Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-12-22
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS,

Special Correspondence.
NAsaINaToN, December Is, 1893.
Baiiled in his extraordinary and IN
American Hawaiian policy and humili-
ated in the ewes of his own countrymen
as well as Of the entire world. such Is
to-day the uneviable position of the
would. be American dictator, Grover
Cleveland. Even the most pronounced
opponent of tie administration can af-
ford to feel little sympathy for Mr.,
Cleveland, who is after all the pre- ident
of the United States. If members of
congress would vote as they think, re-
CARELESS of political ties, the impeach-
ment of Mr.. Cleveald 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 BIount 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 Improbable crime which the writ
ten instructions do not entirely corrob-
crate. 1t should be terrible warning
even to a 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 an 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 pros
porous 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 yigor that has for
thirty years made him a prominent fig
ure in congress. He treated the matter
from an American, not partisan, point
of view, and was conservative in his Ian
guage as he always is.
The democratic scheme for the ad-
mission of only such territories as are
likely to go democratic was fully I'M
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 adj
nit neither.
EXclusiyeness seems to be getting
contagious under this administration,
and somebody at the capitol appears to
be DESTROYS 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 fayorite custom with visi-
tors 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 SEES
slons 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 their criticism of this sudden
exclusiveness. But the most uneatis-
factory rule of all is that which closed
all OF the entrances to the capitol. ex-
cept one througe the senate basement
a d another through tn house basement,
every day at 4;30 p. m. No matter in
what part of the building you were or
wished to go after that time YOU had to
use one or the other of these doors,
about an eighth of a mile apart. This
rule proved SO Objectionable that it has
already been rescinded.
Democratic distraction over the tariff
bill is incre asing instead of decreasing.
The bill which was, according to the or
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