Middletown transcript., 1901-07-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.

many congratulations on the lnau'
guration of civil government in the Phil
ippines, but it is probable that none OF
them have boen more appreciated than
that personally extended by Professor
Jacob Schurman, President of Cornell
University, who was at the head OF the
first Philippine Commission, and who
knows the Filipinos as well as any man
in this country. Professor Schdrman
thinks that the civil government will
work smoothly in the provinces over
which it is to be established now, but
doubts if it can be safely extended to the
more uncivilized sections of the islands
for long time to come.
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This is Uncle Sans business New
Years day. The fiscal year just closed
has been prosperous with the govern
ment as well as with the people, and
although expenditures have been large,
there was a surplus in round figures of
$76,0O0,000.
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Nothing that has occurred in the South
for some time has attracted more atten-
ton in Washington than the address of
Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, who was a
Democratic Congressman previous to
being Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy,
before the State Bar Association of Ala
bama, taking the ground that new de-
parture in politics is necessary to the
welfare of the South, and strongly en-
dorsing the Republican policy of expan-
sion and the Supreme Court Decision
upholding the same. This address proves
that the claim that the business interests
of the South believe in many of the
cardinal principles of the Republican
party and stand ready to cast their in
fuence in favor of the continuation and
perpetuation of those principles is based
upon hard plain facts, and that in deny
ing it, the Democratic leaders of the
South have either willfully mistated
facts, or have been densely ignorant of
existing sentiment among those they
claim to represent.
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Secretary Wilson is very proud of the
of the Department of Agriculture
in improving the quality of American
tobacco, and predicts that in a year or
two, we will grow all the tobacco used
by us except a small quantity of fine
filler which cannot be grown outside
Of the tropics, and that our exports of
tobacco will continue to increase right
along.
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There is one excellent reason whv
neither President Mckinley nor Secre-
ary Root will be likely to favor the
ldoption of the recommendation of Gem
'ral Miles to order one half of about
1000 soldiers, we now have in Cuba,
lome at once. We are responsible for
he preservation of law and order in
juba, and it would be taking unneces-
ary chances to reduce our forces until
tter the exciting campaign the Cubans
re likely to have for the election of the
tficials of their republic is over. 1t
'ould be temptation to the disorderly
lement to resort to methods in attempt
1g to carry their plans through that
hey VIII not now dare to use. Those
ho are best acquainted with the situa.
ON in Cuba, believe it would be very
nwise to withdraw any more troops un-
| after the Cuban government is on its
ct, so to speak. The first consideration
President Mckinley and Secretary
oot, is to see that the Cuban govern
ent is properly established, and that it
all be of the stable, not the mushroom
TT. 1t is natural enough that the off
rs and men on duty in Cuba, should
sire to return home, and that they
ould utilize all their influence to get
dered back, but there is something
1ch more important to be considered
the matter than the desire of our SOL
ers.
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senator Scott, of West Virginia, de.
IS IN the most positive manner, that
wrote any letter, for himself or fer the
publican National Committee, to Cen
i sickles or to anyone else, promising
1t PRESIDENT Mckinley would appoint
other Commissioner of Pensions after
second Inauguration, because neither
nor the committee had any authority
N the President to make any such
mise. He added that he might have
pressed the personal opinion, which
at the time held by him, that Com
'sioner Evans would not remain at the
ID OF the Pension Bureau His letter
General Sickles bears out the latter
NJ 1t is not expected that President I resident
klnley will do anything in this mat
for a time.
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resident Mckinley and the entire
met endorsed the project of Secretary
chcock to organize forestry bureau
The Department of the Interior, to
y out an extensive system OF refores-
ION, along lines similar to those which
been successfully followed in Ger
y, and Secretary Hitchcock will at
start the work, which he believes
result in restoring in few years
rapidly disappearing forests OF the