Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-07-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rom our Regular Correspondent.

I
Those who are protesting so much as
constituent because the administration
has declined to take any Official notice
OF the "round robin" Of the newspaper
correspondents at Manila, jumping all
over Gen. Otis for his method of con-
Quoting the campaign against Aguinal-
do and for his censorship of what they
send to their papers, should refer to a
file Of any OF the big papers during tho
civil war They will find that Prosi-
dent Mckinley is following the example
OF Lincoln, nnder similar circumstan-
ces, in leaving the correspondents and
Gen. Otis to settle their difficulties !
themselves. The "round robin" charg-
es were mild compared with the charg
es that we're made time after time
, against Generals Grant, Sherman, Sher-
idan Butler, Burnside and others by
newspaper correspondents. The gener-
al who can conduct a campaign to
please the war correspondents is yet to
be born.
Secretary Ayers resignation is in
the hands of the President to take ef-
feet at the pleasure of the latter.
The time within which reciprocity |
treaties could be negotiated under the
] Dingley law expired this week. Great
Britain has negotiated four Of these
0 treaties for her colonies Barbadoes
Bermuda, British Guina, and Jamaica
, and Germany and France began negoci-
: alton, but never completed them, owing
to failure to agree. That need not,
however, prevent the negotiation OF
treaties with these countries, under the
Constitutional authority possessed by
the president, If the Representatives of
o those countries can agree with our rep
) resentatives. Such treaties would be
known as Commercial" treaties, in
j. stead of reciprocity" treaties, but the
d name would make no difference, and
such treaties would be ratified in the
q usual way by two-thirds vote of the
It Senate, whereas the treaties negotiated
under the Dingley law will have to be
i ratified by both branches of Congress.
M CIT was not generally known before his
recent visit to Washington, that Gen
Harrison Gray Otis of Los Angeles, Cal
} was once foreman of the Government
. printing Office, although there are still
a number of printers in the Office who
@ worked under him. When he visited
d the office, for the first time since he
left more than thirty years ago, he
., shook hands with all his fellow crafts
y men and recalled many pleasant rom
iniscences of the establishment, which
A. was not then, as now, the largest print
o. ing establishment in the world.
The executive committee of the Am
e. erican Antitrust League, which claims
1c to be represented in every State and
Territory, held a meeting in Washing
= ton last week. 1t claims to be non-pol-
ical in a partisan sense, but its inten-
. tion is to try to bring about the defeat
of every candidate, regardless of his
. party, who will not avow himself an
"a open enemy of trusts.
Whom all have been secured in place,
le the National Museum will have an in
III tercstng collection of relics of the war
with Spain. 1t is the intention of tho
Nv Museum authorities to arrange all OF
70, these relics in one comprehensive group.
Among the relics already at the Muse
le, um, but not yet on exhibition, are a
IL large number from Cerveras feet in.
cluding a ships light from the Reina
on Mercedes, and armor plate from tha
~ vessel and from the Maria There's;
which has been melted into some ode
and curious shapes by the intense heat
=, - and a lot of projectiles for all sorts o
ad guns.
A Washington florist has called pub
lie attention to the fact that tho Amer
'"' lean Beauty rose, now grown every
where that roses are loved, was first in
'"' troduced by Hon. George Bancroft VIII
in addition to being a diplomat and
lis historian, was an enthusiastic and SCI
entifc grower of roses. As soon az
Is became known among his friends {
similar tastes that Mr. Bancroft ha
be- produced a new and beautiful rose, hi
lie, conservatory was robbed one night an
be the plant upon which those roses ha
been produced was carried off, 1t w
,pv carried to France and there the ne
nds rose. which had not been named by NJ
s6o- Bancroft, was introduced to the worl
as the American Beauty The thi'
MN was never traced.
to Senator Chandler seems to have four
on a man in the person of Civil Servi
Commissioner Brewer who doesn't sea
a.. worth a cent. Senator Chandler threa
.o.h ened to prefer charges against Brewe
- and. to ask the President to remove hi
because Of the manner in which he co
Quoted the investigation Of the charg
mas against Senator Gallinger, and it
'uo" said be has done so Mr.. Brewer sa
,'t'e the investigation was conducted props
Oo ly and that be is willing tostaRd by
refusal to accept hearsay as eviden
fol- against Senator Gallinger, or any otn
anne man charged with violation Of law.
mis-