Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-05-27

"N''AA y ~ hNAA ARiN Is AtA pr iAh1fitI
sent from points where information
of contemplated movements may I've
obtained has only been fully into
effect for 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
given out; it is only news that
would indicate contemplated move
ments that is withheld. Among |
tho announcements that may be |
confidently expected-that may be
made any days that the invasion |
Of Cuba has been successfully made, |
and that the Spanish fleet, now in |
Cuban waters, has been met and
whipped. The two announcements
may be simultaneously made, as
there are indications that the army
and navy are moving together with
those ends in view.
1t is expected that the Committee
IN rules will this week report to the
House special rule for the CON
sdoTtion of the joint resolution
providing for the annexation ofI
Hawaii. The adoption of tho roso-
luton by a majority Of nearly or
lutte one hundred is certain whom
vote is taken, but it cannot Se voted
upon until a special rule is reported
There is politics, and very dirty
politics at that, being played in con
nection with the war-reyonue 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
nearly 5000, 900, 900 in paper cur
rency-$150 OOO,0 600 in greenbacks
and $42,000,o0O in silver certih-
Gates, And there is, if possible.
even less patriotism in the manner
in which those Democratic Senntors
who have promised to join the Re.
| publicans in voting to strike out this
fiat money clause and reinsert the
clause authorizing bonds and certifl.
Gates 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 disappointed
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 bin as it finally
goes through that there will be no
probability of any suspension of
gold payments by the administra.
ton, 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 ut
once go to a premium, and that that
will in some way be beneficial to the
silverites and detrimental to the
I Republican administration and
party Nice game for men who
call themselves Americans to be en-
gagged in, in the face of an expensive
almost a million q day is now be-
ing spent-foreign war, now isn't
1T?
Major General Merritt, who will
be commander of the u. S. troops
sent to the Philippine Islands, as
well as Military Governor of the
Philippines, has received his final
instructions and started for his far
away post. He expects to sail from
San Francisco about the first of
June. His army win consist of
about 16, 900 men, nearly one-third
of them regulars.
There is much misinformation
throughout the country concerning
the functions of the Naval Board
usually mistakenly referred to as
the "Strategy Board. The Naval
war Board is not charged with con
Quoting the naval portion of the war
at all. Its functions are entirely
advisory. The duty of the board is
to keep track, as far as possible, of
the movements of our ships as we'll
as those of the enemy, and in the
performance Of that duty some of its
members are on duty night and day
at the Navy Department studying
the dispatches that are constantly
being received. Orders are only
given by the President or the Secre-
tary of the Navy, and, as a matter
of fact only the general order to
find and destroy the Spanish navy
has been issued to Admiral Sampson.
who has been left free to use his own
Judgment about how best to carry
out that order, the Navy Depart
ment, of course, keeping him in
formed of every thing it learns that
can be of any possible service to
him. Secretary Longs only answer
to criticisms that have been made
was to say ''We can't whip the
spaniards until we catch them,