Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-12-28
Washington Letter.
from our Regular Correspondent.

Cleveland for his unconstitutional as-
sumption of authority in dealing with
Hawaii, as admitted in his special mes
sage to Congress, was terrible, but
strictly in accordance with facts. The
memory of his burning words, as well
as those used by Representative Bout
ellie, of Maine, in a speech in the House,
will linger long with Mr.. Cleveland,
who has already expressed himself to a
friend as being sick of the whole bust
ness. He will be sicker than that be-
fore Congress gets through with it, as
the democrats have not shown any
great desire to either shield or defend
him. The following extract from Mr..
Hoar's speech is both true and perth
nent: IF Willis went out instructed to
reinstate the old government, abso-
lutely or upon conditions, could little
Hawaii help herself, if the American
people had been behind the act? No,
MIR. President. this administration has
been hurried into this transaction, not
by any sense of justice to Hawaii, not
by any desire 10 vindic9te the national
honor, but for the sake of making what
has turned out to be weak, impotent
attack ON its predecessor. The great
name and fame of Benjamin Harrison
are source Of envy and discomfort in
some bosoms.
Secretary Herbert has got into hot
water by adopting the royal methods of
Mr. Cleveland. Not long ago there
was vacancy at the Naval Academy,
which should have properly been filled
from the 9Th Congressional district of
S. C. Representative Strait, who rep
resents that district in the House, wrote
to Secretary Herbert concerning the
vacancy but received no reply. When
he came to the extra session he called
at the Navy department and was cCoIy
informed that Secretary Herbert had
filed the vacancy by appointing
youth from his own state, Alabama.
Mr.. Strait has introduced resolution
in the House calling upon Secretary
Herbert for his authority for making
the appointment.
One would suppose from the fire.
quency of the slaps in the face which
the administration gives the democratic
Senators, that it had no need of their
support The latest slap was the nomi-
nation of Wayne MacVeagh, of Penn
sylvania, to be Ambassador to Italy.
The democratic Senators smile and try
to pretend that they like it, but it is
plain to all that they do not. There
was no difficulty about the confirmation
of Mr.. MacVeagh's nomination by the
Senate. He is thoroughly competent to
creditably fill the position and if Mr..
Cleveland preferred to give one of tie
highest honors at his disposal to a
renegade republican rather than to
democrat, republican Senators had no
objection, so the nomination was
promptly confirmed.
The adoption of the following amend
ment to the urgency reprimand of Mr.
Cleveland and Hoke Smith, for their
wholesale suspension of pensioners:
That any pension heretofore or that
may be hereafter granted to any APP
plicant therefor under any law of the
United States authorizing the granting
of any payment of pensions or applica-
ton adjudicated upon shall be deemed
and held by all officers of the United
States 10 be vested right in the
grantee to that extent that payment
thereof Shall not be withheld or sus-
pended until after due notice to the
grantee of no. less than thirty days,
the Commissioner of Pensions, after
| hearing all the evidence, shall decide to
annul, vacate, and modify or set aside
the decision upon which such pension
was granted. Such notice TO grantee
must contain full and true statement
of any charges or allegations upon
which such decision granting such
pension shall be sought to be in any
manner disturbed or modified"
The administration men are alarmed
by the statement of MIR. Murphy con-
corning the Cleveland tariff bill. They
know that il he lives up to that state
ment-"I will endeayor. so far rs lies
in my power, to see that no injustice is
done to the interests of my native city
and state lit means another democrat
tic vote against the Cleveland tariff bill
in the Senate where they have few
votes 10 spare
The majority report Ill favor Of the
Cleveland tariff bin is not calculated to
make any votes for that measure 1t
is not much Of Christmas present for