The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-30
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our Omm Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nav as. 1900,

w AoltINGTON, ~. VI, May -, lUUU.
The War Department has sent to the
Senate an answer to its resolution adj
opted moro than fonr months ago, ask
ing for an itemized account of cxpen-
ditures in Cuba. Tho answer, though
somewhat extended, is by no means
satisfactory to those who wish to know
just what is going OH down there.
But it's revelations, so far as they go,
are startling. For instance. ono item
sent i'll is for $4,000 to Cos. Gen.
Brooke for house rent for one year.
This is in addition to the $500 which
he drew. ne an army officer, and the
from tho Cuban funds, so that his in
| come, which is also the income of Gov
Gen. Wood, reached $4,000 year, an
amount larger than is allowed to the
Ambassador at the Court Of st. James,
and, in fact larger than any salary
| allowed by tho United States except
that of the President. The total sal
aries for tho island for six months ag
gregatc St.208, ,535, more than one third
does not include s. ,377, 900 for unskill-
cd;labor, and includes nothing paid to
the United States officers and troops.
| Another item is some $780,, 900 for
building Il railway less than six miles
long over almost level ground, with no
payment for the right of way. The
other statements, especially those con-
cerning the Post Office, are quite as
extravagant: Moved by the sharp crit
| sistapt Secretary Mieklejohn gave out
an interview intended to break it's
force. In this he; inserted that the
| total expenditures in Cuba for 1890
would not exceed S11,70S,740. This
positive statement might we'll be ac-
| cepted as an accurate account of the
disbursements, were it not for the fact
| making it public, evidently overlooked
the fact that the secretary had pre-
viously reported to Congress what pur
ported to be truthful statement of
| the same expenditures, in which he
placed them at S14,OS5, ,805. In other
words, the more statements arc given
out, the clearer it becomes that the
Department really knew nothing of
the way things were going in Cuba,
Rathbones and the Neeleys run mat
tiers for the benefit of their own pock-
cts.
The question Of headquarters for the
Democratic National Committee this
fall is again agitating the members of
that body. In 1896 Headquarters were
in Chicago, where n bureau is still
maintained and where the records are
still kept. Chicago is very convenient
notorious that in 1906 the Democratic
National committee found it practi-
cally impossible to get anything like
fair treatment from the press of that
city. Hostility was carried to such an
extreme hatSbulletins issued fiOm the
headquarters, announcements by
Chairman Jones issued in quot0tions
under his own name, were changed and
distorted in print 80 as to quote him
ance with what he actually said. Type
written announcements were changed
so as to make them say directly the
opposite to what they contained and,
thus distorted, we're credited as official
from the Democratic Headquarters.
Chairman Jones was utterly help piiuss
to reech: tiiio ear or the public. except
through such brief dispatches as were
sent out by the Associated Press. It
was almost impossible for newspapers
anywhere In the country that did not
send special men from their nome
/ -OfHces to get even the current routine
announcements correctly. stated. It
was almost unknown ontside the head
quarters what the national committee
was doing. Mep who had distorted
matter given out. changed quoted in
generally, would simply laugh in the
face of Chairman Jones or any one else
who taxed them with it, treating the
matter as q great joke or smart thing.
OF course Mark Hanna and his corrnp-
cion fund were back Of this and will
be again if the Committee should go to
Chicago. On the other hand, this city,
TO which the Committee will probably
remove, is geographically. inconvenient
The Washington correspondents are
partisaps, hut they nra hpnest parti.-
in their. hands. Til .sfeHarded as a
| matter OF greatest importance, and
there is E strong sentiment In favor OF
putting the headquarters here. About
the only nhieetie; raised is that it will
Organization In Chicago and the. trans.
portadon OF all material. assembled
there to this CITY, By those who favor
Washington sthis iB regarded aB Of
minor imp0rtanC6 cOInnared with tho
advantage Of being located where they
willb g Bnre to receive fair treatment.
The atr0ciCas unfairness Of the Re-
| publican members OF the Judiciary
committee.s attempt to make itsappear
opposed to- anti-tru action, is shown
forth by the minority report filled by
| the latter. ItseenB that the majority
resolved itself into o sub committee
excluding the Democrats in much the
same way that. is followed by both
parties when q tariff is framed, and
prepared the amendment to the Con-
on and submitted them to- the HSuse
ryikhnyif T1<,finitffu0' the n,it1nri twl at1an