Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-04-04
Washington CITY News.
acial Correspondence to HERALD.

Washington City News.
Special Correspondence to HERALD.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March q, 1891.-Secre-
tary Blaine has recovered from his recent indis
position and resumed his duties at the State de-
oartment, which are just now more than usually
arduous, owing to the negotiations with the
British Minister concerning the arbitration of
the Behring Sea trouble, and to numerous mat
tiers connected more or less with the reciprocity
clause of the Mckinley tariff act and various
countries which are anxions to get the benefits
Of our markets. These things will probably
keep Mr. Blaine busy for some time to come
and there are other international questions that
may arise at any time.
The threat of Newfoundland to ask sor adj
mittance to the Union as a. state, and pending
the hearing of the petition by congress to place
herself under the protection of the United States
ras been much discussed here by international
lawyers and others fond of complicated
questions In case the threat was actually
carried out and the authorities of Newfoundland
formerly ask to be admitted as a state what
action would the administration take? II is ex-
tremely difficult to answer the question, as there
are no precedents upon which to base reason
able conjecture. The general opinion seems to
be that the president would take no action be-
fore laying the matter before congress, because
he would not care to have any decision that he
might make repudiated by the democratic House
of Representa- ives.
1t is not considered probable, however, that
Great Britain would stand idly by and allow
Newfoundland to take such action. As soon as
he became satisfied that such action was really
seriously contemplated the colony would prob
ably be declared to be in state of rebellion and
its affairs placed in charge of the British mill
tary authorities. 1t is hard to find prominent
man who has given the subject careful consider
alton who does not believe that eventually both
Canada and Newfoundland will become part of
the United States, and it is still harder to find
man vino believes that Great Britain will fail to
tight FORTS American possessions. l have never
discussed this question with member of con-
gress who did not believe that another war he
tween this country aud Great Britain was one of
the ceTtainties of the future the only differences
of opinion being as to how soon this inevitable
war will come.
Some amusement has been created here by
the telegraphed statement that the Queen of
Hawaii had decided to refuse to continue IT.
ciprocal arrangements with the United States.
unless Hawaiian sugar was given the bounty of
two cents pound which the Mckinley tariff
act grants to sugar produced in the United States
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the state department, and it is not believed the
the new rulerof Hawaii has been guilty of +
such silly stand, but If she has she will
learn that the Mckinley bill was frar
protection of our own citizens az
benefit of foreigners; she will
if her little island kingdom
solutely from the face of the
affect the prosperity of the U
| The secrets of the corrupt
around congress have queer
out at unexpected times a.
trial of the newspaper corresl
Kincaid, for the murder of G
Taulbee; Of Kentucky, in the G.
little over year ago, which is
here, ex-Doorkeeper of the Hous9.o..
tiyes Samuel Donaldson when on the
stand admitted, under the sharp cross-exam
| ton of Gen Grosernor, one of Kincaids counsel
that his occupation in Washington was lobbying.
and that one of his principal clients was the
Western Union telegraph company. This was
not news to Postmaster General Wanamaker,
who has some time since discovered why his
postal telegraph system was chung up in con-
gress, well as the names of the men who did
| the lobbying against it for Jay Gould's tele-
graphic outupus. but it was to great many
other people who had often wondered how Sam
Donaldson could afford to wine and dine SO
many democratic members of congress when he
had no visible means of support
The president has fully decided to appoint the
new judges of the U. S. circuit court during the
congressional recess, and am informed that he
is now carefully considering the merits of the
gentlemen whose names have been presented to
him to fill those positions. Nothing has been
decided upon to Mr. Harrison's trip to the
Pacific coast. He viii go if he possibly can
but there is a doubt as to his being able to leave
here.
Postmaster General Wanamaker is gathering
information for his guidance in making mail
contracts under the postal subsidy act 1t is
thought that for the first year all of the con-
tracts will be given to steamship lines running
to South America.