Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-11
The Politician.

Washington, March 1O.-President
Mckinley has not worked harder at
any time during the last year than
during the present week. He is dispos-
in gof all the pressing matters of i'm
portance in order that he may devote
the short vacation he will take next
week, al 'ThoBasville, Ga, where he
and Mrs. Mckinley, Vice President and
Mrs. Hobart and several mutual
friends will be the guests of Senator
Hanna, tbgfttitPg the complete rest he
needs. Unless his present plans are
changed there will beno speeches made
on Tips southern, "trip, He7h2s got do
mestte tahfirs in good shabe, and is
satisfied l4thar things are moving
smoalIlytin Cuba In the Philippines
Gef. otis has begun a campaign that is
expected to result in the clearing out
of Aguinaldo's army and the placing of
the islands on a peaceable basis.
This campaign is to be as aggressive as
the@efrtumstanceS may demand, but
there are grounds for the expectation
that At4s keat deal Of figAting will be
requfred and that negotiations con-
Quoted by the American Civil Commits
sioners1 will result in a great many of
the ill-advised followers of Aguinaldo
voluntarily returning to peaceable vo-
catrons they have only to be con-
vinced that Aguinaldos statement that
the AmericaQS-Xould kill all who sur
rendered themselves is false, in order
to get them to leave him, and the Com
missioners think they can do that.
The committee named by the Repub-
lican caucus of the House to prepare
a financial bill to be introduced soon
as the next Congress assembled,
whether in extra or regular session,
held several preliminary meetings in
Washington this week and decided to
meet at Atlantic Cisys Epfil II, and ~
continue in session Until a bill vas
agreed upon. A subcommittee con-
sisting of Representatives Henderson,
Payne and Overstreet, conferred with
some of the Republican members of
the Senate committee on Finance
which was given authority to sit dur
ing the recess, to ascertain the feas-
ibflity of joint action. Nothing def
mite came of the conference, owing to
the absence of Senator Aldrich, chair
man of the Finance comm ttee But
Mr.. Aidrich will return from Europe in
ample time to arrange for co-opera-
tion with the House caucus committee,
and there is little doubt that he will do
so, as far as he can.
Mr. w. D. Rittenhouse, of Sltka, AL
aska, who is in Washington paid the
following deserved compliments: The
people of Alaska will never cease to be
grateful to Senator Carter, of Montana,
and Senator Shoup, of Idaho, for their
splend.I and unselfish work in behalf
OF our territory. In the closing days
of the Congress just ended these Sena-
tors worked faithfully for ,le bill to
give Alaska penal code, and it was
largely due to their untiring zeal, ably
seconded by the persistent efforts of
Representative Warner, of Illinois, in
the House, that this sorely needed leg
islatiOn was enacted.
Gen. Rowell Clayton, u. S. Ambassa-
dor to Mexico, has just concluded a
visit to Washington, during which he
was paid some unusual courtesles. He
dined with President and Mrs. McKin-
iey and with Senator and Mrs. Hanna
Consul General De Leon, at Guayuuil
Ecuador, says on an important subject
in report just made to the Depart
ment OF State: Il confess / have little
hope of seeing United States manu-
factures sold to any great extent on
this coast until we have au isthmian
canal. At present business is handi-
capped by the excessive rates charged
by the steamship lines-double. and in
some cases treble. those from Europe"
President Mckinley has shown how