The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-10-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

| portion OF the message which Will deal
with Philippine affairs will be deferred
until the Philippine Commission, all
tire members of which. excepting Gen.
Otis, are now in Washington, has COM
pleted and submitted its report. 1t is
practically certain, however, that the
message will recommend permanent re-
/ tentlon of the Philippines. Arch Bish-
OPP ChappeIle, the apostolic delegate to
the Philippines, has had conference
with President Mckinley and will have
another before his departure for
| Manila.
Secretary Gage, who was with the
| Presidential party in the West por-
{ ton of the time, has returned to Wash
! ington and resumed his duties. He
| said in connection with his observation
/ of the impression created by the Presi-
| dent on his trip ''Al classes of people
were cordial to the President IN his ex-
preston as to revival of industry,
! sound money and the tariff, bat what
arms at Manila and other places, ar
oused the greatest enthusiasm. The
| people were most emphatic in their APP
! prevail when the President expressed
the purpose of the administration to
/ suppress the Instruction, to maintain
/ the flag and 10 establish the most ilb-
/ eral form of self-government which the
| people of the islands showed them
I selves apable of maintaining"
| One of the Presidents recent callers
was Father w. d. Mckimmon, Chap
| lain of the First California Volunteers,
| who has Just returned from the Philip
| pines where he spent sixteen months
with his regiment. He Indignantly de-
MED the recent statement that our SOL
diers have desecrated and looted
churches over there, and said on the
! subject: at Is true that a great many
| churches have been looted and stripp-
| ed, but this has been the work of Chi
! namen in nearly every case. The loot
| ing has usually been between the evac-
uation of a town by the rebels and the
entry of the American forces. A good
many Of our soldiers have relics and
souvenirs from these. churches, but
! they got them from the natives and the
| Cinnamon" OF the immediate outlook
in the Philippines, Father Mckimmon
SAYS: 81 look for wind up o. the in
| surrectiou during tie coming campaign.
The morale of the insurgents was de-
stroyed before my regiment left the ISL
and. The leaders who are holding out
are doing SO with the hope OF material
reward for surrendering"
Admiral Dewey has not broken down
in health, but his physician ordered
him to cancel his engagements to visit
Atlanta and Philadelphia, as a precau
! tlonary measure, lest the hustle and ex-
| element might cause him to do SO, and
| has ordered him to avoid all excitement
as far as possible during the winter.
The house for Admiral Dewey has been
selected, and the purchase will be made
| this week. 1t is on Rhode Island ave-
| nue., one door from the corner of Con-
necticut avenue, and will be purchased
! fully furnished, and at once occupied
| by the Admiral.
| No man In Washington knows the sit
| uatiUn in Ohio better than President
| Mckinley does, and the fact that he is
| per ectly confident OF republican sue
cess, tells how other republicans feel
| about it. There was some fear at one
time that the full republican vote might
not be got out, but that has passed
| The United States continues to lead
the world in superiority of ordnance
| Severe tests of the new style of four
| inch gun adopted for the Navy, have
shown the gun to be vastly aheai of
any arm of the same calibre in the
world. As long as we can keep up that
! sort of progress, our Navy is bound TO
| lead the procession in fighting qualities.
Gen. Ager, who has been giving his
undivided attention to his large bust
ness interests since his retirement from
| the head of the War Department. said
of the business outlook: The business
affairs of the United States are in
most excellent condition, and If we can
he sure of a steady republican rule in
! the future, it is nv judgment that this
prosperous state of affairs will last for
many years TO come. In looking over
| last years statistics of the balance of
! trade as between this country and the
rest of the world, I find that it rests in
our favor IN an amount exceeding $500,
| GOO. 600. All of which is, of course, very
| gratifying to an American, and gives
rise to a belief among Republicans that
they had much to do with bringing it
about"
| Maj. J. F. Hanson, one of Georgia's
| largest cotton manufacturers said: The
general business conditions in the South
are better than they have been for
years. There are many gold men in
/ Georgia, and tens of thousands of pro-
tectionists. and if the negro question.
could be eliminated the state would
! go Republican without any doubt. And
what is true of Georgia is true of most
/ of the states which go to make up the
so-Called solid South. President Nc
/ kinney is very popular with us, and |
think he will be renominated and re-
! elected"
Towns along the c. NJ & st. +. rail-
I road i'll Southern Minnesota are suffer
(, ing from a smallpox epidemic. 1t is
/ said that the town of Wells has several
we'll defined eases, and that every body
and everything is under quarantine.