The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-03-02
WASHINGTON.
Not the Father Of His Country,
But It's Capital.
--latest Political News and Gossip From
the Banks q the Potomac.

Will there be an extra session Of Con.
gres7 Just now that question b heard
upon every side. The answer 10 In the
hands Of the Democratic combine in the
Senate which is opposing the Hull army
bill. President McKinley's ultima atum,
satisfactory army bill, or IN extra sess.
ION. was given more than ten days ago,
and the necessity for satisfactory army
legislation has grown more pressing in
stead Of diminishins, since then. 1t 10
ct this time in the power Of Democratic
Senators to avoid an extra session, but
If they continue to obstruct other legis.
lation by opposing vote on the Hull
army bill much longer, the failure Of
some of the regular appropriation bills
will make an extra session inevitable,
regardless Of army legislation.
The sensational testimony that the
yellow journals have been promising has
not been produced before the military
Court of Inquiry, now holding daily
sessions in Washington. The testimony
of Gen. Miles was very mild, indeed,
when compared with alleged inte rviews
with him, most of which he repudiated
under oath. In fact, from legal point
of view, his evidence has no status what
ever, as he stated at the beginning that
he had no personal. knowledge that re-
frigerated beef issued to the soldiers was
"embalmed," or that that the can beef
was unfit for use. His allegations were
based solely npon letters written him. in
which the opinion that the beef was EN-.
bslmed, etc., was expressed by army of
ficers. The piece of beef that was an
alyzed by DR.. DAILY, who made the first
claim that the beef was embalmed, was
cut from quarter of beef that had been
chemically treated, but was not issued
to the troops, but was hung up on a
transport bound for Cuba, as an expert.
ment to test the claim made by the man
who furnished it and who wished to sell
bis process to the Government. DR..
DAILY says be thought the piece of beef
was part of the regular supply on the
transport. A number Of officers have
testified that the canned roast beef issued
in Cuba and Porto Rico was 20 unpala-
table that they could not eat it, and that
much Of it was thrown away by the men.
The House Judiciary Committee has
reported to the House the resolution,
agreed upon some time ago., declaring
that the four members who. accepted
commissions in the army forfeited their
seats in Congress. Some think that the
resolution will not be voted upon, but it
probably will be, and DO adopted.
The volunteer regiments that served
in the war with Spain will be allowed to
keep the flags they carried and deposite
them with their State authorities instead
OF the War Department, at Washington,
as the law now provides, as there is no
opposition to the bill that has been re-
ported from the House Military Com.
mittee, granting the volunteers that priv.
ilege.
The unfortunate::S ::Schley- Sampson con-
troversy. which has caused the Senate to
hang up the promotion of those two Of.
fcers may turn out badly for 6chley,
should the Senate adjourn without act
ing on his nomination to be Rear Ad-
miral. as it is claimed that such failure
would put him outside the navy, a. an
other afficer has been nominated and
confirmed to succeed him as Oommc-
dore.
Senator Allen is now doubtless sorry
that he let his disappointment because
a bill in which he was particularly int
crested was not among those reported
from the Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds to the Senate by Senator
Quay, chairman, to make him reckless
enough to charge that Senator Quay was
the head of a combination to control
public building legislation, Senator Quay
answered the charge by saying: "When
the Senator from Nebraska talks about
a combination, he says what is unwsr-
ranted and false what is not true. If
he only paid little more attention to
the business of his constituents, he
might be more successful in securing the
legislation he desired"
The personnel of the advisory COM
mittee this week named by Senator
Jones, chairman of the National Demo
cratic Committee, leaves no doubt OF the
existence OF combine for the purpose
OF forcing the Democratic convention Of
next year to stick to silver and Bryan.
The men chosen to help Mr.. Jones are
Senator White, of California, d. J. Cam
pau, of Michigan, Norman E. Mack. Of
New York, John P. Altgeld. of Illinois.
and George Fred. wiliiams, of Msesa-
chusstts, all pronounced advocates Of
Bryan and silver. The success of these
schemsrs will add largely to the Rspub.
lican majority in the next electoral col