Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1898-11-29
Current Topics.
Increased Naval and Military
Force.
Large Public Expenditures.
(From our regular correspondent

Washington, Nov, II, 1888
Nobody need be misled by the backing
and filing Of the Peace Commissioner
and the weekly crisis, on paper, always
accompanied by an alleged ultimatnn
sent by this government. There has
been but one question to be settled since
this government demanded the Phil.
ppines. The price we are to pay for
them. That question is still unsettled.
Why, some of the Spanish bond-holders
could doubtless tell. When it is settled
we will have the treaty OF Peace and not
before. That Mr.. Mckinley could quick
| ly settle this business by sending an ul-
timatum is unquestioned; also that lie
ought to do it, but it is humilitating, in
the extreme, to have men close to the
administration announcing every week
that one has been sent, when day or
two afterwards it becomes apparent to
all the world that it has not
It is the easiest thing in the world to
get people accustomed to and indifferent
to large public expenditures. Only a
few years ago the appropriation Of a
billion dollars by.a republican Congress
aroused the public opinion OF the coun-
try, and elected democratic President
and Congress. Since then, about every
Congress has been billion-doll Con-
gress, and the present Congress, which
has already appropriated almost bill
ion dollars, will, by the end of the COM
ing short, session, have reached the two
billion mark 1t is true considerable
portion of this money is chargeable to
the war, but outside of the war, the pub
lie expenditures are entirely too extrav-
agant, aud might be largely curtailed
without lessening the efficiency OF the
government.
: Mr.. Mckinley has shown his adroit-
ness as a politician by deciding not to
recommend any legislation at the COM
ing session OF Congress for Porto Rico
bf' the philippines, and to keep the isl
'ands under military rule for awhile He
knows that the question OF legislation
,toxthe islands will be troublesome one
and prefers that it shall not be taken up
until his party has a majority in both
branches of Congress.
. Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
john wishes to be the Hanna Nc Kinley
candidate for the Senate, from Nebraska,
and his friends say that he thinks he
will be, the conditions being that he
shall promise to support the admins
tration in all things in the Senate, and
that he shall secure a solid Mckinley
delegation from Nebraska to the Repub-
lican Convention in 1900. The same
sort of pledge is being exacted as the
price of administration support OF all the
other candidates for the Senate, in States
where the legislatures to elect Senators
are controlled by the republicans. Mr..
Mckinley seems to be reasonably GER
tain OF denomination, but Boss Hanna
will take no chances and will, if in bis
power, clinch the thing long before the
convention is held. 1t is to carry out
this clinching programme that the Re-
publican National Committee is to open
headquarters in Washington, at once,
and keep them open until after the Pres
idential election. II Is also part OF
this scheme to exhibit the strength Of the
administration machine to Gar Reed, as
a warning.
1t is announced that the Canadian
American Commission, now sitting in
Washington, has made great progress,
but the announcers take good care to
accompany the announcement with the
statement that the agreements reached
by the Commission have been only upon
minor matters, and that the important
questions are still up in the air. 1t is
further stated that none OF the agree
ments reached are to be binding unless
agreements are reached upon every
thing, which indicates that the great
progress" is largely imaginary.
The republican U. s. District Attorney,
for South Carolina, spent two eptire
days consulting with the administration,
upon what should be done by the At
torney General, il anything, about the
race troubles in that State. The Dis
trict Attorney was not enthusiastic over
the probable success OF the plan Of try
ing to get indictments against white men
for participating in riots, from Federal
Grand Jury, which has been adopted by
the administration, but he will have to
try it on, il the administration insists;
he wishes to continue drawing his salary.
polbert, the Assistant Post Master, who
was driven away from Mccormick, has
decided to remain in Washington and
try to catch government job, on the
strength Of his "martyrdom".
It has been defnately settled that Mr..
Mckinley will in his annual message to
Congress, recommend that the regular
army be increased to 100000 men, and
that he will indorse the recommendation
OF Secretary Long that three battleships
and twelve cruisers be built, and twenty
Thousand men and two thousand five
hundred boys be enlisted in the Navy.
How some mems heads do grow afte
they ret an Office. During the yean
that Perry Heath did newspaper wori