The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-05-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINaroN, ID, q. Man 22nd. is

President Mckinley is again on duty
at the White House. His two weeks
rest at the Hot Springs appear. to have
done him lots of good, and he says
his rheumatic pains have entirely dis
appeared His return and the Peace
Jubilee, which is to be held this week,
have attracted number of promi-
nent men to Washington, for the pur-
pose of combining business and plea
sure Among them are friends of sew
eral of the candidates for Speaker of
the House The most interesting news
of the Speakership contest is the
tatement, apparently well founded,
hat friends of Representative Sher-
man and Henderson have made an
agreement whereby each is made the
second choice of the other, the idea
being to make sure that one or the
other of them gets elected. But Rep
resentative Payne, who is himself in
Washington, and the friends of Rep
resentative. Hopkins, who are quite
numerous, say they take no stock in
any such agreement.
Representative of Aguinaldo have
had another conference with the
American Philippine Commissioners
and have been again told that the
only way for the Filipinos to get a
cessation of hostilities is to accept the
unconditional surrender terms of Gen,
Otis.
The feeling is general in official Cir
Giles that the Cuban army has been
allowed rope enough and that they
must either surrender their arms or
refuse to surrender them at once. If
they refuse, the chances are they will
be made to do So President McKin-
lev and his advisers have been dis
posed to treat these men very lenient-
" and to humor their whims to as
great an extent as possible, without
giving them the idea that they were
able to dictate us, but there is a limit
to patience, and by their backing and
filling and pickering among them
selves, the Cubans have very near
reached that of the administration
1t is the understanding now that the
disarmament IS to begin the latter
part of this week, but there have
been other similar agreements that
were not carried out.
Senator Kean, of New Jersey, who
has been in Washington on business,
said on a subject that has been much
talked about recently: There has
been some effort to cite New Jersey
as a frightful example, because of the
laws which invite corporations to
organize within our state, but our
people do not spmpathize with this
criticism. We compel the payment
of fee, based on the amount of cap
ital specified in the certificate of cor
pOration, whether the stock has been
issued or not, and this result is that
our revenues have increased this year
at least S400, 600 or $3.50, COO The last
legislature made generous apprOprla-
lions for the blind asylum, the reform
atory at Railway, the equipment of
the National guard and additional
payment to soldiers from our state,
who served in the war with Spain.
Ny information is that all these eX-
traOrdinary expenses of the state will
be met by the fees from corporations
organized under our laws this year.
You can readily see that the people
who benefit from this influx of wealth
are not apt to be antagOnistic to those
who bring it,
Intelligent men from nearly every
section of the South and West bring
similar reports to Washington con
corning the loss of prestige by Bryan
and silver Col p. LannOn, Editor
of the Salt Lake, Utah, Tribune, who
is visiting Washington, said: THE
most ardent believers in free silver are
forced to admit that the issue is about
dead The trend of events since '96
has forced it into oblivion, and how
ever much we may adhere to the
white metal from principle, it has
been eliminated as a living factor in
the politics of the day. AS for Col.
Bryan, while many of us admire him,
it must be said that his prestige is on
the wane. But no matter whether
the Democrats name Bryan or some
other man, Mckinley is going to sue
coed HIMSELF Col. Lannon saws of
fhe case of Roberts, the polygamist
representatives IF his claim to
3neHabers hip in the House is rejected,
AS it ought to be, there will be good
ground for national rejoicing
Brigadier General Greedy, Chief
Signal officer, believes in keeping his
branch of the army, which has been
so highly complimented for it's work
in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philip
pines, right up to date in everything
He has just asked for proposals for
UnTto tltCbTlC IOISclcSS carriages lOT
the purpose of experimenting with
them to ascertain what uses they can
be put to by the Signal Corps. Gen.
Greedy believes that they can be made
especially useful in connection with
the hurried erection of field lines of
telegraph, and his first experiments
will be in that direction. The Signal
Corps has already demonstrated, by
actual experiments, that the much
talked about system of wireless teleg-
raphy has not been sufficiently per-
fected to make it safe to depend upon
it for the transmission of important
messages, although Gen. Greedy eX-
presses confidence that it can be made
useful in many directions, even as it
is now, and that it will be greatly i'm