The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-14
BLoUNr AND THE soR1BEs.
The Newspaper Men Pursuing tn
Commissioner Like His Shadow.

The Newspaper Men Pursuing the
Commissioner Like His Shadow.
Washington, Jan. 12-The advent of
MIR. Blount, late minister and commits
sioner to Hawaii, several days ago,
created quite stir at the capital, especi-
ally among the newspaper men. The lat
ter have had no purpose to make Nj
blount's life miserable since his arrival
here, but they have we'll nigh succeeded
IN doing so, nevertheless. The very hour
OF MS arrival they jumped on to him. and
every moment since that time he could
truthfully sing: They're after me
they're after me-" At the first Mr.
Blount very properly, and, doubtless,
very truthfully, told them that he knew
nothing about Hawaii, since he left there
IN August last, further than everybody
knows who reads the papers. "Why,
don't know as much about it as you
gentlemen of the press he would say,
over and over again, in a tone half com
pllmentary and half deprecatory. Il
know absolutely nothing more than is
known TO the public"
NOT TO BE BLUFFED.
Soft talk like that warded off the boys
for while; but the next day, after Mr.
Blount had had time to so 10 the white
house and the state department, they
thought he ought to know something
more, and so they went for him again
The distinguished Georgian is old in
public life, and lacks great deal of being
unacqualnted with the reportorial gimlet,
so he meets the correspondents with
smile that is childlike and bland, and as
sureS them in the most pleasant, and at
the same time most positive, manner in
the world, of his utter ignorance of all
the things they want to ask about.
Then, after they have been turned
down, they see him go off and have tete-
a-tete with Senator Morgan or Speaker
Crisp, or Governor McCreary, and they
are dead certain that he is talking about
the very things, to those gentlemen, that
he wouldn't talk to them about.
SURE TO COME OUT ON TOP.
Whether Mr.. Blount talks or does not
talk ii is pretty certain that when a full
Investigation of the Hawaiian matter is
had by congress both the President and
his commissioner and minister will be
sustained, The republicans think they
will make much political capital out of it,
but they won't The democrats are 60
ing to stand up to the administration.
A prominent western member of
the House, whose name ] am not at lib
erty to use, who has been as strong an
nti-administration man as there is in the
Democratic party, told me to-day that he
was in favor of indorsing the President
throughout. The gentleman thinks the
President did right, even if he had been
obliged to use arms TO carry
out his policy; that great out
rage was perpetrated by authority
of the United States government last
January, when Queen Lilioukalani
was dethroned, and that our govern
ment ought to replace her on the throne,
even if force is required to do it, Coming,
as this does, from one who has been a very
strong opponent of the administration in
many things, for months past, it is very
significant; and il shows the general SEN
timent of the democratic congressman on
this question, whether they agree with
the President on other matters or not.
TO BE FULLY VENTILATED.
The Hawaiian matter will be fully ven
tilated in the House as soon as the tariff
bill is passed. 1t would have been dis
cussed last Friday and Saturday but for
the headstrong folly of the republicans.
An agreement had been reached by Gov.
McCreary, chairman of the foreign
affairs committee, for the democrats, and
Mr. Hit, of the same committee, for the
republicans, to devote Friday and Satur-
daY to discussion of the subject. But
when Boutelle, in defiance of that agree
meEit, arose and began to filibuster
against everything because he could not
get before the House a resolution Of his
own on the subject, the republicans hastily
abandoned their agreement and blindly
rallie to the bulldozer from Maine. BY
his contumacy, and the failure of the
dem ocrats to make a quorum, the last
weak was wasted, and Hawaii was leu
alone. Now it will be allowed TO rest I'M
til after the tariff bill is disposed of. AT
ter That the republicans will get more Of
Hawaii than ic aUFaaa HE n than Thew
have an idea that they are going to prove
some very ugly things against President
Cleveland and Mr.. Blount; but my pre-
diction is that they will find more Of it
on their own side than they now antici-
pate.