The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-04-26
lFrom our Reg alar Corrcspondcnt)
WASHINGTON LETTER.

matter over fully with General
Wood, will receive the committee
from the Cuban Constitutional Con
yention, but il will be in a cut-it-
short-this- manner,
which will show them at once that
he i more intent upon his coming
pleasure trip than upon hearing
their request for imposslbiiities.
He cannot change an Act OF Con
gress aud he will bluntly tell the
Cubans so, and that is about all he
will tell them, unless his i,tentions
have been misrepresented by those
who ought to know them.
The cableerams given out At the
War Department a coming from
Gen. Macarthur, concerning the
stealing from the Commissary de-
partment in Manila, do not square
with either press news or private
advices, According TO Macarthur
there have only been a few cases OF
petit ~larcency, while the latter agree
in iosisting that there has been a
wholesale campaign OF footing, and
hint that more effort is being made
to protect the hooters than to uncov-
err 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 gen.
eral principle that those who are
disinterested are most apt totell the
truth, the press and private cable
grams naturally find the greatest
number of believers.
Judge Winter. of Alabama, who
Is in Washington % legal business,
said on a Subject in which the whole
country is interested: The pee
pl. of Alabama would build bcntires
and celebrate if the next congress
should pass a bill for the construc-
ton Of an Isthmian canal. We
have been discouraged by the de-
velopments Of the last few months,
and sometimes | feel that it will be
many years before the work on the
canal is begun. | prophesy il Q
canal is ever completed a decade
will suffice to make Alabama q
greater state than Pennsylvania
now is"
One sentence Of Aguinaldo re
Gently published manifesto, ac-
knowledging American sovereignty
Of the Philippines, and calling upon
the Filipinos 10 cease r sistance TO
American authority, has a oused
more or less speculation and curl
osity in Washington. X is that in
which he refers to the yearnings Of
the Filipino people 20 sc their
dear ones enjoying the liberty and
prom sed generosity Il the great
American nation" Many think
that the promised generosity re-
lates to promises made to Aguinaldo
personally, and that the willy Fill
Pine put it in his manif' sto 20 a 10
make il a mater Of official record
Whether that surnise be correct or
not the language Of the manifesto
indicates that promises have been
made Of which the American pubic
know nothing, and naturally there
Is curiosity to know what those
promises are.
Sir William VanHorne, onc pres
ident OF the Canadian Pacific rail
road and still largely interested
therein, who is now at the head OF
syndicate which is building a Cubar
railroad, two hundred miles long
between Santiago and Santa Clara
has been Writing Washington, anc
incidentally telling how easily h
got around the Foraker amendmen
prohibiting the granting OF publi'
franchises in Cuba while the islan'
was under American military con
troll. He found out that there wa
a special enactment-perhaps b
knew why it happened to be mad
permitting owners Of land to bull
railroads on their own property with
, out government permission, and, a
: most Of the land owners along tn
, route Of the railroad were anxious I
i have it constructed, he did not fin
, it difficult to purchase at a nomin;
price the ground upon which hi
railroad will run. Making laws thu
head off the general public Will
permitting millionaire@ to do abou
as they pleased is an old time r.
publican speciality, out favors
Canadian miliionaires is a ne
wrinkle. Wonder if Sir WilliaI
was one Of the contributors to Sci
ator Hanna's campaign Doodle?
not, he may find his railroad a cos
ly speculation, as he cannot cross
single public highway IN the islam
without the consent Of this goverl