Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-01-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9th. 1899,

Aguinaldo's man, AgoncillO, now
that he claims to be Minister from
the Philippine Republic, than when
he came to Washington as Aguin-
aldo's personal agent. Then the
President consented to receive him
as an individual, with the stipula-
ton that nothing of an official
nature should occur at the inter
view That is further than Agon-
clio is likely to get this time.
This fellow, aided by the anti-ex-
pansionists, in and out of Con-
gress, is largely responsible for the
present unsatisfactory condition
of things in the Philippines. He
gave Aguinaldo advance notice
that the policy of this government
would be conciliatory towards the
insurgents, and told him that the
anti-eXpansion element in this
country was powerful, and that if
he would take bold stand it would
aid him i'll getting recognition from
this government. The effect of
their information may be very dis
astrous to Aguinaldo and his fol-
lowers, as it may cause orders to
be sent to Gen. Otis to put them
down by forcible instead of persua-
siVe means.
Owing to the illness of Chairman
Hull, of the House Military Com
mittee, the Army bill has not been
called up in the House, but Mr..
Hull expects to return to duty this
week, and to push the bill through
the House without further delay.
Senrtor Morgan will endeavor to
get the Senate to set a time for
voting on his Nicarauga Canal bill,
this week, and he is confident of
success.
With less than one-third of it's
members in attendance, the House,
by a majority of six, while sitting
as a Committee of the whole, voted
to strike out the appropriation for
the Civil Service Commission. but
the vote was reversed to-day, when
the matter came up before a larger
attendance.
Senator McLaurin came very
near making a bulPs-eye when he
said: "There ought to be law
that every President of the U. S.
should first serve a term in the
Senate or the House. A very large
degree of President Mckinley $
popularity is due to the fact that
he has been through the Congress
sional mill and knows how to deal
with Senators and Representatives.
He appreciates their difficulties
and helps them to the utmost,
manifesting toward them a friend
illness, which they appreciate. If
President Cleveland had had Il
Congressional training he would
not have made so many enemies.
His lack Of that experience was
one of the rocks upon which he
was wrecked"
The late James G.. Blaine fore
shadowed the annexation of Hawaii
and the Philippine Islands in an
editorial in d Maine newspaper,
years before he became prominent
as q statesman He wrote-it
seems like inspired prophecy when
read in connection with recent
events-that the time would come
when the United States would have
to enlarge it's boundaries, if it was
to hold its fair share of the COM
merce of the world, and pointed
out that Hawaii and the Philippines
were within the natural sphere of
our influence, and predicted that
it would become absolutely neces-
sary for this country to control the
Philippines as the key to the trade
of the Orient.
There was no significance in the
adoption by the Senate of Mr..
Hoar's resolution-asking the
President if not incompatible with
public interests, to send to the
Senate all the instructions given to
our Peace Commissioners, although
some of the anti-expansionists are
trying hard to make themselves
and the public believe there was.
The resolution is no more binding
than his discretion makes it; he
can give or not give the informa-
ton asked for. The anti's have
got the idea that it will
hurt expansion to bring out of1ici-
ally what everybody has known
unofficially for months; that our
Commissioners were originally in
to only demand the island
of Luzon of Spain, and that their
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