Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-11-28
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
An Interesting Letter From the Ma.
tion's Capital.
With the approach of the Fifty.
seventh Congress there is naturally
renewed vigor manifested in polit.
ical circles at the capital. Yesterday
President Roosevelt gave utterance
to part Of his policy Immediately
affecting this country, the sum and
substance of which is that an 18TH
mian canal will be built along the
Nicaragua route; that a Pacific cable
should be constructed in the very
near future; that whatever tariff ar
rangements are made with Cuba,
they will not materially influence the
sugar Industries of the United States
and Hawaii; and that a clean, capa-
bic government will be established in
our dependencies, or, that purely
political considerations in the ap-
pointments to Office in our recently
acquired territory will be of but Sec
ondary Importance or qualification.
The utterances to this effect we're
made during the forenoon while the
President was receiving visitors in
all stations in life, and from almost
every section Of the country. Repre-
sentative Hepburn, chairman OF the
House Committee on Inter State and
Foreign Commerce, in company with
Representative Sherman, another
member of the same committee,
called during the forenoon, and their
visit provoked one or two of these
utterances. The President is anx-
ious to have the two great bodies Of
water connected at the earliest pos
sible date. Mr.. Hepburn will rein
troduce the bill that was passed by
the House last season, but defeated
in the Senate, and it's passage by
both branches of Congress is prac-
tically assured.
Other. notable visitors were Mr.. W.
@. Smith, in company with other
wealthy sugar growers from Hawaii,
Mr.. Clinton R. Woodruff, chairman
OF the committee of the National
Civil Service Reform Association and
Civil Service Commissioner Foulke.
To the former party the President
said: 1--WE must do something for
the Cuhans, in view of our relation
with them, but do not think any
thing will be done that will materi-
ally affect the interests of Hawaii y
TO the latter party the President
gave assurance that colonial ap-
pOintments would be dictated and
controlled primarily by the appli-
cants' fitness and secondarily by
political connections. .ar.
Speaking Of the canal to be built
soon, the fact must not be over
looked that a new Anglo-American
treaty will be submitted for ratifca-
tion by the Senate, which, according
to a synopsis given out the other
day, can give offense to no American,
and which the treaty making power
can well afford to ratify. 1t will be
remembered that the Hay-Paunce
tote treaty as presented to the Sen
ate last year failed of ratification for
different reasons. The amendment
offered by the late Senator Davis
was one OF the chiefstumbling blocks,
as was also the much talked OF
"ClaytonB Bulwer Treaty. of 1857.
1AA OAC0C OlMCuAO1c6 nave uOW U6tU
overcome, and it seems that Secre-
tary of State Hay has devoted him
self in good faith, and with his re-
nowned craftsmanship, to the for
mutation OF an arrangement which
will enable the United States to
carry out its scheme of political,
military, and commercial develop
ment. We are now offered a treaty
which we can accept without any
''ribald merriment.' We are per
mltted to carry out an old purpose,
grown almost stale, to construct an
isthmian canal according to our own
ideas, to pay for it and protect it in
our own way, and to use it to our
best interests in peace OF in war.
Our English brothers across the
pond may feel little "groggy" in