The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-11-01
WASHINGTON.
grom our Regular Correspondent.

return rom Atlanta that although the
season for the propagation of Cabinet
designations was little late in OPEN
ing, it had been working overtime to
catch up. He learned for the first
time that disagreement existed be
tween himself and Secretary Olney of
such serious nature that the latter
was going to retire from the Cabinet,
and that it was on account of that
disagreement that Mr. Olney did not
accompany him to Atlanta. This
might have been very distressing to
him, if he had not known that it was
because he would have to 90 to At
lanta a little later on with the foreign
representatives to take part in the ex-
ercises of Diplomatic Day at the ex-
position, and the pressing nature of
some private business in Boston, that
prevented Secretary Olney going with
him.
The President presided over a Cab
met meeting to-day, but there was
nothing said or done which implied in
the slightest degree any disagreement
over the position of this government
in dealing with the dispute between
England and Venezuela. From the
first the President and every member
of the Cabinet have held the same
opinion on this matter, and they still
do. While not pretending to speak
for the President or the members of
his cabinet, it can be said that many
prominent democrats believe the cur
rent stories about disagreements and
intended designations are circulated
for the purpose of trying to goad the
administration into declaring what it
will do in case England should resort
to force to carry its point in Vene-
zuela, and that some of the circulators
have benefited at the expense of the
English secret fund. Be that as it
may, the administration has no idea
of showing its hand to England at this
stage of the game. Its position has
been fully determined upon and will
be announced when necessary, and
when announced it will be approved
by great majority of our people, If
not by all of the Presidents political
opponents.
A very small thing is needed in
Washington to start a very big sensa-
ton. One of those small things was
the order for continuous work on the
guns which are being made in the
government gun shop, for the new
battleship Oregon, now lying at the
Mare Island navy yard waiting the
completion of her armament. This
order was made the foundation for a
string of the most outrageous stories
as to the administration hurried
preparations for the inevitable war
with England and similar rot. The
truth was easily obtainable, if it had
been wanted. The order for contin-
uous work was issued by the Navy
department for no other purpose than
to have the guns ready at the stipulat-
ed time, in order to prevent the throw
ing of any blame for delay on the de-
partment by the contractor. BY work.
ing three eight-hour shifts three days
work are accomplished on the guns
every "a hours. How very warlike
these preparations are may be seen
from the size of the working shifts
one foreman, four machinists, one en-
gineer, one fireman, and two laborers
to each.
kIt is, OF course, known that Presi-
dent Cleveland is and will be a very
busy man until after his message to
Congress is completed, but there is
one thing that all the democrats here
abouts would like him to take time
enough to do. That is to dismiss the
negro, Taylor, who is Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia.
Taylor claims to have been demo-
crat before he came to Washington,
but his rascalities have been much
more marked than his democracy since
he secured one of the best local posi-
tions in Washington, and this week
he attended a negro republican mass
meeting and made speech in favor
of negro republican being elected as
one of the delegates to the National
republican convention. Since then
every democrat one meets expresses
the wish that President Cleveland
would kick Taylor out of the Office to
which he appointed him.
Secretary Carlisle proposes to set a
good example by going all the way to
Covington, KY, to register in order
that he may be able to cast his vote
for the straight democratic ticket in
that state.
The stoppage of the coinage of sill
yer has no bearing whatever, upon the
silver question. The only silver that