The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-07-19
WASHINGTON.
rom our Regular Correspondent.

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zed by the last Congress, and other
important business, that he has been !
compelled to postpone his vacation
for time. He hopes to have things
in such shape that he can leave about
the last of the month.
Everybody is laughing at the
Spanish minister, who has been sent
on fools GRAND by his government.
He has gone to Secretary Olneys
summer residence, in Massachusetts,,
to ask an explanation and an official
statement concerning that silly fake
purporting to be an interview with
Ambassador Eustis, which was pub
ished in Paris paper early this week
and cabled to this country, and which
was promptly followed by denial
from Ambassador Eustis. No denial
was needed. Everybody knew that
the thing was fake, but the Spanish
government seems to have taken it
seriously, or, il is so pretending for
some purpose of its own. Secretary
Olney will dispose of the Spanish
minister and his silly request in short
order.
According to Col. Harvey, of the
New York Worlds editorial staff, who
is in Washington, "Teddy" Roose-
welt has given Tammany "cinch "
on the next municipal election, by his
strict enforcement of the excise law.
Col. Harvey said: "The result will
be far.reachlng in a political way, and
will beyond doubt damage the republi-
cans materially in New York City. l
have no idea that they will be able to
elect single Assemblyman or Sena-
tor from the city or from Brooklyn
this fall. Every Tammany candidate
will win. People who live at dis
tance can't begin to appreciate the
local feeling that has been aroused by
this affair. and it is not feeling that
will die away in a little while. The
administration has gone too far now
to recede; it must carry out its po.
hey, and the more rigidly that policy
is adhered to the more certain and
sweeping will be the victory of the
democrats"
Evidently Mr.. Benjamin Harrison
is becoming frightened at the ham
mering Mckinley is getting at the
hands of the friends of the other can.
didates, as a result of his efforts to
keep himself prominently before his
party as Presidential candidate. Mr..
Harrison is tender and he never liked
hammering, so he has adopted another
course. 1t has been said before, but
fearing that 1t might have been forgot
ten, he arranged to have Mr.. John
w. Foster, who was once charged
with being Mr.. Harrison's spy upon
Secretary Blaine, and who became
Secretary of State himself when Mr..
Blaine retired from the Harrison adj
ministration, to say again that he was
not a candidate was doing nothing
to get the nomination, but would not,
of course, decline should the party
insist upon nominating him. These
statements are absurd, and they fool
nobody.
Attorney General Harmon isn't
satisfied with the decision against the
government in the suit against the
Stanford estate, and he this week di-
rected the u. S. District Attorney at
San Francisco to appeal the case to
the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
for the Pacific Coast district. 1t is
no violation of confidence to add that
should the Court Of Appeals decide
against the government the case will
be carried to the u. S. Supreme
Court. This suit, which is for $751;
o6o,coo is only against the Stanford
estate, but if the government wins the
estates of all of Stanford's Pacific
railroad associates who, like him, be-
came rich by their manipulations of a
company that has always pleaded its
inability to repay money loaned it by
the U. S. government, will have to
disgorge to the amount of their stock
holdings in the.road, if to no further
extent.
The White House mail gives evi
dence of the rapldity with which the
news of the birth of President Cleve-
lands third baby has been disseminat,
ed, but it also gives evidence OF the
careless manner in which many peo
pie read the news. 1t would be ratur'
al to suppose that every man, woman
and child who reads the newspapers
knows that President Cleveland ant
his wife and children are at their sum
mer residence, Gray Gables, on Buz
Yards Bay. Well, there are thousand:
who have read or heard of the birth o
that third girl who believe that the
baby was born in the White House
and that Mrs. Cleveland is there now
and every mail brings hundreds O
letters addressed to her at the Whit
House. This is just as well, however
as there are more clerks at the Whit
House to go over these letters an
select such as are worthy OF Mrs