Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-07-01
WASHINGTON LETTER
WAgnINaroN. D. q. Jnne p. ,as.

to be, with the news from Cuba
Gen Skaters clmpaign has been
succrss from the moment his army
was landed Every fight with the
| Spanish has resulted in 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 San
tiago, defended by an army more
numerous than his own, the men of
/ which being accliinated, do not suf-
| fer from the heat as our men do, or
whether he will await the arriv al of
the reinforcements now on the way
to him, and of those to be sent this
week from Tampa If he decides to
go right ahead, news Of q big battle
may be expected at any moment.
The killing and wounding of Ameri-
cans in the bush fighting that has
taken place between Skaters men
and the Spanish, while, of course,
deeply regretted, was no more than
what was expected while fighting on
land. The storming of Santiago,
whether at once or later, is certain
to result in the capture of the town,
but it is expected to be bloody
work.
There is no truth in the report
sent from Washington that General
Miles WIS going 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 possession of Gen Shafter when
he gets there His object in going
Is, not to supercede Gen. Shafter
but to make Santiago the base from
which the operations against Porto
Rice, which are to follow it's 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 Presi-
lent Gen. Miles is perfectly salts
fed with Skaters work as far as ii
has gone
If the report from Madrid saying
that new mi"istry was at once to
be chosen for the purpose of suing
for peace was started with the hope
or expectation that it would cause
the slightest cessation in the vigot-
Gus prosecution of the war by this
government, it's originators must
have been entirely ignorant of SEN
timent on this side of the Atlantic.
and may as well prepare for a dis
appointment Spain can get peace
by asking for the terms of the q. 5.
and accepting those terms without
the slightest change, and in no other
way. Having 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 response to Spanish
trickary.
Senator Hoar, Chairman of the
Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
says of the compromise Bankruptcy
bill, which is now awaiting Presi-
dent McKinley's signature to be-
come a law an getting it through
we have been obliged to leave in it
some crudities and imperfections,
which must be remediad by subse,
quent legislation. The bill will en-
able l5O, 600 to 200, 600 baukrupts to
get on their feet again. 1t will en-
able manufacturers and merchants
to get fair division of their debt
or's property, and will prevent
great deal of fraud, embezzlement
and wasteful dealing with prop
erty."
The Currency Reform Bill, re.
Gently reported from the House
Banking and Currency Committee,
viii be pushed at the next session
of Congress. 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 mp
on the bill under any circumstances
at this session. While the country
is engaged in carrying on a war it
is hardly the proper time for Con-
gress to handle a subject as import
ant as the one this bill deals with.
No time will be lost by deferring ac
ton by the House.
The attention of the would-be
military critics, who seem to think
it easy to move an army as it is to
trace lines over a map with n pencil,
is called to the fact that Gen. Shat
ter's army was moved so rapidly
after landing in Cuba, although the
movements We're made in the face
Of a fighting enemy, that the sup
ply trains found it din suit to keep
mp with the men.