The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-11-18
NEWS FROM
WASHINGTON
Senator Spoouer Will Support
Babcock for the Speakership.
President Roosevelt's Personal Influence Was
Probably Never Better illustrated than at
the Present Time at Washington.

Probably the personal influence of
President Roosevelt was never better
illustrated than it is today by the
spirit of activity and hustle which
characterizes the numerous executive
departments in their efforts to COM
plete the preliminary work necessary
to congressional legislative action.
There remain but two weeks now be-
fore the final session of the Fifty-sev-
enth Congress will convene and each
employee of the government is bending
every energy to accomplish the work
which the national legislators will ex-
pect to find completed
BY way of setting an excellent, and
entirely unparalleled, example to his
vast army of subordinates the Presi-
dent has already practically completed
his message, only the finishing touches
remaining to be added A cabinet
meeting has been held for it's discus
sion and some insight into it's con-
tents has been permitted the regular
Washington correspondents. From
this insight it may be said that Mr..
Roosevelt will urge the negotiation of
reciprocal treaties with countries who
promise to become large consumers
of American products, both with a
view to accompling the reduction of
some of the tariff schedules and with
the object Of augmenting the export
trade. The same conservatism which
has characterized his entire admins
tration will dominate his message,
but he will urge upon Congress the
very careful consideration of the trust
problem and will suggest the advis-
ability of enacting a law in accord
ance with Attorney General Knox's
suggestions as made at Pittsburg.
His position in regard to Cuban rec
iprocity has not changed in any par
ciprocity has not changed in anyp par
ticular from that he held year ago,
but he has left the clause which deals
with that subject open, with a view to
learning what progress Secretary Hay
makes with the Cuban treaty during
the coming fortnight. That a recipro-
cal arrangement must be effected with
Cuba which will insure to the United
States the major portion of the Cuban
trade, Mr.. Roosevelt is firmly convinc-
ed, and, from the guarded statements
of the Senators and Representatives
who are in Washington in consider
little opposition.
Secretary Hay has been working
recently with an expedition hitherto
believed impracticable in diplomatic
matters and has virtually concluded
treaty with Columbia providing for
the construction of the Panama canal
which he expects to sign within the
coming week. While it is impossible
for the Columbian government, under
it's constitution, to part with the SOW
ereignty of any of it's territory, and
impracticable to demand a change in
that constitution, the Secretary has
effected an arrangement for a lease OF
one hundred years duration with the
privilege OF renewal on the part of
the United States for a similar period.
This substitute the Secretary has rea-
son to believe will meet with the ap-
proval of the Senate, Senator Morgan
and Senator Spooner having already
come to Washington and signified their
willingness to ratify the treaty.
The announcement of an important
move on the part of Great Britain to
escape from the effects of American
competition in the manufacture of
cotton goods was made exclusively to
your correspondent by the Secretary of
Agriculture. Secretary Wilson has re-
ceived advices from his agricultural
explorers in Egypt to the effect that
the Manchester cotton spinners have
organized, with a capital believed to
be very large but not made public the
Manchester society for the promotion
of cotton growing in the colonies. The
object of this society is to promote
the cultivation of cotton in Egypt, In
dia and the Soudan with a view to
rendering themselves Independent of
the American cotton producers. That