Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1899-05-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.

tFrom our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., MAY 22th, go.
President Mckinley is again on
duty at the White House His two
weeks rest at the Hot Springs APP
pear to have done him lots of good
ard he says his rheumatic pains
have entirely disappeared His re-
turn and the Peace Jubilee which
is to be held this week, have attract
ed number of prominent men to
Washington for the purpose Of com
bining business and pleasure.
Among them are friends of sew
eral Of the candidates for speaker of
the House The most interesting
news of the spenkership contest is
the statement apparently well
founded that friends of Representa-.
tives Sherman aud Henderson have
made an agreement whereby each
is made the second choice of the
other, the idea being to make sure
that one or the other of them gets
elected But Representative Payne
who is himself in Washington, and
the friends of R Jres3ntntive
Hopkins who are quite numerous
say they take no stock in any such
agreement,
Representatives of Aguinaldo
have had another conference with
the American Philippine Commiss-
toner's and nae been again toldthnt
the only way for the Philippines to
get a cessation of hostilities is t0 ac-
cept the unconditional surrender
terms of Gen Otis
The feeling is general in official
circles that the Cuban army has
been allowed rope enough and they
must either surrender their arms or
refuse to surrender them nt once
If they refuse, the chances are that
they will be made to do so. Presi-
dent Mckinley and his advisers
have been disposed to treat these
men very leniently and to humor
their whims to as great an extent as
possible, without giving them the
idea that they were able to dictate
to us, but there is limit to patience
and by their backing and filling and
pickering among themselves, the
Cubans have very near reached that
of the administration. 1t is the un-
derstanding now that the disarma-
ment is to begin the latter part of
this week, but there have been 9th
er similar agreements that were not
carried out.
Senator Kean, of n j., who has
been in Washington on business,
said: "There has been some effort
to cite New Jersey as a frighttul eX-
ample, because of the laws which i'm
vite corporations TO organize with
in our state, but our people do not
sympathize with this criticism. We
compel the payment of a fee, based
on the amount of capital specified
IN the certificate of Incorporation,
whether the stock has been issued
or not, and the result is that our
revenues have increased this year
at least S400, 900 or $450,000. The
last legislature made generous ap-
preparations for the blind asylum,
the reformatary at Railway, the
equipment of the National guard
and additional payment to soldiers
from our state, who served in the
war with Spain. My information is
that all of these extraordinary eX-
penses of the state will be met by
the fees from corporations organic
ed under our laws this year. You
can readily see that the people who
benefit from this influx of wealth
are not apt to be antagonistic TO
those who bring it. "
Intelligent men from nearly every
section of the South and West bring
similar rel o IT'S to Washington con
cerning the loss of prestige by Bry
an and silver. Col. p. Lannon, Ed
itor of the Salt Lake, Utah Tribune.
whoisvisiting Washington said 1.-The
most ardent believers in free silver
are forced to admit the issue Is about
dead. The trend of events since SO
has forced it into oblivion, and how
ever much we may adhere to the
white metal from principle, it has
been eliminated as a living factor
in the politics of the day AS for
Col. Bryan, while many of us ad-
mire him, it must be said that his
prestige is on the wane. But no mat
ter whether the democrats name
Bryan or some other man. McKin-
ley is going to succeed himself. "
Col. Lannon says of the case ofRob-
erts, the polygamist representative
elect: IF his claim to member
ship in the House is rejected, as il
ought to be there will be good ground
E. ...snfaaVaor "