Morris tribune., 1898-06-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From The Tribune's Regular Correspondent.
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we'll as our navy has been gotten into
proper fighting trim. A flying
squadron of our fastest ships may be
sent over to lombard some of the
Spanish coast cities. The delay in
getting the volunteer army ready has
been a source of as much worry to
President Mckinley as it has been to
anyone else, but he wisel y made up
his mind in the beginning that it
should not fight until it was ready to
fight, and there is to be no more
delay.
XXX
The House has not yet acted upon
the Hawaiian annexation resolution,
but it will in day or two.
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The war department has decided
that it would not make public the
quota of men apportioned to each
state under the second call for volun-
teers. The governors of all the states
have been notified how manymen are
to be enlisted from their states, and
as fast as the men are enlisted they
will be assigned to regiments already
in the field until all existing regi-
Pments are full. The men who remain
unassigned then will be organized
into new regiments.
Xxx
IT is SO generally known that "Pri-
vate" Dalzell is always posted on the
existing sentiment in Ohio that when
he came to Washington this week
he says his visit is merely to see his
daughter, who lives in Washington
one of the first questions asked him
was what Ohio folks thought of Pres
ident McKinley's conduct of the war
as far as it has gone and of his ad
ministration generally. Here is his
reply to one of these questloners:
"You cannot tell anybody in Ohio
anything about Mckinley. They know
him from the ground up, and have
every confidence in his integrity and
ability, and no patience with the
carping criticism which calls his pol
icy of conservatism and sound sense
Fabian policy of mastery inactivity.
Give him time enough and he will
give the country just what they
elected him for-an administration to
be proud of.
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IF THE sword to be presented to
Admiral Dewey, under act of con
gress, is not the handsomest ever made
it will only be because the sword |
makers of today cannot improve upon
the work of their predecessors. More
than fifty designs for the dewey |
Sword" have already been submitted |
to the navy department by the sword
makers of the world.
XXX
AMBASSADOR HAY has forwarded to
the state department pamphlet on
the undeveloped mineral wealth of
the Philippines Islands, that is par
interesting at this time, in
view of American occupation of these
islands. The following paragraph is
from the pamphlet: 81 knowno other
part of the world, the Alaska Tread
well mines excepted, where pay ore is
found within few hundred yarCs of
the anchorage of sea going vessels.
There is no. brook that finds it's wav
into the Pacific ocean whose sand and
gravel do not at least pan the color of
gold. Heavy nuggets are Sometimes
brought down from the SierlrtaSs, where
| believe there are promising fields
for hydraulic mining. Alluvial gold
is also got in the island of Mindanas.
especially in the districts of Surigao
and Misamis, on it's northern; coast
Extensive deposits of copper ore oc-
cur IN Luzon, which will probably
prove remunerative when means of
transport have been devised. Galena
both auriferous and argentiferous, is
found in veins in Luzon and Cebu,
sometimes accompanied by zinc
blends.
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The treasury department has de-
cided that the first issue of bonds an