Morris tribune., 1898-02-09
Washington Letter
[Fron our Regular Correspondent.I

lE1OlAl OGl INCSdldI 1O11CSpOndChA'l
WAsHiNGToN, Feb. "a.
Senator Davis is now absolutely
certain that the Hawaiian annexation
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 no
tice of their intentions to make
speeches on the subject do SO. A mo-
ton to postpone further consideration
of the treaty until March | was de-
feated by the senate this week, thus
disposing of the stories of combina-
ton of senators for the purpose of
holding up the treaty in order to
compel President Mckinley to adopt
their ideas of what should be done
with the Cuban question, instead of
following his present policy. In this
connection it may be just as well to
say that the Cuban policy of Presi-
dent Mckinley is not in any sense
personal. It was only adopted after
the most careful consideration and
conferences with leading Republicans
and it has the support of every Re-
publican in Congress and the hearty
personal Endorsement of nine-tenths
of them, and is, therefore, not likely
to be changed by bulldozing or, in
fact, by anything short of changed
conditions in Cuba.
A considerable portion or the time
of Attorney General Griggs who this
week took charge of the department
of justice, has been taken up in re-
eeiving callers, some of them being
old friends but the most of them en-
inent Republicans who wished to
make his acquaintance. A five min
ute chat is sufficient to convince those
who meet him that the new attorney
general is a man of brains and Of
well balanced judgment in short,
just the sort of man who should be
chosen for the legal adviser of the
president.
The joint reception by President
and Mrs. Mckinley and President
and Mrs. Dole, Wednesday nightly
one of the most brilliant receptions
ever held in the White House. About
two thousand of the most prominent
men and women in Washington at
tended.
It doesn't take long for the public
TO catch on. When the administra-
ton ordered the battleship Maine to
Havana, there was period of public
excitement, augmented by sensa
tional publications; but this week
when the cruiser Montgomery was
to call at several of the small
er Cuban ports in the course of a
cruise around the West Indies, there
was not ripple of excitement, the
public having made upits mind since
the Maine has been peaceably lying
in Havana harbor that there is no
more significance in ordering a United
States vessel to call at Cuban ports
than in ordering one to call at any
other foreign port.
President Mckinley and the Re
publicans in congress are very much
pleased at the crushing defeat Of the
Teller resolution by the votes of the
of the House, and they
will be even better pleased to have
that resolution made the issue Of the
congressional camra ign.
Many who are in favor of open ex-
ecutive sessions of the Senate were
pleased that the Senate by an over
majority compelled Senator
Pettigrew to make his BLACKBOARD att
tack upon Mr.. Dole, the president of |
Hawaii, who is the guest of the ma
ton, in d secret session. Such action
lid not Of course, prevent Mr.. Petit
crews ill-mannered speech from be-