Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-05-18
WASHINGTONLETTER
DELEWARES' SENSA-
TIONAL. WRANGLE.
Admiral rIeade Asks TO be
Retired.
INCOME TAX DECISION.
FiI Service Reform and Re
\ cOrder Taylor.
Pom our Regular Correspondent

WAOh1NG IN, May ID, 1890.
Mr.. Cleveland will be compelled by the
Senate to make full explanation of the
somewhat erratic course the administra
ton took in that Nicaragua business.
This is not guess. but a positive state
. meRt OF a fact obtained from trust
. Yorthy sources 1t has been known
4 rom the first that the Republican Sena-
ors would demand this information,
s but now a sufficient number of demo-
cratic Senators have pledged their CO.
operation to make il certain that q re-
solution calling for all the documents
will be put through with rush.
And that isn't all. 1t Is on the pro-
gramme for the Senators to rsaffirm the
Monroe doctrine as the people, not the
lawyers of the Decentralization stripe
have always understood it-European
hands of American governments; and
there is little doubt that the republican
House will promptly adopt the same.
Whether the administration will be al
lowed to 90 with the tacit rebuke car
ried by q Congressional re8ffirmation Of
tho Monroe doctrine win depend upon
the nature of the explanation it sends
with the Nicaraguan correspondence.
The gallant old tar, Admiral Meade,
after forty years of service in the Navy
OF which any man might be proud, has
been so nagged by the present admistra
ton that he has asked to be retired
! from active service; and, smarting under
the petty insults which have been heap
ed upon him, he so far forgot himself as
to publicly express his opinion of the
administration, and that opinion was
far from complimentary. This has
greatly sexasperated Mr.. Cleveland, and
Secretary Herbert, who has demanded
an explanation or denial from Admiral
Meade, holding out the threat of a court
martial Tor violation of naval reguia-
tons II the Admiral declines. Admiral
AS6ade was unquestionably wrong in
expreasing his opinion. but he was also
very hdman. Brave men seldom stand
logging silently, whatever the conse-
quences of resentment may be.
The conclusion OF the long wrangle
over the Senatorship in Delaware has
attracted considerable attention In
Washington. because Of it's possible
bearing on the question of whether the
Senate shall or shall not be re-organ.
ICED when Congress meets The general
impression Is that the democratic acting
Governor of Delaware was wrong In
claiming the right to exercise at one
and the same time the functions of Sen
ator and Governor, and that his vote in
the last ballot for Senator was illegal
1pont will be admitted to the Senate
successor to Mr.. Higgins. Senator
man said on the subject: "Mr
ont will IN my Judgement, be seated
ssAming that Gov. Watson, when b.
his vote as Senator, was the ther
vernon of the State OF Delaware
other words, Mr.. Sherman doesn'i
how one man can be a State Sena
and at the same time Governor of 1
tie. Do you?
Though Mr.. Cleveland makes grea-
ms as to his devotion to civil SERVES
run, the Civil Service Reform Asso-
on OF Washington at its annua
ing, which was addressed by Comp
or of Currency Eckels, unanimousl,
sad0pted report made by its secretar,
which contained statements calculated
TO raise doubts ae to the sincerity o
Mr.. Cleveland's claims in that direction
This was particularly true OF that DOR
ton OF the report dealing with Recorde
OF Deeds Taylor, whose violations of tn
civil service law were so notorious tina
the Civil Service Commission recon
mended, in a report made to the Presi
dent that he be dismissed from Office
The report, which was unanimousl
adopted, says: "At the direction of th
executive committee of the Association
l4QuAICU luJO CAtC CucAf kCb dkdlucl i
lor and learn that most of them, if no
all, were well founded, and / so reporte
to the committee. A committee OF tn
Association in an iuf kview with tn
President towards thS&Aos Of the wiz
ter. urged immediate consideration {
the report and recommendations of til
Civil Service Commission, which wer
made to him last August. So far as
known, however, the case has nc
yet been disposed of. 1t IL much {
be regretted that in this and other case
here charges of violations of the civ
vice law have been made by the of
Is who administer the law, there he
followed an immediate considers
of them by the Executive authorit
where sustained, that swift punisl
has not been melted out to the @
s.
Supreme Court has reached a d.
on the income tax cases, but tn
here was no leak and the decisic
Dc be made public until next wee
Impression was general up to Il
he decision was reached that Ju
ackson would vote against Il
additionally of the tax, but sever
things, unimportant in themselves, ha
occurred which have caused q revers
of opinion, and a majority now appe
to believe that he voted the other wa
A little patience and we shall know
about it.