The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-28
President Mckinley Will Serve
Another Term as Sure as
Anything.
SIGN ANOTHER TREATY
For ReciI1Snity - Private Letters
RTiive the Lie to
''''"'"' Claims
Special Correspondence to The Gazette.

p~erienoe himself, and it ia not surpris.
ing that he should not feel called upon
to take any official notice of the com.
plant Of certain newspaper correspon'
dents at Manila that General Otis has
not conducted the war against the
Filipinos to suit them and that his
military censor has not allowed them
to cable anything they chose to write
to their papers. The president knows
that the same sort Of complaints were
made against General Grant, General
Sherman, General Sheridan, and in
fact every officer who conducted a
campaign during the civil war. He
knows that those officers managed to
get along Notwithstanding such com.
plants, and he has every confidence in
the ability of General Otis to do the
same. Information from civil and
naval sources. over which General Otis
had no control. have conceded too
closely with what he has sent for any
unplejudioed person to swallow the
story of his having at any time misrep.
resented the situation.
Secretary Alger has placed his resigna.
tion in the hands of President Mckin-
ley, to take effect whenever the presi.
dent wishes; that ought to stop q lot
of fool talk, but, of course, it won't.
Senator Nelson was given a hearing
by Secretary Hitchcock, Assistant Sec.
rotary Ryan aud Indian Commissioner
Jones, concerning the order of June 30,
for the withdrawal of all intruders and
white trespassers from the Cass Lake
Indian reservation. Senator Nelson
took the ground that the reservation
was public land and that settlers had a
right to enter it., and asked that the
carrying into effect Of the order ba post.
ponod until there should be opportunity
for congressional action. Secretary
Hitchcock has not announced his de-
oision yet, but will do so in q day or
two.
Secretary Hay has granted permits
sion to the Civic Federation of Chi.
oago, through it's secretary, to request
all United States oonsuls in Europe to
respond to u series Of questions as to
the existence and workings of trusts
and trade combinations in the
tries in which they are stationed.
That President Mckinley will be re-.
elected is as certain as anything III the
future can be. Even il there had BEEN
no war with Spain. this would still be
certain, OIL account of the prosperous
condition OF the country. The matter
Is thus briefed by q resident of Wash
ingtOn: "All elections in this country
are carried by the laboring vote, the
men who follow the pillow and the me.
chanios aud artisans are the ones who
elect presidents. This class Of voters
are not yet ready to again embark
upon the sea of approximate free trade,
which is the chief corner stone Of the
so.called democratic organization.
The lanoring nan is too near the time
when he walked the street, looking
for work, living in s%oup.houses that
were maintained by public charity,
while his wife and children were at
home without the necessary food to sus'
tain life, aud without fuel to keep
them warm, to be yet ready to join the
party which closed up the factories
and threw them out of employment
during the last Cleveland administra'
ton. II William Mckinley had
nothing to rely upon except the fact
that he had given employment to every
laboring man throughout the length
and breadth of the land, he could rest
assured of reelection
Mr., r, j. Vincent of California, who
thiUlyc Snyatnp XNhito nf hic cfafG
would DO the strongest man the demo.
Gratis could nominate for president,
said: But there is no use expecting
any such good luck. Bryan is already
picked out, and if he hasn't any more
show in the rest of the Union than in
California, he will make a worse race
than in 90"
The fourth treaty of reciprocity with
British colonies was last week signed
by representatives of the United States
and Great Britain. They provide 70,
trade reciprocity with Barbados, Ber'
muda, British Guiana, and Jamaica,
The text of none of these treaties will
be made public until they have beer
acted upon by congress, the Dingley
law, under which they were negotiated
requiring that they shall be approved
by the house as we'll as the senate be-
fore becoming effective. The time
within which reciprocity treaties under
the Dingley law could be negotiated
expired this week, but that will no
prevent a resumption and completion
af the negotiations for similar treatie
with France and Germany, which
were begun s0me time ago, but neve
completed, The constitutional author
ity OF the president enables him t.
negotiate commercial treaties at an.
time,
Hundreds of private letters from sol
diers In the Philippines give the lie :
tho ulaim that tbs military CENSORSHIP
has resulted In misrepresentation OF tn
situatiOu Q there, Here Ia an 81