Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, June 81, 1885,

"io 700 tho tp w iioiS esi ~ iboth
pleased, as they have every reason
to be, with the news from Cuba.
General Skaters campaign has
been a success from the moment his
army was landed. Every fight with
the Spanish has resulted in a 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 the
heavy Notifications at Santiago, de-
Tended by an army more numerous
than his own, the men of which be-
ing acclimated do not suffer from
the heat as our men do, or whether
he will await the arrival 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 big
battle may be expected at any mo-
ment. The killing and wounding of
Americans in the bush fighting that
has taken place between Shafter s
men and the Spanish, while, of
course, deeply regretted, was no
more than what was expected to
accompany 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 was going to Cuba to take
charge of the campaign against
Santiago. Gen. Miles expects to
90 to Santiago in a few days, but
he calculates to find it in the pos
session of Gen. Shafter when he
gets there. His object in going is,
not to supersede Gen. Shafter, but
to make Santiago the base from
which the operations against Porto
Rico, which are to follow its cap
ture, 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 President, Gen. Miles is
perfectly satisfied with Shafter' S
work as far as it has gone.
If the report from Madrid saying
that d new ministry was at once to
be chosen for the purpose of sueing
for peace was started with the hope
or expectation that it would cause
the slightest cessation in the vigor-
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 dis
appointment. Spain can get peace
by asking for the terms of the U. S.
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 gov
ernment will not order the slightest
delay in the crushing in response
to Spanish trickery.
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 Il law: ''In getting it through
we have been obliged to leave in it
some crudities and imperfections,
which must be remedied by subse-
quent legislation. The bill will
enable from 100000 to 100000
bankrupts to get on their feet
again. 1t will enable manufacture
ers and merchants to get d fair di-
vision of their debtors property,
and will prevent a great deal of
fraud, embezzlement, and wasteful
dealing with property"
The Currency Reform bill, re-
Gently reported from the House
Banking and Currency committee,
will not be pushed at the present
session of Congress. In Difference
to some of the members of the
committee the bill has been re-
called from the calendar, which
leaves it occupying the same posi-
tion 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 upon the bill
under any circumstances at this
session. While the country is en-
gagged in carrying on a war is
hardly the proper time for Con-
gress to handle a subject as i'm
portant as the one this bill deals
with. No time will be lost by de-
ferring action by the House.
The attention of the would-be
military critics, who seem to think
it as easy to move an army as it is
to trace lines over a map with q