Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-04-01
The Politician.


engaged in formulating orders to send
to Gen. Otis and that he had about de-
termined to issue call for $4,000 vol
unteers authorized by the army act of
the last Congress were guesses wide of
the mark. He has sent no orders to
Gen. Otis and has no reason to do so.
Gen. Utis is fighting his campaign sue
cessfully, al his successive victories
show, Apd5thene IS no intention to
hamper him wl6R from Washig-
ton. As to calling for volunteers
that has not been seriously thought of.
Representative Hull, chairman of the
Military committee OF the last House,
who enjoys the Presidents confidence,
and who is good authority said: What
would We the use of calling for more
volunteers? We could not send them
to the Philippines for service there, as
all the advices indicate htat the United
States forces are strong enough to
crush the insurrection.
Two representatives OF the Cuban
Assembly are in Washington seeking
official recognition and the consent of
this government to an issue of Cuban
bonds, but they will get neither.
The Military Court of Inquiry has
been taking testimony in Washington
all this week. Among the witnesses
was Gen. Eagan, who stated that he
had made a mistake when he first tes-
titled that the contracts required beef
to keep 72 hours after leaving the re-
frigerators, and that "a hours was the
ume~he had agreed to.
Mr.. w. r. Gay, United States Dis
trict Attorney, who is at present in
Washington on business, gives this
pleasing picture of the State of Wash
ington: with the acquisition of Ha-
waii, the growth of our Oriental trade,
the probable retention of the Philip
pines, the heavy Alaskan business in
cident to the Klondyke boom, and the
big wheat crops that have lately
blessed us, the state of Washington is
not only enjoying great prosperity, but
is sanguine of great future. The
Mckinley administration is very popu-
. lar in our state, and the foreign policy
of the President is cordially endorsed.
Washington, / .llnk, has got back into
the Republican column to stay. Free
silver with us is the deadest sort of an
issue ad it would be impossible to in
terest the people in it again
While America leads the world in
inventive genius, they do not monop-
olize the inventive faculty. United
States Consul Higgins, at Dundee,
Scotland, has written the Department
of State that on a farm near that town
a machine for milking cows has been
successfully used for two years.
The following is taken from the Of
fetal report of the United States Con-
sul-General to Ecuador: THE change
by the world to a gold basis has final
ly driven Ecuador to adopt the same
course, and Congress has just enacted
law of coinage which Within two
years will place the monetary system
ON gold basis. Ecuador is the fourth
country of Latin-America to adopt
this measure; Venezuela, Costa Rica
and Peru having already taken the
step. Brazil, Urugary and Chile, while
nominally on gold basis, are really
subject to the disadvantage of paper
money, because their internal finacial
condition precludes an easy conversion
of the currency"
The public debt of the United States
is an interesting study, presenting
some valuable object lessons in poll
tics and government administration.
The total public debt, less cash on
hand, was on March l, the latest date
for which official figures are obtain
able, 81 ,157 1904, 1892. OF this 1884,, ,622,-
000 is chargeable to the Civil war,
$262, 1916, 400 to the four years of Cleve-
lands last administration, and $193,-
| oooboVV W thc wal WIN opdlH' IL
each individual paid a pro rata share
of the money needed to pay the inter
est on the entire debt, the charge
would be about So cents a year. OF
this 80 cents would go to pay the cost
of the Civil war, cents to pay the cost
of the last Cleveland administration,
and cents to pay the cost of the war
with Spain. No greater object lesson
on the financial methods of a demo-
cratic and of republican administra-
tion could be found that is furnished
by the issue of bonds under the last
Cleveland administration. The annual
interest charge on the bonds issued by
the Cleveland administration, when
the country was peaceful and ought
to have been prosperous is $11, ,492,6 GIG,
while the annual interest charges on
the bonds issued by the Mckinley ad-
minlstration to fight a successful war
amounts to only $5,S009S Yet the
amount of bonds issued by the Demo-
Gratis only exceeded the amount issued
by the. Republicans by $6S ,949, 400
Mckinley sold per cent bonds to the
people; Cleveland sold Az per cent
bonLs to syndicate of bankers. The
total of our public debt is a mere bag
atelle cOmDared with our wealth and