The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-04-12
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Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspo2dert.)

military incompetency of Algerism
has been shown than the fact that Of
the 366 bodies brought from Cuba
and Porto Rico and buried il Airing
ton Cemetery, yesterday, after an I'M
pressive military funeral, 81 were un-
identified. What sort OF manage
ment must there have been when 25
per cent of the men who died or were
killed over there were buried without
being marked in some way for future
Identification? It must have been
every bit as loose as that which had
to do with feeding the living. It was
all right and proper that these men
should be honorea by a military fun
eral and the closing for half a day Of
the government buildings in Wash
ington, but this honor will not make
the parents and friends of those 81
soldiers whose graves will be marked
"unknown" forgive those in authority
who neglected plain duty in failing
to look after their proper identiica-
ton.
Things have reached an acute stage
in the beef inquiry. The court has
done several things this week calcu-
lated to make the public suspect its
fairness, and believe that it had pre-
ference as to the kind of testimony it
wished to hear. It started by igno-
ring courteous request from ex-
Representation J. Hamilton Lewis
that he be allowed to appear as coun-
sci for Dr.. DAILY, when he gave his
testimony, and it aggravated matters
by trying to dodge Il specific request
of Gen. Miles, that l3l witnesses
whose names he furnished should be
summoned. This brought out q
sharp letter from General Miles
from which the following is an
extract: cit is my belief that
at lesst $4,000 men, and undoubted-
ly a much greater number, would
confirm the testimony that has al
ready been given that q portion OF
the food supplied the army was un-
wholesome and unsuitable for use.
Gen. Miles knows that the people are
with him in this case aid he has no
idea OF being blufed of.
If all the applications are granted,
aud they continue being made as rap
idly rs they have been, a goodly pro-
portion of the men who enlisted for
the war with Spain will soon be on
the pension roll of the government.
From official figures at tie Pension
Bureau it is shown that the number
OF applicants for pension have been
comparatively enormous, Out Of FIVE
regiments which lead the pension
procession, there have already been
filed 1875 applications for pension.
these regiments and the number OF
applicants from each follow: Thirty
fourth Michigan, 39S; First District
of Columbia, 352; Eighth Ohio, some
times called "the Presidents own,
349; Thirty-third Michigan, 3l9, and
the Second Massachusetts, 3l7.
No law seems broad enough to
protect employees of the government
from their superiors who wish to have
them voluntarily" contribute to buy
present for retiring official. The
individual contributions for this sort
of thing are small, but the aggregate
is large, and at least ninety-nlne out
of every hundred who contribute
would refuse to do so. if they did not
know refusal would be followed by a
course of petty nagging that would
be far more annoying than the loss OF
the money. The latest "vo2 lntary"
contributions were made by tae en-
ployes OF the Internal Revenue Of
! ice, 10 buy 4 500 watch I'D dia
mond studded chain, which ;sas pre-
sented to Mr. Nathan B. Scot, who
has resigned TIE position of Commls-
sioner of Internal Revenue to become
Senator from ". Va.
Ex.Gov. and Ex- Congressman Nc
Creary, of KY, was in Washington
this week. He said OF the political
outlook in his State: ga spirited con-
test is going on between the three as
pirapts for the governorship, but it
matters not to which the nomination
falls he will be elected by $4,000 to
10000 votes. We lost the State in
'96, but next year Mr.. Bryan or who
ever is the standard bearer of the
party will get Kentucky's electoral
vote. I presume that Mr.. Bryan will
be the nominee again on pretty much
the same platform, although there
will no doubt also be strong declara-
tons against trusts and against i'm
perialism. The Republicans will al
most certainly renominate Mckinley,
so we shall have a campaign pretty
much on the lines of 96.
Representative Meyer Of La, said
of the proposition that we should ez-
change the Philippine Islands for the
British West Indies, which originated
| in the Leeward Islands and which has
been much discussed in Washington
this week: Gas long as we are in the
business of buying AID selling and
trading in sovereignty, I should per
fer, other things being equal, to hold
possessions near the Z. S. rather than
at distance" Representative Liv-
ingston, Of Ga, who would prefer
that this government should pay
somebody to take the Philippines off
its hands, rather than keep them,
thinks the suggestion is feasible, and
that if properly approached England
would agree to take them although
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