The Opelousas courier., 1899-06-10
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. June 5

WASHINGTON, -. u, June b, 1897.
Mr.. Mckinley has given the country
another exhibition of Il lightning
change of mind. After allowing those
who talked with him during several
days to get the impression that he was
about to call Tor volunteers for the Phil
ippines, no suddenly changed his mind
and announced that the Cabinet had de-
cided not to call for volunteers, but to re-
place the volunteers now in the Philip
pines with regulars. and to authorize
General Otis to enlist natives. 1t is be-
lievad that the principal factor in bring
cablegram from Prof. Schurzman,
president of the Philippine Commits
sion, containing Il fairy story annOun
ling the early surrender of AguinaldO.
SSpilar fairy stories 10y 0hc same au-
tholaMere the basis of the hope of early
ton, Asne Weeks ,IThe rainy sea-
son, wlNSII las1SAoee months, is on 10
the PhiIh~-4fes, making it impossible
for Gen. Otis to worry Aguinaldo much
for that length, of time. That's why no
early surrender is at all probable.
Hon. A. j. Warner, President OF the
Bimetalic League is in Washington.
He said OF the probable Democratic
platform of next year: "The Democrat
ic party will stand Ivy the Chicago plat
form. The money plank will be made
as full and as strong as if there were
no other issues. | would be in favor
also of making Il declaration against
trusts, AZ it that We're the only issue -;
and The same with our declaration
against imperialism and the Philippine
war. Neither question can be said to
nhlPnrI nr tn r,)prn}anra of tho ntIar
but all combine 10 make an issue that
| believe the people will support
Whatever may be the defects in
other branches of the government SER
vice, and they are numerous enough,
everybody knows, Commissioner lnell
of the u. $. Patent office, is conducting
that Office with more satisfaction to i'll
v%entors, patent lawyers aud everybody
doing business Herewith thar has been
done for Il long time. He has the bust
ness so neatly to date, that e.. A. Sncw
g. Co, WaslingtOn's most successful!
firm OF patent lawyers, make the posi-
tive announcement that they can ss-
cure patents for inventors in from fouY
to ten weeks.
Representative Gordon, of Ohio. who
is visiting Washington, talks interest,"
ingly of the political situation in his
kolutC. liz S1lt w ItbtNf III lIltiDkS t1t
Republicans are invincIble in Ohio, this
year, will he badly fooled. There never
was il time when the patty was 40 badly
split Ivy factional dlssensions as now,
and it the Democrats are awake to their
opportunity, they will beat Senator
Hnnna's candidate for Governor.
have No idea VIII" will be named as the
Democratic candidate, but we have
plenty of good material t. draw from.
Ohio is naturally Republican,, but the
people d" not take kindly to po-
iitical bosses, aud they are going to
show their resentment at the polls
this year"
In Austria, Il process for making ar
tificial cotton ont of the fibre of the fir
tree has been discovered and reported
to the State Department by the Z. S.
Consul, at Reichberg. He quotes a des-
criptlon OF the process, concluding as
follows "Artiiicini cotton can he pro-
dnced SO clleap'y that the genuine al
tic!e can hardly compete with it, and
one cannot say it is Il sham for it is COM
posed exactly as the natural cotton, of
pure cellulose." The consui says HIM
self "ln ii country sucl, as this where
the forests of fir trees abonnd and arc
made Parental, Ivy constant rcpianting
rs the large trees are cut down, and
where all the cotton used in the nu.
nIcrnus factories mist he brought from
far India and the U. s., such "A device
should be piotitahle." This is decided
ly interesting, but it need not alarm
cotton-grnwals until it is known to
have been put into practical use. 1t
may be like the chemical process by
which real diamonds can be made,
which works all tight, but the made
diamond costs more than the natural
diamond of the same size sells for,
which renders the process useless to the
commercial world.