The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-04-12
JOHN R. M'LEAN
Is Pushing the Presidential
Candidacy Of Admiral
Dewey.
The Latest Political Pointers From
the National Capital--Hon.
Webster Davis Resigns.
WASHINGTON, April 9, 1900.

WASHINGTON, April 9, 1900.
President Mckinley has extended
his personal congratulation to every
Republican Senator that voted for the
Porto Rico billIwho has, been to the
White House since that measure was
passed by the Senate. and added his
belief that public sentiment would
endorse the bill when its workings are
more fully comprehended. The Re-
publican leaders of the House have no
doubt that the bill will be sent to the
President substantially as it passed
the Senate.
The general Republican sentiment
towards Admiral Dewey's announce
ment of his candidacy for the Presi-
dency is that of sympathy for the Ad-
miral, who is believed to have allowed
himself to be persuaded into doing a
foolish thing by an ambitious wife
and a scheming brother-in-law. Mr..
John Il. Mclean, his brother-in-law.
is generally understood to have been
in sympathy with the movement en-
gineered by ex-Senators German and
Hill and other Eastern Democrats to
defeat Mr.. Bryan in the Democratic
convention, and it looks as though
they intended trying to use Dewey as
an independent candidate. Republi-
cans regard the denomination and re-
election of President Mckinley as so
certain that they are not seriously
concerning themselves about other
candidates.
olicitor-GeneralRi has filed
d brief in the United States Supreme
Court, against the application for a
writ of habeas corpus for native of
Porto Rico who was convicted of ille-
gal voting by one of the military
courts on the island, which strongly
presents the legal position of the ad-
ministration that the constitution
cannot be extended to new territory
without an act of Congress, and that
consequently the United States Su.
preme Court has no jurisdiction over
the case presented.
Representative Mcpherson. of Iowa
who was this week nominated by Pres
ident Mckinley to be Judge of the
United States Court for the Southern
District of Iowa, has received many
congratulations. The confirmation
of his nomination by the Senate is
! likely to be unanimous, as his reputa
tion as leading member of the Iowa
bar has been longsestablished.
Senator Foraker's remarks in {
short speech just before the Senate
passed the Porto Rico bill, containing
the tariff clause, stated the position
of President Mckinley and the sup
porters of the bill in a nutshell, anC
should be carefully considered by
those Republicans who have allowed
themselves. for one or another reason
to antagonize the bill. He said : ''Wt
are going to give absolute free trade
to the people of Porto Rico. 1t viii
come in less than twenty-three months
under this bill. Indeed, in six months
they will have free trade if they vii
only take advantage of the opportu
nifty given them under this bill to ash
for it. We are not violating the rec
ommendation of the President. w,
are approximating to it absolutely
He did not say that it should COM
now, right away, day before yester
day, but that we should have fire,
trade, and that we should bring i
about by legislation. This Legislation
we are now enacting, but it canno
be put into operation at once. Ere
trade now would leave the Porto Ri
cans in state of helplessness.
While President Mckinley and ever
member of the Cabinet agree in tn
belief that the condition of the Treas
ury, in which surplus is steadily ac
. cumulating, is such as to warrant
material reduction in the interna
revenueitaxes imposed to meet tn
expenses of the war with Spain, tn
understanding of the present sessio
of Congress is so short and the mat
tiers to be considered in the formula
tion of legislation making reductio