Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-27
FOR THE sPEAKERsnlP.
Another Conference in the Philip
pines About the Cuban Army
Organism Losing Ground
Wants Horseless
Carriages,
tFrom our Regular Correspondent J

~ dSut4lgtoAs ~. -, MAY 22---lT
dent Mckinley is again on duty at the
White Hose His two weeks rest al
the Hot Springs appear to have done
him lots or good. and he saws his rheu-
matte pains have entirely disappeared.
His return and the Peace Jubilee, which
IS being held this week have attracted
number Of prominent men 10 Washing
ton, for the purpose of combining busi-
ness and pleasure. Among them are
| friends Of several OF the candidates for
Speaker Of the House. The most inter-
esting news of the Speakership contest is
the statement, apparently we'll founded,
that friends of Representative Sherman
and Henderson have made an agreement
whereby each is made the second choice
Of the other, the idea being to make sure
that one or the other of then gets elected.
But Representative Payne, who is him
self in Washington, and the friends OF
Representative Hopkins, who are quite
numerous. say they take no stock in any
such agreement.
Representatives of Aguinaldo have had
another conference with the American
| Philippine Commissioners. and have been
again told that the only way for the Fill
pinos to get a cessation OF hoslllties Is 10
accept the unconditional surrender terms
of Gen. Otis.
The feeling is general in official circles
that the Cuban army has been allowed
rope enough and that they must either
surrender their arms or reetoufs surren-
der them at once. II thye refuse the
chances are they will be made TO do so.
President Mckinley and his advisers have
/ been disposed to treat these men very
leniently. and to humor their whims to as
great an extent as possible. without giving
them the idea that they were able to die
tate to Us, but there is a limit to patience,
and by their backing and filing and hick-
ering among themselves, the Cubans have
very near reached that OF the administra-
ton. 1t is the understanding now that
the disarmament is to begin the latter
part Of this week, but there have been
other similar agreements that were not
carried out.
Senator Keen, Of New Jersey, who has
been in Washington on business, said on
a subject that has been much talked
about recently: There has been some
effort to cite New Jersey as frightful ex-
ample. because of the laws which invite
corporations to organize within our State,
but our people do not sympathize with
this criticism We compel the payment
of fee, based on the amount OF capita
specified in the certificate Of incorpora-
ton, whether the stock has been issued
or not, and the result is that our revenues
have increased this year at least $4,000
or $4,000. The last legislature made
generous appropriations for the blind asy-
lum. the reformatory at Railway, the
/ equipment Of the National guard and adj
ditionai payment to soldiers from our
State, who served in the war with Spain
My information is that all of these extra
ordinary expenses of the State will be
met by the fees from corporations organ
lied under our laws this year. You can
readily see that the people who benefit
from this influx of wealth are not apt to
be antagonstic TO those who bring il.
Intelligent men from nearly every sec
ton of the South and West bring similar
reports to Washington concerning the
loss Of prestige BY Bryan and silver.
Col. P. Lannon, editor Of the Salt Lake,
| Utah Tribune, who is visiting Washing
ton, said 1.-The most ardent believers in
| free silver are forced to admit that the
issue is about dead. The trend of events
since 90 has forced it into oblivion, and
however much we may adhere to the
white metal from principle, it has been
eliminated as living factor in the poll
tics Of the day. AS for Col. Bryan, while
many of us admire him, it must be said
that his prestige is on the wane. But no
matter whether the Democrats name
Bryan or some other man, Mckinley is
going to succeed himself" Col Lannon
says Of the case Of Roberts, the polyga-
mist epresentative-elect: IF his claim
TO membership in the House is rejected,
as it ought to be, there will be good
ground for national rejoicing"
| Brigadier General Greeley, Chief Sig
nal officer, believes in keeping his branch
of the army, which has been so nightly
compimented for its work in Cuba,
Porto Rico. and the Philippines, right up
to date'in everything. He has just asked
for proposals for three electric horseless
carriages. for the purpose OF experiment.
ing with them to ascertain what uses they
can be put TO by the Signal Corps. Gen.
Greedy believes that they can be made es-
pecially useful in connection with the
hurried erection of field lines Of telegraph,
and his first experiments will be in that
direction. The Signal Corps has already
demonstrated, by acting experiments. that
the much-talked about system of wireless
teleeraphy has not been sufficiently per-
fected to make it safe to depend upon it
for the transmission Of important messa-
ges, although Gen. Greedy expresses con-
fidence that it can be made useful in
many directions, even as it is now, and
that il will be greatly improved in the
near future.
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