Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-04-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

w Wv LIZ LIN.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
Secretary Blaine has resumed active
direction of state department affairs,
although he has not fully recovered
from the attack of the grip from which
he has been sufferer for several
weeks, and it can be positively stated
that the president has no more ardent
supporter in his controversy with
Lord Salisbury, concerning Behring
Sea matters, than Secretary Blaine.
The situation continues critical, ow
ing to the failure of Lord Salisbury to
say definitely what his government
proposes to do, and while neither the
president nor any member Of his cab
met anticipates war with Great Brit
ain they recognize that hOstilities may
result from the orders issued to the
commanders of the naval vessels of
the two powers, which will soon be in
Behring sea. 1t is certain that the
commanders of the US. vessels, which
will include some of our strongest
fighting ships, will be directed to seize
all vessels engaged in taking seals il
legally, no matter what flag they fly,
and it may be that the British COM
manders of war vessels, which accord
ing to the latest information have al
ready began to gather in the vicinity
of the sealing waters, will be ordered
to protect sealing vessels flying the
British flag. Here lies the danger. If
Great Britain will keep her fingers out
of the muddle there will be no trouble,
even if she persists in declining to re-
new the modus vivendi. 1t is this un
certainty that is causing this govern
ment to prepare for trouble, as far as
it may under the circumstances.
The senate las informally agreed to
ratify the arbitration treaty, but ow-
ing to the unusual precautions to keep
the proceedings of the executive ses-
sions on the subject secret there is a
doubt as to whether the ratification
viii be on condition that the modus
vivendi be renewed, or pe without
conditions.
The fate of the free coinage bill,
which everybody expected to have
been decided, as far as the House is
concerned. last week, is still a matter
of doubt. The House committee on
rules is now celebrating on a propo-
sition from Representative Bland, the
author of the bill, to report a special
rule, again bringing the bill before
the House and prohibiting fiillibuster-
ing thereon, in other words the very
cloture rule which democratic speak
ers and editors declared to be uncon
stitutional and everything that was
bad when it was proposed that the re-
publicans of senate should adopt it to
pass the election bill, at the last ses-
sion of congress. But the defeat of
the silver men last week appears to
have taken the confidence out of
them to a large extent, and many of
them openly express their fears that
the bill will be defeated. The antisil
yer men, however, express fears that
the bill will pass, if it ever gets to a
straight vote before the House, which
makes it evident that the issue of this
weeks fight is extremely doubtful and
that it will be very close either way.
The story that the president had
said that he would not allow his name
to be presented to the Minneapolis
convention has again been started.
There is no truth in it. He has never
said that he would be or that he would
not be candidate.
A child of Mr.. John Pears had the scald
head, and had been under the treatment of
physicians without relief. 1t cured by
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment, and is
now well and all right.-W. r. MILLER & Son,
Briscoe, Iowa. 25 cent boxes for sale by II.
c. PIERCE, Druggist.