Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1899-08-04
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
speed Of Hattieships To he Increased
P~y.ywaI Mention Of Pui,ffss sten.

WASHINGTON, July 81. Presi.
dent Mckinley will ENJOY his we'll
earned vacation all the more because
~ the knowledge that he left public
business in n very satisfactory condi-
ii,H,. lie HAS secured. !; nan for secre-
tary Of war In the person OF Hon.
Elihu Root, who will take charge or
the department August list, against
whom no word 81 criticism has been
said, even by his partisan opponents:
ting the troublesome Alaskan bound.
AIRY question fairly on the read To an
earl, diplomatic settlement: more than
half III the volunteers wanted for the
| Philippines ilaye enlisted, and Gen
cral OTIS has cabftd that so many OF
the volunteers already In the Philip
pines wish to re-enlSt that a third
regiment TWO have already been en-
listed he enlisted from them.
The length u the presidents stay on
Lake Champaign will depend upon
Mrs. Mekitiey's health and upon the
state Of public business.
| Representative Laniis of Indiana.
who was In Washington last week
| looking after some business for his
constituents, said Of the situation in
| his state. aOur people are too well
satisfied with the prosperity under
this administration to desire a change.
Everybody is happy and prosperous.
Farmers are paying off their mortga--
ges and leaning money. They have
seen that the price Of wheat Is not de-
pendant upon the price Of silver. and
tiley have abandoned the belief that
| free coinage is necessary for good times.
lf the democrats have spoke left in
the wheels of their political chariot |
do not know II. don't believe one
hundred democrats will march TO the
same music in any. county In Indiana
Expansion Is very popular I'm Indiana.
especially among the country people
TIE farmer generally likes Ia hold on
to all he can get, and he carries that
idea into national matters The dem
| Urrats will make !; great mistake If
they attack the administration for de-.
tefminiHg To hold all we have in the
Philippines.
Notwithstanding Bryan'S attempt
To get AL the Kentucky democrats To
support Goeble, Kentucky democrats
who were In Washington last week adj
| init that the state will probably go re-
publican. Representative Berry said
that 1t seemed probable q new conven-
tion would he held and a ticket headed
by Ex-Governor Brown be nominated
by the independent democrats, and
that IL that probability became Il fact
the republicans would almost surely
carry the state.
senator Elkins, who was once secrc-
tar4o war himself, had this to say Of
his retiring successor; secretary Al
ger has been compelled to endure a
series OF undcseryed, not to say brutal.
assaults. He did not deserve the harsh
things which were said of him. but he
bore them brayely, standing manfully
under the abuse which might other
wise have been thrown ut the presl-
dent. Time viii indicate him. There
will be Il reaction In his favor. | say
these things all the more readily be-
cause Secretary Alger and have not
been of the same way of thinking i'm
our party. am no apologst for him
! do not want to he drawn into any
controversy, but | hope | may never
| hesitate To DO Justice to any man.
secretary Algcr has gone to New York
on private business and will not return
until next Tuesday, when he will
formally turn over the war department
/ 10 Secretary Root. The latter was in
Washington several days last week,
and nothing but favorable words are
heard from those who met him.
The slight changes announced last
week In the plans of the battieships
Maine, Missouri and Ohio, now In
course OF construction. by the navy
board of bureau chiefs, were not made
necessary by errors in the original
plans, ms the yellow Journals insisted
upon publishing. They were made
simply Ia Increase the efficiency Of the
vessels by giving them speed of Is
knots, instead Of III. as under the or
igtnal plans The contractors agreed
To the changes and made valuable sug
gestlons To the board. That is the
whole story.
The originator Of the story that See.
rotary Gage WAS not legally secretary
ot The tre'tsnr, because he owns stock
m The thicagu National hank. ot which
< he was president before he entered
the cabinet, ought Ia hire himself out
~ u hnier of maros nests. There is
no law denrrlng holders of national
y hank stock from hefsnmjnr se,,ratary az