The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-05-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D. O., April 20, 1898.
The House after three days debate
passed the war revenue bill, which will
add about 500, O,OOJ, 900 year to the gov.
ernment revenues by internal revenue
taxation, including increase in the taxes
On beer and manufactured tobacco and
system of stamps similar to that used
during the civil war, and provides for
the Issuing Of $5OO,OOO,OOO in bonds
also Treasury certificates of indebted
ness for temporary exigencies. It re-
mains to be ascertained whether Senators
Jones, OF Ark; Teller, and the Populists
can succeed in their threat of crippling
the lighting power of the government
by striking out of the bill in the Senate
the authority to issue bonds, or rather
whether they will dare to arouse the in.
dignation of the country by seriously
making the attempt. From utterances
OF members of the Senate Finance com
miittee, which is dominated by radical
silver man, 1t is thought to be almost
certain that the committee will strike
the bond clause out of the bill before re
porting to the Senate, but it is equally
certain that q majority of the Senate,
composed of all the Republicans and
few Democrats, will vote to put it back.
President Mckinley is directing the
conduct Of the war upon better advice
and knowledge than that of editors of
irresponsible yellow journals and loud
mouthed corner loafers. He knows
what he is doing and that it will be full
~ approved by the country when results
shall make his country apparent. The
war news 80 far has been satisfactory /;
the blockade of Cuba is successful, and
the capturing of a number of prizes
pleasing. In good time we shall hoist
Old Glory in Cuba, and our warships
shall meet those of Spain.
Capt. Leonard Wood, U. 8. A., cap.
tured the honor of being the first person
authorized by the War Department to
raise one of the regiments at large pro.
vided for in the act authorizing the for
nation of volunteer army, and he will
be its Colonel and Hon. Theodore Roose
velt has resigned the position of Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy to be its Lieu
tenant Colonel. Capt. Wood left Wash
ington this week for the west for The
purpose of enlisting men he wants
Poenix, Arizona; Boise City, Idaho
Carson City, Nevada; Santa Fe. N. M.
Guthrie, Oklahoma; Salt Lake City
Utah, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, will bt
visited.
President Mckinley has personally &C
cepted the offer of John Jacob Astor
the New York multi. millionaire, to raise
equip and maintain throughout the wa
at his own expense q regiment of artil
lery, and to personally lead it. Tn,
equipment of this regiment, includin,
its batteries, will be the very best tina
money can buy. Previous to this M,
Astor had given his fine steam yacht II
the government to be used as torped,
boat.
Uunder the army reorganization bill
which this week became law, the reg
ular army will be increased to 5000
men. The additional men will be re
cruited at once.
The House this week seated the thir,
Republican contestant from Virginia-
DR.. Richard A. Wise, nephew of Hen
ry A. Wise, Virginia's fighting governor
DR.. Wise is from the second district an,
the man he ousted is Mr.. w. A. Young
As in other contests, tho Virginia elee
ton laws were shown to be fraudulen
all the way through.
The bill declaring q state of war t
have existed between the q. s. an
Spain since and including April 2ls,
wassigned with the same pen by Speake
Reed. Vice Prespent Hobart, and Pres
ident Mckinley, and the pen is now il
the possession of Representative Wi
liam Alden Smith, of Michigan, VII
could not be persuaded, bribed, or bull
dozed into allowing its ownership t
pass to another.
Secretary Charles Dick, of the Reput
lican National Committee, has close
the Washington headquarters of tbs
committee and gone to join his regimen
l-he is Lieutenant Colonel of the Eight
Ohio-which has volunteered in bod
for the war. The headquarters will nc
be opened again for some time, as tn
National Committee will take no part i
the Congressional campaign.
Visitors to the government depar
ments other than the State, War, an
Navy, see not the slightest signs of wa
Business is moving along with it's usu.
clock.like regularity in the Treasur!