Nevada County picayune., 1891-08-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our special correspondcnt.l

Virginia, the chairman of the eXccu- tive committee of the National Asso- citation of Democratic Clubs, which met in New York this week, and sev- eral other members of the committee came back to Washington much pleased. The meeting was secret one and of course the members of the committee will not talk for pub- lication other than in a general way of what was done, but 1t can be stated without any violation of conti- dcnce that the meeting was in every sense of the word successful one and that the reports received were of the most encouraging nature. show ing the rapid growth of Democratic clubs to be without precedent in the annals of political organizations, and adding to the confidence which each member felt before the meeting that the man nominated by the next Democratic National Convention would be the next President of the United States.
 In the absence of anything more important the resignation of the ne- gro demagogue, Frederick Douglass, as minister to Hayti, was much dis cussed here this week. When Douglass was first informed by newspaper man that his resignation had been accepted, he was disposed to blackguard the administration and the State department particularly for having forced him out of the diplo- matic service, but later, probably on the promise of some other office, he changed around completely and in- sisted that he had been misunder- stood by the first newspaper man, and that his resignation had been en- tirely voluntary. This is simply not true, as it has been an open secret here for many months that the State department wanted to get rid of Douglass, but that MT. Harrison hesitated to dismiss him for fear of the effect it might have on the negro delegates to the Republican nomina- ting convention next year. Accord ing to his own statements Douglass had spent the greater portion of his time in Hayti in pushing through private claims against the Haytian government. Notwithstanding the general belief that Mir. Blaine wishes to send a white man of ability to Hayti, in order to secure the Mole St. Nicholas for coaling station, half a dozen negroes have already filed application for the place, and some are reported to have made threats that Harrison dare not ap point white man to a position that Cleveland filled with negro. A prominent Republican told me to-day that no appointment would be made until after Congress meets.
 Owing to the peculiar distribution of the available vessels of our navy the only vessels that the navy depart ment could order to China with any hope of getting them there in time to assist in protecting American inter ests there should the revolution in that country prove as serious as eX- pected, had to he taken from the Behring Sea fleet. The Charleston, Marion and Alert have been ordered to proceed to China. The Charles ton is at San Francisco and it is thought at the Navy department that she can sail on the 10th inst. She will proceed direct to Shanghai, and her commander has been directed to make all the speed possible. The Monocacy is at Yokohama, but ca blegram says she is too unseaworthy to make the trip to Chinese waters.
 One of the important results of the meeting of the executive commit tee of the National Association of Democratic Clubs held in New York city this week, is the opening of a bureau of information in Washington, under the management of that com mittee which shall be ready and will ing at all times to furnish political information to Democratic organiZa- tions. This bureau will he opened just as soon as the necessary ar engagements can be perfected and, in the meantime, MT. Lawrence Gard ner, the efficient Secretary of the National association, will take pleas ure in answering any inquiries that may be addressed to him at his office in this city.
 The lifty-lirst annual meeting of the Association of American Agrl- cultural Colleges is in session here. There are about seventy delegates present, representing nearly all the agricultural colleges and experiment stations in the country.
 The last member of the Cabinet, in the person of Attorncy-Gcneral Miller, has gone on vacation, leay- ing the question of whether citizens of China will be allowed to land in this country who may wish to visit the Worlds Fair, which has been re- ferred to him by the Treasury de- partment, unanswered