Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-08-11
EXTRA
Session Of Congress May Be
Called,
CHINA MUST ACT FAIRLY.
Senator Lindsay Predicts President McKin-
ley'S Election,
r. BRYAN ON THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION,
He Would Convene Congress For the Pur-
pose of stopping the War.

foreign ministers are shut up, was
again being daily attacked, and by
Chinese imperial troops, was received,
and he dictated what was practically
an ultimatum to the Chinese Govern
ment and directed that it be sent to the
United States Consul General at
Shanghai, with instructions to COM
municate it to Ii Hung Chang at once
and say that an immediate answer was
demanded He told the Chinese gov
ernment that the situation in Pekfn
would not be tolerated by the United
States. If satisfactory answer Is not
received, an extra session of Congress
is likely to be called.
That the possibility of the United
States participating in an internation-
al war as the result of the Chinese
complications is being seriously con-
sidered in official circles is certain, al
though, of course, this government has
no present intention of doing anything
more than to make proper precaution-
ary preparations. A short while ago
Admiral Dewey assigned to each of the
other members of the Naval Policy
Board, Of which he is President, por
tion of possible program to be follow
ed by the navy in case of such war
TO be studied and formulated. The
Admiral has notified the members of
the Board that a meeting will be held
the last of this month, at Newport, to
hear and discuss reports and harmon
ize them into a program. The pro-
ceedngs of this meeting will be secret.
Some amusement was created in
Washington. especially among those
who met Ii Hung Chang, the trickiest
of Cinnamon, when he was in this
country, several years ago, by the ca
blegram from Shanghai saying that Ii
had told the foreign consuls that
China was too poor to pay a money
idemnity to the powers. Money is the
one thing that Ii never forgets. He
knows that the powers will demand
and collect a heavy idemnity. That is
why he put in an advance plea of pov-
erty for China. How much that idem-
nifty will amount to it would be i'm
possible for any one 10 say at this time,
but so far as this government is con-
cerned, it can be set down among the
certainties that it will demand the pay
ment with interest, of all public money
expended on account of the troubles in
China, and that every American who
lost property will have to be paid, not
only its full value, but for inconven-
ience on account of its destruction, and
the family of every American who has
been or shall be killed will have to be
paid satisfactory demnity. 1t is
likely that the other powers will fol-
low a similar policy, and they will
probably jointly collect the money, if
the Chinese government thinks it can
not do it.
If the talk of number of unpreju-
diced business men who have recently
been in Washington after travelling
through the South can be depended up
on, the Bryanites are likely to get sew
eral disagreeable surprises when the
votes of the Southern States are footed
up in November, The proprietor of a
hotel in West Point, Ga, said to one of
these gentlemen: II have been a Dem
ocrat since the war, but | cannot un-
derstand what the fool Democrats
mean by declaring against imperial
ISM" and talk of the same sort is re-
peated by all of them as having been
heard in various places throughout the
South.
Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, when
asked what he thought of the political
outlook, said: 81 incline to the belief
that President Mckinley will be re-
elected. Personally he is an upright
and unobjectionable man. The people
fear the election of Mr.. Bryan. They
do not want him for President and
they fear him. and will, believe de-
feat him. | think it is the general
sentiment that Mr. Mckinley will be
reelected"
That portion of Mr., Bryan's speech
accepting the Democratic nomination
for President in which he declares that
If elected he would at once call an ex-
ira session of Congress for the purpose
of giving the FilipInos independence
comes very near If II does not actually
make him amenable to the law against
treason. 1t is generally admitted by
those best informed chat 1t is owing to
Mr.. Bryan's nomination that the Fill
ipnos have become active in revolt
again, and this speech is likely to
cause them to think their renewed ac-
tivlty justliable.
Mr.. Charles II. Sebaugh. editor of
the GAINESVILLE Labor Journal, and Mr.