Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30
TRUTH COMING OUT.
GENERAL MILES AN UNWILLING
WITNESS.

WITNESS.
But fic T,s flow 1t Night Have Been HAD
His Advice Been Followed The Trusts Di,
rcctIy Represented in the Cabinet - A Party
Vote Shapes the Standing Army Issue
Strong Language by Representative Williams
Government Proposes to Add Confcder
atcs to Pension List-Etc.
WASHINGTON, Dee. -, 1898.
Gingcrly as the War Investigating
Commission handled Gen. Miles, who
shocked them at the beginning of his
testimony by declining to be sworn, he
managed To say that much suffering
in the Santiago campaign was the re-
result OF Gen. Skaters failure to obey
orders; that the COmmissarv General
WAS inefficient, and to twit the Com
mission for not having "got onto the
cmbalmed" beef sent TO the men in
Porto Rico, against his protest, in or
der that contractors favored by the
War Department might pocket big
profits. lie also 10y his answers to
several questionable was not allowed
to make a general statement-made it
plain that the ignoring of his recon-
mendations by the War Department
had resulted in much unnecessary
suffering.
The trusts are to be directly repre-
scented in the Cabinet. Mr.. f. 4.
Hitchcock, OF Missouri now Amba-sa-
dor to Russia, who was nominated to
succeed Mr.. Bliss as Secretary of the
Interior, and confirmed by the Senate
a few minutes before adjournment for
the Christmas recess, is the head of
the plate-glass trust and a mulli-mil-
lionaire.
The administration has decided that
10000 more volunteers may safely be
mustered out, and it will be done as
fast as possible.
The Hull bill, which ought really to
be known as the Alger-Corbin bill, for
recognizing and increasing the regu-
lar army, has been reported favorably
to the House by a strict party vote in
the Military Committee. The five
Democratic members OF the committee
are opposed to the bill and will pre-
pare and submit bill OF their own,
which will he offered as a substitute.
The House committee on Appro-
prii.tions loses two of its members to
furnish governors for Texas and for
Pennsylvania. Before Congress adj
journed for the Christmas recess the
committee unanimously adopted res
olutlons setting forth the esteem of
the committee for Hon. Joseph ID.
Sayers, GOvernor-elect of Texas, and
Hon. VIM. a. Stone, GoveInor-elect of
Pennsylvania. The Savers resolution
was one OF the strongest ever adopted
under similar circumstances. He has
been member of the committee for
twelve years, during two of which he
was its Chairman, and has left a rec
cord that any man would be justified
in being proud Of.
Under the latitude allowed in de.
bate when the House is in committee
OF the whole, Representative Williams,
OF Mississippi, made Il strong speech
against the annexation of the Philip
pines, which he declared would he
mistake, whether viewed from a social.
a political, or material standpoint.
Frequentapplause from his Democratic
colleagues showed which way their
sympathies were. After stating that
the islands should not be returned To
Spain, Mr.. Williams said: a should
leave the islands where they were the
day after Dewey's glorious victory at
| Manila. should haul down the
American flag. am for the flag for
what it means, not for itself. 1t is
nothing but piece of bunting; and
| when some one announces that it
must not come down, | care not how
| high his station, he SAYS something
unworthy of himself and his country.
The flag should come down if it is
right that it should do so, and the
American people must pull it down.
We would not let any other country |
do it,"
Senator Butler, of North Carolina.
has given notice of his intention to
offer an amendment to the Pension an |
preparation bill that will give Conred.
crate soldiers and sailors precisely the
same status under the pension laws rs
those of the United States. Mr.. Nc
kinley's original proposal was to as.
sist in the care of the Confederate
dead; then Representative Rixey, of
Virginia. introduced his bill to open
all government Soldiers Homes to
needy and crippled Confederates, but
Senator Buffers proposition is the
most astonishing of all.
Gen. Henderson, chairman of the
Home Judiciary committee, to which
Representative Bailey's resolution for
an investigation and report as to
whether any member of the House
had forfeited his seat by accepting
office under the government, asked the
House to order the resolution referred
TO the committee on Rules, and it was
done. The members of the Committee
on Rules are Speaker Reed, Henderson.
OF Iowa, and Dalzell, of PENNSYLVANIA.
Republicans, and Bailey, of Texas, and
Mcmillan, OF Tennessee, Democrats.
Ex-senator "Joe" Blackburn, who
was in Washington when Congress ad-
journed for the holiday recess, said of
a gentleman who is conspiciously be-
fore the country, just now, by reason
OF his opposition to the expansion pol
icy Of his party: al have known SEN
ator Hoar for over % years, and in
all that time have never been quite
able to fix his status in my mind; to
decide whether he was an able and
disinterested patriot or the meanest
type of bigoted. narrow, hypocritical
Puritan that God ever let live. |
know that he is either the one or the
other; he does not occupy any middle