Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-04-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April %, 1901.
Mr.. Mckinley, having talked the matter
over fully with General Wood, will re-
ceiye the Committee from the Cuban Con-
stitutional Convention, but it will be in a
ort-this-is-my-b -busy-day manner,
which will show them at once that he is
more intent upon his coming pleasure trip
than upon hearing their requests for
impossibilities. He cannot change an Act
of Congress and he will bluntly tell the
Cubans so, and that is about all he will
tell them, unless his intentions have been
misrepresented by those who ought to know
them.
The cablegrams given out at the War
Department as coming from Gen. Mac
Arthur, concerning the stealing from the
Commissary Department in Manila, do not
square with either press news or private
adyiees. According to the former, there
have only been few cases of petty larceny,
while the latter agree in insisting that there
has been a wholesale campaign of looting,
and hint that more effort is being made to
protect the looters than to uncover the
stealing and punish the thieves, although a
few arrests have been made. OF course,
no one can say to a certainty which is
right or nearest right, but on the general
principle that those who are disinterested
are most apt to tell the truth the press and
private clblegrams naturally find the great
est number of believers
Judge Lamber Tree, of Illinois, who
prides himself on being an old fashioned
Democrat, is visiting Washington, where,
by the way, he was born Asked about
political conditions in Illinois, Judge Tree
said 81 do not see that there are any
striking developments in the Democratic
politics Of Illinois. This is a period ol
evolution, but at present everything seems
to be quiescent. There are many question:
to be looked into between now and the
next national campaign" Having served
as U. S. Minister to Russia, Judge Tree is
naturally much interested in the part
Russia is playing in the Chinese game, and
has some decidedly pointed opinions on the
subject, but not for publication
Judge Winter, OF Alabama, who is il
Washington on legal business, said on
subject in which the whole country j:
interested EThe people of Alabama would
build bonfires and celebrate if the mex
Congress should pass a bill for the construc
tion of an Isthmian canal. We have beer
discouraged by the developments of the
last few months, and sometimes | feel thai
it will be many years before the work OF
the canal is begun. ! prophesy if cana
is ever completed a decade will suffice tC
make Alabama greater State than Penn
sylvania now is. y
1t is little early to begin the work o.
making the next Republican candidate fol
President, but notice has already beer
publicallv served upon the anti-Hanna
hepuDilcans Ihae ene Votes oi the south IL
the next hepupilcan National Convention
Wouio De given 10 6he cahuluate favored by
Mr. MchlnIey' Inc noUice was served by
Judge j. w. Dlmmlck, federal Office
holder ana national committeeman from
Alabama, VINO is now In washington.
One sentenence OF Agulnaldo.s recently
published manifesto, acknowledging Amer
lca1 sovereignty OF the philippines and
calling upon the flilpinos TO cease resist
ance to American authority, has aroused
more or less speculation and curiosity IL
Washington. 1t is that IN which he refers
to the yearnings OF the Filipino people
to see their dear ones enjoying the liberty
and promised generosity OF the great Amer
lean nation. Many think that the
promised generosity relates to promises
made to Agulnaldo personally and that the
willy Filipino put it in his manifesto so as
to make it a matter of official record
Whether that surmise be correct or not the
language of Ithe manifesto indicates that
promises have been made of which tht
American public know nothing, and
naturally there is curiosity to know what
those promises are.
Sir VIM. VanHorne, once president ol
the Canadian Pacific Railroad and still
largely interested therein, who is now al
the head OF syndicate which IS building
Cuban railroad, TWO hundred miles long,
between Santiago and Santa Clara, has
Deen VisiSihg washington anu llcluelitaliy y,