The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-04-12
(from our Regular Corrcspondcnt.)
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHlNGION LlIIIEk.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Apr. s, '0l.
The Philippine looters scored an
important point when Secretary
Root decided that the Hoar amend
ment to the Army bill, prohibiting
the granting OF concessions in the
Philippines did not prevent the is
suing of licenses to cut timber on
public lands under the regulations
promulgated by Gen. Macarthur,
last July. While it will not be as
profitable to cut timber under a Ii
cense, requiring the government
shall be paid one-half cent to seven
cents a cubic foot for all that is cnt,
according to grade, quality and val
ue, as it would have been under out
right concessions of the right to cut
timber in certain sections of the is
lands, it will still be profitable, and
will save the money that has already
been spent by the looters in pre-
pairing to handle the concessions
they expected to get.
/ Although hardly pushed to furnish
official salaries for republican lame
duck who are still unprovided for,
Mr.. Mckinley was not prepared to
select a governor of Porto Rico from
that class, or else he was afraid TO
do so. SO he surprised Gov. Allen,
who came to Washington for the ex-
press purpose Of resigning that Of
flee, by telling him that he mu t
hold it a while longer. Being one
of Mr.. McKinley's good friends,
fGoy. Allen swallowed his disap-
! pointment as best as he could, and
promised to return to Porto Rico
, about tn. Is. Of May. By the way,
speaking Of Porto Rico, there is a
. wide difference between the rosy
views of existing conditions, COM
mercial and industrial, on the is
| Hand. expressed by Gov. Allen and
{ those which come from reputable
newspaper correspondents aud other
sources.
: Some sensational development:
! are expected in connection with tht
/ swindling of the government out o
. 81 100000 by Capt. Oberlin M
. Carter, now serving five year term
!. in the Leavenworth Military prison
! while he was in charge of the har
!, Dor improvements at Savannah, Ga
e An official of the department Of Jus
tice, is quoted as having said: eve
! have traced every cent Of the none,
4 lstolen by Garter, and at present
4 can only say that the Investigation
4 will result in a number of arrests
. We know where the money ha
been hidden and invested, and
= will soon be turned over to the L
nj IS. treasury. / can also say tha
:. when Carter serves out his term, b
J will be arrested on criminal charges
/, but | am not at liberty to state a
present the exact nature OF thes
charges.
:, Notwithstanding all the talk Q
/; deals between the administrator
- and the Panama Canal Co., Repre-
sentative Hepburn, Of Iowa, autho
(; of the Nicarauga Canal bill, whicl
= passed the House, but failed in tn
e Senste Of the last congress, ex
,s presses confidence that the nextses
:, sion Of congress will authorize th
n construction of the Nicarauga canal
- Mr.. Hepburn is republican, but
- was made plain more than once dur
:, ing the late congress that he was nc
&c in the confidence of the republica
= ! bosses. Consequently his expires
!, sion Of confidence is not as con
\ vincing as it might be.
: The talk Of Aguinaldo being al
lowed to come to this country
a wide of the mark. The administra
. ton has work for Aguinaldo to d
:, in the Philippines for months I
- come, and it will see that he stay
os there to do it, or refusing TO do il
: that he stays locked up. There
- no junketing ahead Of him for
h while.
= Senator Simmons, Of N. c., VIII
) was in Washington several days 0
"a official business, says he was give
= = to understand that the cases againi
y several North Carolinians who hav
- been indicted in the Federal cour,
: for alleged violations Of the electio
laws last November, will shortly t
abandoned and nolle pressed, BE-
"a cause Of the opinion of the prose
- cutting officers that the law will nc
! hold in the cases in question
I, Speaking Of the rumor that ex-Sen