The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-04-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ArRIL Il, 1893.

Neither President Cleveland nor Score a"y
Gresham have any apologies to make for The
action of Commissioner BlOunt in carr wing
ont his instruct ions, declaring the proec'orate
proclaimed by Minister Stevens, without a
shadow of legality or authority, at an END
and in withdrawing the protection OF the I. ,.
flag and marines from the provisional 'I"Verh
ment of Hawaii And the attempt OF i 1t "
repub.i ans to use the incident as means 10
create bad blood between members OF the NV"
n r les has fallen very fiat, as tar as Washing
ion is concerned. There is no pol1llcs IN the
matter, 1t was simply question of riSh'lng
a wrong which was officially acknoW .e igf u
be wrong by the Harrison administration
but was not righted then, as it should nave
been. If the provisional government Oh
Hawaii is not strong enough to MAINTAIN IL
self without the United States II Is not slrohs
enough to be recognized in any negol lalloil
looking to annexation Or any oIler setlieinehI
of the present problem. What has bee done
is neither for nor against annexation, III 'ac''
has no bearing whatever upon IL. IL IS sl'h-
ply step towards Going the rlsht thihs' s
.oon as the right thing shall become apparent
Meanwhile the administration is fully deter
mined that no other nation shall int RE
with Hawaiian affairs.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, scored a
point. as he usually does whenever an oppor-
tunity is given him, when Senator Lodge, OF
Massachusetts,, offered an entirely needless res
olution, directing the Secretary OF State to IL
form the Senate bv those authority the Amer
lean flag was hauled down at Honolulu, oy
Offering an amendment adding the words "ahd
also by whose authority the same was hoist
ed.n Mr.. Lodge knew that the President was
responsible for lowering the fig, and the res
olution was only offered for buncombe.
Secretary Hoke Smith is in Georgia attend
ing to some pressing private business tie
will return to his desk this week.
Extraordinary efforts are being made by re-
publicans TO put the democratic Senators IN
false position before the country in regard 10
the proposal 10 investigate Senator R'ach's
connection with an alleged bank embezzle-
ment fourteen years ago. The Republicans
wish it to appear that the democrats refused
to allow the investigation because OF their
wish to protect Mr.. Roach. No such conclu-
sion can be reached, except by wllful dis
tortion of the facts. Senator Roach has from
The fist personally desired that the investiga-
ton be made, as he manfully told the Senate
last week; he asked for no protection, and
what is more to the point, he wants no pro
lection. The opposition OF the democratic
Senators to this or any other investigation OF
events in a Senator's life before he became
Senator is based upon the highest authority ID
the land-the Constitution of the U. s., and
# is mighty small business for anybody to try
to make it appear otherwise, but then, you
know small business is second nature Win
some people.
The first instalment of the invest cation OF
the Weather Bureau has been completed, ana
the immediate results will be the dismissal OF
several minor officials for their inability to
distinguish the difference between their own
property and that of Uucle Sam, and the hnal
result NAV be striped suits for them. The
second instalment, which deals with bigger
fish, will be started this week, and it Is eX-
pected that it will result in showing that the
big officials regarded the positions under the
Bureau in about the same light that the MIN
or officials regarded the property OF tie bu-
reau.
President Cleveland told Senator Satur-
day lust before the extra session OF sne oena'e
adjourned that he had not taken up the ques-
ton of the appointment OF Public iThlef
vet, but expected TO do so very shortly. lhefe
is no lack of candidates and the most OF theni
are men whose regulations are such lhat IL
will be extremely difficult to chouse between
them.
Secretary Carlisle isn't borrowing any trou-
BILE about the prospects of another run on the
cold in the Treasury for shipment ABROAD.
He has, as the law directs, suspended the Is
sue of gold certificates for the present, and Is
thoroughly confident of his ability TO meet all
demands that are likely to be made, but al
though he will not say 50, it will probably b.
necessary to issue few bonds in order to do
+. -
The Kentucky colony, temporarily in Wash
ington, was reinforced by Hon. Henry wat,
terson, on Saturday. Mr.. Wauerson called
at the Senate Department but said he merely
called to pay his respects to his old frlend'
Secretary Gresham. He also paid his re
spects to President Cleveland, and IL IS no'
improbable that he put in word or Two to1
some of his numerous friends who are anxious
to have ego" at official life. No office III
the Presidents gift is big enough to tempt
Watterson away from his PAPER.