Middletown transcript., 1899-04-08
WASHINGTON LEFEER,
From our Special Correspondent.

From our Special Correspondent.
President Mckinley is much please
with the successful manner in whicl
Gen. Otis has prosecuted his Phil
ippine campaign. The organized rebel
lion is considered practically at an end
Aguinaldo is fugitive, his capital
in our possession and his army is re
duced to bands of scattered bush
wackers, with little probability o
being able to get together in suficien
numbers TO put up another battlt
against our troops. When the cir
cunstances under which this campaign
was VIGOROUSLY fought, are considered
it reflects as much glory upon thu
officers apd men who participated
therein as any in which Americans
have been engaged.
Fighting in Samoa, which was at
first thought to seriously endanger the
U. S. turns out to have been blessing
in disguise. At no time since the joint
treaty for the government of the Sam
oan Islands was entered into, by Great
Britain, Germany, and the U. s., have
affairs been entirely satisfactory
to anybody concerned. The fighting
has brought things to focus, and the
three governments have agreed to ap-
point Joint High Commission with
authority to settle once for all the per-
manent control of the islands.
There is solemn reminder of the
Cuban campaign in the 150 caskets,
Eermetically sealed, now lying in tents
temporarily erected in beautiful Arling-
ton cemetery. These caskets contain
the bodies of American soldiers who
lost their lives IN Cuba, and more are
expected by tomorrow afternoon. La
ter in the week, Military funeral will
be held in honor of the brave dead, in
which President Mckinley and all of
the troops nearby will participate, and,
in order to give all government en-
ployes an opportunity to join in this
last tribute of honor and respect to
those who gave their lives for Old
Glory, all of the departments and pub,
lie offices will be closed at noon on the
day of the funeral. There are about
three hundred bodies in all, to be in
TERED in Arlington, where 50 many of
their brave comrades rest.
1t has been decided by the War De-
partment that the volunteers now in>I
the Philippines shall not be mustered |
out as long as they are needed. This |
refers to organizations; Gen. Otis has
discretion as to the mastering out of |
individuals who have good reasons to /
return home, and special orders have
been cabled him to send all sick and
men home: also to mark the
baskets as we'll as the graves Of all
lead soldiers, SO that there will be no
;rouble about recognition when it
becomes feasible to Bring the remains
lome. The decision to keep the vol.
lnteers in service in the Philippines
1T ough in accordance with the pro-
'ision in the Army act of last Cong
ess, would probably not have been
made, if the men had not, through Gen.
)tis, asked to be allowed to remain in
ervice as long as there was fighting to
10. This decision makes it certain
hat the thirty-fve thousand volun,
eers, authorized by the Army Act will
ot be enlisted, unless something unex-
ected at this time shall make their
ervices necessary.
Not another cent, and no consent to
he issuing of single bond, was the
hort and conclusive answer given by
ecretary Hay to the two Cubans sent
0 Washington by the Cuban Assem-
ly with resolutions asking that this {
overnment either increase the SO, ,0OO,-
90 it has sent to Cuba to be advanced 8
D the Cuban soldiers as fast as they
i've up their arms, or give it's consent i
, an issue Of bonds by the Assembly, |
raise more money. President Nc. I
-inley Endorsed the answer and said I
nat it must be accepted as the end of i
le matter. These Cubans are not to O
lame for going to Washington oD such
FOOLS errand; they had been led to be-
eve that the American Syndicate,
hich had offered to take all the bonds
at about half their face value,-that
resident Mckinley would consent to
,ing issued by the Assembly, had
pulp to get that consent. They will =
turn home with the knowledge Of
ide difference between the purchas. o
Die Spanish officials. Cubans had been =
'customed to dealing with, and Amer e .
an officials. Things will not begin to
owe smoothly in any of the late Span u
possessions, until the same know
dge has been acquired by the natives. "
iI
Mr.. E. G. McIntire, of Helena, W
ont, who is visiting Washington, g
id ofpolitics in this state;" Although hi
@ Democratic candidate for Congress g
as successful in Montana last year, b
at does not signify that the state is
As soon as the free
yer craze is dead, Montana will take NJ
place in the list Of sure Republican =
stes. The sentiment in favor of sill, -
r, which was so overwhelmingly
anifested in the elections of '96, is not ~
arly SO strong among our people now.
ley are prosperous and contented,
d are beginning to realize that the T.,
10 coinage of the white metal is not NJ