Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1898-06-09


will be in sight; that Spain will
then see that the longer she fights
the worse her finish will be, and
will ask some of the European
powers to secure peace upon the
best terms the u. S. will grant,
and will gladly evacuate Cuba
without waiting, to be driven out.
The opponents of the annexa-
ton Of Hawaii won a temporary
victory when it was agreed that
the Lodge amendment to the war
revenue bill should be withdrawn
and that bill passed before any
further attempts are made to Sc
cure annexation legislation from
the senate. Speaker Reed still
blocks the annexation resolution
in the house. Friends of the
president are very positively say
ing that if congress fails to pro-
vide for annexation he intends to
seize and hold Hawaii as mill
tary necessity, but the anti's say
they are making a bluff.
1t is impossible to turn in
Washington without seeing or
hearing something showing how
(awfully expensive war is. Pay
{ En1aster General Stanton has SUBJ
tnitted estimates to Secretary
Alger of the amount that will be
needed to pay the $4,000 volun-
teers under the second call of the
president, for the remainder of
this calendar year, and Secretary
Alger will ask congress to appro-
pirate the money, about SIS, ,OOo,-
600. This item will probably be
added to the general deficiency
bill, which is already the largest
in the history of congress, carry-
ing something like sos, 600, 900.
1t is a good thing that this coun-
try has unlimited financial re-
sources to fall back upon; other
wise the expense of the war
might prove to be a disastrous
encumbrance to carry.
The average Americans idea
about Russia is that it is a very
barbarous and very poor country.
The state department has re-
ceived report from the U. S..
consul at Moscow, which contains
the official figures showing the
cost of the great Siberian railway,
built by the Russian government,
and those figures will probably
cause many American eyes to
open with astonishment. The
total cost of the Siberian railway
will be 81, ,009, 947 Russian rubles,
equivalent to S1SS. S.O14,9 ,93S, of
which S162,995, 600 has been
paid. A country that can con-
ceive and carry through a great
industrial project such as this
railway is certainly more pro-
gressiye than barbarous, and one
that can pay as it goes for such a
work cannot be correctly classed
as a very poor country.
| Notwithstanding the war news
the politicians have DEVOTED CON
siderable time to discussing the
nomination of Hon. Oscar S.
Straus, Of New York, to be u. S.
minister to Turkey in place of
DR.. James B. Angel, who re-
signed to resume his place as
president of the University of
Michigan. The fitness of Mr..
Strauss for the place is conceded
by everybody. What has made
the talk among politicians is that
he held the same position under
/ the Cleveland administration. 1t
looks like an attempt to remove
diplomatic appointments from the
arena of partisan politics, and
has therefore interested, and
alarmed. the politicians.
The International occurrences
of the week have an important,
although indirect, bearing on the
WAR. The president has officially
proclaimed the fact that reci.
procity treaty with France went