Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-01-16

cars. This will perhaps kill the bill,
by raising the old sectional ghost.
A bill promoting the Bureau of
Agriculture to the rank of Gov
eminent Department has at last
been passed by the House. If It
shall be able to run the gauntlet of
the Senate Mr.. Cleveland will have
another Cabinet officer at his coun-
ell table and the present Commits
sioner OF Agriculture may perhaps
enjoy for brief period the honors
for which he has so long stliven.
The Inauguration promises to be
successful at least as far as numbers,
enthusiasm, and money can make
it SO. The number of civic and
military organizations that have sent
representatives here to engage quar-
tiers for the Inauguration is uupre-
cedented. Among the features of
the inaugural procession there will
be a military company from each
State OF the Union marching in the
order of the admission of the States
to the Union, the thirteen original
States coming first. Virginia, l be-
lieve is to take the lead, and Dakota
will not appear in this procession.
A number of organizations from
New York, Philadelphia and other
cities, will come in Pullman cars and
will lodge in the cars during their
stay, others have engaged quarters
at hotels, and boarding houses. A
number of military organizations
will be lodged in halls and ware
houses. 1t is to be hoped that the
weather will be better than was last
Garfield's, Inauguration day. 1t can.
not be worse.
There is considerable excitement
and interest in political and official
circles in relation to the Spanish,
treaty and the Nicarasuan canal.
The latter is considered much the
more important of the two while the
control of the canal by the United
States may seem to he departure
from our traditional policy. 1t
must be conceded that the control of
the Panama canal by a war-like az
gressive people with a powerful navy
justifies departure, or rather ne
cessitates it. We have hithertofore
been able to live with small military
and naval establishments, because
our supremacy in this half the world
has not been menaced; but the mo-
ment our Pacific Coast territory be-
comes more necessable to the power
full navies of Europe than to our
selves, we must take defensive steps.
The canal may cost us a hundred
millions of money, but it will cost
less than war, and it will COM
plete!y neutrslize the vantage of
France who, without it, will soon be
in o position to cause US great con.
Germ. There will doubtless be much
opposition to the Nicaraguan canal.
The ship railway scheme of Captain
Eads across The Isthmus of Thaun.
topec will of course oppose it. Mr..
Eads is most unblushing of lobby.
lists and man of great wealth and
pluusibility. He has plan to build
very broad gauge railway across
the Isthmus and take ships overland
from the Gulf of Mexico to the
Pacific Ocean. He has built a mod.
ell ut tie cost of $1,000, which he
has on exhibition in one of the Sen.
etc committe rooms. Mechanical
and naval engineers differ in opinion
Us to the feasibility of his project.
Should he 10 able to carry it out, it
will furnish shorter route by nearly
1000 miles for the passage of YES
sells than the one upon which NJ.
DeLesseps is working. but whether
tho Government builds railroad or
digs canal it will have to be at
the additional expense of main.
tanning al army and navy to hold it.
by extending railroads from our
Texan border through Mexico we
can easily reach the proposed Thaun-
tapec ship railway aud we would in
this way occupy stretegic position
with which no foreign country could
cope. 1t would not then be difficult
for us to throw hundred thousand
soldiers into southern Mexico. But
to extend the railroad to Nicara-
qua or to Panama would be almost
Us great task as to build new line
across the continent. Dem.
sold P. p" as the boys face
tiously call our respected friend of