Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Correspondent)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2sth. 1899.
President Mckinley has signed
d proclamation to the people Of
Cuba which will be made public in
this country after it has been pub
lished in Cuba, that will put an
end to all of the silly talk about
this Government not intending to
allow the Cubans to have any say
in the Government of that island.
This proclamation tells the
Cubans that the census ordered
taken in Cuba, work upon which
will shortly be started and which
it is hoped to have completed in
ninety days, will be the first step
towards an independent govern
ment; that when the census is
completed arrangements will be
made for the holding of local cleo
tions throughout the island, in
order to give its citizens an oppor-
tunity to show their capacity for
self-government, and that as fast
as the local authorities get their
government in good working con-
dition, the L. S. troops will be
withdrawn. Copies of this proc
lammation have been forwarded to
Gen. Brooke, at Havana, who is
charged with the duty of having it
widely published throughout the
island.
Secretary Root has arranged to
go to Fort Hancock, and Sandy
Hook, n. Y, this week to witness
tests Of field and mountain guns,
under the supervision Of the Board
of Ordnance and Fortifcations of
the War Department. Secretary
Root is such Il strong believer in
doing things, rather than talking
of doing them, that he doesn't per-
sonally furnish much copy" for
the newspaper men who swarm in
the corridors of the War Depart
ment every day; he has the knack,
however, of declining to talk in so
pleasant a way, that he has made
many admirers among the news
paper men, to whom he has refused
information about the plans of the
War Department.
Secretary Gage has received a
highly gratifying report from the
Auditor General of Hawaii, show
ing the comparative imports into
the islands for the months of June,
1898, the last under the Hawaiian
regime, and June 1899. During
the first named month, the imports
from the [. S. were S599, S03 and
from all other countries 1888, ,995,
while in June Of this year, the i'm
ports from the |. S. were 81 .412, =
65S, and those from all other
countries $3S4, 494. The total in
crease in six months of imports
from the [. S. was SO, 3,616. 151.
The report also notes that while
the government receipts in Hawaii
have increased, the public eXpend-
itures have decreased. This sort
of thing is likely to convince the
most obstinate royalist taxpayer in
Hawaii that under the protecting
Mings of the American Eagle is a
good place to live.
There is a lesson for those who
believe that America is behind
Europe in medical science, or in
anything else, in a cablegram re-
ceived several days ago by Surgeon
General Sternberg, from the Direc-
tor General of the Army Medical
Service of Great Britain. The
cablegram asked that three hundred
copies of a L. S. official publication
entitled Sanitary Lessons Of the
War" be sent for distribution
among the medical officers of the
British Army. and that if that
number of copies could not be furn-
ished, permission be given to re-
print the pamphlet in London
This cablegram is proof of the
newspaper statement that England
is preparing for war with the
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