The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-06-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tTrcn Our Regular correspondsns.l
WASHINGTON. D. O., June 8, 1893.


Washington of the movements of Of our
army and navy to cause general state
Of suppressed excitement and expectation
Of great achievement Of both branches
Of the service. It is known that large
number of troops have embarked from
Florida ports, and believed that por
ton Of them have been landed in Cuba
for the purpose Of assisting Commodore
Schley to crush the Spanish feet that
he has shut up in the harbor at Saniiak o
de Cuba by capturing that city and the
adjacent forts, and that the rest of them
have gone to Porto Rico to act in con.
junction with admiral Sampson in cap.
turing that island. There has been
news of some preliminary fighting, and
there is daily expectation of news Of de.
cisive battles from both Porto Rico and
Santiago The lines are being so tightly
drawn around Spain that prominent
European diplomat predicts it will be
begging for peace on any terms in
very short time.
Senator Lodre struck q patriotic key
note which should find general response
in the breast of every Senator and Rep
resentative when he said: :: II am firm
impressed with the idea that we ought
not only to pass the revenue measure,
but every other bill which The admins
tration desires as war measure, and D..
itspeed L.. s, far as an concerne I
am unwilling that Congress shou"
adjourn until all of the measures d.
manded by the exigencies of wsr, r
whatever those measures may be. sh-
have been enacted into law. A y
as am for an early Adjournment. | ai.l
never give my vote to proposition to
adjourn until the President has beer
afforded every bit Of legislative aid he
desires in the prosecution of the war
Senator Elkins said in an interesting
speech, nominally on the war revenue
bill, but really on the vista OF progress
already opened to the U S. by the "
suits of the war: "We must have ner
chant ships on the seas, control til,
shipping and the commerce Of the great
oceans that wash our shores, and have q
navy greater and more powerful than
any now afloat. This is manifest desti
ny. The world is today but vast
neighborhood, fast being divided up in
groops of great families; it is draw n
more closely together than we're counties
and states fifty years ago; it has become
more commercial than ever; one mem.
ber of this family cannotre in it's own
interest doing what the other members
do. Consolidation and merging OF small.
or states into larger ones and empires
is irresistible Necessity lies at the
bottom of this great movement"
President Mckinley could not have
adopted more striking method of
showing the world that the governments
OF France and the o. 8. were on the
most friendly terms than the publica.
ton of his proclamation of the going in
to effect on June 1, of a treaty of com.
mercial reciprocity between the two
countries. This is the first reciprocity
treaty under the Dingley law, but 9th.
ers are in course of negotiation. Under
this treaty France grants substantial
concessions in the duty upon American
meats and meat products, and we upon
French liquors. except champagne. and
works OF art.
When the main army of invasion goes
to Cuba it will carry four war balloons,
made in France. which will be operated
by trained corps of aeronauts under
command of Lieut.. Jos. E. MaxAeld.
This corps will be divided into two com.
panies, each of which will have two
balloons and all the parapharnalia need.
ed to work them, including apparatus
for the manufacture Of gas. Military
men are looking forward to this branch
of the service-new on this side of the
Atlsntic-with much interest.
President Mckinley sent special
message to Congress this week for the
purpose of transmitting the following
modest reply of Admiral Dewey to the
message from the Secretary of the Navy
extending the thanks Of the President,
the Congress, and the people to him and
his gallant men, to that body: II de-
sire to express to the department, and
to request that it will be transmitted TO
the President and to Congress, my most
sincere thanks for the great compliment
paid to me-"
1t has been decided not to push for
action on the annexation Of Hawaii in
the Senate until the war revenue bill has
been disposed Of, and not TO complicate
the two. The following words from
Senator Frye about states the position Of
the supporsers OF annexation: ~ do not
think that We will leave Warrington
until We have done some definite ON the