The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-04-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our regular correspondent,
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WAsHINaToN. ID. C., April Z, 1898.


has been asked once this week it has
been asked ten thousand times, and the
reason is not difficult to locate, although
to tell the truth no one expected family
jars in the administration before the
time usually allotted for the honeymoon
had fairly expired. These two Secre.
taries are the only men of proven
strength and individuality in the cab.
met, and the prediction was freely made
by Democrats as well as by Republicans,
when they first accepted their present
positions that it was only question of
time when they would revolt. Well,
they haven't exactly revolted, but they
have reached that stage of mind which
is next door to open revolt-they regret
having joined the cabinet, and any day
one or both of them may tender their
designations, unless they are treated a
little more like advisers, instead of clerks,
by Mr.. Cleveland, and that isn't at all
probable. 1t is we'll nigh certain that if
these two men could have back the po
sitions they gave up to enter the cabinet
that they would be very lively in getting
out of their present very unpleasant
situation. Indeed, Mrs. Carlisle has not
hesitated to say as much concerning her
husband. Secretary Carlisle's pride
keeps his mouth shut; he entered the
cabinet against the wishes and protests
of his strongest and closest friends, and,
as his wife says, sis trying to grin and
bear it." Secretary Gresham's temper,
which often gets the best of him, is re.
sponsible for the condition of his mind
having become known to some of his
friends, and friends, even the best of
them, will talk, you know.
Those who thought. or at least pre-
tended to think that the names of Lin
coin and Grant would cause the present
administration to allow Hon. Robert T.
Lincoln to continue as U. s. Minister to
Great Britain and Col. Fred D. Grant as
Minister to Austria now know better.
Ex Secretary Bayard, who stands and
has stood for everything that was OPP
posed to what Lincoln and Grant stood
for, succeeds the first and becomes the
first American Ambassador, and Judge
Bartlett Trip, of South Dakota, who
first demanded the position of U. s.
Land Commissioner as reward for the
part he took in sending Senator Roach
to the U. s. Senate from North Dakota,
the latter. So much for Democratic
for the names of Lincoln and
Grant.
The fact that Senator German has not
cailed at the WHito --5o-Ir since the
present occupant was inaugurated has
been the cause of no end Of gossip. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Germans friends he has
not called because he has not been asked
to do 80, and will not until he receives
an invitation. Some of Mr.. Cleveland's
talking friends say that he has not for
given the Maryland Senator for his hesi-
alton at the Chicago convention, and
hat he intends to punish him by ignor-
ng him. By and by this may breed
rouble, if it isn't fixed up some way.
German has been credited with securing
more appointments in the Government
Printing Office than any other Demo
ratio Senator, and it was to make sure
hat his prestige in that Office would be
that he had himself made
hartman of the Senate committee on
Printing. Now, if Mr.. Cleveland's Pub
ic Printer attempts the ignoring process
here will be trouble right away, and it
will be serious trouble too, see if it isn't
1t is now stated that the administra-
ion is to have financial bill as well Jas
tariff bill, and that Mr.. J. H. Eckels,
# Ottawa, ILL.,, who was this week nomi-
lated for Comptroller of the Currency,
s the man who is to prepare it. Mr..
1ckels, who is here, admits that he
Knows nothing about finance, having
,iven all his time to the practice of law,
md members OF the Senate committee
IN Finance, to which his nomination
vas referred, do not like the idea of a
nan without finacial experience in being
,ut into such important position, al
hough they may make favorable re.
BORT, because of the otherwise good
'eputation of Mr.. Eckles.
Gen. Harrison appears to have known
better than some of his critics did what
ne was doing when he made Judge
Jackson, OF Tennessee, Justice of the
U. s. Supreme Court. This week Justice
Jackson handed down an opinion in
decision that gave the states rights doc
trine as hard single blow as it ever re-
ceived. The decision was that state
courts may try prisoner brought by a
from another state on charges
other than those set forth in the requi-
sion papers that states do not stand
towards each other as independent
foreign nations do, their sovereignty be-
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