Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.

work upon the business which had &C
cumulated during his flying European
trip. He looks well, and says he feels
much better than he did when he went
away, and there is no visible evidence
of the black eye he received by being
thrown against the side of the cabin
by a sudden lurch-of the vessel, ON the
homeward voyage. When asked about
the new batch of stories which have
been started concerning the condition
of the treasury, he smiled and SAID:
'eThey are simply repetitions of the
stories which have been periodically
started by the democrats for year or
two past. The treasury is all right; it
is meeting and will continue to meet
every legitimate demand upon it, and
will also continue the policy of keep
ing the money of the country in active
circulation, where everybody gets
some benefit from it, instead of allow
ing it to accumulate either in the
treasury or in favored repositories. )"
The president and his cabinet have
United States in Behring Sea, and il is
probable that orders have already
been issued that will send a sufficient
naval force to the sealing waters to
prevent any wholesale poaching dur
ing the coming season. Lord Sails
bury has not answered the dispatch
sent him two weeks ago to-day, and
there is good authority for saying that
the president is now Indifferent as to
what that answer may be or when it
shall be sent. Great Britain was Civ
en- a reasonable time to cooperate
with us in preventing illegal sealing
and her neglect to do so is her own
affair.
Secretary Blaine continues to i'm
prove, and, if he does not conclude
to take a short trip, will probably re-
sumo his duties during the present
week. He is in perfect accord with
what the president has done concern
ing Behring Sea matters.
Certain democrats in congress made
a very shrewd move the other day to
neutralize the effect of the passage Of
the free coinage bill upon the inter
ests of their party in the Eastern and
Middle States, and for a time it looked
like they would succeed in trapping
the republicans into helping them, but
it no longer looks that way. 1t was
proposed, and very innocent propo-
sition it looked, that Representative
Harter of Ohio, and Representative
Bland of Missouri, should engage in a
joint discussion of free silver in some
of the big Eastern cities. AS both of
these men Tare democrats, represent
ing respectively the radical sides of
the silver question, no politics was
discerned in the proposition. But
when Mr.. Bland said he could not take
part, and suggested that Representa-
tive Bartine of Nevada, one of the few
republican free coinage men in the
House should take his part, the poll
tics in the scheme at once apparent,
original proposition was added anoth-
er, that the speeches of the two men
should be reported and printed for
distribution in the East, the speeches
to be printed in parallel columns with
heads reading GA republican for free
coinage" If the democrats get no
help of this sort until it is given them
by republicans their case may be re-
garded as hopeless.
In spite of the complaints of low
salaries paid our consuls abroad
much less in many instances than pri-
vate business houses pay their repre-
sentatives at the same places - the
peanut policy of the democrats in the
House has been applied to the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill
and the salaries of a large number of
consuls reduced. The committee also
struck out entirely the appropriation
for the bureau of American Republic
which has been of great service to
those having or desiring to have bust
ness with the countries of South and
Central America.
Notwithstanding the attempt of SEN
ator Hill to bulldoze the democrats
of the House election committee into
endorsing the theft by which Mr..
Rockwell of New York holds the seat
to which Representative Noyes was
honestly elected by the voters of the
twenty eigth district of that state, only
one democrat on that committee vot
ed against the report declaring Col.
Noyes entitled to the seat, which has
been made to the House.
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