Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary of the Navy Long has notified President Roosevelt that he will retire from the cabinet in the near future. Rush orders have been received from Washington directing that the cruiser Philadelphia sail from San Francisco with all speed for Panama. Affairs on the isthmus are approaching a crisis. Secretary Gage, according to a wellknown financier, will retire from the •President’s cabinet within a month and return to the banking business. Secretary Gage will neither affirm nor deny the report. The objection of Admiral W. T. Sampson to that portion of Admiral Dewey's report of the Schley court of inquiry, in which he says Admiral Schley was in command at the battle of Santiago and entitled to the credit for the victory, has been filed with Secretary Long. The President has personally reprimanded Gen. Miles for discussing the Schley case, and a further rebuke has been administered by the Secretary of War. Findings of the majority of the court of inquiry have been indorsed by Secretary Long, who dissolved the court, dismissed Historian Maclay and made it plain that the administration wants the matter dropped.