The Billings gazette., 1899-06-30
Meet Secretary Alger on His Re-
turn to the National
Capital.
SENTIMENT WITH QUAY
So Says 4 Pennsylvania Republican.
Colonel Dick on the Situation
in Ohio.
Special Correspondence Of The Gazette.

Special Correspondence Of The Gazette.
Washing ton, June 90. -- Secretary
Alger met the usual batch Of rumor.
concerning himself and the war depart
ment upon his return to Washington.
The rumor Of his early resignation has
become such q regular thing that he
would be really disappointed If it failed
to meet him after any little absence
from his desk. The rumor that Gen.
eral Miles was to be sent to the Philip
pines to command the army was an en-
tirely new one, and entitled to a medal
for utter absurdity and senselessness.
Secretary Alger and the entire admins.
tration are entirely satisfied with Gen.
eral Otis conduct of affairs in the
Philippines and have no idea Of placing
such an indignity upon him as the
sending Of the commanding general of
the army to the Philippines would be-.
about what had been decided about the
army in the Philippines, which are not
worthy Of specific mention, for the
simple reason that persons Of average
intelligence should have known that
with the president and the secretary OF
war both away from Washington there
was no one left with authority to de.
eide upon anything important connect.
cd with the army, but, OF course, every
one knows that the yellow journals,
which originate these rumors, are not
printed for persons Of average intelli.
gence.
More or less amusement was caused
Washington by the solemn announce.
ment of one of the big Chicago dailies,
which was duly telegraphed all over
the country, that it had succeeded il
getting trustworthy information that
Representative Payne would continue at
the head of the house ways and means
committee, Representative Cannon at
the head Of the committee OH appropria.
tions, and Representative Hit ut the
head OF the committee Oh foreign
affairs. In Washington this great bit
of news was fully known from the day
that a republican majority Of the house
was elected. Those three men would
have retained their chailmanships no
matter who had been chosen speaker
of the house, simply because their OK.
tensive experience made them the right
men for the places. There has been
discussion about other chairmanships.
but none about these, except BY those
who were seeking to create pickering
in the republican ranks by saying that
it existed.
Mr.. Charles Fl. Mullen. a well-known
Pennsylvania republican, who is visit.
ing Washington, said Of politics III tho
Keystone state: "The larger part OF
the delegates to the republican, state
convention, which meets in August,
have been elected. The Philadelphia
men have not been chosen yet, but they
will not be very large part OF the con-
vention, no matter what their affilia.
tions may be. It il safe to say, from
the delegates already selected, that the
entire con sention Of 203 members will
not contain more than forty anti.Quay
men, or insurgents, as the regulars call
them. The sentiment Of the party IL
really with Senator Quay. no matter
how much noise the antis may make. y
Colonel Dick, who has been chosen
to be chairman Of the Ohio state com.
mittee, has a host Of friends in Wash.
ington, who value him as % friend as
we'll as admire him as a political man.
ager. He smiles when anybody asks
him about the extent Of the alleged re.
publican revolt in Ohio, which the
democrats are SO fond of talking about,
and says wait until the votes are count.
ed. He declined to discuss the alleged
republican kicking because he was
made chairman of the state committee,
but said Of the head Of the ticket
"The nomination Of Judge Nash was
the best that could have been made.
He is popular and strong man all
over the state, and his name Oh the
ticket will be worth many votes to the
party" Colonel Dick seems to take
very little interest in who the demo
Gratis nominate for governor, because he
doesn't think that it will make the
slightest difference in the result.
Postmaster General Smith has made
public letter from i. W. Vaille
director of posts Mt Manila, concerning
the absurd story that volunteers lettoll
to the United States were being opened
and censored before being forwarded
Following is al extract theIefr0m
''It il not necessary to assure you an
not risking personal liberty by allow
ing any letters to be tampered with
and it will be useless to assure tn,
originator Of the absurd story O
censorship OF the mails that he IL mis-
taken, because he knows that the stoi,
was manufactured for politiea
reasons''
General Leonard Wood. who has sucl
brilliant record AZ commander Of tn
Rough Riders and as military governo
OF Santiago, IL Ia demand, The bi
syndicate Of capitalists, which include
ex-Senatols German OF Maryland an
Smith Of New Jersey. and which ha