Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| were they that Saturdays steamer
from Hawaii would bring news of the
restoration of the Queen that every
employe of the state department was
| compelled to take an oath of secrecy
beforehand, in order to prevent any
of the details contained in the dis
patch from Minister Willis getting out
pre- maturely. 1t was clear, however,
from other dispatches that the infa-
nous programme had miscarried, and
the belief here is that the monarchy
will not be restored and that Mr.. Cleve-
land is at last beginning to realize
that between the one sided represent
ations of Minister paramount Blount
and Secretary Gresham's hatred of
ex- President Harrison, he has been
hoodwinked into taking course that
has been more generally and, perhaps,
more harshly criticised than any sin
gle act OF any American president.
The great question with the admin
| istration now is how it can best sneak
out Of it's unpleasant predicament, al
| though it is believed that positive as
surances have been given to the Brit
ish Ambassador and the Japanese
Minister that the monarchy would be
res ored in Hawaii it is not thought
thrt any attempt will be made to do it,
at least, not openly or by force. In
fact, friends Of the administration are
now trying to deny what they were
few days ago positively asserting as
to the nature of the instructions given
to Minister Willis. Should it end in
Mr.. Cleveland's making Gresham the
scapegoat and throwing him out of
the cabinet there will be no tears shed
by either republicans Or democrats, as
Gresham's course in this matter has
caused him to lose the few friends his
political somersault had left BIN.
representative Bourke Cochran, the
New York Congressman who has been
sat upon by Tammany because he OBJ
jected to being a mere puppet of Gro
ker's, threw a bombshell among his
democratic colleagues on the House
Ways and Means committee, who had
in his absence decided that an income
tax should be attached to the new tar
an income tax imposed by democrat
ic administration and congress would
result in making New York City, now
the democratic Gibraltar, a republic
an stronghold; he also told them that |
this proposed tax was an attempt by
n tair xzJoY11I- ho 1G,.c Of tho do
cratic party to pander to the popu
lists, and warned them that if it was
carried into effect it would prove dis
astrous to the democratic party. Mr.. |
Cockran's remarks created moment
airy stampede among his fellow demo |
Gratis on the committee, but will hard
ly result in getting the income tax
dropped from the bill.
The administration having by its |
lack of foresight and of frmness when
irmness would have proven beneficial
brought the cash in the treasury down
to the lowest point at which it has
been since the Buchanan administra
ton came SO near to bankrupting the
government, is now very diligently at
work stopping the leak at the spigot
while that Of the bunghole is going
right along all the time Here are two
instances that will illustrate the atti
tude of the spigot style of statesman:
the Postmaster General in glancing
over the list Of supplies purchased for
port offices discovered an item that
deeply aroused his anger. He was
SO to speak, when he
saw that the U. S. government actu-
ally bought Irvine for the letter car
riers to use for tying up bundles of
mail. "Let them buy leather straps
and use them," shouted this apostle
of splgot economy, as he distated an
order that no more Irvine was to be
bought for their use. The next great
act of spigot economy also relates to
the letter carriers. A lot of old cast
off letter carriers leather bags, which
have been from time to time forward
ed to Washington by postmasters who
have made acquisitions for new ones.
The letter carriers may feel thankful
that they are not required to buy their
own bags as well as straps The dem
ocrats acknowledge that they are
afraid to submit their tariff bill to
democratic caucus. Those in charge
If the bill say that it would certainly
De cut all to pieces if it went before a
caucus, and that they prefer to rely
Upon the power of Mr.. Cleveland,
whose ideas the bill fully represents, !
20 force the bill through congress and
silence the democratic opposition
hereto. Much depends upon the