Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.

OF Secretary Blaine continues to be the
all absorbing topic of conversation. 1t
was not the result of any personal dis
agreement with the President, as the dem
ocrats would like to make it appear, but
was simply the outcome of circumstances
over which neither the President nor
Secretary Blaine had any control. With
those circumstances every newspaper
reader Is already familiar. Seeing that
his name was to be presented to the
national convention in spite of his Feb
ruary letter to chairman Clarkson and not
being disposed to seem to decline some
thing which had not been Offered to him,
Mr.. Blaine decided that the proper thing
for him to do was to resign, and he did it,
and it was accepted by the President in
precisely the spirit in which it was ten
dered.
1t has taken the Canadian government
a long time to find out that when this
government informed it that it would re-
talate if it persisted III compelling Ameri-
can vessels with cargoes for American
ports to pay a higher rate of toll for pas
sing through the Welland canal than is
charged Canadian vessels bound for Cana
dian ports it meant business and not a
"bluff7'; but it.did eventually find out, and
for several days two members of the Ca
madam government have been here trying
to negotiate some arrangement that will
stav Uncle Sans retaliatory hand. They
have had several conferences, with State
department officials, the details of which
are. of course, secret, but 1t is no VIOLA
ton of confidence to say that nothing
short of putting American vessels on
exactly the same footing as Canadian yes
sells that pass through the Welland canal
will be agreed to by the administration
Secretary Blalue's resignation may post
pone a conclusion of the negotiation.
In view of recent statements made in
democratic newspapers about the enor-
nous falling off in imports and the con-
seauent reduction in revenues OF the
government, the following official figures
issued by the Treasury department will
prove interesting reading. Imports April,
1882, SIC, 339 .476; April, 1891, $Sl ,275, lO6.
For ten months ending April 80, 1892
$3.50 6S7 $50. and for the corresponding
period last year 5000, 4GO,3i5. Now for our
exports. which our free trade friends were
so certain would drop to nothing because
of the Mckinley bill. In April, 1892, they
footed up S74.7lO,Ol3, against sos, $50 or
in April, 1891, and for ten months ending
April 30, 1892, 1881, 129 58i, against 5759,-
426 6)7 for the ten months ending April
30. 1891. Figures of this sort answer the
free trade howls as no other style of argu-
mCnt can.
The democratic scheme for throwing
the election of President into the House,
which was first exposed by your cores
pondent, by having the democrats in a
number of Northwestern States which
that party cannot possibly carry unite
with the third or peoples party in the
support of their party Presidential cleo
tors. is now so far advanced that the demo-
cratic bosses have named three States
Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota-in
which it is to be carried out, and they ex-
meet to name others. The republican
campaign committees, Congressional and
National. have known about this move
ment for sometime, and steps have been
taken which make it certain no republican
will be allowed to cast his cote for third
party electors in ignorance of it. In the
States named, ana in any Others in which
an attempt is made, to work the scheme
It will be made plain to the voters that
the third party electors are but demo-
cratic dummies.
The House before disposing of the pos t.
Office appropriation billsat down several
times very heavily on Mr.. Holman and
some of his absurd cheese-paring schemes
that wonld have resulted in curtalling the
mail facilities of the people. Several at
tempts to attach an amendment to the
bill repeating the Ocean Mail subsidy act
were ruled out on points of order, which
shows that there are some sensible demo
crate.