Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-06-08
Washington Letter
From our Regu.ar Correspondent

From our RegutuT correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1895
Just enough is positively known in
Washington of the movements of
our army and navy to cause a general
state Of suppressed excitement aud
expectation of great achievements
by both branches of the service. 1t
is known that a large number
of troops have embarked from
Florida ports, and believed that q
portion Of them have been landed in
Cuba for the purpose OF assisting
Commodore Schley to crush the
Spanish fleet that he has shut up In
harbor at Santiago de Cuba by cap
turlng 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
capturing that island. There has
been news Of some preliminary fight
ing, and there Is daily expectation of
news of decisive battles from both
Porto Rico and Santiago. The lines
are being so tightly drawn around
Spain that Il prominent European
diplomat predicts it will be begging
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short time.
Senator Lodge struck q patriotic
keynote which should find q con-
genial response in the breast every
senator and representative when he
said: Il am firmly impressed with
| the idea that we ought not only to
! pass the revenue measure, but every
| other bill which the administration
| desires as q war measure, and do so
| speedily. So far as / am concerned,
am unwilling that congress
should adjourn until all OF the
measures demanded by the eXigencie8
Of war, Of whatever nature those
measures may be, shall have been en-
acted into law. Anxious as [ am
for an early adjournment, | will
never give my vote to q proposition
to adjourn until the president has
been afforded every bit of legislative
aid he desires in the prosecution Of
! the war"
Senator EllIins said In an interest
ing speech, nOminally on the war
revenue bill, but really on the vista
Of progress already opened to the
United States by the results Of the
war: "Wemus have merchant ships
on the seas, control the shipping and
commerce on the great oceans that
wash our shores, and have navy
greater and more powerful than any
now afoat. This is manifest des-
tiny. The world is to-day but a
vast neigborhood, fast being divided
up in groups of great families; it is
drawn more closely together than
were countries and states htty years
ago; it has become more commercial
than ever; one member Of this family
cannot resist in its own interest do
ing what the other members do.
Consolidation and merging ofsmaller
states into larger ones and empires
is irresistible. Necessity lies at the
bottom of this great movement"
President Mckinley could not have
adopted a more striking method OF
showing the world that the govern
ments of France and the United
States were on the most friendly
terms than the publication Of his
proclamation of the going into effect
on June /, of a treaty of commercial
reciprocity between the two cOun
tries. This is the first reciprocity
treaty under the Dingley law, but
others are in course of negotiation
Under this treaty France grants sub
stantial concessions in the duty
upon American meats and meat pro
ducts, and we upon French liquors
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