Middletown transcript., 1899-03-18
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From our special Correspondent.

From our Special Correspondent.
Before leaving Washington for
much needed rest, President McKinle
: made The appointments of Second LieU
tenants in the Regular Army provides
for by the New Army Act. There ar
necessarily many disappointments, a
for every Lieatenapey there were
score of applicants. The appointment
were divided pro rata among the states
the only condition im .iosed by thl
> President being that each of the younl
men appointed should be mentally ant
physically qualified to fill the position
asked for him. Tie responsibility fol
these appointments rests upon the
Senator'S and Representatives who rec
ommended the men, but as the Pfesi-
dent made the requirements plain, it is
not likely that any mistakes were made.
Accompanying the President on his
vacation are Mrs. Mckinley, the Vice
President and Mrs. Hobart, Senator
Hanna, at whose ThomasviIle, Ca,
residences the party will be guests, and
several friends. How long the Presi-
dent will remain away from Washing
ton will depend entirely upon public
business. Unless called back by some
thing urgent, he will probably stay at
Thomasville couple Of weeks, possibly
longer. Although il is not his inten-
tiOn to transact any routine public
business while away, Secretary Porter
the purpose of making telegraphic re-
ports to him of anything important
and receiving any orders it may be
necessary for him to give.
In statement just made public con-
cerning the work of the last Congress,
Chairman Cannon, of the House Ap-
preparation Committee gives more de-
tailed statement of the Appropriations
made than was possible for him to
make earlier, and says: "During the
whole of the four years covered by Mr..
Cleveland's second administration, the
material and industrial condition cf
the country was calamitous, and its
contemplation does not bring satisfac-
tion to any American citizen. But the
Fifty-ffth Congress, beginning with
the administration of William McKin-
ley and promptly called in extraordin-
ary session, as promptly enacted legis-
lation which has yielded the additional |
revenues needed to pay the ordinary |
expenses of the government, and has at |
the same time protected American
labor. With the enactment of that |
legislation, hope and confidence struck 1
hands and the condition of the whole
country improved and has continued to
improve from that time to the present.
Labor is now universally employed
with increased wages, and with such
employment the means are supplied for
increased consumption. The vast in
crease of the navy, and the creation Of
an army of quarter of a million men.
together with the increase Of taxation.
have not in any appreciabIe degree
checked our industrial advance, which
began co-incidentally with the incom-
ing Of the present administration and
the Fifty-ffth Congress.
The Navy Department has no infor-
nation that Admiral Dewey's health is
in a preoarious condition; months ago
Admiral Dewey was given leave to
come home whenever he desired to do
so, and he has since remained at his
post from choice, and because be de-
sired tc complete the work in which he
is engaged. This is strictly official.
General Brooks, Military Go. ernor
of Cuba, and General Oils, Military
GoverI.o, of the Philippines, have each
been authorized to enlist a battalion of
natives for the regular army if they
it wise to try the experiment.
The officers will, of course, be Ameri-
cans.
Administration officials are not at
all concerned over the renewed report
that Germany had succeeded in pur-
chasing the Caroline Islands from
Spain; they regard it as matter that
only Spain and Germany, and
are consequently Indifferent as to
the report is true or otherwise.
Now that General Lawton and the
reinforcements he carried with him
have joined General Otis, at Manila.
it is expected that a rushing campaign
will at once be set in motion against
the Filipinos, and decisive results are
looked for very soon. In late dis
General Otis says he has in
that the whippings already ,
have made the rank and
file of the Filipinos anxious to give up. {
and that it is all their leaders can do to
keep them in the field. As the cam
paign against them is likely to consist
largely of bush fighting, General Law
TOMS extensive experience in Indian
lighting will make his services inyalu. !
able. The sort of a man Lawton is
nay be judged by ons of the names 8
given to him by hostile Indians In the !
West some years ago: "Man-who.qets- I
lp- and lights ih- the middle. Of the
light" The War Department has not
equired General Otis to submit his
,lans for the campaign against the S
silipinos, believing it to be better to
cave him free-banded to carry out the
in his own way doing exactly
IS he may think best to scatter Agui-
laldo's forces and if possible, to can or
ure that slippery individual. =,
The old old story of the Ranphl;oors VI