The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-03-29
WASHINGTON LETTER
interesting Gossip From The Ma
TONS Capital.
Representative Band Says That Cox.
ey's Army Can Not BE In
terfered With,

Representative Bland of Mo-, takes
a sensible view of the Coxey army
business. which is being talked
about in Washington, more because
of the space given it by the newspa-
pers than because anybody believes
that it is actually coming. He says;
1.-THE Coxey army has as much right
to come to Washington as the Hobbies,
who come in behalf of protection and
other private interests. AS long as
they pay their own expenses and COM
NIT no depreciation they have perfect
right to come. But if they violate law
and become mob of pillagers they
should be suppressed"
President Cleveland probably never
did harder or more wearing weeks
work than that which has just closed
Last Monday Vice President Steven
son sighed the Bland bill for the coin
age If the seigniorage and it was at
once placed in the hands of the Presi-
dent. Since that time he has devoted
his entire time to the bill, and although
no announcement has been Juade to
that effect, the opinion seems to be
gaining ground here that he will vote
the bill. If he neither votes nor signs
the bill by Thursday of this week it
will become law without any action
on the Presidents part. The vote of
the bill will be great disappointment
to Democrats from the South and
West in Congress, but if it be voted no
attempt will be made to pass it over
the veto.
Secretary Gresham smashed some
precedents when he made public the
new treaty with China in advance of
the action of the Senate upon it, but it
was the sensible thing to do, even if
garbled extracts from the treaty had
not leaked out and been printed in pa
pers uhfriendly toward the admins
tration. OF course Secretary Gresham
would have preferred that the making
public of this treaty should have been
deferred until it could have been 40.
companied by the commercial treaty,
to which it was the stepping stone,
which has been negotiated and is now
awaiting the approval OF the Chinese
government. The present treaty re-
lates entirely to the rights of the citi-
zens of the two countries when living
In either, and contains several marked
concessions concerning the coming of
Chinese to America. For that reason
it is objection to some of the Sen
ators and Representatives from the
Pacific coast, but, in view of the ad.
vantages to be gained by the CONNER
cial treaty, to come later, it is not
thought that the opposition will be
strong enough to endanger the ratif-
cation of this treaty, but the Senate
may decide, on account of the slip
prryness of Chinese diplomacy, to
withhold ratification until it is known
that the commercial treaty has been
approved by China.
Nothing ia easier than to build up
absurd stories by accepting wrong
constructions of an act as founda-
ton upon which to build, and moth
ing is apparently more enjoyable to
those Washington Correspondents
vino furnish imaginary tier for the
sensational Republican press than to
PIT wrodg construction upon every
1T of President Cleveland's, A case
j point was the designation by the
asidentof Rear Admiral Walker for
command of the Pacific Station.
Rough it was officially stated that
niral Walker was given the COM
nd because the administration had
Il ded to extend an appropriation
lie in 1892. by Congress in fifth up
\ GAL and navalstatiod at Pearl Harbor
/. twaii, the right to do so having ex-
listed since the ratification of the
treaty OF 1887. and he was thoroughly
familiar with the harbor and its sur
roundings, but, putting wrong con-
struction upon it,these correspondents
built up stories showing that the Sc
lection was made because Of an inten-
ton to interfere with the provisional
government of Hawaii. These stories
were not only false and known by
their concoctors to be false, but they
were positive insult to the President
Of the u nited States, who had months
ago formally and officially turned all
matters relating TO the government OF
Hawaii over to congress, yet they
we're printed. Legitimate criticism is
all right in its proper place, but lies
and Misrepresentation are always
cowardly andsalways contemplate, no
matter who makes use of them.
Horrible Double Murder.
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