The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-05-28
SCHWAN'S RECENT LETTER
To the Adjutant General Political
Argument
Not the First Time the Army Has
Been Used to Further RepuD-
lIcan Interests.
By Jos: OIL.

By Jos: OIL.
Washington. May 25-tSpecial)-The &C
ticn Of Adjutant General CorbiR in giving
to the press letter written him by Gen
eral Schwan, now in the Philippines. has
brought down n lot OF criticism upon the
heads Of both of these generals. The rea-
son for this is that the evident purpose
of the writer of the letter. as well as Of
the adjutant general in giving it publica-
ton. was to afret the political campaign
1t IS not so much what the letter con-
tains as II Is the fact Of regular army
officers using their positions to make cam
paign material for one of the parties that
has called forth expressions OF the great
est Indignation from democrats. and
which is mildly deprecated by the more
conservative republicans.
Ths whole tenor of General Schwan's
letter is an argument that there would bs
no trouble in the Philippines if It were
not for the bad democrats who persist in
crfticising the good republican administra-
tion. General Schwan doesn't put ii in
exactly that language. but that Is the
meaning OF what he has to say on the
subject. The letter IS of course. not Of
fetal. anu tn ere was no reason for Gener-
al CoTbir giving 1t to the newspapers,
except the same desire which the writer
had-to injure the democrats politically.
This thing OF the administration using
the army 10 further its own political ends
IS. of course not new II was a matter
OF common knowledge at the time that
the '-nurry orders which the Fourth
Ohio regiment received in the fall of
1898 to leave Porto Rico al once and get
to Columbus O. by the 5th of NOveul-
Der. were inspired by the desire of the
controlling powers to get that regiment
in Ohio in time to vote on the Sth Of No
vember Most Of the men Of the regi-
ment lived IN the district represented h.
Congressman LentZ. and the republican
managers were very anxious to beat
LentZ.
In that instance. 1t was the president
himself who inspired the order which
meant using the army organization for
purely political purposes. In this SChwar.
Corbin case. however. the action seems to
be entirely gratuitous on the part of the
two regular army generals and there IS
no wonder that they are criticised by
republicans as well as democrats
After Speaker Henderson.
The St. Louis worlds fair people are
having hard work restraining the ten
dency within them TO jump on Speaker
Henderson. They are smarting under
their S5,OG0 900 appropriation bill, and are
laying all their troubles al the speakers
feet. The bin will come 10 the house
next Monday without recommendation,
that being the best the advocates Of the
appropriation could possibly do In the spe-
cial committee which they claim was
stacked against them. In the hour of
their wrath they are charging that Speak
er Henderson made IT point TO put on
he = nh n h.,
demonstrated unfriendliness to all similar
appropriations; and they point To the ac-
ton OF MI Steele. OF Indiana. in moving
TO tabls the whole thing for this session
indicating the position OF the speaker.
who is popularity regarded as controlling
Steele
Perhaps # IS all due to their temporary
disappointment, and that they viii think
better of il after awhile. but it IS 4 fact
that Just now these westerners are nav
ing a good deal 10 say about what they
call the speakers 'swelled head" They
refer IL this connection TO the speaker
alleged boast that he has turned down
not only the senate, but the president
himself on the army reOrga nizatiOn bill
The story goes that the president sent
for him and urged that the army bill DC
that General Henderson id the car &C.
and said an emphatic nay To make
his position the more pronounced the
speaker is said 20 have gone TO the capitol
house There are eminent republicans IN
the house who have said that If the next
house IS republican. General Henderson
shall not be speaker, but they are mad just
now. and what they say should rot he
held I'D against them.
Miles and Corbin.
The reason for the presence in the SEN
ate on two or three different days this
week OF former Secretary of State Sher-
man and General Miles IS explained in the
announcement that the death of the army
bill in the house does not mean that the
elevation of Generals Miles and Corbin IS
to be prevented. The latest announced
plan OF putting a SIiles-Corbln amendment
10 the bill making appropriations for the
Military Academy. which is now at the
senate end Of the capitol. is regarded as
indicating that the visits OF General Miles
and his kinsman-by marriage-the for
mer secretary and senator from Ohio.
have no been in vain.
A Pennsylvania representative who Is
very popular Just now with the dairy
people on one side and the Oleomarga~ina
people on the other Is Mr. Cornell o@
scranton IheFe are two propositions
before the house committee on agricul-
ture, of which Mr.. Cornell is member.
One Of these is the Grout bill which is
drastic in its treatment Of all limitations
of butter and which has the support or
the dairymen. and the GIhcr IS SubSti-
tute for that bill which is less extreme i'm
its terms, and to which the makers Of
imitation butter do not particularly Oh
ject. There are seventeen members Of
the committee. and with the exception Of
Mr. Council. they are evenly divided
eight for one measure and eight for the
other. Mr.. Council. therefore. has the
deciding vote. No. Mr.. CollelIs SYM
pathies are with the less drastic bill, bat
he IS n candidate for the republican nom
nation for the governorsnip in Pennsyl-
vGnia and he has to consider the agricul-
tural vote. Nobody seems to know what
he will do when il comes 70 the final
show down. not even Nj Connell HIM
self