Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-03-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.

desk Drlgnt ana early tnls morn
ing, hard at work upon the busi-
ness which had accumulated dur
ing his flying European trip. He
looks we'll and says he feels much
better than he did when he started
away, and there is no visible evil
dence of the black-eye he received
by being thrown against the side
of the cabin by sudden lurch of
the vessel, on the homewsrd voy-
age. When asked about the new
batch of stories which have been
started concerning the condition
of the Treasury, he smiled and
said: They are simply repetl-
tons 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 keeping the money of the coun-
try in active circulation, where
everybody gets some benefit fIom
it, instead Of allowing it to &C
cumulate either in the Treasury
or in favored repositories.
The President and his Cabinet
have fully decided upon the policy
of the United States in Behring
Sea, and it is probable that orders
have already been issued that will
send sufficient naval force to the
sealing waters to prevent any
wholesale poaching during the
coming season. Lord Salisbury
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 given reasona-
BILE time to cooperate with us in
priventing illegal sealing, and her
neglect to do so is her own affair.
Secretary Blaine continues to
improve. and, if he does not con-
clude to take a short trip, will
probably resume his duties dur
ing the present week. He is in
perfect accord with what the
President has done concerning
Behring Sea matters.
Certain democrats in Congress
made very shrewd move the
other day to neutralize the effect
of their party in the Eastern and
Middle States, and for time ii
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 proposition ii
looked that Representative Harter,
of Ohio, and Representative Bland
of Missouri, should engage in q
Joint discussion of free silver in
some of the big eastern cities. AS
both of these mel are democrats
representing the radical sides ol
tho silver question, no politics
was discerned in the proposition
But when Mr.. Bland said he
! could not take part, and suggested
that Representative Bartine O
Nevada, one of the few republican
. free coinage men in the House
shoull, take his part. the politics
t IN the scheme at once became ap
parent, and it fairly bulged ou
when to the original proposition
was added another, that thu
o speeches of the two men shoulC
: be reported and printed for dis
e tribution in the east, the speeche
to be printed in parallel column
with heads reading ga republican
for free coinage and GA demo
: crat against free coinage" If tn
It democrats get no help of this scr
y until it is given them by republi
C cans their case may be regarde,
as hopeless.
S In spite of the complaints O
Il the low salaries paid our consul
l. abroad-much less in many in
stances than private buslnes
houses pay their representative
q at the same places-the peanu
n policv of the democrats in tn
1t House has been applied to tn
p diplomatic and consular appro
n priation on bill and the salaries O
y large pumher of consuls reduced
D The committee also struck Gu
:e entirely the appropriation for tn
If Bureau of American Republi
IS which has been of great service t
those having or desiring to hav
business with the countries c
D. South and Central America.
IS Notwithstanding the attempt c
a. Senator Hill to bulldoze the demo
Gratis of the House election con
mittee into endorsing the theft b
a. which Mr.. Rockwell, of New Yorl
S. holds the seat to which Repfese1
D. tative Noyes was honestly electe
o by the voters of the twenty eight
y district of that state, only or
III democrat on that committee vote
o. against the report declaring Co
t. Noyes entitled to the seat, whic
o, has been made to the House.
!, This week Will be made memoir
'i' BILE by the debate on the Blar
he free coinage bill, and the psssas