Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-11
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All at Sea Hawaii q. A. r. Men
Protest immigration.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE
Democratic distraction over the
tariff bill is an agreement to-
morrow but, like to morrow,
the agreement never comes.
Just when a new sugar schedL
lule new in words, but the
same in principle as that pre-
pared BY Democratic Senators
and Secretary Carlisle under the
direction Of the Sugar Trust =
which was to be used to blind
the ignorant followers of Mr..
| Cleveland and the House free
traders to their surrender to the
Senate and the Trust, which its
acceptance meant. had been
patched up at the. White House
and the end seemed in sight,
when the Louisiana Senators,
reinforced by the Populists,
Allen and Kyle, bobbed UP
with the statement that no
sugar schedule would be sup
ported by them which did
not provide for the payment
of the. sugar bounty for this
year. That sent the conference
to sea again and they are still
fioundering around at this writ
ing, drifting nearer and nearer
to the breakers on the rocky
coast all the while. How they
will get out, or whether they
will get out at all, is still prob
lematical. 1t is certain, how
ever, that the Republicans will
not volunteer as life savers.
Boss Cleveland has succeed
ed in preventing the House com
mittee on Foreign Affairs report
ing Boutelle's resolution for the
immediate recognition of the
Hawaiian Republic, although it
was word, for word, the same
resolution introduced by the
present Democratic chairman of
that committee, when the Bra
lillian Republic was established
during the Harrison administra-
ton, and when a majority OF
the committee and of the House
was Republican. But at least
one Democrat on the committee
-Geary, of California, was
ashamed of his party and had
4 the manliness to speak his mind.
He said: eve might as well
admit that the Democratic par
ty has Numbered in its treat
Ement of this Hawaiian question
land we cannot afford to make
another bIunder. = The Demo
Gratis cheat the devil around the
stump" by postponing the con
sideratioD of the resolution un-
til next Thursday, hoping that
lit will then be too late
to have it acted upon a I
this session. In view of this
action by the committee at Mr..
| Cleveland's dictation it is not
surprising that the members OF
/ the Hawaiian commission now in
Washington, who represent the
ex-queen. should say that they
intend to remain until Informed
by Mr.. Cleveland whether he
I intends to carry out his promise
to restore the Queen to hel
throne. They naturally think
that Mr.. Cleveland still wishes
to restore the Queen, and other
people think so, too. Why else
should he wish to postpone re-
cognizing the republic ?
The 6. A. r. men have sent 6
formal protest to Mr.. Cleveland
and are preparing to bring tc
the attention Of the coming Ma
tional Eneampment at Pittsbure
the unjust treatment the ole
| soldiers have received from the
4 Cleveland administration. Our
of 150 employees dropped from
the rolls of the Record and
Pension division Of the War De
partment II were Union Veter
ans, and tits said that the re
cords of some of the ex-soldiers
show them to have been among
the most efficient clerks in
the division. Old sold lie rs
have also been Disseminated
against in other departments
particularly in the Agricultural
Department and in the various
branches of the Interior Depart
ment, including the Govern
ment Printing Office and the
Pension Bureau.
There is more or less anxiety
in Congress because Of the wal
between Japan and China
This is not because of any spe.
cial interest taken in the war as
it now is, but because Of the feai
that the United States may be
| in some manner dragged into il
by the diplomatic laundering OF
| Secretary Gresham, who appears
| to have, in place of the iudg-
ment that should dominate a
/ Secretary of State, an oversup.
ply of the very undesirable fac
ulty which makes him "put his
foot in it, every time he makes
a move in connection with the
foreign relations of the govern
ment.
Representative Stone, of Penn
lsylvania, is not discouraged by
the opposition of the admin
istration to his bill requiring all
immigrants to be examined and
certified by =. S. Consuls,
which recently passed the House
and which the Senate commit
tee on immigration has tried to
kill by reporting a substitute
therefor which might easily
have been added to the bill as
an amendment. He says: Il
can see no ground for objections
except from steamship compan-
] ipe that ara nnuaoad IN fba ~,