The Press., 1899-06-01
Washington Letter.
Washington May 29, 1899.

ill the near future, although officials will not admit it. Gen. Otis has asked for more troops and expressed doubts of peaceable surrender of the Filiplnos. All of the regulars that can possibly be spared are to be sent to him as fast as they can be transported, but they will not increase the total of his army unless his project of persuading the volunteers to re-enlist as organizations, instead of coming home, can be successfully carried out. There is also some anxiety felt over the situation in Cuba. It is known that the Cuban leaders who have persuaded the Cuban soldiers to retain their arms rather than surrender them and get their quota of the $3,000,O00 now in Havana, awaiting distribution, are not friendly to the U. s., and that they would willingly make trou- ble, if they dared. There are also mys- terious hints of outside influence and money being used in Cuba to foment dis satisfaction. And well-informed men are expressing fear that more troops are like ly to be needed ins Cuba as we'll as in the Philippines.
 Commissioner General of Immigration Powderly is wrestling with knotty prob lem-whether natives of the Philippines have a legal right to come to this country without complying with the immigration laws. A New York amusement manager engaged a party of Filipinos, said to be i,, 0h hnp fo San Francisco, where the immigration commissioner refused to allow them to land on the ground that they were desti- tute aliens. The New York manager ap- pealed to Commissioner Powderly, mak- ing the argument that the Philippines be- ing part of the U. s., the natives have the same right to travel from one part of the country to another part that is pos- sessed by the natives of any of the states or territories; he also claims that the immigration laws do not apply to actors who come to the country for the purpose of giving exhibitions. MT. ?owderly has the case under consideration, and his de- cision is expected in a few days.
 Representative Zenor of Indiana occu- pies a sort of neutral position on the gen. eral question of expansion, but is quite certain that we do not want the Philip pines for keeps. He said: II am not what you would call an anti-expansionist. We can hardly get out of the Philippines without first giving them @ lesson in civ ilzation. That means that we must go on until we compel them to look at the matter in the proper light. Still, don't believe that in the end we want the islands. The riental character is some thing that we, as Caucasians, can have no conception of. It is because it would be impossible for us to gage the character of the inhabitants that the islands would make dangerous possessions for us.''
 Paper money cannot be safely used in the Philippines. Uncle Sam has recently gained this information, and it came neal cos ting him a million dollars. Knowing the prejudice the average American has to carrying around lot of coin, the wa, department shipped $1,00O,G00 in paper money of small denominations to Manila 70 be used in paying off the troops. By good luck the money was saved from de struction by the myriad of ants which at tackled it where it was stored after its ar rival at Manila, and if they had not, a once, been discovered, would have eater the notes up entirely. The information was got to Washington in time to stoI another big shigment of paper money The troops in the Philippines will hereaf ter be paid exclusively in gold and silver
 Opt this time, the various funds tha are to be used for brass band and hurral welcomes to Admiral Dewey, in various places, ale many, many thousands large than the fund that is being collected fo the purchase of home for Admiral Dew ey in Washington. The comparativel, small total of the contributions receive, by Treasurer Roberts indicates either ap athy on the subject or general belle that so many contributions would be mad that 1t was useless for any single individ ual to bother about making one. Tn value of this fund will lie more in tn promptness and spontaniety with which is contributed than its grand total. Thou sands remember the disgust that was fel at the slowness with which the none
 for the Grant tomb in New York was col lected, and care should be taken not t allow the Dewey home fund to get int
 any such condition. Only little nor
 than $5,000 has yet reached the custod
 of Treasurer Roberts.
 The long-talked about civil service ol der has been issued by the president
 Although it is very conservative in it's e1
 captions, 1t pleases neither the spoilsme
 nor the civil service reformer. The forme
 object because it's exceptions are so few only about four thousands places in al
 and the latter because it is issued at al
 No exceptions are made in any branch (
 the service that were not approved by tn member of the cabinet at the head of tht
 branch. The employees of the goverl
 ment printing office are left under tn
 civil service rules, notwithstanding a 5 opinion by the attorney general that the never should have been placed undt them.
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