The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-08-31
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. asst, 1893.

DrOcldlndIlOn W the JeOplC VI CuOds
which will be made public in this
country after it has been published
in Cuba, that will put an end to all OF
the silly talk about this government
not intending to allow the Cubans to
have any say i'll the government OF
that island This proclamation tells
the Cubans that the census taken in
Cuba, work upon which will shortly
be started and which it is hoped to
have completed in ninety days, will
be the first step towards an indepen-
dent government that when the CEN
sus is completed arrangements will
be made for the holding of local elec-
tions throughout the island, i'll order
to give its citizens an opportunity to
show their capacity for self-govern-
ment, and that as fast as the local
authorities get their government III
good working condition, the United
States troops will be withdrawn.
Copies of this proclamation have been
forwarded to Gen. Brooke, at Havana,
who is charged with the duty of hav-
ing it widely published throughout
the island.
Secretary Root has arranged to go
to Fort Hancock and Sandy Hook,
n. Y, this week to witness tests of
field and mountain guns, under the
SUPERVISION of the Board of Ordnance
and Fertilization of the War Depart
ment. Secretary Root is such strong
believer in doing things, rather than
talking about doing them, that he
doesn't personally furnish much
copy for the newspaper men who
swarm in the corridors of the War
Department every day; he has the
knack, however, of declining to talk
in so pleasant way that he has
made many admirers among the news
paper men, to whom he has refused
information about the plans of the
War Department.
Secretary Gage has received high
ly gratifying report from the Auditor
General of Hawaii, showing the COM
parative imports into the islands for
the months of June, 1898, the last UNI
der the Hawaiian regime, and June,
1899 During the first month,
the imports from the United States
were 5000, 1908 and from all other coun-
tries. $3.50, 995, while in June of this
year the imports from the United
States were 81 Az, SOS, and those from
all other countries 1884, 494. The to-
tai increase in six months of imports
from the United States was So, GIG, 151.
The report also notes that while the
government receipts in Hawaii have
increased, the public expenditures
likely to convince the most obstinate
royalist taxpayer in Hawaii that UNI
der the protecting wings of the
American Eagle is good place to live.
There is a lesson for those who be-
lieve that America is behind Europe
in medical science, or in anything
else, in cablegram received several
days ago by straightforward Stern
berg, from the Director General OF
the Army Medical Service of Great
Britain. The cablegram asked that
three hundred copies of a United
States official publication, entitled
Sanitary Lessons of the War be
sent for distribution among the med |
ical officers of the British army, and
that if that number of copies could
not be furnished, permission be given
to reprint the pamphlet in London.
This cablegram is proof of the news
paper statement that England is pre-
pairing for war with the Transvaal
Republic, as we'll as very compliment
tarv to the medical branch of our
army.
Secretary Hitchcock, who, although
he has not figured extensively in the
newspapers, is one of the hardest
working and most capable men who
has ever been at the head of the In
terror Department, has returned from
a short vacation and resumed his du-
ties, which are not surpassed either in
difficulties or responsibilities by those
of any other member of the Cabinet.
No higher praise can be given pub
lie man than to say he would make
good Secretary of the Interior.
Sometime ago Gen. Miles recon-
mended that some of the regiments
enlisted for the Philippines should be
composed of colored men, because OF
their ability to stand the climate as
well as of the reputation they haYe
made as good alI-rOund fighters. Sec
rotary Root thought so we'll OF the
recommendation that he has ordered
that one new regiment, Just deter
mined upon. shall be composed of col
ored men. Secretary Root says that
unless something occurs to change
present plans, Gen. Otis will have
about sixty-four thousand men at his
disposal before Christmas.