Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-05-04

position to criticise Mr. Cleveland for
having taken t1is tinsncial business
into his own hands. but as distin-
guished republican Senator remarked,
at is CleYeland. and not Carlisle, who
will be held responsible for the success
Or failure of the financial policy adopt
ed by he administration
/ 1t is stated by those who know what
is going on in inside administration
circles that the reason for the demo-
cratic attack on reciprocity. which Dir.
Cleveland and his advisers have made
up their minds 10 destroy, by annulling
all the treaties made By the Harrison
administration, is that il stands in the
way Of putting, sugar and coffee oack on
the dutiabie list. from which they were
taken By a republican Congress. No
duty can be levied upon sugar or coffee
coming from any country which has
treaty granting their free entry into the
United States hence the determination
to wipe out the treaties The pro-
oramme is for the administration 10
get all the reciprocity treaties out of the
way before Congress gets ready to pass
the administration tariff bill, which is
20 put duty on sugar, coffee. and
probably tea. The small wage-earners
and farmers OF the country cannot fail
to appreciate at its full value this bit of
democratic craftsmanship. which will
materially increase their living expenses
with no possibility of benefting them
to even the slightest extent.
Ex-Congressman Mckinney, of New
Hampshire, who wanted to be Com
missioner of Pensions, has been given
the comparatively insignificant position
of Minister to Columbia, while Exon
gresham Thompson. of California,
gets the Brazilian mission, and Wiley,
of New York, the consulship to
Bordeaux. That rule against appoint
ing ''ex's" has been laid on the shelf,
along with other rules which were vio-
lated almost as soon as they were
announced.
The government is being run just
now with only one member of the
cabinet Secretary Smith-in town, the
rest Of them, with the exception of
Secretary Lamont who remained in
New York, being on the Y to Chi
cago, with Mr.. Cleveland, to attend
the opening of the Worlds Fair. The
office seekers went somewhere of
them didn't have money enough left to
80 far-to wait for the return of Tie
appointing powers, as they have COM
pletely disappeared from Washington
for the first time since the assembling
of Congress, lasa December. Mr..
Cleveland is expected tQ return next
Tuesday, when the Office seekers can
make fresh start.
Among the five government directors
Of the Union Pacific Railway company.
appointed this week, were Hon. Don
Dickinson, the gentleman who has
been posing as the Warwick of the
administration and who said that he
declined to enter the cabinet, and
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, who, it
is said did not ask for this or any
other Federal appointment, being az
avowed candidate for the L. S. Senate
from his State Some think that he was
given this position to make him with
draw from The Senatorial contest. but
there is no reason why it shoald have
that effect Ii will be easy enoagh tor
him to resign this place if he can get
elected TO the Senate, which viii DO by
no means easy, as he has the hyeliest
sort Of opposition.