Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-04
Washington, June 9th, 1898.

nd Congress as whole are much
pleased, as they have every reason to
be, with the news from Cuba. Gen.
Skaters campaign has been success
from the moment his army was land
ed. Every fight with the Spanish has
resulted in victory for his men, and
ca oh day has seen his army nearer
Sa ntiago. He is free to use his own
iudg ment as to whether he will at
once storm the heavy Notifications at
Santiago, defended by an army more
numerous than his own, the men of
which being acclimated do not suffer
fr ON the heat as our men do, or
VIII ether he will await the arrival of
the reinforcements now on the way
to him, and of those to be sent this
week from Tampa. If he decides to
go right ahead, news Of a big battle
may be expected at any moment. The
killing and wounding of Americans in
the bush fighting that has taken place
between Skaters men and the Span
ish, while, of course, deeply regretted
was no more than what was expected
to accompany fighting on land. The
storming of Santiago, whether at once
or later, is certain to result in the cap
ture of the town, but it is expected to
be bloody work.
There is no truth in the report sent
from Washington that Gen. Miles was
going to Cuba to take charge of the
campaign against Santiago. Gen.
Miles expects to go to Santiago in a
few days, but he calculates to find it.
in the possession of Gen. Shafter when
he gets there. His object in going is
not to supercede Gen. Shafter, but to
make Santiago the base from which
the operations against Porto Rico,
which are to follow its capture, may
be conducted, provided that our boys
stand the climate fairly we'll. Santi-
ago is several days nearer Porto Rico
than the nearest port on the Florida
coast. Like the President, Gen.
Miles is perfectly satisfied with Gen.
Skaters work as far as it has gone.
If the report from Madrid saying
that new ministry was at once to be
chosen for the purpose of sueing for
peace was started with the hope or
expectation that it would cause the
slightest cessation in the vigorous
prosecution of the war by this gov
eminent, its originators must have
been entirely ignorant of sentiment
on this side of the Atlantic, and may
as well prepare for disappointment.
Spain can get peace by asking for the
terms of the United States. and ac-
cepting those terms without the
slightest change, and in no other way.
Having taken the trouble and gone to
the expense to get ready to crush
Span, this government will not order
the slightest delay in the crushing in
response to Spanish trickery.
Senator Hoar, chairman of the SEN
ate committee on the Judiciary, says
of the compromise Bankruptcy bill
which is now awaiting President Nc
Kinley's signature TO become a law:
elm getting it through We have been
obliged to leave in it some crudities
and imperfections, which must be
remedied by subsequent legislation.
The bill will enable from 10000 to
200 900 bankrupts to get on their feet
again. 1t will enable manufacturers
and merchants to get on their feet
again. It will enable manufacturers
and merchants to get fair division
of their debtors property, and will 1
prevent great deal of fraud, embez
element, and wasteful dealing with
property.
The Currency Reform bill, recently
from the House Banking and
Currency committee, will not be
pushed at the present session of Con-
gress. In Difference to some of the
members of the committee the bill
has been recalled from the calendar,
which leaves it occupying the same
p position it did before it was reported
to the House. This is just as well, as
it is we'll known that the Senate would
not have acted upon the bill under
any circumstances at this session.
While the country is engaged in car
rying on a war it is hardly the proper
time for Congress to handle subject |
as important as the one this bill deals
with No time will be lost by defer
ing action by the House.
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