Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.

President Mckinley that the revision
of his testimony, eliminating the
blackguardism, does not condone the
.1isgraceful conduct of Gen. Eagan in
personally abusing Gen. Miles, his SUI
perior conduct which was ag-
gravated by the furnishing to the
Press Associations advance type writ
ten copies of the Billingsgate before
twas uttered in the presence of the
War Investigating Commission, but
that revision Will at least remove the
dirty stuff from the official record.
What else is to be done is yet to be
determined, but it seems to be reason
ably certain that something else will
be done, and quickly.
The Senate will this week amend
and pass the Morgan bill for the con-
struction of the Nicaraguan Canal,
and if the House Committee on Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce would
drop the bunch of Canal bills it is
wrestling with, and report the Morgan
bill, even with few amendments,
there would be. reasonable certainty
of its becoming law at this session.
But, if that Committee reports an en-
tirely new measure, as all the secret
opponents of the Canal wish it to do,
and as it seems likely to do, the chance
of getting it through will certainly
not be encouraging. 1t is either the
Morgan bill or no bill at all at this
session.
Gen. Otis and Admiral Dewey, who
certainly ought to know better than
anybody else, do not expect conflict
with the Philippine insurgents. In
their official reports to the Govern
ment, they say that they have per-
feet control of the situation in and
around Manila, and that they are
gradually succeeding in making the
rank and file of the insurgents under
stand that Americans are their best
friends, not their enemies, as Aguin-
aldo has recently been trying to make
them believe. AS soon as this task is
accomplished, the rest will be easy.
Things will move faster over there
after thetreaty has been ratified.
All sorts of arguments are being
advanced in all sorts of ways to arouse
opposition to the acquisition of the
Philippines by the United States.
One of the most unique is the offer Of
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie to pay from his
own bank account, the $40, 100000 the
tu Of r,oooo oo1lc for If PrnSi6ant
Mckinley will withdraw our soldiers
and war ships and allow the Philip
pines to govern themselves. That Of
fer is buncomb pure and simple.
There are no circumstances under
which the offer could be accepted,
and nobody knows it any better than
Mr.. Carnegie. By the treaty of Peace,
the Philippines pass from Spain, their
recognized owner, to the United
States, which will be held responsible
by the nations of the world for the
protection Of the interests of their
citizens in the islands. Whatever
may be decided upon, after we have
learned more about the islands, the
assumption of sovereignty over them
by the Uuited States is a present duty
that cannot be shirked.
Representative Berry, of Kentucky,
is not with the "aunties'' as may be
seen by the following, from a speech
made by him: E'While I have not in
my own mind yet concluded what is
best to be done with that new and
beautiful country, down under the
Equator, called the Philippine Islands,
as much may be said by the people
who occupy it, am ready to listen to
suggestions and to hear from men
like Dewey and Otis, and others that
are there representing the United
States, what their conclusions are as
to the best course Of the government
of the United States towards these
people, and having heard that, to
give it and other circumstances full
consideration. But do not propose,
in spite of that treacherous scoundrel,
Aguinaldo-that scoundrel who was
brought in a ship of Dewey's from
Hongkong to Man1la-even in spite of
the German Empire, to stop one mo-
ment in forming my conclusion as to
what are the interests of the United
States, even if it involves the fact
that we shall have to whip Germany
as we did Spain.''
Death can certainly be accused of
having been partial to the New Eng
land delegation in Congress, when
it strikes down so close together two
such prominent men as Senator Nor
rill and Representative Dingley.
The funeral of Mr.. DingleY took place