Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.

VICE Hro8lQ00b HoDS0V0ib lHdu0 aA
excellent impression during the week
he presided over the special session
of the senate, which adjourned Satur-
day, after havi"s acted npon the
nominations ivt which the session
was calico When it is considered
that he had no previous parliamenta-
ry experience, he did very we'll. He
made several unimportant mistakes,
owing to bis lack of knowledge of
senate usage, but they were speedily
corrected He was personally popu-
lar with many of the senators before
his Inauguration as Vice President,
and he has since become more SO.
President Mckinley gave the COM
mittee of Cuban business men who
ask for modification of the Cuban
tariff about all they asked for when
he issued an order abolishing the
| Cuban export duty on tobacco of all
kinds, after April 1. This cuts off
about a million dollars year from
the Cuban revenues, but it is thought
it will result in much more benefit
than that to the Cuban planters.
Secretary Root has decided that the
present Cuban tariff, which was an
nOunced when put into effect to expire
June Is, 1901, will continue in effect
until the proposed revision thereof
becomes operative.
Secretary Hay and the French am
bassador have signed an agreement
extending the time within which the
reciprocity treaty with France, which
the senate failed to act upon, may be
ratified, to Septic mber p, 1902. Pres
ident Mckinley regards this and other
reciprocity treaties as absolutely
necessary for the extension of foreign
markets for American goods, and be-
sides this extension has headed off a
scheme of several European govern
ments TO combine for the purpose of
waging a commercial war against the
United States, as it makes it certain
that France will not join in such a
scheme unless the reciprocity treaty
with her fails to be ratified within the
time specified.
Secretary Long has answered the
senate resolution asking if there were
determinations in the matter of uni
forms and privileges against officers
of the navy promoted from the ranks.
The answer says: Commissioned
officers in the naval service promoted
from the ranks are not debarred from
privileges enjoyed by other commits
stoned officers Of the navy, but they
are not given the use of some uui-
forms used by certain other commits
stoned officers, just as the latter, in
one grade or corps are not given the
same uniform as others Of them in
another grade Or corps. The distinc-
ton does not arise from the question
of whether one is promoted from the |
ranks or is a graduate Of the naval |
academy" Secretary Long added |
that uniform regulation book would |
be issued about May 1, which would |
permit officers promoted from the |
ranks to wear certain insignia and |
uniform not worn by them but which
are permitted for other commissioned |
officers.
President Scott, Of the Union Iron
Works, Of San Francisco, which built
the battleship Oregon and is building
the Ohio, which President Mckinley
is going to see launched, who is now
in Washington, said of the presidents
trip to the Pacific coast: ave are
going to have big time when the
Ohio is launched. The people out our
way are all anxious to see the presi-
dent, and they will give him a great
reception. We don't often have a
president as a visitor on the Pacific
coast, and we are going to make the
most OF our opportunity. If Mr.. Nc
Kinley doesn't have a pleasant time,
it will be because the people of
California have forgotten the art Of
entertaining, and we would not like
to think we had"
Senator Frye, who has again been
honored by unanimous election to
be president pro tenn Of the senate,
says he will devote a portion of the
recess to preparing a
new shipping bill, which he will use
his best efforts to put through at the
next regular session Of congress, in
order to give American shipping the
chance it deserves to keep pace with
the American Industries that now
lead the world.
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Yours truly,