Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-11-08
WASHINGTON NOTES,
The President at Work OH His Mes-
sage The Venezuelan Matter
will Probably BE Subject of Spe.
ctal Message Some Sound Words
About PcnSiOaS-ninOr Matters.

cordance with his usual custom, moved
from the White House out to his
suburban residence, in order to be able
to put in more time upon his message
to Congress than he could possibly do
when liable to almost constant inter
rnptions from callers whom he would
not care to decline seeing. These he
| is entirely free from at his suburban
( residence, as no one goes there to call
upon him, unless specially invited.
While not stated as certainty, there
are good reasons for the belief that his
annual message to Congress will not
deal with the diplomatic controversy
with England over the application OF
the Monroe doctrine in Venezuela,
further than to say that the whole sub
ject will he fully treated in special
message which will follow the annual
message and be accompanied by the
diplomatic correspondence. The Presi-
dent and every member of his cabinet
are we'll pleased with the present
status of this Venezuela matter, and
very confident that they will be still
better pleased little latter. a
diplomatic victory is preferable to one
achieved by the use of powder and
ball, in some cases. And this is one of
the cases.
II proof were needed that the real
purpose of the public meeting held
last night, for the avOwed purpose of
expressing the sympathy of the citizens
of Washington for the Cuban revolu-
tionists, was TO embarrass the admin
istration and make Republican partisan
capital it was furnished in great big
chunks by the names of those who
controlled the meeting, made the
speeches and wrote the resolutions
adopted. Every man of them was a
Republican. The presiding officer was
the notorious corporal" Tanner; the
writer OF the resolutions was DIR.
Rankin, president of the Howard
University, the negro college which is
partly maintained at public expense,
and the only woman speaker was Mrs.
John A. Logan.
Judge Lochren, Commissioner of
Pensions, has paragraph in his an
nual report headed Patriotism and
Pensions" in which he SAYS: "Those
men who enlisted early and fought the
battles OF the war were not moved by
mercenary considerations, and unless
actually disabled did not show the
haste in applying for pensions
manifested by those who enlisted near
the close of the war for large bounties,
and did little actual service, and who
are now the noisiest in clamoring for
more pensions. As compared with
this latter class the real soldiers of the
war have been modest in preferring
claims for pensions" The figures in
the report are interesting. June Both,
1894, there were on the rolls 969,544
pensioners; during the year following
80, lSJ new names were added and f.
205 names which had been dropped
restored. There were 27,Sl6 deaths.
and l4,575 names were dropped for
other causes, making the net increase
Of the total number of pensioners for
the fiscal year ending June so, last
$50. The appropriation for the year
covered by the report was $l50.OO0,-
600, and Judge Lochren's estimate for
the next fiscal year is $l40, 100000.
Ex-Congressman Bynum, OF Ind, is
one of the few men who regards MIR.
Harrison's chance for the Republican
nomination as being ahead OF either
those of Reed, Mckinley or Allison.
He says Mr.. Harrison is stronger with
his party in Indiana than ever before
and that the Indiana Republicans are
going to get him nominated, if such
thing is possible. Speaking of the
Democratic nomination Mr.. Bynum
said "On the Democratic side there
is much talk in favor of Col. Morrison,
and he has many friends in all parts
of the country. My opinion is that
eventually Democratic sentiment will
center on Secretary Carlisle. He is
we'll liked in the North and East, and
in the South his nomination would
create tremendous enthusiasm"
Representative Forman of H., who
has been on the stump in Kentucky,
Maryland and New Jersey, arrived in
Washington this week. He says he
hasn't the slightest doubt that all three
States will go Democratic.
Secretary Olney has received copy
OF the proceedings of the French court
martial which sentenced the negro
Waller, who is Ex-U. S. Consul, to
twenty years imprisonment under the
charge of having betrayed French
military movements in Madagascar,
and the wife of the imprisoned man
has given the Secretary all the infor-
nation in her possession, documentary
and otherwise. 1t cannot be stated
what Mr.. Olney thinks of the case, but
others who have had access to the in
formation regard the outlook for Waller
as bad one, and say that the case has
been misrepresented for political effect
by certain Republican newspapers.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
Ambassador, and Secretary Olney are
engaged in negotiating a convention
to determine the amount of damages
sustained by the owners of Canadian
sealing vessels which were seized in Ber-
ing Sea by this government before the
arbitration of the claims of the two
countries. 1t is expected that it will
be completed before Congress meets.
Dem.
A force of 10 men is being worked
at the Cleveland mine, in Stevens
county, and producing about ton of
100 ounce ore per day. This ore is