Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-05-15
COMMUNICATION.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
wAsHINeroN, May II. 1891.

several weeks Of hard work in order to
catch up with current affairs. The State
department has the Spanish agreement ioI
reciprocity between the United states ana
Cuba and Porto Rico; the Venezulan reeip-
rocity agreement and number OF minor
affairs including the question OF our Tign.. 20
seize on the open seas the Itata, the Chilian
insureent vessel which after being seized at
San Diego, California, by a deputy U. ).
Marshall, on order from the Atiorney-Gen-
eral. sailed away with the Marshall a pms
oner, but afterward put him ashore. The
Treasury department has the propositions
Of Secretary Foster as to returning TO the old
form Of making up the monthly statement
of the nations liabilities and assets. conuh-
uing the AZ per cent bonds that viii ma
ture in September at ? per cent and other
Important matters pertaining to our imam
ciai affairs The interior department has
some questions to submit as TO the payment
certain moneys appropriated for the pur-
chase Of Indian lands.
There are also some details about the
Behring sea matters that the Presidents al
vice is wanted upon. Secretary Foster has
mailed the instructions for the present seal
ing season to the commanders Of the Keve-
nue. cutters, and has notified them that sup
Elemental instructions Will be telegrapheu
to them at Portland, Oregon, or Seattle,
Washington, if they shall be deemed nee
essarv after the Presidents return. Secre-
tary Foster positively declines to make
public the nature Of the instructions sent
so that it is not known whether the cutters
will seize vessels illegally sealing or not
There is a general belief here that some
understanding has been reached with Eng
land that will stop all sealing for this season
although tits not based on authentic know
ledge.
BY the way, speaking ofBehring sea mat.
tiers, it is interesting to note the opinion OF
Senator Morgan, the leading Democratic
member of the Senate committee on toreign
Affairs of Mr.. Blaine's manner OF conducting
the negotiations. Senator Morgan said OF
Mr.. Blaines last letter to Lord Salisbury
made public several days ago: Mr.. Blaine
is verv adroit, and he has now got his ques-
tons lust right l feel like the letter. II IS
direct. clear, dignifed and has sufficient
puguacity about II. He keeps Lord Sails
bury right down to the point so that he
cannot get away. The solemn truth is that
ever since the war of the revolution, when
we escaped from under the claws OF SreaI
Britain, the sentiment of the British gov
eminent has been hostile 20 us. We cannot
make as satisfactory treaties nor reach as
liberal agreements with her as we can with
other nations. There is that ever present
disposition to interfere with and hinder us
in some way. The time may not be iaI
distant if this continues, when she VIII sc
| a tetheris length too far We are surrounded
as it were, BY cloud of British influences.
We feel them on the Behring sea and IN
the fisheries on the East. in the Nicaraguan
canal matter-eveTywhere about us she IS
reaching out to injuTe us. F."
have it on good authority that the nat
ional Democratic managers are working IKE
beavers and spending money lavishly to &c
the Farmers Alliance to put gubernatorial
ticket in Ohio, believing that it will draw
enough Republican votes to elect the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor. asked a
prominent Ohio Republican connected with
/ the administration, what he thought OF the
prospect. He laughed, and said THE Ohio
| Republicans who Joined the Alliance are taI
too smart to vote in the air TO help theiI
old time opponents, the Democrats. The
Republicans of Ohio are determined to nom
mate and elect Mckinley Governor OF that
State, and they will not be stopped by any
Democratic trickery."
Secretary Blaine is in New York, but he
will return in time TO meet the President on
his arrival
Secretary Noble has gone to St. Louis on
private business, and is not expected back
for two weeks.
The Treasury department has issued to
custom officials circular of instructions on
the new copyright law, which goes into
effect July 1.
American tin is worrying the Democratic
editors so that they cannot rest at night, and
the tin schedule of the Mckinley act does
not go into effect until July l.
Wilfull and malicious lies always go hone
to roost, and the indications now are that the
outrageous falsehoods told by the Democrats
Of the Mckinley tariff act will do that party
a great deal more harm in 1892 than 1t did
them good in 1890.
One would suppose that x-Representative
Barksdale, of Mississippi, was proposing 10
lead an army into bloody battle instead OF
the Farmers Alliance of his State in an as
sault upon the Senatorial seat now occupied
bv Mr.. George, to read his bloodthirsty Ian
guage. The following historical quotation
he recently gave as expressing his feelings
'IfI fall, avenge me if retreat Stay me
If advance, follow me-" When the Office
seeking itch gets hold OF man he seems to
lose whatever common sense he may have
previously possessed.
The Knights of Reciprocity are causing
the Democrats of Maryland considerable
ALARM They claim to be able to control the
next legislature which will elect two United
States Senator's
Two Tammany Democrats who have been
proven guilty of having accepted brides
while holding municipal Offices, and who
only escaped we'll merited punishment
through legal technicalities have just been
appointed to lucrative and responsible 20
sitions under the city government of New
York. And yet we find otherwise intelii-
gent men short sighted enough TO advocate
the turning Of the National Government over
to Tammany Hall, for that is just what the
election of Democratic President next year
would mean.
The throbs of increasing prosperity now
being felt in all branches of industry and
business, in every section ofthe country are
sharp pains to the equity old Democratic
hulk, and they tell the story IN indisputaole
language Of which party was right about the
Mckinley tariff act The ruin predicted by
the Democrats last fall IS a good way of,
unless that party should by accident obtain
the control of the government IN all its
branches and carry out its ruinous ideas.
No nan is bankrupt who meets all OF
his obligations and that is what the United
States Treasury is doing. When a single
national obligation of any sort goes to pro-
test then the people will be ready to believe
that deficit exists, but such thing will
never happen while we have Republican
administration.
The New Orleans grand jury having ex-
ouerated the leaders Of the mob that lynched
the Italians, it is now in order to send them
as missionaries to those misguided commu-
mites which believe in always upholding
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