The age-herald., 1898-08-16
EX-Senator EuStiS is Likely to Be One
 of Them.
WORK OF CLEARING UP THE WAR
Will Be More Arduous Than the Con- fict Itself and There Will Be Lively Times When Congress
 is Again in Session.
Special Dispatch to the Age-Herald BY ARCHIBALD W, BUTT.


 Washington, Aug. 15.-There will hardly be a cal for an extra session of congress. Peace negotiations will last to very nearly the time when congress should convene anyhow. As soon as the armistice goes into effect all hostilities will come to an end and the peace commissioners will be ap- pointed There have been many guesses as to who will get the important billet, but up to the present time the president has given no int'mation as to whom he intends to ap point. Ex-Senator Eustis has been men, tioned favorably being democrat and southerner as we'll His Americanism can not be doubted, and he speaks French with the same fiuency as he does English. His valuable to him on this commission cs- pecially if the commission meets in Paris, which seems most likely at this time.
 An Important Session
 The next session of congress i'll be an important one, but not more so than the the first session of the Fifty-fifth congress. The Fifty-sixth congress will be called to- gether as soon after the Fifty-fifth goes out of existence as possible. It will be im- possible for the short session which meets in December to accomplish all the work between then and March 4, which will do- volve upon 1t from the war.
 The work in clearing up the war will be more arduous than the war itself, and will require the coutry to exercise It's patience and loyalty to the same degree it has shown during the campaign. In the first place the appropriations bills alone will consume the whole three months in debate. They will be unusually heavy and therefore open to attack. There will be plenty of men to attack them, too. The minority will try to make capital out of the extraordinary expenditures pursuant upon the war, and these will be followed up with investigations for the war fund itself. The enemies of the administration and the personal enemies of the various members will keep the fires burning about the contracts, which have been awarded during the past five months.
 Treaty of Peace
 But apart from this routine work there is the treaty of peace to be ratified by the senate, the preparation of system of laws for Hawaii and for Porto Rico.
 The Cuban and the Philippine problems will cause much worry and long and acrimonious debates. The Philippine problem will depend upon some action of congress undoubtedly. as the president will want the sentiment of the country to be made known before final action Is taken on this important matter.
 The question of provisional government for Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. or a small part of the latter, is already exercising the minds of the administration and public men in general. The president under the constitution has no right to go beyond a preliminary government for the islands we may acquire. The problems which force themselves upon the govern ment regarding the government of Hawaii. Poro Rico and the Philippines are varied and complex, owing to the conditions which prevail in each. It is believed that the president favors a colonial form of government for Porto Rico and the Philip pines or that part of them which shall be held by the United States. For the pres ent he will appoint a military governor for Porto Rico, which will hold until con- gress shall pass upon the fate of the island.
 Under Military Rule
 It is undoubtedly the intention of the administration to place Cuba under miii- tary form of government until complete order has been restored, when the people of the island will be called upon to vote for the form of government they desire. It will be made plain to General Gomez and the Cuban representatives that this government must remain in control of the reins of government there until the entire island Is at peace and order re- tored. It is not anticipated that there will be any opposition to this from the Cubans. The whole island will be garri- soned with our troops and the military governor will have his headquarters in Havana. There has been much talk about naming some one else than General Lee for the military governor. One cabinet officer whose name is not given is quoted as saying that he did not know who would be appointed but that he did know that 1t would not be General Lee. The popular demand will ha for Lee. He knows the