The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-04-04
Question Will be Settled by Ar
bitration II this Country
Has its Way.
Agricultural Department will Have
a Fine Exhibit at the Buffalo
Exposition--Army Appoint
ments Will be Made Pub
lie In May.
WASHINGTON, March %, 1901.

PRESIDENT mckinley and MS CaD1net
are giving very serious consideration
to affairs in China. They do not ap-
prehend trouble in connection with
the very silly dispute between Eng lish
and Russian troops at Tientsin over
the possession of a railway siding, but
the reports from Commissioner Rock
hill, who is in charge of American in
terests, now that Minister Conger is
on the way home, in the negotiations
at Peking, on the greed of the repre-
sentatives of the other powers having
caused an absolute failure of the at
tempts to reach an agreement on the
amount of indemnity to be demanded
from China is a much more serious
matter, and if some satisfactory ar
rangement cannot be made is bound
to lead to trouble. Commissioner
Rockhill has asked for new instruc-
tions and the President and his Cabi-
net are now engaged in preparing
them. They still believe that the
best way out of the difficulty is that
suggested by this government some
time ago-to refer the question of in
demnity to the international court of
arbitration provided by The Hague
Treaty-but that suggestion having
been declined by all the other powers
is now out of consideration. 1t lie not
80 much instruction as to any new
proposition to be made by this govern
ment that Commissioner Rockhill
wants as to how to meet propositions
made by the other powers. He will
get them. but they will not, of course,
be made public.
The statement that Secretary Hay
had started to negotiate new treaty
with Great Britain to accomplish
what was aimed at by the Hay
Pauncefote treaty was premature.
That such treaty will be negotiated
is decidedly probable, but negotiations
have not been started and are not
likely to be started before next fall.
If proof we're needed of this assertion
it might be found in the official an
nouncement that Lord Pauncefote,
the British Ambassador will spend the
summer in England. Negotiation for
new treaty will not be opened until
Lord Pauncefote returns to Washing
ton. There is no hurry, as the Senate,
which must act upon the treaty, will
not meet until next December. Sec
retary Hay is utilizing every oppor-
tunity to discuss this treaty question
with Senators, as he is anxious to get
their individual views as to what
should be in the treaty as well as what
should not be in it. Mr.. Hay loses no
opportunity to impress-upon the minds
of Senators his belief that it would be
great mistake to abrogate the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty by act of Congress,
instead of following the usual diplo-
matte custom and reaching the same
end by treaty.
The appropriation for the exhibit
of the Department of Agriculture at
the Buffalo Exposition is, larger than
has been made for any exposition
since the Chicago Worlds Fair, and
officials of that department will take
full advantage of it to make fine
showing. A portion of the exhibit
has already been shipped and more is
being sent every day. Ten divisions
of the department will be represented
by exhibits; each reproducing in min
iature the work done by that division.
The Weather Bureau will have a COM
plete plant at Buffalo and will issue
daily weather maps and predictions.
No appointments below the grade of
colonel, under the new army law, are
to be made public until about the last
f May. This course was decided on
so as to leave President Mckinley free
to exercise his discretion in rearrang-
ing the list up to the time that all
the vacancies shall have been filed.
1t is known that selections for all the
staff appointments have already been
made.
A unique tribute of respect and ad-
miration was paid to the memory of
the late Representative Marriott
Brosias, of Pa, when by special per-
mission of the Board of Education,
the peroration of the address be de-
livered on Memorial Day of last year
was read in the Washington public
schools. Following is a portion OF
that peroration: "When l contem-
plate the supremacy of that lofty
standard of patriotism which will
guide our footsteps in the pathway to
national duty and honor, vision OF
ineffable splendor bursts upon my i'm.
agination. see this Republic in the
vanguard of the world, standing dis
tinctly for humanity, liberty, justice,
and progress, the essential principles
of Western Civilization advancing
in harmony with that providential
order by which all races are at last to
come under a higher social regime.
see the extension of our language,
our literature, our laws, our institu'
tions, and our commerce over the vast
spaces of the earth and the islands OF
the sea. see the greater America
wielding with just and benevolent
hand her supremacy, holding the