Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, March 27st, 1898.

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There is no cooler man in Washing
ton than President Mckinley, al
though his is the greatest individual
responsibility in deciding what action
shall be taken upon the report of the
Naval Court of Inquiry. That report
will probably be received in day or
two, certainly this week. Opinion
differs as to whether the report will
be at once sent to Congress and made
public. & Senator Chandler, whose re-
lations with the President are such
that his opinion is as good as that of
any other man, said: cit is barely
possible that the character of the doc
ument may be such as to render it in
expedient to give it out until Congress
can be gradually made aware Of it's
contents. IF, for instance, it indicates
beyond doubt the official culpability
of the Spaniards in connection with
the Maine disaster, it would not be
wise to placeECongress in Immediate
possession of the facts officially, for
fear that war would be declared in
simultaneously, certainly, Congress and
the public will have the report at the
earliest moment it can be given out
without detriment to public interest.
Another certainty is, that President
Mckinley will not allow himself to be
Influenced by any of the numerous
stories as to what European nations
may think that he should do, but will
act solely in the interest of the ma
tional honor of the United States,
without regard to the probable ap-
prevail or disapproval of his action by
any European power or powers. The
Maine was our ship, the Court that
made the investigation and report
was composed of our Naval officers,
we please upon that report, and we
are going to do it, This isn't spread
eagleism, but plain, everyday patriot
ism, which is shared by every Ameri-
can whose heart is in the right place.
Congress and the Country will
showing every cent expended from
that special $50, ZOO, 900 emergency ap-
preparation, President Mckinley hav
ing directed the preparation of a
special form of requisition for these
funds, which must be signed by the
President himself before they can be
honored, and the opening of a special
emergency account in the books of
the Treasury.
The gun shop in the Washington
Navy Yard reminds old timers of the
war time activity in the same yard,
but upon a different class of work. |
During the war this was strictly a
Navy Yard; Now it is only a Navy |
Yard in name, its principal work ber |
ing the making of guns-some of the |
finest in the world have been and are
being made here,-mountings and
ammunition for the Navy. Not a
minute is now being lost in the Yard,
one of three eight hour shifts of men
being continuously at work.
By far the ablest and most interest
ing paper the government has recent
ly published is the report for 1897 of |
Hon. A. P. Greeley, Acting Commits
sioner of Patents. A synopsis has |
been printed in some Of the newspa
pers, but, owing perhaps to SO much
war news, it was SO incomplete as to
give very little idea of what this val
liable document, which will doubtless
be translated and read by thousands |
abroad, contains; it must be read as |
whole to be appreciated. Inventors, |
patentees, manufacturers, capitalists,
and publicists, who wish to under
stand the greatness of American in
dustry and how indissolubly it is asso-
ciated with the patent system of the
United States, should read this pam
phlet, which may be obtained free by
addressing a request for it to the
Commissioner of Patents, Washing
ton, D. @.
The three Commissioners appointed
by the Cuban Cabinet to act with the
Spanish Minister in negotiating rec
iprocity treaty with this country were
presented to Secretary Sherman to-
day, by the Spanish Minister, and la
ter they called on Hon. John A. Kasson,
who has charge of the interests of
this country in all reciprocity negoti-
ations. They expressed an anxiety
to proceed at once with the treaty,
but it is not probable that any mate
rial progress will be made until it be-
comes little clearer that it will be
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