The morning times., 1895-12-08
CLEVELAND KNOWS IT ALL
Has a Cable Duplicate Of LoId
Salishury's Reply. :
TRANSMITTED IN CYPHER
Such a Proceed mre Not Unusual and
ConclusiOn-Formal Delivery of
Big Blue Envelope by Sir Julian
Pauncefote-Is Bulky and Lengthy.

sh
handed 10 The Secretary OF State Lord
TO the Venezuelan incident. 1t was stated
last night that this proceeding was purely
a diplomatic formally.
It is said 10 be a fact that the Pres sIdent
has had iD his Possession for several days
the full text OF Lord Salisbury's communi-
cation, had It, In fact, before he sailed
on the United States lighthouse tender
Violet for the duck-hunted sounds of the
South.
Ii is the custom Of the diplomatic repre-
seDfatives Of this country abroad to use
the cable in all matters Of moment, and
according to report, this instance has
been no exception. That Mr.. Bayard
should await the slow process Of the mail
to acquaiDt this government with matters
OF such vital Importance as the document
from Lord Salisbury contains. would, 1t
is pointed out, be most extraordinary.
IN SECRET CODE.
The fact that things OF much less i'm
portaDce are being constantly trans
mitted by telegraph in the secret code
OF the State Depar tment, gives good
color TO the stateme Mt, made last night in
an authorif ative manner, that our minister
at London lost no time in flashing the
Vi tuC fCNSfuHtut dCItBo
the water as soon as il was in his hands.
Minister Bayard, 1t is believed, was
formally given Possession OF the dOCu
ment on Saturday last, and according to
report, It was In the Presidents posses
sion un Monday.
Ar. Cleveland left on his pursuit of the
canvasback and redhead on Thursday night
and had probably Thoroughly digested the
tart sentences of Englands premier before
his departure. and is now cogitating In
the lonely marshes ON the position in which
he is placed.
While the winds tumble the salt water
through sedge and wild celery, and gently
rock his sneak buat, Mr.. Cleveland IL
thunlbing that cabiegram and wondering
what Congress viii say, or worse still.
what II VIII do when he sends II before
that body.
1t is believed here, and enough gossip
has gotten abroad 10 give an idea Of what
the position OF England Is, that the ad-
ministration is in the quandary of its
existence, and one from which 1T will
take either q firm and unbending policy
OF a mastery piece Of diplomacy to ex-
tricate itself.
WHAT THE COUNTRY THINKS.
OF course, all inquiries as to the truth
Of this report are met with the usual
State Department bland denials. One
view OF the matter, taken by public men
last night, is that Mr.. Cleyeiand's reason
for not desiring the contents Of Lord Sails
bury's letter 10 be made public, Is that the
administration is anxious 10 test the
temper OF the House and the country re-
garding t. Such course has been res,rted
to, and this view finds many supporters.
Notwithstanding cable reports to the
effect that the British Minister has ce
cided not to make public the correspon
dence, IT is believed here that it " III first
get ont from that side. In the light Of
past experience this is most probable,
and the chances are that even before Mr..
Cleveland has had an opportunity to send
the much talked of letter to Congress, its
contents will be known through the off,
ciRl organs in London.
BLUE SEALED ENVELOPE.
Mr.. Olney was given possession of the
formal letter yesterday.
Al IL o'clock Sir Julian Paupcefote,
the British Ambassador, went to the State
Department bearing in one of the character
istic blue envelopes with the accompany
ing red seal, which form the distinguish
ing features of British diplomatic cores
pondence, Lord Salisbury reply.
The document was in print, with the usual
wide margin for notes and printed in the
customary legibile type pertaining to such
was saved the necessity OF going through
the formula of reading to Secretary Olney
the exceedingly lengthy and argumentative
communication OF which he was made the
official bearer, by percelving that Secretary
Oluey himself had a duplicate In his hands
which had been transmitted to him by Am
bassador Bayard by the same steamer as
that which conveyed Sir Julian Pauncefote's
missive and which had consequently reached
him Friday night.
This naturally shortened the official cere-
mony. The presentation of the note barely
occupied ten minutes; the reading of it would
have consumed severar hours.
Sir Julian PauDcefote left the department
before 11:15. Secretary Olney himself short
ly afterwards disappeared and his coDfiden.
tial clerks declared with much emphasis for
some hours afterwards that the British
had not been at the State De-
partmeut that day and that the British note
had not vet been received.