Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1899-07-29
WASHINGTON LETTER
SECRETARY ALGER'S
RETIREMENT.
M Change in the Philip
pine Policy.
FOR MRS. MCKINLEY'S
HEALTH.
The Treaty AbrOgated.
CORPORAL TANNER s
OPINION.
The Cir, fiOr1 IL Ohio
The Situation il Ohio.

From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d C, July "a, 1899.
In selecting HoE. Elihu Root, of New
York, to succeed Gen. Alger as Secre-
tAry of War, President Mckinley has
added another TO the long list of sp-
p0intments he has made that even his |
opponents cannot criticize. Mr.. Roots /
reputation as lawyer stands second
T., that of no man in the country. And
~ was for that reason he WAS chosen. |
l'-ssident Mckinley wanted the best
lawyer he could find at the head of the
War Department, to handle the legal
/ connection with the military gov
eminent of our new possessions, and
which sre likely 10 he still more nu
merous and more complicated in the
near future. He will get him in Mr..
Root.
FILLING UP VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS.
No change in the Philippine policy is
foreshsdowed by the change in the
organization Of the volunteer regl-
ments is being pushed with great rapi-
uity-alrea dy more than four thous-
and men have enIisted-snd the ten
regiments are expected TO be complet-
al by tn middle of August. and on
cir way to Manila very soon after
tnRt DAFT IS present plans are to have
1hPm all over there by the close of the
rainy season, SO that q campaign sg-
gressive enough to crush out the re-
N.slt before the next rainy season rolls
around can be xaged.
Will GO TO LAKE cHAMPLAIN.
For the benef of Mrs BcKinley's
ealth, which continues to be poor,
the President will this week take her
Lake Champlain, near PlattsbuTg,
N Z. How long they will remain
suere will depend upon the amount of
lsnefit MrP. Mckinley may derive.
There will be no delay to any public
business of importance. by this vaea-
fion, as the President will be connect
ed with the White House by long dis
ts1Ce telephone, and will be able to
give the same attention to important
business that he does while in Wash
iagton, and all matters requiring i'm
mAdiate attention will he disposed Of
before his departure.
ARRoGATKD THE TREATY.
The WAT with Spain sbrogAted all
treaties with the u. g., and the treaty
OF Peace, which ended the war. does
not deal with commercial matters.
Consequently, U. E. trade with Spain
is now more or less haI dicspptc. For
instance, Consul Sprs que, at Gibraltar,
has jHst called the attention of the
Department of State to the existence
Of q differential duty Of two pesetas-a
xraction more than thirty-eight cents
between Z. 3. and British -four en-
tering Spain, in favor Of the British
-four. The Ccrsul sdded: 1.-THE TSst-
Ter &c OF some importance, as st pres
ent American -four can under-sell 9TH
er foreign impOrtations in this lipf.''
When q new commercial treaty is ne
Rotiated with Spain, as one doubtlsts
viii be in the near future, such Draw
backs TO trade will be done away with
as President Mckinley will insist that
the o. 8. be given every numerical
advantage possessed by the most law
fred nation"
CHARGES IT TO THE SYSTEM.
Corporal Tanner. who has been
personally intimate with Secretary Al
SRer for twenty years, said, while dis
cussing Gen. Ayers reeoId ard bis
re siRnatiOn, which takes effect next
week: "Whstever measure of fsilore
could be charged to him as Secretary
OF War, and, in my opinion. it is not
by one Thousand de grees as great as
many seem to think lis justly more
chaTgeable to the system in vogue at
the War Department, that Of bureau
Bracy and divided responsibility. than
10 Alger. The historian who sums up
Ayers career diepassloE ately, with
JUL knowledge Of events, must put
him down ss q really great man. He
Oill be known as q man who fell vic
tim to the infamous assaults of sensa-
trCnalism. In sll the great crises in
The history Of this government, there
has BEEN developed a wolfsh side in
This quality, when things do not go to
suit the crowd, makes them demand Q
human sacrifice. They want to rend
ard tear. / speak with full knoWle &c
ard memory of the days when por-
tiOn OF the press lampooned Abraham
Liucoln as a baboon and clown, and
derided Gen. Grant as drunkard and
butcher"
REPUBLICAN YEAR IN OHIO.
Mr.. E. N. Higgins, OF Columbus, o..
who is always posted on the polaics OF
his state, said This will be repub-
licap year in Ohio. We will elect ou1
state ticket by at least fifty thousand
plurality. The democrats haven't 8
ghost OF q chance, and wouldn't have
even if they were not split into fac.
tions. No man the democrats can put
MP viii De able to defeat Judge Nash
He is not only strong in his own right
but the popularity Of President McKin-