The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-12-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Nov. IS, 1898.
President Mckinley has about finish
ed his annual message to Congress. ex
cepi that portion dealing with the treaty
ofpeace. Spain has cepted our terms,
and il is expected that the treaty will
be signed in time to enable the Presi
dent to get as many of its details as ii is
expedient to make public in his mes
sage.
There is no uneasness in administra
ton circles about the ratification of
the treaty of peace by the Senate,
although several republican Senators
and number of democratic Senators
are talking against "a 'iticatIon. The
only thing that the opposition can do is
to delay ratification by preventing
vote at the coming session. 1t would
be better. of course, that the treaty
should be promptly ratified, but mas
much as We shall have everything III
our own hands, and as there is no in
territory in any other way than by mil
itary rule, for at least year, the delay
will make no material difference, even
if it extends to the end of the coming
session OF Congress. The President
can easily call an extra session of the
Senate, which will be strongly republi-
can after the fourth of next March, to
ratify the treaty, and he can be sure
that it will be speedily done
The necessity for a cable to Hawaii is
so apparent that it is regarded as pro-
liable that the bill providing a form of
government for Hawaii will also pro-
vide for the laying of cable, which
shall: be subject to the control of this
government, if not actually owned by
it. No trouble is anticipated in passing
the Hawaiian bill, whether it includes
Guides the cable provision or not.
President Mckinley finds it difficult
to repress a smile when some promin-
ent caller begins to tell him the reasons
the same old reasons that he has
heard thousand times why the L. S.
should not take the Philippines. The
President never contradicts them On
the contrary. he expresses the hearth
est agreement with number OF these
reasons. After his anti-expansion call
sTs have exhausted their reasons and
arguments, the President usually saws
something like this: Some of Your rea-
s rs are excellent. but there is one
glarlng weakness in your position; YOU
do not provide satisfactory wav in
which the Philippines may be disposed
Of Everybody admits THAT we could
not, with Justice, not 10 mention hui
mainly, turn the islands over to Spain
again; the natives are in no condition
To maintain an independent govern
ment. Now, if the United States does
not take control Of them, please give
me Your opinion of what ought to be
done with them, bearing in mind that
to attempt to transfer them to any Eu-
ropean nation, other than Spain, which
ls out of the question, would almost
certainly precipitate great war" Up
to this time none ofthe anti-expansion-
lists have suggested a satisfactory way
for Us to escape the RESPONSE Ilitv of
Philippine control. and only few of
them have made the attemut
The United States Consul at Edin-
burgh, says in report to the Depart
m nf to \ n,
cultural machinery Is widely used on
the farms of Scotland. Most kinds OF
machinery for arm purposes, manu-
iactured in the [. S, have long been
preferred by farmers here, on account
of price. quality and design" The man
who would have predicted twenty
Years ago that we should be selling
large quantities of farming implements
In any portion of the British Empire,
would have been considered a tit sub
ject for an insane asylum. There is no
telling TO what extent our trade Will
grow In the next twenty years, if the
wise policy, which has always been a
a feature of Republican National adj
illustrations shall De continued with
out interruption. Nothing is likely to
stop the expansion of our foreign com
merce IN every direction, owing to the
improbabilIty that the democrats will
be i'll Il position to saddle anv more dis
astrous tariff experiments on the coun-
try for long time.
Notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary, there was no significance in the
ordering Of Maj. Gen. VI. c. Butler, one
OF our Military Commissioners at Ha-
vaua t. Washington, further than that
the President aud Secretary AIger de-
sired to have the benefit of the know
ledge acquired by Gen. Butler during
lis stay IN Cuba, while arranging the
, necessary oruers for carr! ing out the