Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-22
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular corresDou..,,

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WAsH'scroS. D. G., Nov. 10 Ia,
II Secretary Carlisle rema;,@
Cleyeland's cabinet said H. IN
crat OF national reputation to ) O'
sonal friend, "he will deserve t. G Io
every friend he has, and what i NC -
he will lose them. He has been ~
inflated several times before ~,
never quite so publicly as IL 4,
bond issue. AT the very time ~
Carlisle was assuring, not onlv -
newspaper men but his closest fr;aa ~
that no immediate bond Issue ,ra
contemplated, one of his assiston.
was in New York, under Mr. clo,
lands personal orders, perfecting J,
engagements with bankers az ~.
city to issue bonds. | reman,h
many instances of the intentiopsl
humiliation of members of tba oah,
net presidents, who for one a. j.
other reason wished to get rid !,
them without asking for their resin,
nations, but this is the only tina
ever heard of the news of a conto,.
plated bond issue being given opt Il,
n. I. bankers before it was known !,
the secretary of the treasury and
doubt If such thing ever hannanod
before. Of course I can understoas
that this is peculiarly bad time for
Carlisle to leave the cabinet hut e
he doesn't do SO as soon as he finisb
es his annual report to congress h.
will take big drop in my estima
tion." This gentleman expresses tba
situation so well, as it is known IN
Washington, that it is needless q,
me to add to it further than that NJ
Cleveland says Mr.. Carlisle and him
self are in accord.
Republicans see nothing wrong II
another bond issue so far as thai a.,
of itself is concerned, and if certain
democrats and populists in congress
attempt to embarrass the admins.
tration on account of it, as they now
threaten to do, they will get little n.
sistance from republicans. 1t is the
bad policy of the administration and
the democratic congress, which has
made bond issues necessary to pro.
tect 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 reference to the
value of the cuckoo as weather
prophet, made by Prof. Hazen, chief
of the weather bureau, in the lecture
on "long range and popular weather
forecasts Prof Hazen said of the
cuckoo: "The bird has a singularly
mournful note, and its voice is an in
variable sign of a coming storm.
heard one singing in front of the
white house last summer Prof.
Hazen is a scientist, not politician.
yet the aptness of his remark indi-
Gates that he also knows something
about recentpolitical Happenings, al
though he would probably say, if
questioned, that he knew nothing
about the political cuckoo.
Senator PETER very kindly comedies
that the republicans will elect the
next president and says that the new
national party which, in his mind,
is to be made up of poplllists and dis
satisfied democrats and republicans
does not expect to elect president
until 1900. And he actually seems to
feel hurt because nobody pays any
attention to him. The general i'm
preston among shrewd observers is
that by 1900 the most of our people
vii have forgotten that populist
party ever existed.
Senator German is said to be the
father of a scheme by which the
democrats hope to certainly save one
of the senators from North Carolina
and possibly both of them. The
scheme is quite Gormanesque. 1t
provides that the governor of North
Carolina--a democrat--shall call an
immediate extra session of the pres
ent Legislature, which is oyerwhelm-
ingly democratic, and that senator
shall be elected to fill the uneSpired
term of the late Senator Vance, whost
seat is now occupied by Senator jar
Wis who was appointed by the govern
or to fill the vacancy until the next
meeting of the legislature. Although
that would be an extraordinary pro-
ceeding il would probably be allowed
to stand if the democrats are willing
to saddle the expense Of an extra ses-
sion Of the legislature, which legally
expires Dee, q, 1894, on the tax payers
Of the state in order to keep demo-
oraf in fha sonata until March Z, 1877.