The silver lance., 1899-08-04

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President Mckinley, accompanied by
Mrs. Mckinley and their neice, Miss
Sarah Deacon, have gone to Lake
Champlain to spend several weeks.
Lieutenant Colonel Plummer, who is
organizing the Thirty-fourth infantry,
telegraphed the War Department that
a number Of men from the Second. Or
egon regiment desired to enlist in the
regiment and return to the Philippines
If they can be granted thirty days fur
lough.a The furlough has been author
lied by the War Department to such
men as desire to enlist.
President Mckinley will give re-
ception to Admiral Dewey at the White
House when the latter arrives in Wash
ington. Later on, the expectation Is
that a dinner also will be given to the
admiral at the White House and this,
following the custom dinner, will be a
festivity of some elaboration. The
Vice President and Mrs. Hobart, men,
bers of the Cabinet and their wives,
and some others will be invited. The
admiral is expected to come to Wash
ington soon after reaching New York.
Secretary Long says that the post
to Washington has not yet been Sc
lected and that no decision will be
made until the admirars wishes have
been consulted. 1t is certain, how
ever, that the admiral will remain at
Washington, probably at the head of
some important board. A board of in
spection and survey has been suggest
ed. Should a board of admirals be
the result of the proposed reorganiza-
tion of the mechanical bureaus of the
department, Dewey will be the head
of that.
Information from the Klondike up to
June Goth has reached the State De-
partment from United States Consul
McCook at Dawson. The consul says
that $1O,OOO,OOO instead of $2O,OOO,000
in gold will cover the gold product for
the last twelve months. and adds that
reports from Alaska indicate that more
gold will be found there than ever will
come out of the KlOndike. Typhoid
has broken out six weeks earlier than
last year, and there are several huA-
dred destitute persons in Dawson with
out means to get out. The gambling
fraternity is reaping n rich harvest.
Secretary Alger's experience since en-
tering the Cabinet has been very bitter.
He has been assailed and criticised
more than any of his colleagues, and
was forced to take the brunt of all the
assaults upon the administration. He
is very sensitive, of fine nerves and
refined temperament, and he has suf-
fered keenly. Mrs. Alger has also felt
the bitter arraignment of her husband,
and is said to be bordering on nervous
prostration. She has been urgent in
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but he was deluded with the idea that
he could fight down the opposition,
and consistently protested that he
would not retire under fire.
The head of st. Johns College,
known as Brother Fabrican, has been
depOsed and ordered to present himself
to the Council of Christian Brothers at
Paris. The order was issued by Broth
er Gabriel Marie, the superior
general of the order because of a con-
trOversy over the teaching of classics
by the brothers In the United States.
Brother Fabrican is the ninth member
of the brotherhood who has been or
dered from the United States on ac-
count of these differences. He is said
to have the friendship of Cardinal Glib
bons and Mgr. Martinelli who, it is
stated. will endeavor to have him re-
turned to Washington on account of
his high standing as teacher.
1t has developed that Governor
Roosevelt wrote letter to Cabinet
officer a short time ago urging the re-
al Otis be relieved of his command In
the Philippines and that General
Brooke should be succeeded as mill
tary governor of Cuba by General
Leonard Wood. The governor was un-
usually severe In his criticisms of the
War Department and insisted that the
administration could not afford to be
held responsible for General Alger nor
to continue the dilly-dally plan in the
Philippines. The letter was shown to
the President by the Cabinet officer in
question. 1t is believed that it had a
great deal to do with the Presidents
decision to request General Alger to
retire. Soon after the contents of the
letter were made known to the Pres
ident. Governor Roosevelt was called
to Washington for consultation with
the President
1nasmuch as the Canadian officials
have laid stress upon the refusal of the
United States to accept fair arbitra-
ton of the pending Alaskan boundary
question, 1t may. be proper to explain
the reason for refusal as pointed out
to-day by a high official. In the first
place. our government. it is contend
ed, is absolutely certain of the sound
ness of its claims in the matter of
the boundary. That would seem to be
a good reason for submitting the mat
ter to arbitration on the ground that
a good cause had nothing to fear from
fair arbitrators; but our government
holds that arbitrators are almost all
subject to the fatal weakness of COM
promising. In our cause a compromise
would amount to the loss of our whole
contention, for If Canada is admitted
to the Lynn canal we would be de-
prived of the only weapon which we
now possess for the protection Of our