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Washington, April 8, 1901.
Uncle Sam has no idea Of turning show
man, and as long as Aguinaldo is pris-
Dner he will not be allowed to come to
the U. 3. II he lives up to the oath of
allegiance he has taken, and carries out
the promises he has made TO Gen. Mac
Arthur, he will eventually become free.
Then. II he has the price and wishes to
visit the U. s., he will be as free to do so
as any other resident of the Philippines.
But all that will take time, and there is
no probability Of his exhibiting himself
10 this country In the near future. Some
OF the thousands who are writing to the
war department as to what ought to be
done with Aguinaldo are inclined to be
waggisk. One Of them, signing himself
s.The Poet of Winnisook, heads his COM
munication with this verse, expressing
his idea of the embarrassment of the pres
dent and the secretary Of war:
'What shall we do with Aggie?
Pray what shall we do
Elihu looked at William,
And william looked at Elihu."
The president easily succeeded in per-
suading Governor Allen of Porto Rico to
withhold his resignation, although he
came to Washington for the purpose Of
presenting 1t. He will return to Porto
Rico about the last of May, but it Is not
expected that he will remain more than q
few months longer. He says the island
is getting along all right, and that after
the first Of next March, when the tariff
law, under which the revenues for the
support Of the island government are now
raised, will expire, there will probably be
free trade with the U. s.
nj. F. Rittenhouse, prominent Chicago
lumber dealer, now visiting Washington,
said in the course of an interesting con-
versation on the extensive ramification of
his business: .tChicago has for many
years been drawing her lumber supply
largely from Lake Michigan ports. But
In recent years that has become largely
exhausted, and the supply has been COM
ing from Lake Superior ports, but even
that Is showing signs Of exhaustion, and
we have to purchase more and more from
central Wisconsin and the south. The
southern states, in the immediate future,
VII send increaairsg Quantities TO the
northern states. L saw, the other day, a
large consignment of Arkansas lumber
for Maine, once famous for her lumber
industry. 1t was to be USED for the con-
struction for towers for windmills. How
ever, the mighty forest areas of the Pa
cific coast must eventually be drawn on
to supply the eastern cities. was ap-
preached not long ago by gentleman
who wanted to sell me 4,5OO, 900 feet of
lumber on Vancouver island. That is a
pretty big quantity, but his timber pre-
serves were represented on the map by
what looked like little dots"
An incident Is related of the college
life Of Hon. G. c. Knox, the new attorney.
general, which shows what small things
sometimes affect a mans future. Mr.
Knox was student at the West Virgins
university, which had a rule that no stu
dent should attend theatrical perform
ance. One night Mr.. Knox and 10 Other
students violated the rule, and the mex
day they were all expelled. All but Mr.
Knox and other student signed promise
not to again violate the rule, and were
reinstated. Mr.. Knox then went to Mt
Union (Ohio) college, where he first me
Mr.. Mckinley, upon whose advice he af
terwards became a lawyer, and upol
whose invitation he has now become at
torney-general of the U. s. Had Mr.
Knox not been expelled from the Wes
Virginia university he might never hav
met Mr.. Mckinley.
the navy department is not favorably in
clined toward the Holland Submarin
boat company, although number of ma
val officers think and have spoken yer.
highly Of the Holland type of boat, Ad
miral Dewey among them. 1t was thi
opposition that prevented legislation a
the last session Of congress authorizing
the construction of additional HOLLAND
boats for the navy. That this opposition
is to be continued is made plain by tn
announcement that, by direction Of Sec
retary Long. the naval board of construc
tion will prepare designs for submarin
boat, to be submitted TO congress with a
estimate of its cost.
Russia Is having an inning in Washing
ton just now. The U. s. government
has officially stated Its satisfaction a
Russia's policy towards Manchuria, an
now comes Capt. T. NJ. Rees, Pitts
burg shipbuilder and maker of boiler
and machinery, with large and increasin
interests in Russia and China, who sal
In published interview: 81 know of
certainty that Russia will never take ur
der her flag Manchuria or Mongolia.
can now give with propriety state 81
cret, showing how foolish has been tn
cry against Russia, regarding Manchuris
In 1898 a body Of leading Manchurians
accompanied by the high priests an
princes OF Mongolia and Thibet, secretl
went to st. Petersburg and called upo
the czar and offered petition signed b
thousands of the leading citizens, prayin
; for Russia to take the three countries
! they promising to furnish the soldier
necessary to become free Of corrupt Oh
, nese officials and the Chinese flag. I'll
emperor told them he could not accel
| the countries. Twice since the san
thing has been done with the same r
suit. If Russia had wanted Manchuri
Mongolia and Thibet she could have hs
them without the asking each year 4
! the past eight years."
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