Middletown transcript., 1893-11-25
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1 more disappointed crowd than the
Of the administration it would
,e hard to find. So certain were they
hat Saturdays steamer from Hawaii
would bring news of the restoration
If the Queen that every employe of the
State Department was compelled to
AXE an oath of secrecy beforehand. in
order to prevent any of the details
contained in the dispatch from Minister
Willis getting out prematurely. 1t
was clear, however, from other dis
patches that the Infamous programme
had miscarried, and the belief here is
that the monarchy will not be restored,
and that Mr.. Cleveland is at last Begin
ming to realize that between the one
sided represen' ators of Minister para
mount Blount and Secretary Gresham's
hatred of ex-President Harrison, he
has been hoodwinked into taking a
course that has been more generally
and, perhaps, more harshly criticised
than any single act of any American
President.
The great question with the admin
istration now is how it can best sneak
out of its unpleasant predicament,
although it is believed that positive
assurances have been given to the
British Ambassador and the Japanese
Minister that the monarchy would be
restored in Hawaii it is not thought
that any attempt will be made to do it,
at least not openly or by force. In
fact friends of the administration are
now trying to deny what they were
few days ago positively asserting as to
the nature of the instructions given to
Minister Willis. Should it end in Mr..
s making Gresham the scape-
goat and throwing him out Of the
cabinet there will be no tears shed
by either Republicans or Democrats,
as Gresham's IS course in this matter has
caused him to lose the few friends his
political somersault had left him.
Representative Bourke Cochran, the
New York Congressman who has been
sat upon by Tammany because he OBJ
iected to being mere puppet OF
Croker's, threw bombshell among bis
Democratic colleagues on the House
Ways and Means committee who had
In his absence decided that an income
tax should be attached to the new
tariff bill, when he informed them
that an income tax imposed by
Democratic administration and Con
gress would result in making New
York City, now the Democratic Glib
raltar, Republican stronghold; he
also told them that this proposed tax
was an attempt by certain would-be
leaders of the Democratic party TO
pander to the Populists and warned
them that if it was carried into effect
it would prove disastrous to the Demo-
cratic party. Mr.. Cockran's remarks
created a momentary stampede among
his fellow Democrats on the committee,
but will hardly result in getting the
income tax dropped from the bill.
The administration having by its
ack of foresight and of frmness when
irmness would have proven beneficial
brought the cash in the Treasury down
20 the lowest point at which it has
been since the Buchanan administra
Jon came SO near to bankrupting the
government, is now very diligently at
work stopping the leak at the spigot
while that of the bunghole is going
right along all the time. Here are
.wo instances that will illustra the
attitude of the spigot style of states
man; the Postmaster General in glanc-
ing over the list of supplies purchased
for post offices discovered an item that
1eeply aroused his anger. He was
SO TO speak, when he
saw that the U. S. government actually
bought twine for the letter carriers to
use for tying up bundles of mail.
''Let them buy leather straps and use
them,n shouted this apostle Of spigot
economy, as he dictated an order that
no more twine was to be bought for
their use. The next great act of
spigot economy also relates to the
letter carriers. A lot of old cast off
letter carriers leather bags, which
have been from time to time forwarded
to Washington by postmasters who
have made acquisitions for new ones,
have been at considerable expense
patched up and as long as the supply
holds out they will be sent to those
postmasters who make acquisitions for
new ones. The letter carriers may
feel thankful that they are not re-
quired to buy their own bags as well as
straps.
The Democrats acknowledge that
they are afraid to submit their tariff
bill to Democratic caucus. Those in
charge of the bill say that it would
certainly be cut all to pieces if it went
before a caucus, and that they prefer
to rely upon the power of Mr.. Cleve-
land, whose ideas the bill fully repre-
sents, to force the bill through Con-