Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-05-03


tanned. but will Visit Europe "for Hi
Notwithstanding the Public Becoming
One of the Exact Sciences, in Army Matter,
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 26, 1901.
Senator Cockrell stated the case il
a nutshell when he said, the othe
day, that the Cubans entirely mis-
understood their status. This has be
come plain since the committee frou
the Cuban Constitutional Convention
reached Washington. Although the,
represent no government and are pait
salaries by the United States, the,
came to Washington with the ide,
that their status was the same a.
ministers plenipotentiary, sent by on,
government to negotiate with another
and they have been greatly surprised
to discover that they were in Wash
ington to be jollied and entertained al
White House State dinners and such
functions, but not to negotiate.
negotiator must necessarily have ere.
dentials, and where, pray, would these
Cubans get credentials? The conven
ton which elected them has no gov
ernment behind it, except the military
government of the United States, and
n government cannot negotiate with
itself The subject upon which these
self-deluded Cubans were most anx-
ious to negotiate was the tariff
they wish this government to lower OF
entirely remove the duty on Cuban
sugar and tobacco, and having sscer-
tanned that Congress alone could act
they have been trying to see what
chance there was of securing Mr.. Nc.
Kinley's promise to recommend such
legislation to Congress. They have
not received any encouragement in
that line, nor in the hope that Con.
gress would modify the conditions
laid down by the Platt amendment.
The members of the Cuban COM
mittee have been very careful about
publicly expressing their opinion of
Gen. Wood, who is also in Washing
ton, and of his administration of the
military government of Cuba, but one
Of the Cubans accompany them, M.
M. Coronado. who was editor and pro-
prietor of a HAVANA paper recently
suppressed by Gen. Wood, has been
knocking Gen. Wood to everybody he
could get to listen to him. He says
the Cubans don't want Wood for Gov
ernor and that his actions have been
responsible for all the trouble over the
Plat amendment. Gen. Portuondo
and Senior Liorente, members of the
committee, are said to agree fully with
the ex-editor in his denunciation of
Gen. Wood, but to consider it impo-
lite to say so publicly.
Whatever he may do later, it is now
certain that Mr.. Mckinley will make
no change in the Pension Commits.
sionersbip until after he returns from
his trip to the Pacific Coast. The
Kansas Congressional delegation was
SO anxious to capture this plum that
| thCy PiCSCntCu WV C6uuluatco-cA~
Representatives Blue and Peters
with the request that either be ap-
pointed. Mr.. Mckinley told Repre-.
sentative Curtis, who acted for the
delegation, that he was not yet ready
to consider the matter.
The charge of the Light Brigade
was not in it with the onslaught made
upon Mr.. Mckinley this week by Re-
publican Senators and Representa-.
tives to secure some of the army COM
mission pie before it was all gone
the names of nearly 500 appointments
to be lieutenants were made public
this week. They made things so
warm for Mr.. Mckinley that he had
to do something to stave them off,
and as about all the places had been
promised, some of them to the con-
stituents of the very men who were
clsmoring for more, he told them
that many of those appointed would
probably fail to pass the examination
necessary to get a commission and
that then they would have another
chance. Most of them had to be con.
tent with that. but it is understood
that Senators Quay and Penrose, who
held up Mr.. Mckinley together, sue
ceeded in landing another bunch of
commissions, in addition to those they
had previously secured.
The British Ambassador called on
Secretary Hay this week in order TO
find out whether this government had
any suggestions to make, previous to
its taking the road for six weeks,
about renewing negotiations for q
treaty dealing with the Isthmian Ca.
nal question. Mr.. Hay had no sug.
gestion to make, because he has not
been able to get sufficient Senatorial
support to justify his trying to negoti-
ate another treaty.
The administration decided to stand
by U. S. Minister Loomis, whose &C.
tons and non-action in the asphalt
scandal in Venezuela has been 80
harshly criticised, both in the United
States and in that country, to the ex-
tent OF officially announcing that he
was not recalled and that after a visit
to Europe, for his health, he will. re-
turn TO Venezuela, if he wishes to do
80. This was after Mr.. Loomis, who
arrived in Washington this week, had
a talk with Secretary Hay. 1t would
be easy to get big odds that Mr..
Loomis will not "wish to" return to
Venezuela.
When il comes to 30 working out a
problem so that the public is bam-
boozled and no patronage lost, the av.
erage Republican politician can cas-
lily beat the world. An example has
just been made public. 1t is officially
announced that Mr.. Mckinley and
Secretary Root have decided that the
number of enlisted men in the regular
army shall be limited to 10000 unless
there is fresh outbreak in the Phil
ippines. That was to bamboozle the
public, and will make small difference
for long time, as the slowness in re-
cruiting made it certain that it would
take many months to enlist all the
men authorized by the new army law.
Accompanying the announcement,