Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-11-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondent.l

AOSN hANhA' - ANp tSNA
several times before, but never quite
SO publicly as in this bond issue. At
the very time when Carlisle was assur-
ing, not only the newspaper men but
his closet friends, that no immediate
bond issue was contemplated, one of
his assistants was in New York, under
Mr.. Cleveland's personal orders, per-
fecting arrangements with bankers of
that city to issue bonds. l remember
many instances of the intentional hui
initiation of members of the cabinet by
Presidents, who for one or another rea-
son wished to get rid of them without
asking for their designations, but this
is the only time | ever heard of the
news of a contemplated bond issue
being given out by New York bankers
before it was known to the Secretary
of the Treasury, and l doubt if such a
thing ever happened before. OF course
| can understand that this is q pecu-
liarly bad time for Carlisle t.. leave the
cabinet, but if he doesn't do 80 as soon
as he finishes his annual report to Con
gress he will take a big drop in my es,
timation.n This gentleman expresses
the situation SO we'll, as it is known in
Washington, that it is needless for me
to add to it further than that Mr.. Cleve-
land says Mr.. Carlisle and himself are
in accord.
Republicans see nothing wrong in
another bond issue SO far as that act of
itself is concerned, and if certain Dem.
ocrats and Populists in Congress at
tempt to embarrass the administration
On account of it, as they now threaten
to do, they will get little assistance
from Republicans. 1t is the bad policy
of the administration and the Demo.
cratic Congress, which has made bond
issues necessary to protect the credit
of the Government, that Republicans
object to and will continue TO object
to, until it is in their power TO change
it.
Considerable amusement has been
caused here by a reference to the value
Of the cuckoo as q weather prophet,
made by Prof. Hazen, chief of the
Weather Bureau, in a lecture on Long
range and popular weather forecasts
Prof. Hazen said of the cuckoo: 1.-The
bird has a singularly mouruful note,
and its voice is an invariable sign of q
coming storm. l heard one singing in
front of the White House last summer
Prof. Hazen is a scientist, not a poll
tician, yet the aptness of his remark;
indicates that he also knows something
about rec ent political happenings, al.
though he would probably say, if ques
toned, that he knew nothing about the
political cuckoo.
Senator PETER very kindly comedies
that the Republicans will elect the mex
President and says that the new ma
tional party which, in his mind, is tC
be made up of Populists and the dis
satisfied Democrats and Republican,
does not expect to elect a Presidenr
until 1900. And he actually seems tC
feel hurt because nobody pays any at
tention to him. The general impress
sion among shrewd observers is that by
1900 the most Of our people will have
forgotten that a Populist party eve
existed.
Senator German is said to be The
father of a scheme by which the Dem
ocrats hope to certainly save one of thu
Senators from North Carolina and pos
sibly both Of them. The scheme il
quite Gormanesque. 1t provides tina.
the Governor of North Carolina-i
Democrat-shall call an immediate ex
ira session of the present Legislature
which is overwhelmingly Democratic
and that a Senator shall be elected t.
fill the unexpired term Of the late Sena
tor Vance, whose seat is now occupied
by Senator Jarvis who was appointed
by the Governor to fill the vacancy
until the meeting of the Legislature
Although that would be an extraordi
nary proceeding it would probably be
allowed to stand if the Democrats are
willing to saddle the expense of an ex
ira session of the Legislature, which
legally expires December 81, 1894, OIL
the tax payers of the State in order &c
keep q Democrat in the Senate unit
March 3, 1897. But the proposition &c
have that extra session elect a success
sor to Senator Ransom whose term ex.
pres March 3, 1895, will be regarded al
revolutionary and will be resisted in
the courts. The election of Ransom:
successor belongs legally to the Legis
lature just elected, the official life OF
which begins January /, 1895.
Having made a conspicuous failure
in his tariff policy, Mr.. Cleveland will
according to those who claim to have
been given an inkling of hisintentions,
in his annual message to Congress, at.
tempt to inaugurate a brand new finan.
cial policy, with u special view to pleas
ing the ~inflationists who control the
Democratic party of the South and
alternating them from the free coinage
of silver which he thinks they advocate
for no other reason than that they want
more money and cheaper money. Mr.,
Cleveland's occupation-oiflce holding
has not given him the experience
that is absolutely necessary to n enc.