Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-09
Your obedient servant,

T. F. BAYARp.
Marble has spent the last four or FIVE
months in personal conference with principsl
members and finance ministers of govern
ments In London, Paris and Berlin and in
such consultation with leading economists
and monetary experts of the three great
powers of Europe, including all the principal
bi-metallists and all foremost leaders of op-
position in England. Conversations of such
character, especially with the leaders of the
government and of party, are of course con-
fidential, unless it is desired to create a dit
ficulty like that which arose lately between
Lord Granville and Prince Bismarck concern
ing the alleged advice of the latter on the oc-
cupation of Egypt. but the state department
permits it to be known that Mr. Marble
private letters to Secretary Bayard and the
President have recounted his discussions re-
specting the international b-matallic union
held with an extraordinary number of
persons In those countries, of the highest
competency in this regard by their political
rank and influence or by their expert knowl-
edge Among those with with whom Mr..
Marble held conferences were Gladstone,
Childers, late chancellor of excheoue
Goschen, the eminent economist and states
man, who was in 1876 chairman of the House
OF Commons committee on depreciation of
silver and in 1878 was chief delegate of
Great Britain to the international monetary
conference at Paris; Earl Spencer, late lord
lieutenant of Ireland; Lord Roseberry,
Lord Sherbrooke, formerly chancellor of
exchange under Gladstone; j. X. Cross, late
under secretary of state for India; Sir Wm
Harcourt, John Bright, Lord Iddlesleigh,
hrst lord of the treasury, who, as Stafford
Northcote, was chancellor of excheQuer under
Lord Beaconsfeld; Si Michael Hicks Beech,
present chancellor of exchequer, whose mo-
tion defeated the Gladstone government in
the House of Commons last June; Robert
Giffen, formerly editor of the London Econ
omist; Herbert Spencer, Count Munster and
M. Waddington, German and French am
bassadors in England besides numerous mer-
chants, bankers and publicists. Leading
men of France and Germany of equal prom
inence with those above mentioned were also
conferred with by Mr. Marble.
Prof. J, w. Powell, director of the geolo-
gical survey, has written letter to Secretary
Lamar in which he denies certain charges
against the administration of his Office which
have been current in the newspapers for some
months.
In anticipation of the recurrence of troubles
on the Isthmus of Panama, which usually
occurs about this season of the year, Secre-
tary Whitney has instructed Admiral Jewett,
commander of the North Atlantic squadron
to proceed with the flagship Tennessee, now
at New York, and Galena, now on her way to
Norfolk, to Aspinwall, and cruise along the
South and Central American coast for a few
weeks and then return to Tampa. Fla 1t is
expected by the time the admiral reaches
Tampa on his return all the other vessels of
the squadron will be there, and the secretary's
plan for grand squadron drill of the North
Atlantic squadron off the coast Florida will
be carried out.