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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, April 26,' SO.

WASHINGTON, April 49, 90.
The Boring Sea arbitration ex-
cites great interest in official and
political circles at the Capital.
The general opinion among the best
informed statesmen is that Mr..
Carter touched the vital point of
our case in his argument when he
insisted that the seals belong to US
bv virtue of their domestlcation
upon the Pribyloy Islands and of
our possession of the land upon
which they make there homes dur
ing large part of the year. lie
does not exaggerate the facts in
stating that the existence of the
seals in Behrlng Sea is due to our
preservation of them, and he makes
it very clear that the seals cannot
be regarded as ferae naturae, but
rs private property, tended and
maintained by the United States
Government. 1t Is here that the
strength of the American case lies.
Our evident mistake was in gong
outside those lines in the interna-
tional correspondence and after
ward IN permitting that correspond
ence to drift into an agreement to
arbitrate.
1t is of course, impossible to fore
cast the result of the pending arbi-
tration. We have allowed ourselves
to become involved in a contro-
versy IN which we have everything
TO lose and nothing to gain. The
court of arbitration, however, will
probably be guided more by con-
siderations of European policy than
by the intrinsic equities Of the case
under discussion. Rut the fact re-
mains that so much of Mr.. Carter 8
argument as puts the seals upon the
footing of property of the United
States, which we MAINTAIN and
tend, and, therefore, nave the
right to protect against wanton and
wasteful determination, is practl-
callv unanswerable.
The Democratic politicians in
Washington ale much more cheer
full than a month ago. They have
come to the conclusion that the adj
ministration intends to give the
rank and file of the party a pretty
fair showing after all. 1t was their
original belief, based upon express
sions coming from the White House
and the various departments. that
changes III Office would be made
OILY where changes werecompelled.
1t is now the conviction that by the
18th of next July there will be a
clean sweep in practically all the
offices that are not directly governed
by the civil service law.
President Cleveland. they say,
has already made more changes
than he did eight years ago after
the same time spent in the White
House. They further aver that
Secretary Morton has followed
gradually in his footsteps, and that
the beheading record of Secretary
Gresham is uncqualled. 1t began
immediately after he took the port
folio. and has continued with un-
diminished ardor and severity.
While Postmaster General Bisscll
has been slow to make removals IN
the higher places, the occupants Of
the lower POSITIONS are going mer-
rily enough and with a swlftness
that ought 10 satisfy any well-rcgu-
lated Democrat. Secretary Smith
is doing as we'll. The only mem
Der of the Cabinet who fails to sat
isfy the citsonians is MIR. Olney.
Taking it altogether. the Congress