The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-02-10
Washing ton Letter .
(From Onr Regular Correspondent.)

Washing 0ll Letter.
tFrom Onr Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4, 1898.
Senator DayisFis now: absolutely
certain that the Hawaiian annexa-
treaty will be ratified when the
vote is taken, although the vote is
not likely to be taken for several
weeks, if all the Senators who have
given notice Of their intentions to
make speeches on the subject do
90. A motion to postpone further
consideration Of the treaty until
March l was defeated by the SEN
ate this week, thus dispensing of
the stories Of q. combination of
senator's for tho purpose of hold
ing up the treaty in order to COM
pei President Mex inley to adopt
their ideas of what should be done
with the Cuban question, instead
of following his present policy. In
this connection it may he just as
we'll to say that the Cuban policy
Of President Mckinley is not in
any sense personal. 1t was only
adopted after the, most careful con-
sideratien ond many conferences
with leading republicans. and it
has the support of every republic
can in Congress and the hearty
personal endorsement, o. nine
tenths of them, and is, therefore,
not likely t. be- changed by bull
doing or, in fact by anything
short OF changed conditions in Gu
ba.
A considerable portion of the
time of Attorney General Griggs,
who this week took charge IF the
department. of justice, has been
taken up in receiving callers, some
of them being old friends but the
most. of them eminent republicans
who wished to make his acquaint-
ed. A five minute chat is sufficient
to convince those who meet him
that the new attorney general is
man of brains and of well-balanced
judgment-in short, just the sort
of man who shonld be chosen for
the legal adviser of the president.
The joint reception by President
and Mrs. Mckinley and President
and Mrs. Dole, Wednesday night,
was one of the most brilliant re-
captions ever held in the White
House. About two thousand of
the most prominent men and wo-
man in Washington attended.
It doesn't take long for the pub
lie to catch on. When the admin
istration: ordered the battieship
Maine to Havana, there was per-
iod of public excitement, augment
ed by sensational publications; but>
this week, when the cruiser Mont
gomery was ordered to call at sew
eral of the smaller Cuban ports in
the coure of cruise around the
West Indies, there was not a rip
pie of excitement, the public hay-
ing made up it's mind since the
Maine has been peaceably lying
in Havana sharbor that there is no
more significance in: ordering ..
s. vessel to call at Cuban ports
than in ordering one to call at any
other foreign ports.
President Mckinley and the re-
publicans in congress are much
pleased at the crushing defeat Of
the Teller resolution by the votes
of the republicans of the house,
and they will be even better plea
sed to have that resolution made
the issue of the congressional cam
paign. The republican party stands
now, as it has always stood, for the
payment of all obligations in 100
cont dollars, and it doesn't believe
the time will ever come when a
majority of the voters of the coun-
try will favor scaling the nations
obligations Sc, or any other per
cent. Secretary Long aptly said
of the Teller resolution: "By this
promise of a Accent dollar and of
the practical discredit of the finan-
cial obligations of tho U. S. they
(the silver men) commit them
selves to a policy which will re-
duce the value Of every laboring
mans wages, of every veterans
pension and Of every penny saved
and laid up in our saving banks.
We shall 60 to the country next
fall in the congressional elections
upon = square issue between
sound currency and deprecated
one; between maintaining and i'm
pairing the credit Of the U. S.; be-
tween giving the industrial people
of the country dollar worth q
hundred cents for their labor and
product and giving them a dollar
worth forty cents"
Many who are in favor of open
executive sessions of the senate
were pleased that the senate by an
overwhelming majority compelled
Senator Pettigrew to make his
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