The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-03-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINaroS, ID. C., March l, 1856.

/ The Administration has shown
the courage Of its convictions dur
/ ing the week, by launching three
aggressive documents upon the
Senate. The first was the Presi-
dents message on the right of the
Senate to share the information ON
which he made official changes.
The second also was a message
from the President condemning in
very positive terms, the ontrages
committed on the Chinese in the
far West, and urging Congress to
reimburse the victims for their Pc
cuniary losses. The third doeu-
ment was decided letter from
| the Secretary of the Treasury on
the Silver policy of the Admins
tration in which he shows no dis
position to compromise with the Sill
yer men. He describes the efforts
he has made to force the standard
dollar into circulation, that Con
gress may sec that he has tried
to carry out its purposes In good
faith. The statement he makes
in regard to this should at least
stop the talk INDUCED in by some
that the dollars do not circulate
because the Treasury officials Sc
cretly use the machinery of the De-
partment against the coin.
While Senator Beck may not
agree with the Administration on
the silver question, he is with it
in the controversy with the Senate.
Said he, III regard to the coveted
appointment papers. "No one
has any right to them but the per-
SONS who wrote them. Mr.. Cleve-
land can return them to their writ
ers tomorrow if he desires to do so,
and no one could prevent him.
The Senate could not make the
people to whom he returned the
papers, tell what was in them
Since the President sent his
message to the Senate in regard
to its demand for papers, there
has been no doubt as to what he is
going to do. He holds that the
question of removal il one for
him alone, and he will not send the
papers. 1t is not that the Sena-
tors are misunderstood and mis-
represented that they complain.
On the contrary, it is because they
are thoroughly understood and as
thoroughly exposed. But say
they, acts Of suspension ought to
to be public and the reasons for
them explaine. The law should
require it, butt does not, and the
Senate does not wish it. The
Senate avoids publicity and fears
it. The Senats has refused pub
licity. 1t does not want the coun-
try to know all the facts and rea-
sons in these cases. 1t wants to
have a portion Of them given in
secret, to be manipulated i'll secret,
to be made the basis OF political
manwuvers, which cannot be fairly
met because they are plotted and
perfected in secret.
The subject is the chief topic Of
conversation at both ends of the
Capitol, and it is noticeable that
the Presidents frank and strong
statement of his determination not
to be misrepresented or forced to
surrender his rights or RESPONSE
bilities has increased admiration
for him.
There has been a good deal of
comment upon the loss of temper
over the Presidents communion
ton, exhibited by the usually plac-
id, undemonstratiye Senator from
Vermont, Mr.. Edmunds. The
Senate was in secret session when
the Presidents private secretary
arrived with the message. Busi-
ness was suspended when it was
learned what he had brought with
him, and the document was laid
before the body, Senator Harris
proposing that it be read with
closed doors. Senator kenna, of
West Virginia, and Van Wyck, of
Nebraska, sharply demanded that
the doors be opened After
brief debate the doors were thrown