Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-02-07
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GENERAL MILES 6LIGHTED.

GENERAL MILES SLIGHTED.
German says the Pension Roll will
Amount to Si66. 900, 900 in
Three Years.
(From our regular correspondent.)
Washington, Jan. 30, 1899
Anti -Imperialistic sentiment will have
full swing in the Senate this week, as
nearly every Senator who opposes and
who has not already spoken against i'm
perialism, has given notice of intention
to speak. The treaty Of Peace will be
voted upon Feb 9th, and the chances
favor its ratification, because nothing
would be gained by rejecting it. A
motion to reconsider would be made by
one of its friends, and it would require a
majority to table it. That majority its
opponents have not. So, If it were re-
jected Feb. 9th, all Mr.. Mckinley would
have to do would be to call an extra
session of the Senate, in March, when it
would be promptly ratified.
Within the last week. Mr.. Mckinley
has been personally harshly criticised Ill
both House and Senate, and in each
body one of his critics was republican.
In the House, Representatives Jerry
Simpson, and johnson, of Ind, jumpt d
IN him for bowling to public opinion
right or wrong; and in the Senate, Sen
ators German and Hoar gave him fits
for declining to furnish the Senate with
copies OF the instructions given to the
Peace Commissioners
Senator German has never posed as
an alarmist, but he never fears to speak
the truth because it may be alarming
Just before the Senate passed the reg
ular pension appropriation bill, which
carries sl45, 100000, Mr.. German made q
peech, calling attention to the fact thai
although it was estimated that the war
with Spain would add $1,000 names to
the pension roll, unless our troops were
recalled from the tropics before the sick
ly season, no provision whatever, had
been made in the bill for the increase.
NJ. GoIman concluded with this sig
ficant prediction: within three years
from this date, the pension roll will
mount to S165,O00,00O. If you add to
hat, the cost of maintaining your army
one thousand dollars man } the Amer
can republic will in the year 1900, ex
,end more for its army and pensioner
han any other nation on the face OF tn
arth. That is fact, which the Amer
can people will have to, face, and they
ought to know now, in advance, what is
coming to them, if the schemes and pro-
iects which are being forced upon us
ire carried out"
The attempt OF the republicans to gel
democratic support for the Hull bill.
which will be voted upon tomorrow, by
amending it SO as to make any increase
Of the regular army above 10000, dis
cretionary with the President, was not a
ccess. II made no real change The
democrats proved by their votes for the
irst war appropriation, that they were
aot afraid to trust the President, but
that did not change the principle OF the
party against the concentration OF
authority in the hands of one man. Such
concentration does no harm as long as
he right man exercises the authority,
but who can say when the wrong man
will come along? The change was not
made for effect in the House, where
partisanship will put the bill through,
but in the Senate, where its fate will be
very much in doubt, unless the support
OF Senators, who are now inclined to
oppose it can be secured. This subter-
fuge was so palpable that Represent
Loud, of Cal, republican, made a hot
speech against it, plainly telling his par
ty associates that they could not hope to
catch suckers with such bare hook.
Gen Miles is still piling up evidence
official and unofficial, that the beef fur
aished our soldiers in Cuba and Porto
Rico, was unfit to eat. He has already
.bout convinced everybody, except the
members OF the administration, and OF
the War Investigating Commission, that
his charge was true, but they seem de-
termined TO stick to it that the beef was
good.
Secretary Alger put another slight up
on General Miles in connection with the
finding of the Eagan court-martial. The
army regulations provide that the find
ing of court-martial shall be forwarded
to the Secretary of War through the
commanding general of the army, but
ALI er instructed the Judge Advocate to
ignore Miles and hand the finding to
him directly, and it was DONE While
nobody outside the court and officials
can swear wha the verdict was, every
body is certain that it was guilty, and
that the sentence was dismissal from the
army. In handling this verdict, Mr.. Nc
K nley would better be careful or he
will sign his own political death warrant
the people have decided that Eagan
should be punished, and if Mr. McKin
lev exercises his authority to shield him
he will find that he may have the pun
ishment to bear himself.
Senator Butler, in presenting a reso
luton of the North Carolina Legislature
for the election of Senators, by vote ol
the people, called attention to this being