Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-08-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
PEACE 1IrIE LIMIT.
Spain Will Negotiate.-The
Campaign in Porto
Rico.
THE TRADE OUTLOOK.
The Medical Corp Defended.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. Sth, 1898.
President Mckinley is SO confident
from the assurances he has received
that the Spanish government will. as
soon as it can with safety to itself,
formally accept our terms OF peace,
that he is devoting considerable time
to deciding upon just the right men to
represent the U. :. upon the commits
sion that will be charged With the i'm
portsnt and delicate duty OF negotiat-
ing the treaty of peace between the U.
8. and Spain. Notwithstanding his
confidence, there Is limit to the time
he is willing to give the Spanish gov
eminent to SO uare itself with the peo-
pie of Spain. The French Ambassador,
who is representing Spain in Washing
ton, has been told that unless the terms
of peace are accepted in given time,
they will be withdrawn, and that if
they are withdrawn, it is intended by
this government to carry the war into
Spain at once, and that no such mag
unanimous terms will be again offered.
GEN. MILES PROGRESS.
The news from General Miles con-
tinues good. More than half OF
Porto Rico is already in his possession
and he is steadily extending his lines,
without fighting.
Gen. Skaters army is being brought
away from Santiago just as fast as the
ships at hand can get them away, in
order TO give the men a chance to re-
cuperate.
President Mckinley gave the two
Cincinnati boys who started the idea
of raising. by contributions from school
children, the money TO buy the finest
battleship in the world, for presenta-
ton to the u 5 and to be named the
American Boy, letter endorsing their
project and saying: Il am sure the
boys and girls will deem it privilege
10 be numbered among the contribu
tors to this patriotic undertaking..
Master w. Rankin Good, of Cincinnati
President of the National American
Boy Fund, and a compassion, had a
very pleasant interview with the Presi~
dent-two interviews, in fact.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
The Department of State has been
officially notified that an international
Congress, for the purpose OF discuss
ing tariff Legislation and the regulation
of labor, will be held at Antwerp, Bel
GUM, from September 18th to II n in
elusive. Public economists, socialists,
manufacturers. merchants, employers
and workmen are invited to take part.
The points from which these questions
are viewed by Americans and Euro
peans, are so wide apart that few
Americans are likely to attend this
Congress, except from curiosity. Amer
leans have d tariff system now that is
bringing them great prosperity, and
countries that are prosperous have lit
tie difficulty in the regulation OF labor.
THE AMERICAN MANUFACTURER.
Not only is the American manufac-
turer holding his own market under
the Dingley tariff law. but he is push
ing his goods into all the markets Of
the world st a rate that must be as
tonishlng to those who claim that a
protective tariff would cause our man
ufacturers to lose all their foreign
trade. 1t was generally known long
before the bureau of statistics could
foot up the figures and announce the
grand total, that our expectation Of
agricultural products during the last
fiscal year, was largely in excess of any
singls year in the history of the coun-
try, and it ia now known that our ex
portation manufactured articles dur
ing the last fiscal year, exceeded that
of any other Year, nearly 1000. 900,
and reached in value the enormous
sum of $2SS, 81 ,449, and, what is still
more gratifying. our imports of manu-
featured articles during the same Pc
riod were unusually light, showing that
our manufacturers have recovered
control of the home market, which
l.. 10. -.
lNg, enacted by the democrats, as well
,as increased their foreign trade.
THE RIGHT KIND OF FACTS.
These are the sort of facts that will
have to be forgotten before the people
of this country vote the democratic
party back into power they are also
the sort of facts that speak for them
selves and need no labored argument
to make them understood.
Surgeon-General Sternberg has writ
ten a general defense of the medical
corps of the army and himself from at
tacks made upon them, many OF which
he says were instigated by those who
became offended at his opposition to
sending female nurses to camps OF in
sstruction or with the army in the
field. He says the only trouble with
the medical corps is that there are
enough surgeons in the army, even in
peace that it is probable that in tax
ing on about 300 contract surgeons
some incompetence may have slipped
in. owing to hurried examinations. Oh
the shortage of medical supplies al
Santiago, he says: The principal rea'
son was that the supplies were left
behind when the army left Tampa. ow-
ing to lack of transportation facilities
and one of the minor reasons was tht
delay in landing supplies of ali kinds
at Siboney.