Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tsrso.AL coannsrosDHxoH OF THE MONITOR ]


is being daily sent from Washington,
and the correspondents whose papers
demand sensational matter are aiding
without caring anything about partl-
san politics. There is no politics in
the case. Many of Admiral Schley's
strongest and outspoken partisans are
republicans of national prominence.
There is only one question to be set
tied by the court, and that is, whether
Schley performed his duty during the
naval campaign as he should have
done. A great rumpus was kicked
up because Acting Secretary Hackett
referred Schley's request as to Rear
Admiral Howison's responsibility for
a newspaper interview to the court
instead of to Howison, and he was
charged with having been actuated by
animosity toward Schley. AS mat
ter of cold, hard fact, he only followed
rule and precedent. That Mr.. Hackett
had not been actuated by animosity
toward Schley in any Of the prelimi-
nary work of the court of inquiry was
shown when he requested Judge Ad-
vocate Lemly to cut his vacation short
and return to Washington, in order
that Admiral Schley's counsel might
be furnished with list of the navy
department witnesses which they
asked for last week and which it is
the duty of Captain Lemly to prepare.
They will receive the list early this
week.
There will be nothing ornamental
about the room in which the Schley
court of inquiry will hold it's sittings,
except possibly a few draped flags.
1t is the second floor of the new gun
ners workshop, just finished in the
Washington navy yard. 1t is large
room, about 5Ox20O feet, with bare
brick walls, and will be used as a
workshop as soon as the court gets
through with it. In one corner a
small room will be partitioned off for
the court to use when it desires to go
into executive session, and in another
corner telegraph instruments will be
put in for the use of the newspaper
correspon1 dents. Abont half the space
will have chairs for the spectators,
who will be admitted by card. This
will be a mere formality, as the cards
will be easily obtained.
According to Mr.. 8. D. Nortoni, a
Missouri lawyer now visiting Wash
ington, the anti Bryan democrats
have obtained control of the party
machinery in that state-to quote his
own words: ''The gold democrats
have secured control of the party
machinery in our state encouraged
undoubtedly by the attitude of Gov
ernor Dockery, and they will swing
things against Bryan when the proper
time comes"
That business in the Philippines is
improving by jumps aud bounds is
shown by comparative statement of
imports and exports, issued by the
war department., for two periods of
seven months, ending January 81, 1901
and January 81, 1900. Exclusive of
United States quartermaster supplies,
the figures show an increase Of ~ per
cent, almost double, in the imports Of
the Islands, and of 50 per cent, more
than double, in the exports. The
United States did not get as much of
of this business as it should, but the
Increase in our sale to the Islands was
IS per cent. There was slight falling
off in the value of what the Islands
sold the United Safes. 1t must be re-
membered, however, that our trade
with the Islands is comparatively new.
All the old established business houses
on the Islands have either Euro
pean or Asiatic connections, and the
people have got to be educated up to
the advantage of using American
goods and of selling their products
through houses with American con-
nections. The wedges are in and it
Will be strange, indeed, if within few
years we do not control the bulk of
the Philippine trade.
There was no surprise in the treas
ury department when telegram was
received saying that w. F. Hoey, col
lector of custom of Nogales, Arizona,
and his entire force of clerks had been
arrested for smuggling Chinese from
Mexico into the United States. The
surprise came some time ago, when
the suspicion that the collector was
guilty of the smuggling was first re-
ported. Since then the arrests have
been constantly expected. Mr.. Hoey
came from Muncie, Ind, and when he
was appointed, about year and
half ago, Secretary Gage cautioned
him to avoid all temptations to wrong