Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-29
MANY RUMORS AFLOAT.
Tho Samoan Trouble May Cause II Cabinet
Resignation.

Tho Samoan Trouble May Cause Cabinet
Resignation.
WAsHINGToN, January . The off
cial centers of Washington have awakened
to sense of the strained relations be-
tween the State and Navy Departments,
rising out Of difference of views as to
the proper course to ba pursued by the
Government in the Samoan affairs.
The publication OF the correspondence
between Secretary Whitney and Rspre
.entstive Herbert, which has been made
The vehicle of the information, that the
policy of Unlimited patience pursued by
the State Department is not concured IN
by the Navy Department, Can be inter
preted only in one way, and that Is IN &C
cord with the advance information given
in these dispatches.
It is not in Secretary Whitney's nature
to git inactive and silent and have his de-
partment charged with its share OF blame
for a policy w5icb, in the councils OF the
Government, he streDuously opposed.
The rumor is current here that either Sec
reiary Whitney or Secretary Bsyard will
re,ign within the next few days, the re-
port even gOiug 30 far as TO say that d res
! ignati9n has been offered 10 the President.
While il i, not known that these rumOTs
have any foundation in fact, the present
strained condition of affairs in the Cabinet
is undoubtedly the cause OF the resgna-
ton. The next few days will be watched
With unusual interest.
The State Department has been SUBJECT
ed TO no little criticism since the pubhcs-
tion Of Secretary Whitney's letter 10 Mr..
B,ysrd, in which he ssks that an addition
sl policy be outlined for the benefit of the
Nsvy Department This letter was dated
January 3, 1889, but was not included in
tine batch of correspondence sent TO Con-
gresg under date Of January 10th.
The question has been asked what the
attitude of our German-American citizens
would he in case war broke out between
the United States and Germany, and the
rsaI sentiment of this portion OF American
citizenship on the subject of our present
relations with the German Government
touching the Samoan islands is matter OF
considerable interest and spec
ulation. The German Minister IN Wssh-
ingtor. as already reported, is taking great
mains to find out through the German
American press and other available means,
tine Gsrmen-American sentiment in the
nrenoises. The Germans in this country
are qenerslly admitted, in ordinary mat
ters not involving absolute hostility to the
Fatherland, to be quite as American ss
tine Americans Themselves; but how they.
would feel and how they would fight Il
their adopted country and the land OF
thtir birth should be placed face to face IN
battle array Is yet sn unsOlved problem
II would be an extremely new situation
and an experiment which has never yet
been tvied.
MANY Geraeens left their native land to
eacsne the IRON Iule OF Bismarck, and
came 70 the United States for the benefit
of A freer life and government. The con-
script laws Of Germany made life, to them,
alnoet unendurable there, and when 1t
wss only to protect them from the grasp
of their Iron Chancellor that the United
States Government would interfere Ia
their behalf, il was easy for them 20
choose between one government aad an
other. but il would be an entirely different
case if they were asked to 90 on board Of
limited States msn-of-war, or shoulder a
mnsket and 20 into the field in front Of
a German army and blszs at their brothers
and cousins whom they left bshind in the
old country.
Congressman Guenther, of Wisconsin, is