Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-05-26
WA SHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, May %, 1898.


President Mckinley, Secretary
Long, and Secretary Alger are
demonstrating the possibility of
keeping the movements of our
army and navy secret Other
officials in both the War and Navy
Departments know of some of the
movements and contemplated
movements, but all Of them are
known only to those three men.
They are not known even to the
other members of the Cabinet, they
having themselves requested that
the knowledge be kept from them.
Although this policy and the rigid
censorship Of all telegraph matter
sent from points where information
Of contemplated movements may
be obtained has only been fully
into effect for a week, its good
effects are SO apparent that there is
no doubt of its being maintained
throughout the war. Information
of anything accomplished, or of
any battle on land or water will be
promptly given out; it is only news
that would indicate contemplated
movements that is withheld
Among the announcements that
may confidently be expected-they
may be made any days that the
invasion of Cuba has success
fully been made, and that the
Spanish fleet, now in Cuban waters,
has been met and whipped. The
two announcements may be stimuli
taneously made, as there are indi-
cations that the army and navy
are moving together with those
ends in view.
1t is expected that the committee
on rules will this week report to
the House special rule for the
consideration of the joint resolution
providing for the annexation Of
Hawaii. The adoption of the
resolution by majority of nearly
or quite one hundred is certain
when Il vote is taken, but it cannot
be voted upon until special rule
is reported.
There is politics, and very dirty
politics at that, being played in
connection with the war-revenue
bill, which is still before the Senate.
There is nothing patriotic about
the motive of the silver men who
are a majority of the Senate
Finance committee for striking out
the clause authorizing the issue of
bonds and Of certificates of indebt-
edness, and inserting in their
place authority for issuing nearly
100000, 600 in paper currency
Sl5O,OOO, 900 in grcenbacks and
$40 ,OOO,O 900 in silver certificates.
And there is, if possible, even less
patriotism in the manner in which
those democratic Senators who
have promised to join the Republi-
cans III voting to strike out this
fiat money clause and reinsert the
clause authorizing bonds and certi-
ficates of indebtedness are being
urged to ignore their promises and
vote for fiat money. The radical
silver men who are engineering
this movement have been disap-
pointed because the first month of
the war has not resulted in sending
gold to premium. They know
that if the bond clause is in the
bill as it finally goes through that
there will be no probability of any
suspension of gold payments by
the administration, no matter how
long the war may last; and they
believe that if they can get fiat
money authorized instead of bonds,
that gold will at once go to a
premium, and that that will in
some way be beneficial to the
silverites and detrimental to the
Republican administration and
party. Nice game for men who
call themselves Americans to be
engaged in, in the face of an ex-
pensive-almost million day is
now being spent-foreign war, now
isn't it?
Major General Merritt, who will .