Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-11-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6-The ap-
pointment of civil governor for !
Cuba has been fully determined up. /
on, and may be announced any day.
This does not mean that the soldiers
are to be at once Withdrawn from
Cuba, but that civil Governor will
soon be given supreme control, with
our soldiers behind him to be used if
necessary to support his authority.
1t may be that the civil governor
will himself be soldier. Gen. Lud-
low, at present Military Governor, OF
Havana, who is now enrOute to Wash
,neton to confer with the authorizes
on this matter, has been mentioned
in connection with the civil governor
ship, as has Gen. Leonard Wood
Military Governor OF santiago, anu
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who is with his
family in Virginia, on turlough.
The first work of the Congress,
soon 10 assemble for one of the most
important sessions held for years,
will be, If the whole power of the adj
ministration is strong enough to brlr g
1t about, the adoption of a joint reso-
luton declaring the intention OF this
government to be, to retain perma-
nently the sovereignty Of the Philip
pine islands. This Is one of the re-
suits Of the preliminary report OF the
Philippine Commission, and of the
Presidents conference with the men,
hers Of that Commission. The Cabi-
net has unanimously decided, and
the President and the Philippine
! Commissioners are of the same mind.
that the very first thing Congress
ought 70 do is to adopt resolution
that will convince the residents OF
the Philippines that this country
means to keep the islands. Such ac-
ton, they contend, will destroy the
only argument Aguinaldo has to keep
the instruction going.
I Germany has had quite a crop OF
small labor strikes this year. Accord
ing to a report Just received by the
i Department of State from the |. >.
Consul General at Frankfort, during
the first six months Of 1899, there
| were ga strikes in Germany, affect
ing 1910 establishments, and 99,O4S
employees, and covering almost every
lin. of industry. As a rule, these
strikes were insignificant, as may be
Judged by the 2O7 strikes in the
building trade, affecting SO establish
nents and 27,945 employees.
In an interesting address on the
Alaskan boundary question, Hon.
John w. Foster, one Of the High
Joint Anglo-American Commission,
70 and Ex-Secretary of State, made II
plain that this government occupie:
f an impregnable position, based upor
, officisl documents of both the British
: and Russian Governments; also thai
the Canadian proposition to arbitrate
had a string tied to it in the shape o
a provlsO that the umpire
should be an European. Mr.
Foster told, probably for the first
time, that the American Commission
ers offered to accept the plan ofsettle
meut drawn by Secretary Olney anC
4 Sir Julian Pauncefote in 1897, whicl
he said marked the most advanced
/ stage yet attained for the settlement
oi,international questions nor su'cep
! tible of adjustment by diplomati
A, negotiation. That plan was to sub
3 nit all territorial questions to Fri
bunal OF three judges of the highes
Z standing in each country, and to re
qire the vote of 5 out of the 6 e
make a bin ding decision. So anxious
were the American Commissioners t.
have this plan adopted, that the!
e agreed to accept vote of4 out o
D the 6, as final, but the proposition
e was rejected by the British Commits
sioners.
According to well:informed dip
lomat, the triple control of the Sa-
moan Islands, by the I. s., Grea'
= Britain and Germany, which has no
been satisfactory to anybody, is likely
to be terminated soon by the with
drawal of Germany, which to re-
GIVE other island territory from
Great Britain for doing so, the oc
lpation of the island of Tituile
where the L. S. coaling station OIL
Pago Page harbor is beng fitted NJ
at large expense, by this govern
4 ment, and the remainder of the
: group by Great Britain, which vii
; grant the U. S. certain Commercial
privileges thereon.
The Committee appointed by the