The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1900-11-17

bottem-the. rank and file of any
party know how to change lead
ers when they consider it neees-
sary to do so. -... s....
Secretary Root has gone to Gu
ba and for two reasons his going
has caused much gossip in Wash
lngton, where it is believed to be
connected with matters of i'm
/ portance relating te the future of
Cuba. The first of these reasons
is that the Cuban Constitutional
! Convention is now in session in
I Havana, and the second is that
this is considered the unhealthy
season in Cuba. Mr.. Roots
health has not been robust since
he had an operation performed on
him IA month or two ago, and he
would hardly have chosen this
season for his. visit to Cuba un-
less his going was important.
Just 100000 more Of good
American money will be invested
in the Philippines if the Senate
ratifes the treaty signed by Sec
retary Hay and the Spanish Min
lister, which binds this country
to pay Spain that amount
for three small Islands located
lliust outside of the boundaries set
i,by the treaty which ceded the
Philippine Islands to the United
/ States. e.,
l. The orders sent to Gen. Near
thur from Washington to take
the field in person in the new
campaign that is to be waged
against the Philippine insurgents
as soon as the rainy season ends
over there, show that the admin
istration takes no serious stock in
the statement constantly made
during the campaign that the re-
election of Mr.. Mckinley would
be followed by the collapse of the
revolution. That was good enough
talk for campaign purposes, but
new orders are to fight it to a fin
ish. In ordering General Nc
Arthur to take the field in per-
son, General Otis. who was gem
orally criticised for not doing so,
is indirectly given side swipe.
Gossip has mertgaged several
Cabinet portfolios in the second
Mckinley administration. As
told in Washington, these stories
| make Mr.. w. w. Gibbs of Phil
adelphia, who helped Hanna
squeeze the rich men and eorpor-
ations of that town, just as St.
John Wanamaker did previous to
his entrance of the Harrison Cab
met, the holder Of one of these
mortgages, and some go so far as
Ito say that Mr.. Gibbs is to be-
come Secretary of the Treasury.
IF he does, it will be. an awful
throw down for Secretary Gage,
who had understood that he was
to remain at the head of the
Treasury, or he would not have
| fathered those freak interviews.
given out during the campaign to
alarm the business interests of
the country.
It's now practically admitted
by Republicans that the talk pre-
vious to the election of a repeal
of tse war taxes was nothing
| more than a campaign bluff. A
call For the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House to meet on
the Goth inst. has been issued.
The bill the committee will pre-
pare will merely revise the war
ltax--some eompaign obligations
are to be paid away-and will not
repeal all of them. The Repub-
licans know very we'll that with
the total appropriated by the last
session Of Congress of 1914, ,000,-
600 and the probability that a
larger sum viii be appropriated
by the coming session, all or
nearly all Of the money produced
I.bJ the war taxes will be needed.
The bilfpreparea by the commit
! tee will probably reduce the war
taxes in the interests Of favored
classes, something like $15,000,-
0o0 or $40, ,000, 900 year, but the
! bulk of those taxes will have to
be paid hy the people for an in.
definite period.
| The royalist Republicans, if
such term be allowable, are al-
ready talking about making Nc
Kinley's second Inauguration an
event of regal spIendor and mag
nifcence. Mr.. L. 2. Michener,
lof Indiana, who practices law in
Washington III partnership with
Gen. w. W. Dudley, is franker
than many of them. He said in
a public interview about the in
Eanguration 1--WE should try to
excel in the glory Of that day,
the spIendor Of the jubilee of
EngIand's Queen"
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