Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-21
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular COrrespOndent.)

Baffied in his extraordinary and I'M
American Hawaiian policy and humil-
lated in the eyes of his own country
men as well as of the entire world.
Such is today the inevitable position OF
the would-be American dictator, Gro
yer CleYeland. Even the most pro-
nounced opponent of the administration
can afford to feel little sympathy for
Mr. Cleveland, who is after all the
President of the United States. II
members of Congress would vote as
they think, regardless Of political ties,
the impeachment of Mr.. Cleveland
would be as certain as the coming of
Christmas, and as it is it is probable
that only his shrewdness in making the
unconstitutional portions of his instruc-
tons 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 Improbable crime
which the written instructions do not
entirely corroborate. 1t should be a
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 be proved by an
able tariff speech, contrasting the
English policy of free trade as outlined
in Mr.. Cleyeland's message, with an
American policy of protection which
has made the United States the most
prosperous country on earth and giving
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 has
for thirty years made him prominent
figure in Congress. He treated the
matter from an American, not par
tisan point of view, and was conserva-
tive in his language, as he always is.
The democratic scheme for the adj
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 10 make
it include Oklahoma, and then the issue
will be squarely made to admit 10th or
admit neithey
Exclusiveness seems to DO 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
we're issued shutting the public cut of
the Senate chamber entirely; it has
always been a favorite custom with
visitors to the Capitol to stroll through
the Senate Chamber which has always
been open to them until fifteen minutes
before the time for opening the daily
sessions 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
J hoe ,,Ot laceoood tbo;- or;t;o;ev,, g 4L,s
sudden exclusiveness. But the most
unsatisfactory rule of all is that which
closed all of the entrances to the Capt.
tol, except one through the Senate
basement and another through the
House basement, every day at 4:S0
o'clock 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 al
ready been rescinded.
Democratic distraction over the
tariff bill is increasing instead of de-
creasing The bill which was, accord
ing to the original programme, to have
been passed before the Christmas
adjournment, has not been reported to
the House, and Mr.. Cleveland's man,
Wilson, has become so utterly demon
allied 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 q
democratic caucus, Notwithstanding the
efforts of Mr.. Cleveland and the adj
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