Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-04-10
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SPECIAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF THE MoNIToR. j
Washington, april, ;3rd., 1899.


SPECIAL coRREsPosDRNoE THE MONITOR.
Washington, april, 3rd., 1899.
President Mckinley is much pleased
with the successful manner in which
Gen. Otis has prosecuted his Philip
pine campaign. The organized rebel
lion is considered practically at an
end; Aguinaldo is fugitive, his CAPT
tai is in our possession and his army
is reduced to bands of scattered bush
whackers, with little probability of
being able to get together in sufficient
numbers to put up another battle
against our troops. When the circum
stances under which this campaign
was VIGOROUSLY fought, are consider
ed, it reflects as much glory upon the
officers and men who participated
therein as any which Americans have
been engaged.
Fighting in Samoa, which was at
first thought to seriously endanger
the friendly relations between Ger
many and the United States turns out
to be blessing in disguise. At no
time since the joint treaty for the
government of the Samoan islands
was entered into, by Great Britain,
Germany and the United States, have
affairs been entirely satisfactory to
anybody concerned. The fighting has
brought things to focus, and TIE
three governments have agreed to
appoint a Joint High Commission
with authority to settle once for all
the permanent control of the islands.
There is a solemn reminder of the
Cuban compaign in the $50 caskets,
Theoretically sealed, now lying in
tents temporary erected in beautiful
Arlington cemetery. These caskets
contain the bodies of American SOL
diers who lost their lives in Cuba,
and more are expected by to- morrow
afternoon. Later in the week Mill
tary funeral will be held in honor of
the brave dead, in which President
Mckinley and all of the troops near
by will participate, and, in order
to give all government employees 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 public Offices
will be closed at noon on the day of
the funeral. There are about three
hundred bodies in all, to be inferred
in Arlington, where so many of their
brave comrades rest.
H.
to the issuing of single bond, was
the short and conclusive answer given
by Secretary Hay to the two Cubans
sent to Washington by the Cuban AS
sembly with resolution asking that
this government either increase the
5000, 900 it has sent to Cuba to be
advanced to the Cuban soldiers as
fast as they give up their arms, or
give its consent to an issue of bonds
by the Assembly, to raise more mon
ey. President Mckinley Endorsed the
answer and said that it must be ac-
cepted as the end of the matter. These
Cubans are not to blame for going to
Washington on such a FOOLS Grand;
they have been led to believe that the
American Syndicate, which had Of
fered to take all the bonds-at about
half their face value,-that President
Mckinley would consent to being is
sued by the Assembly, had "pull"
enough to get that consent. They will
return home with the knowledge Of
wide difference between the purchas-
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been accustomed to dealing with, and
American officials. Things will not
begin to move smoothly in any of the
late Spanish possessions, until the
same knowledge has been acquired
by the natives.