The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 13, '95.
The members OF the cabinet are not as
thick-skinned as their master. They
have become ratified at the public criti.
cism OF Mr.. Cleveland's neglect Of i'm.
portant public business to go on hunt.
ing junket at public expense-he is
drawing salary for doing nothing, and
is besides using government vessel
and have frantically implored him by
telegraph to return to Washington and
stop the criticism. Secretary Carlisle's
annual report is ready for transmission
to Congress, and although the law pro.
vides this report shall be made to Con.
gress, and not to the President, he is
afraid to send it to Congress until it has
been edited by Mr.. Cleveland. And
Secretary Olney is afraid to open his
month about Lord Salisbury's communi.
cation until Mr.. Cleveland has instructed
him as to what he shall say.
1t is now considered doubtful whether
the caucus committee which is arranging
the Republican membership of the
Senate committees will complete the
task before the holiday recess. 1t is not
an easy job by any means.
Representative Grout, of Vermont,
has introduced bill that ought to be.
come law, inasmuch as it probably
represents the views of nine.tenths of
those who live in places where there
are fourth.class postmasters. The bill
provides that all fourth. class postmasters
shall be elected by majority vote of
those who receive mail at their post.
offices, and directs that the Postmaster
General shall appoint only those who
are 80 elected. Those who have lived
in places where men Objectionable to
almost all their neighbors have been ap.
pointed postmaster can fully appreciate
this idea.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, made an
able speech this week on the Monroe
doctrine, concluding with these manly
and patriotic words: "We have reached
the time when it becomes our bounden
duty to say to the world, with dignity
and frmness, that thus far, but no
farther, shall foreign governments
be permitted to approach. Our doctrine
is the protection of American interests,
and our motto is America for Americans.
We do not claim that the world is ours,
but we will insist on our right to be
consulted upon affairs pertaining to the
American continents. Let us build 80
strongly and speak so plainly that the
way of the future Executives, Prime
Ministers, and Ambassadors of our
country shall be undoubted. Let it be
so clear that no statesman of the future
can find, as Mr.. Calhoun did in the
Senate, any ingenious theory to weaken
it's force and value. Let it be 50 certain
and emphatic that no Secretary of State
can hereafter become willing party to
treaty yielding share of the control
and supervisions of any inter.oceanic
canal to any European country, as in
the Clayton. Bulwer treaty. And let it
be so straight and practical that no
American Ambassador to the British
court shall feel at liberty to question
the policy of his own government or
possibly apologize for the Declaration of
Independence and the Monroe doctrine"
The result of the adoption by the
House OF Representative Barrett's i'm.
peachment resolution, directing the
committee on Foreign Affairs to investi.
gate two speeches made by Ambassador
Bayard-one in August and the other
in November, in which he characterized
Republicans as socialists because of their
belief in the policy of protection, and
otherwise abused Americans, will not
be the impeachment of Mr.. Bayard, but
it is almost certain to be sharp censure
from the House, unless it can be shown
that he was not correctly reported by
the English papers. Mr.. Barrett's reso.
luton would not have been introduced
if the Democrats had not adopted the
policy of objecting to every resolution
offered in the House. Mr.. Barrett's
Massachusetts colleague, Representative
Mccall, offered resolution merely
asking whether the President had taken
any steps to ascertain whether Ambas.
sador Bayard had used the language at.
tributed to him, and when that was OBJ.
jected to by Mr.. Crisp, Mr.. Barrett got
mad and raised question of privilege,
which was sustained by Speaker Reed,
and offered his impeachment resolution.
Those Republicans who are not COM
mitted to any particular man as the
Presidential nominee of the party think
the National committee did very wise
thing in selecting st. Louis as the con.
vention city Wheter true or not does
not matter, but it is certain that the
names of each of the other cities con.
testing for the honor had gotten asso.
ciated with some particular candidate
and the selection of either of them would