Arizona republican., 1899-02-13

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 GOSSIP OF THE NATIONAL CAP
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 The reports that President Mckinley Is very sick man are like other sensa- tional reports. in that they are the ex- aegeration of unsensational facts. The president is tired and worried, and shows it. I had an opportunity last Tuesday to call On the president in per- son, and can state that as far as his physical activity and appearance are concerned, MT. Mckinley would appar- eEtly stand another term. He is thin neT than he was two years ago, and lacks the color and r0undneSs Of face which at that time made him the pie ture of health. His eyes have a sunk en appearance, and the restless look of man engaged in life and death race with work A ten-minute visit to the White House will explain this; the de- mandS on the presidents personal at tention are incessant. There is hardly all hour of the day or night that he is not subject to the interruption of pub lie business. Congress, and the failure of the senate to approve the treaty, have been great cause of worry to him. The present innumerable ques- tlOnS arising from the possession of the Philippines, Cufa and Porto Rico, not to mention the innumerable incidents of administrative detail, have weighed as heavily on him as the direction of the war; in addition to this it must be remembered that the president has had practically no rest for over year and a half. MT. Mckinley takes himself and his position very seriously, and it is his conscientious sense of duty which his friends find exceedingly diffi- cult to overcome in their endeavors to get him to quit work and take a rest About all they have succeeded in do- ing, up to date, is to get the president to take day on the Potomac river in the yacht which has been fitted Up for the purpose. These day trips have numbered but two CT three within the last six months.
 Congressman Mann believes that the only thing which will save the reputa- tion of the Chicago packing industries is a congressional investigation The packers are bowling like the pigs upon which they operate over the falling off of their foreign, orders and their domes-. tic orders as well, since General Miles first began his "embalmed beef charges. MT. Mann thinks the Dodge commissions verdict will not carry much weight with the public, and calls to the superior advantages of ''vindication" by a "bi7pai tisan'' commission.
 The army reorganization bill pro- vides for the creation Of 3,819 commis- l missions. Representative Lewis claims | that these commissions are to be dis tributeG by the "imporialist" admins tration among the sons Of the million aire families throughout the country. l in order to permanently ally the army | with the money power MT. Lewis is | an ass.
 Krag-Jorgenson rifles are being | turned out from the United States ar senal at Springfield, Mass, at the rate of 400 day. An increased demand for this type of rifle has been caused by 3 recent decisiCn of the war depart ment to repay states for equipment furnished at the outbreak of the war ''in kind.H Uniforms will be paid by uniforms and rifles by rifles. But with his exceptiOn-where Springfield rifles were furnished they are tc be replaced 0y Krag-Jorgensen rifles. Moreover. he regular army is to be equipped with -AAO4u CiAl OuSIOUl, anu d reserve OL 1 some thousands will be kept on hand oy the government in case of another war
 There is a gentleman who lives abroad who owns the patents on the 6rag-J -Jorgenson rife. He has been visiting America lately, and he wears l very pleasant expression. He gets s1 or every rifle manufactured
 
 Company M, Thirty-third Michigan has a unique record among he troops which saw service in the trenches before Santiago. Up to date t has not lost a man by illness.
 Ten thousand Japanese laborers- which is 10 per cent of the entire pop llatiOn of the islands-have been i'm ported into Hawaii since it's annexation Q the United States. So I have been by Congressman Hit, chair nan of the Hawaiian commission. The ;Lgar planters are not anxious for the passage of the bill for the government )f the islands, as it extends the con Tact labor laws of the United States 'Ver the islands, and will thus stop this )ractice-H. c. Gardiner in Chicago Journal