Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Philippine war hampers the action of the United States in the Chinese situation. The ways and means committee will meet before the reassembling of Congress to consider a reduction of war taxes. Rumor prevails that Gen. Wheeler may be given the post of commander of the department oT the lakes should Otis refuse the place. The State Department at Washington will take no action in China further than is necessary to protect Americans and their interests there. Commander Logan of the cruiser Machias sends word to the Navy Department that the Colombian rebels defeated the Government forces at Panama. Congress enacted 200 laws, of which four are creative: The financial bill, with provisions for refunding public debt; the formatiou of complete territorial government for Hawaii; the enactment of a complete code of laws for Alaska; the law creating a temporary government for Porto Rico. The two houses compromised by permitting Secretary Long to erect a factory if he cannot buy armor plate at a fair price. „ The American missionary conference at Peking sent a telegram to President McKinley appealing for protection and stating that the missionaries at Pao-Ting-Fu and other places were in extreme danger; that the Tung-Chau mission station had been abandoned; that chapels everywhere were being burned, and hundreds of native Christians massacred by the Boxers. Admiral Kempff’s instructions are to protect American interests at all hazards, but not to interfere with Chinese internal affairs. The administration will avoid alliance with Ejiropean powers.