The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-04-07

BEEN stamped TO death. Mime
sofa has really been given grand
SUN ort to the cause in the short
time ller citizens have been under
organization 5s
Washington Letter.
r (From Orr Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, March 3lst 1859. |
President Mckinley has not /
lacked for work since his return
to Washington, but the state
mcnts sent out saying that he
was engaged in formulating or
ders to send to Gen. Otis and that
he had about determined to issue
call for the $4,000 volunteers
authorized by the army act of tho
last Congress were guessess wide
of the mark. He had sent no Or
ders to Gen: Otis and has ha6 no
reason to do so. Gen. Otis is
fighting his campaign successful
ly, as his successive victories
show, and there is no intention to
hamper him with orders from
Washington. AS TO calling for
the volunteers. that has not been
seriously thought of. Repro SEN
tative Hull, chairman of the Mil
itary committee of the last House,
who enjoys the Presidents conf
dence, and who is good authority
said; "What would be the of
calling for more volunteers? We
could not send them to the Phil
ippines in time for service there,
as all the advices indicate tn the
U. s. forces are strong enou4., to
crush the instruction"
Two representatives of the ,!u-
ban Assembly are in Washington
seeking official recognition and
the consent of this government
to an issue of Cuban bonds, but
they will get neither.
The Military Court of Inquiry
has been taking testimony in
! Washington al this week.
L.u.. ,.-, r'l.o st&,tt:>- S:.,.3 80 iu>..,c .;
mista ke when he first testified
that the contracts required beef t.
keep 72 hours after leaving the re-
frlgerators, and that twenty-fou1
hours was the time he had agreed
to.
} Mr.. W. R. Gay, U. s. District
Attorney, who is at present in
Washington on busine SO, gives
this pleasing picture of the State
of Washington: with the &C.
QUESTION of Hawaii, the growth
of our Oriental trade, the prob.
able retention of the Philippines
the heavy Alaskan business Incl.
dent to the Klondike boom, arc
the big''wheat crops that have late.
ly blessed US, the state of Wash.
! ington is not only enjoying great
prosperity, but liz sanguine of 9
bright future. The Mckinley ad.
| ministration is very popular in on,
} state, and the foreign policy Of
the President is cordially endor-
sed. Washington, I think has
got back into the republican COL
umn to stay. Free silver with us
is tho deadest sort of an issue and
it would be impossible to interest
the people in it again.
! While Americans lead the
world in inventive genius they do
not monopolize the inventive fac
ulty. U. s. Consul Higgins. at
| Dundee, Scotland, has written the
Department of the State that on
a farm near that town a machine
for milking COWS has been sue
cessfully used for two years.
| The following is taken from an
official report of the U. s. Consul
General to Ecuador: ''The change
by the world to a gold basis has
finally driven Ecuador to adopt
the same course, and Congress
has just enacted q law of coinage
which within twolyears will place
t. Q monetary system on a gold
basis. Ecuador is the fourth
country of Latin America to
adopt this measure, Venezuela,
Costa Rico, and Peru having al
ready taken the step. Brazil,
Uruguay and Chile, while nomin-
ally on a gold basis, are really
subject to the disadvantage of pa
per money, because their internal
financial condition precludes Fan
easy conversion of the currency
The public debt of tho United
States is an interesting study,
presenting some valuable object
lessons in politics and govern
ment administration. The total
public debt, less cash ON hand.
was on March 1, tho largest date
for which official figures are or
tainable, 81, 157, 1904, 302. OF tb 9
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