Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-26
FLASHING TON LETTER.
SIZE, Al coRRrsroapENcE OF THE MoN1roR
Washington, Sept. 10Th, 1898.

NOW U0dU the P0aCO COMMISSION are
we'll on their way to Paris, President
Mckinley will complete the Commits
sion to investigate the conduct of the
war and will get it to work at the
earliest possible moment. He thinks
the Commission can do all its work in
Washington, calling such witnesses as
were in positions which enabled them
to possess useful information; and he
told one of the Commissioners that
every communication sent or received
by the War Department would be
made accessible to the Commission,
and that the whole power Of the gov
eminent would be used to assist the
Commissioners in getting at every
thing they desire to know. The only
desire that President Mckinley has in
the matter is to show the people of
the country just how the war was con-
Quoted, and to at the same time dis
cover the things in our present sys-
tenn that should be changed in order
to get the best results. He wishes no
body to be shielded nobody to be per-
secuted.
The gentlemen who have consented
to serve on the Commission, are so
we'll known that 10 one would ques-
ton their report when it is made. The
words of such men as these always
carries conviction to the public: Pre-
sident Gilman Of John Hopkins Uni
versity; Hon. Charles DENLY, the last
U. S. minister to China; Col. James A.
Sexton, the newly elected Command
erin Chief Of the G.. A. R.; Gen. Gran
vile M. Dodge, who gained military
glory in the Civil War; DR.. W. w.
Keen, whose achievements have plac-
ed him in the front rank of the med
ical profession, not only Of the U. S.,
but of the world, and Capt. Evan 2.
Howell, formerly editor of the Allan
tic Constitution. The lack of legal
authority to compel witnesses to tes-
tify, is not regarded as serious draw
back to the Commission, Few wit
nesses called are likely to decline to
testify, when they know that the
President wishes them to tell every
thing they know.
The session of the Peace Commits
sion, to meet at Paris, Oct. 1, are to be
held in the famous g Sale des Ambas-
sadeurs,n the French Government |
having rendered the use of that apart |
ment, in which have enacted numer- |
Gus international diplomatic arts,
when the meeting place of the Peace |
Commission was announced. Just |
previous to the departure of the |
American Commissioners from Wash
ington, Hon. VIM. r. Day, who heads |
the Commission rendered his resigna-
ton as Secretary Of State, which was |
a ccepted by the President, who then |
officially announced the appointment |
of Col. John Hay, recently Ambassa-
or to Great Britain, to be Secretary
of State At the same time Hon. John |
Bassett Moore, who accompanies the |
Commissioners as adviser, rendered |
his resignation as First Assistant Sec
rotary of State, and it was accepted.
Secretary Hay, who will be in Wash |
ington in a few days will choose Mr..
Moore's successor. The instructions
given bur representatives on the
Peace Commission has been a we'll
kept secret. Surmises have been plen-
tiful, but there are no facts before the
public President Mckinley says the
policy of this government in the ne
gotiations of the treaty of peace with
Spain will be recognized as thorough
" American when it becomes known,
and that it will be endorsed by our
people as a whole More than that he
does not deem it prudent TO say at
this time.
The sensation mongers hardly got a
chance to spread their imagination on
the stories Of such a serious situation
at Manila that more American troops
were needed, before the sensation
was punctured by an official report
from Gen. Otis who is in command of
our troops over there during til alb
sence CT Gen. Merritt, who is on his
way to Paris to place the information
in his possession before the American
Peace Commissioners, saying that no
more troops were needed, and that
the situation was satisfactory from an
American point of view.
Maj. Gen. James FL. Wilson, who
commanded a corps in the Porto Ri
can campaign. and who is now at his