
remedied by subsequent legislation
The bill will enable from $50, 900 to
100000 bankrupts to get on their feet
again. 1t will enable manufacturers
and merchants to get fair division
OF their debtors property, and will
prevent great deal of fraud, embez-
element, and wasteful dealing with
property"
The Currency Reform bill. recently
reported from the House Banking and
Currency committee, will not be
pushed at the present session of Con-
gress. In Difference to some of the
members of the committee the bill
has been recalled from the calendar,
which leaves it occupying the same
position it did before it was reported
to the House. This is just as well, as
it is well known that the Senate
would not have acted upon the bill
under any circumstances at this ses-
sion. While the country is engaged
in carrying on a war is hardly the
proper time for Congress to handle a
subject as important as the one this
bill deals with. No time will be lost
by deferring action by the House.
The attention of the would-be mill
tary critics, who seem to think it as
easy to move an army as it is to trace
lines over a map with a pencil, is
called to the fact that Gen. Skaters
army was moved so rapidly after
landing in Cuba, although the move
ments We're made in the face of
fighting enemy, that the supply trains
found it difficult to keep up with the
men.
No one will be much surprised
should the opposition to the Senate
voting on the resolution for the an
neXation of Hawaii utterly collapse
during the present week, as many
believe it WILL The stand of Presi-
dent Mckinley and more than two
thirds of the House against any adj
journment of Congress until the Sen
ate has voted and has shown the
opposition, with few exceptions,
that filibustering will not help them,
and that as long as a vote has got to
be taken before adjournment it would
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