The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-04-01
Washington Letter.

WAsHINGroS. ID. {. March > tn, le"2-
InCoiSm has again taken possession OF |
Mr.. Harrison, and il X said, although /
the wording of the communication l.
carefully withheld. that he has sent a |
very Saucy note to Lord SALISBURY ue-
manding an immediate and SPECIFIC an !
Swer as 10 whether he proposes to renew |
the moduS vivendi, his last commuui-
cation. received this week, not beng IL
all satisfactory. some Of Mr.. Harrison =
friends call this last communication am
ulrimatum. but it's dimes to straws that
Mr.. Harrison did not intend that Lord
Salisbury. should puJ that construction
upon it, There Is no occasion Tor the
sending Of an ultimatum. Nearly a
wear ago this Government was notified
that great Britain would renew the mo-
duS vivcndi this season, and yet 1t now
pretendS TO feel great Indignation because
Salisbury declines to change his mind.
Let Mr Harrison quietly order a suiil-
cient naval force TO Behring's Sea 10
maintain the rights we claim there, and
| Great Britain will not interfere, simply
! because it l. none Of her business; but If
| he continues To stir up the people need
/ Iessly he viii and himself deserted even
| by his party.
! Has Secretary Blaine resigned? He
| has been we'll enough to take long
| walk. such as no sick man would have
! undertaken, this week: but he has not
| been TO the State department, nor was
Lord Salisbury's dispatch or Mr., Harri-
! sons answer thereto submitted to him
| before they were sent to the Senate
This has an odd look; and besides, an
official stated to-day that Mr.. Harrison
had not called on Mr.. Blaine at all dur
ing his sickness, although his house Is
lust across the street from the White
House.
Senator Chandler brought out by
questioning Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury NettletOn in regard to his con
nection with the expenditures at Ellis
Island. the Government immigrant sta
ton. the astounding fact that the man
: who has been acting Secretary OF the
Treasury during the absence OF Secretary
Foster knows nothing whatever about
the business of that department, but de
pends entirely upon clerk of the de
partment. who has beea detailed TO ac
2 as his private secretary, for the lnfOr
: nation upon which his official acts ar'
: based In other words, whenever Gen
! , Nettleton has been acting Secretary o
the Treasury, the business Of that grea
r department has been completely in the
/ hands OF a clerk. If the clerk in gUeS
;. ton knows enough to bc trustee
@ with such enormous responsibility, h'
should be made Assistant Secretary, IL
Z order that he might draw a salary com
: mensurate with his knowledge an,
something else should be found for Gen
Nettleton. if it Is absolutely necessar
/ that he should be taken care Of.
Senator Cullom, who Is basing hi
. hopes Of getting the Presidential nom
q ination of his party almost entirely OF
< on his facial resemblance to Lincoln
lie Is said to be trying to get Col. W. W
- Dudley To undertake the management q
his boom and its barrel attachment.
'e Senator Turpie. Of Indiana, made
= personal explanation in the Senate tai
1t week denying in toto the recent state
~ ment OF Judge Woods concerning him
: and also denying that friendly persons
relations existed between Judge Wood
II and himself
> No man ever promoted from III
II House 10 the Senate was more general
Al or enthusiastically congratulated by hi
colleagues IN the House and his co
- leagues -tO-be in the Senate than has Ser
- ! aLDr NILS bten THIS Week, MI. Mills VI
l. not resign MS seat in the House until b
- has voted for the free wool bill. The
= he viii enjoy the unique distinction {
voting twice upon each of the create:
ie questions before this Congress-the tai
Of ift and sIlver-once IN the House ant
Dr. once in the Senate.
4 The Senate has passed bill appropr
uting SIS, 80, 900 for the improvement
~ on the Mississippi river, not more tina
ut -, 100000 10 be spent in any sing
n year.
,c The House Judiciary Committee n.
- decided that it would be injudiciOus f,
the House TO pass Representative Enloe
IN bill Tor the protection of witnesses
as Government employ who may testify b
o. fore Congressional investigating con
mr. mittee to irregularities existing in II
Government departments, because
7u there being doubt of its constitutions
It ity.
a The Republican leaders are great
no disappointed at their failure TO get al
campaign material out OF the debate G
~ the Bland free coinage bill, which the
&C. vainly tried to make a partisan measu
he of. Members of both parties were re
ais resented on both sides of the debate, az
-. it was the same when the vote was take
Members voted as their constituen
Z! desired them to, without regard to po
rs tics. NJ.