The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-09
But the President Is Still Hoping
to Make Montana q Visit.
ALGER is SURE TO STICK
Minor Matters in Regard to Affairs in
the Philippine War-Montana Top
les That Get Attention at the
National Capital.
Washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 G Street N. w.

trip of President Mckinley and several
OF his cabinet associates is still in abey
ance. The president has thus far been
unable to fix a date withsany definite
ness. although still very DESTROYS of
making the trip which he has now
promised himself for three years. He
said this week that it would be impos-
sible for him to undertake to visit the
West before the middle Of next month.
1t is believed now that whilev the
president will probably carry his out
standing promise into effect, that he
will not go before the first of Septem-
Der. Senator Warren of Wyoming,
who has left for home. and Senator
Carter. who is still here, have both
been urging him to make the trip with
out fail. 1t had not been the original
intention of the president to extend his
Montana trip farther than the Yellow
stone park, but Senator Carter has
urged him to visit the capital, Butte,
Great Falls and MissouIa while in the
West, and secured from the chief exec
utive conditional promise that he
would include these cities in his timer
airy.
The president has expressed a strong
desire to meet the returning regiments
from the Philippines, and efforts will
be made to have these organiza tons
assembled in the several states through
which he will pass. 1t is now certain
that they will all have returned by the
time the trip is undertaken if the start
is procrastinated until the first of Sep
TENDER.
The secretary of war is fixture in
the cabinet until the close of the adj
ministration, Notwithstanding the al
lance between himself and the spectac-
,1ct II
Pingree. This is very singular COM
bination, and seems to rest on nothing
better than joint desire to defeat the
retiring senator from that state. In
rapid succession came the information,
first that Pingree had declared for AL
ger; second, that Alger willingly ac-
cepted his support, regarding 1t as in
dicative of success; third, that Pingree
had repudiated the administration, and
fourth, that Alger had Tepudiated all
that Pingree had said The alliance,
however, continues in effect notwith-
standing the various recantations that
have been made tor the manifest pur-
pose of preventing the secretary re-
naming in the cabinet regardless of Pin
gree's known antagonism to the presi-
dent. During the past fortnight there
have been many reports to the effect
that the secretary was to retire, and
at one time they became SO definite
that the name - General Harrison
Gray Otis of California, late brigadier
In the Philippines, has been freely
mentioned for the place. General Otis,
however, is now in the city and has
distinctly disclaimed any such ambi-
ton. and since the issuance of Pin
gree's letter absolving Alger for his
(Pingrees) position on the administra-
ton and Philippine expansion, there is
no doubt that the secretary will serve
out his term.
Since the determination of the presi-
dent and cabinet to recruit a sufficient
force to bring General f. s. Otis army
in the Philippines up to a constantly
effective force of 10000 men, the scenes
at the war department and white house
have strongly reminded visitors of
those during the preliminary days of
the Spanish war. There are dozens of
applications for every commission that
can be issued in connection with the
Increased army. 1t is said to be the
purpose of the president to recognize as
far as possible in these commissions,
volunteer officers who served creditably
in Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines.
A large number of such officers have
been in the city recently awaiting the
acceptance of the tender of their serv-
ices. There will be several hundred of
these commissions, but there will be
far from enough to go around.
The impression grows that very
much larger force than is proposed
even with the new recruits. will be
necessary to suppress the Philippine
Islanders. Many forebodings are ex-
pressed by experienced army men that
even with a very large force the Phil
ippine war Is certain to be prolonged
far beyond present estimates OF dura-
ton. It is pointed OFT that nctwith-
standing all the gallantry of the Amer
co1l in D,s1t o,,1
the many sacrifices of life. the area ac-
tually held in the islands is not greater
than that surrendered by the Spaniards
nearly a year ago. AS 1t is sometimes
put, I'VE do not control an inch of the
mainland that is not within reach of
Watson's guns from Manila bay, or
within the range of the tin-clad fleet
on Laguna de Bay"
Many tenders of officers and men for
the additional Philippine army have
been received from various parts of the
country. including several from the
mountain states. The most notable of
these is the suggestion that a regiment
be raised by Colonel Brodie, who sue
ceeded Governor Roosevelt in command
of the list U. S. volunteer cavalry
which will contain quite sprinkling
of the men of the noted rough rider or
ganization. Present indications are,
however, that no authority will be
granted for raising such a regiment,
as this method of recruiting the Phil
ippine forces has been adversely de-
cided by the authorities.
1t is not at all probable that the
Western woolgrowers, whose Iepresen-
tatives are now here, will be able to se-
cure a revocation of the interior de-
partment order forbidding sheep pas
turing on the forest reserve of the
Uintah Indian reservation. Their pro-
test, which is being printed here by
ex-senator Arthur Brown and Pre- ST.
dent Jesse Smith of the Utah Wool
growers association, is of Importance
in all the Rocky mountain states. The
question involved is the extent to
which the Forest Reserve Protective
association in the East can be allowed
to influence or control the closing of
forest reservations to pasturage. The
present delegation is quite vigorous in
its presentation, but at this writing it
seems improbable that it will be able
to secure any change in the ruling. 1t
is claimed that more than half a million
sheep are deprived of legitimate pas
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