The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-12-21


instructions and telling him to do moth .
ing until Congress expresses its wishes.
If this be true it ends all the royal non.
sense, for it is certain that there are not
score of men in Congress who will vote
for the restoration of the queen.
Baffled in his extraordinary and un.
American Hawaiian policy and humili.
ated in the eyes of his own countrymen
as well as of the entire world. Suoh is
to-day the unenviable position OF the
wouldbe American dictator, Grover
Cleveland. Even the most pronounced
opponent of tn, administration can af.
ford to feel little sympathy for Mr..
Cleveland, who is after all the President
of the United States. If members of
Congress would vote as they think, re.
gardless of political ties, the impeach-
ment of Mr.. Cleveland would be as GER
tain as the coming of Christmas, and,
as it is, it is probable that only his
shrewdness in making the unconstitu-
tional portions OF his instructions to
Paramount Blount and Minister Willis
verbal instead of written is all that will
save him from that fate. There is no
reasonable ground for doubt that in
those verbal instructions he was guilty
of an impeachable crime which the
ritten instructions do not entirely cor.
roborate. 1t should be a terrible warn.
ing even to man as bull headed as the
President has shown himself to be.
Senator Morrill, is the oldest man in
Congress, and his physical condition is
somewhat feeble, but he proved by an
able tariff speech, contrasting the Eng
lish policy OF free trade as outlined in
Mr.. Cleveland's message, with the
American policy of protection which
has made the United States the most
prosperous country on earth and given
our workingmen an opportunity to rise
that is not given to wage earners in any
other country, that there is no falling
off in the mental vigor that brs for
thirty years made him promiJ Jnt fig
ure in Congress. He treated the matter
from an American, not partisan, point
of view, and was conservative in his
languarge, as he always is.
The Democratic scheme for the ad-
mission of only such territories as are
likely to go Democratic was fully un-
! covered by the tactics used to railroad
the bill providing for the admission of
Utah through the House. The scheme
will be checkmated in the Senate where
the bill will be amended to make it in.
clude Oklahoma, and then the issue
will be squarely made to admit both or
admit neither.
Exclusiveness seems to be getting
contagious under this administration,
and somebody at the capitol appears to
be desirous of making that building
even more exclusive than the White
House has been made. First, orders
were issued shutting the public out OF
the Senate chamber entirely; it has al
ways been favorite custom with visit.
ors to the capitol to stroll through the
Senate chamber, which has always been
open to them until fifteen minutes be
fore the time for opening the daily ses.
sion until this order went into effect.
Next, the public. with the exception of
newspaper men, was prohibited the use
of the elevator from the basement to
the Senate galleries. To the credit of
the newspaper men, this exception has
not lessened Gheir criticism OF this sud
den exclusiveness. But the most un.
satisfactory rule OF all is that which
closed all of the entrances to the capi-
tol, except one through the Senate base
ment and another through the House
basement, everyday at 430 o'clock p.
m. No matter in what part of the
building you were or wished to 60 after
that time you had to use one or the
other of these doors, about an eighth
OF mile apart. This rule proved so
Objectionable that it has already been
rescinded.
Democratic distraction over the tariff
bill is increasing instead of decreasing.
The bill which was, according to the
original program, to have been passed
before the Christmas adjournment, has
not been reported to the House, and
Mr.. Cleveland's man, Wilson, has be-
come so utterly dem oralized that he no
longer makes promises as to when it
will be reported. The Democrats on
the committee on ways and means have
made numerous changes in the bill in
the interest OF industries that happened
to have a strong Democratic "pull,'
notably the brewers; and the end is not
yet. The Democrats opposed to various
sections of the bill have succeeded in
their efforts to have the bill submitted
to Democratic caucus is now certain,
but it rests with Representative Hol-