Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-01-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. 1892
Nobody realized more fully than
President Mckinley that the revision
of his testimony, eliminating the
blackguardiSm, does not condone the
disgraceful conduct of General Eagan
in personally abusing General Miles,
his superior officer conduct which
was aggravated by the furnishing to
the Press Association of advance type
written copies of the billingsgate be-
fore it was uttered in the presence of
the War Investigating Commission,
but that revision will at least remove
the dirty stuff from the official record.
What else is to be done is yet to be
determined, but it seems to be reas-
onably certain that something else
will be done, and quickly.
The Senate will this week amend
and pass the Morgan bill for the
construction of the Nicaragua
Canal, and if the House Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce would drop the bunch of Canal
bills it is wrestling with, and report
the Morgan bill, even with a few
amendments, there would be a reas-
enable certainty of it's becoming
law at this session. But, if that COM
mittee reports an entirely new meas
ure, as all the secret opponents of the
Canal wish it to do, and as it seems
likely to do, the chance of getting it
through will certainly not be encour
aging. 1t is either the Morgan bill or
no bill at this session.
General Otis and Admiral Dewey,
who certainly ought to know better
than anybody else, do not expect a
conflict with the Philippine insur-
gents. In their official reports to the
government, they say that they have
perfect control of the situation in and
around Manila, and that they are
gradually succeeding in making the
rank and file of the insurgents under
stand that Americans are their best
friends. not their enemies, as Aguin-
aldo has recently been trying to make
them believe. As soon as that task
is accomplished the rest will be easy
Things will move faster over there
after the treaty has been ratified.
All sorts of arguments are being adj
vanced in all sorts of ways to arouse
opposition to the acquisition of the
Philippines by the Q. S. One of the
most unique being the offer of Mr. An
drew Carnegie, to pay from his own
bank account, the S20,0O0,0OO the
treaty of peace calls for, if President
Mckinley will withdraw our soldiers
and war ships and allow the Philip
pines to govern themselves. That
offer is buncomb pure and simple.
There are no circumstances under
which the offer could be accepted, and
nobody knows that any better than
Mr.. Carnegie. BY the treaty of peace,
the Philippines pass from Spain, their
recognized owner, to the U. S., which
will be held responsible by the nations
of the world for the protection OF the
interests of their citizens in the is
lands. Whatever may be decided up
on, after we have learned more about
the islands, the assumption of sover-
eighty over them by the Z. S. is a
present duty that cannot be shIrked
Representative Berry, of Kentucky,
is not with the ''aunties" as may be
seen by the following, from speech
made by him: ..While / have not in
my own mind yet concluded what is
best to be done with the new and
beautiful country, down under the
equator, called the Philippine islands,
as much may be said by the people
who occupy it, / am ready to listen to
suggestions and to hear from men like
Dewey and men like Otis, and others
that are there representing the q. s., |
what their conclusions are as to the
best course of the government of the
Y. S. towards these people, and hav-
ing heard that, to give it and other
circumstances full consideration. But, |
/ do not propose, in spite of that
treacherous scoundrel, Aguinaldo-
that scoundrel who was brought in a /
ship of Dewey's from Hong Kong to
Manila-eyen in spite of the German
Empire, to stop one moment in form /,
ing my conclusion Us to what are the |
Interests of the e. S.. even if it in
wolves the fact that we shall have to |
whip Germany as we did SPAIN