The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. G., February 4, 1898

tain 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 Sena-
tors who have given notice of their in.
tention to make speeches on the subject
do 30. A motion to postpone further
consideration OF the treaty until March
/, was defeated by the Senate this week,
thus disposing of the stories OF combi
nation of Senators for the purpose Of
of holding up the treaty in orderto com.
pei President Mckinley, to adopt their
ideas of what should be dSne with the
Cuban question, instead of following mis-
present policy. In this connection it
may be just as well to say that the Gu
ban policy of President Mckinley is not
in any sense personal. 1t was only
adopted after the most careful consider.
alton and many conferences with lead.
ing Republicans, and it has the support
of every Republican in Congress and the
hearty personal endorsement OF nine
tenths Of them, and is, therefore, not
very likely to be changed by bull.
doing or, in fact, by anything short of
changed conditions in Cuba,
A considerable portion of the time of
Attorney General Griggs, who this week
took charge of the Department of JUS
tice, has been taken up in receiving
callers, and some of them being old
friends but the most of them eminent
Republicans who wished to make his
acquaintance 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
judgement, in short, just the sort OF man
who should be chosen for the legal ad
wiser of the President.
The joint reception by President and
Mrs Mckinley and President and Mrs
Dole, Wednesday night, was one of the
most brilliant receptions ever held in
the White House. About two thousand
of the most prominent men and women
in Washington attended.
1t doesn't take long for the public to
catch on. When the administration
ordered the battle ship Maine to Ha.
vana, there was period of public ex
element, augmented by the sensational
publications; but this week, when the
Cruiser Montgomery was ordered to call
at several smaller Cuban ports in the
course of a cruise around the West
Indies, there was not ripple OF excite
ment, the public having made up its
mind since the Maine has been peace
ably in Havana harbor that there is no
more significance in ordering q. s. yes
sci to call at Cuban ports than in order
ing one to call at any other foreign port.
President Mckinley and the Republi
cans in Congress are much pleased at
the crushing defeat of the Teller reso
luton by the votes of the Republicans
of the House, and they will even be bet
ter pleased to have that resolution made
the issue ofthe Congressional campaign |
The Republican party stands now, as it |
has alywas stood, for the payment of all |
obligations in 100 cent dollars, and it |
doesn't believe the time will. ever come
when majority of the voters of the |
country will favor scaling the nations |
obligations 56, or any other per cent. |
Secretary Long aptly said of the Teller
resolution: "By this promise of a A cent
dollar and of the practical dscredit of
the financial obligations OF the U. S.
they (the free silver mem commit them
selve to policy which will reduce the
value of every laboring mans wages of
every veterans pension and every pen.
ny saved andlai up in our saving banks.
We shall 60 to the country next fall in
the Congressional electionsupon square
issue between sound currency and |
a deprecated one; between maintaining
and impairing the credit of the U. S.,
between giving the industrial people OF
the country dollar worth a hundred
cents for their labor and product and
giving them dollar worth forty cents"
Many who are in favor of open execu-
1--WE sessions OF the Senate were pleased
that the Senate by an overwhelming
majority compelled Senator Pettigrew
to make his blarkguard attack upon Mr..
Dole, the President of Hawaii, who is
the guest Of the nation, in secret session.
Such action did not, of course, prevent
Mr.. Petigrew's ill hammered speech from
becomming public, but it at least let the
world know that such talk was not en-
dorsed by the U. S Senate. Insulting
ones guest is something that very few
Americans would be guilty of, except
under great personal provocation, and in
this case there was absolutely no provo
cation.
The yellow journalist who this week