Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-11-24
QUAY is VERY CONFIDENT
Of Election 10 the Senatorship of PennsYI-
Vania.


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Washington, D. c., Nov 23.-Pres
ident Mckinley has completed the frs
draft of his annual message to Con
gress and has read it to the Cabinet
1t will not be put in type until mex
week. In fact, it will not be ready
for the printers before then, as the
President is very particular about
carefully revising the phraseology OF
the message.
Matters in China are not progressing
to suit the President. 1t looks as
though that Anglo-German agreement
had more in it than appeared on the
surface, and that there was danger of
its being operated to injure American
commercial interests i'm China. This
is only surmise as yet. The appar-
ent trouble is the failure of the Powers
to agree upon the demands to be made
on the government of China. Minis
ter Conger has been instructed to
make plain the opposition of this gov
ernment to amy impossible demands
upon China, and was done once before
to hint to the Powers that the United
States will act alone in dealing with
China if the actions of the other Pow
ers make 1t necessary to protect Amer
ican interests.
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania,
who was in Washington this week.
said of the Senatorial contest in that
state: Mr., Quay won his fight before
the people, and he will win it before
the legislature. Enough men were
elected who will abide by the caucus
to insure Mr.. Quay's return to the
Senate He win be. elected soon after
The legislature meets and there will
not be long fight
In answer to the sensational stories
about the volunteers being compelled
TO remain in the Philippines for an in
definite period, Adjutant General Cor
DIN authorizes the statement of the in
tention of the War Department to
bring every one of the volunteers, who
cares to come, back to the United
States in time to muster them out of
service on or before the first of next
July, when their term of enlistment
VIII expire This is official and should
put an end to the Stories, but of
course, it will not. AS long as there is
demand for misstatements they will
be made.
AS the recommendations in the
Preslient's message as to reduction of
some Of the Internal revenue taxes i'm.
posed on account of the war with
Spain and consequent expenditures
viii necessarily be based upon Secre-
tary Cages report, it is very safe to
say that the statement made by Secre-
uary Gage to the House Ways and
Means Committee, now holding daily
sessions TO prepare a biM came very
near to foreshadowing what the Presi-
dent will say in his message on the
subject. Secretary Gage, assisted by
Internal Revenue Commissioner Will
son, wentcarefully over the schedules
OF the law providing for the war taxes.
and gave the committee their ideas of
what reductions could best be made
and answered a number of questions.
In his statement to the committee Sec
retary Gage said he thought that $780,
OOO, 600 of the $1OO,OOO,OOO year pro-
duced by this law, or nearly one-third,
could be dispensed with without en-
DarraSsment to the government. The
committee also called in a body on
President Mckinley, to get his ideas of
the reduction. The President did not.
OF course, go into details about what
reductions should be made, but he