Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

IL IS now proposed to send Sampson TO
Europe in command of Il fleet instead Of
Watson. The idea originated with Secre-
tary Long, who thinks that the glory of
the navy and the estimate in which it is
now held by foreigners may be still fur
ther enhanced and emphasized il the COM
mander of the Cuban feet should make a
cruise around the harbors of Europe with
a few of the ships and men whose names
were unknown to fame'a few months ago
but are now familiar to the military au-
thOritics of every nation. Secretary Long
wants to send the Oregon as II simple Of
IL battleships and the Minneapolis as a
type of our cruisers. because both of them
were not only constructed but designed in
the United States. and they are undoubt-
edly superior in every respect to anything
of their tonnage atlout.
Secretary Wilson of the Department Of
Agriculture expects great things from tho
Paris exhibition. Congress appropriated
10000 for an agricultural exhibit Mt the
exposition. Secretary Wilson has had
his departmental force at work on the OK.
hibit for the last six months. and it will
labor for eighteen months longer. Ii an
independent force OF men had to be hired
to do the work which Secretary Wilson
has mapped out an additional appfopria.
ton of $2OO.OW would be required. As
1t is. the $4,000 will he enough. Secrc-
tary Wilson has the theory that the for.
eign demand for American products could
De enormously increased If we went about
the building up Of the European markets
with trained intelligence instead of going
at 1t haphazard.
1t appears that Lieut.. Blandin of the
navy, who died of cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts at II hospital in Baltimore the other
day, has had n suicidal mania ever since
the destruction of the Maine. He was
officer of the deck at the time Of the ex-
plOsiOn and was hit in the head and
Knocked senseless by some missile hurled
through the air. He recovered conscious
ness after IL few moments and was able
to leave the vessel with the other officers.
His skull was not fractured and there
were no symptoms of conclusion of the
brain, hut he had ever since complained
of violent headaches and had been a vic
tim of melancholia, which the surgeons
attributed to the nervous shock caused by
the disaster and the wound.
1t is an open secret that Secretaries
Alger, Day and Bliss will resign from
the cabinet as soon as the war is over and
the country is enjoying n state of peace
again. The three refuse to discuss the
report, even in the slightest degree. 1t is
known that there have been some heated
discussions among the cabinet members
concerning the policy of the Government
as 1t relates to Spain, and the supposition
is that these discussions have led to q rup-
ture among the members.
Some of the cases which have been
brought to the naval hospital at Norfolk
are desperate, particularly those Of the
Spaniards of Ccrvera's feet, some of
whom are literally torn to pieces. The
wounded prisoners receive the same atten-
ton and treatment that is given our own
men, and they were given the most COM
Portable places on the ship.
From New York word comes that the
railroads are getting ready t. bear down
on Congress next winter in greater force
than ever and make a supreme effort to
secure certain legislation amending the
interstate commerce law. Whether they
will attempt to force through a pooling
bill is somewhat doubtful, but they will
endeavOr to obtain advantageous legisla-
ton as close to pooling rs they can get.