In a week the United States Congress will convene at Washington in its regular session. Two principal subjects will confront it for deliberation and action—the policy of the United States with reference to Cuba and Spain, and the regulation of the currency of the country, that bugbear, which, supposedly retired in 1870, has almost constantly since proved a source of irritation and disaster. President Me-Kinley will, of course, at the assembling of Congress
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