The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-02-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrom cur Regular Correspondentl
WASHINGTON, Feb. Il, 1895


gold bond valentine from Congress
in return for his ultimatum he is
going to get disappointed. Re-
pubhcans will not vote for thirty
year bond of any sort, because they
believe it will be giving away
unnecessarily d large sum of money
in interest. Besides, as ex-Speaker
Reed aptly said, both President
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle
have officially declared that the
revenues of the government will
soon exceed the expenditures, which
is an argument against long time
bonds. Representative Springer
having failed twice in his attempts
TO get an administration financial
bill through the House, the hopeless
task has now been turned over to
Representative Wilson, chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee,
of trying to get a gold bond bill
through.
The foreign syndicate which
bought the $62, 10000 4 per cent.
thirty year bonds from Mr.. Cleve-
land did very shrewd thing when
they employed Mr.. Cleveland's
former law partner to help them
make the deal, but they did not do
q shrewd thing when they got Mr..
Cleveland to put on record in his
special message their willingness to
pay the same price for per cent.
gold bond that they had agreed to
pay for 81 per cent. coin bond.
In making this distinction them
selves they have furnished an excel
lent reason, should any future
administration desire to take
advantage of it, for paying the
interest and principle of those
bonds in silver.
The Senate adopted the amend
ment to the consular and diplo-
matte appropriation bill, authorizing
the President to contract for the
laying of a caOle to Hawaii, and
appropriating 100000 to begin the
work, Senator Pettigrew voting
with the Democrats against it.
All Washington is snickering at
Mr.. James H. Eckles, who gained
some notoriety by being called the
-'boy Comptroller when Mr..
Cleveland, without consulting Sec
retary Carlisle, gave him the
position of Comptroller of the Cur
rency. He has since added to that
uotoriety by series Of after-dinner
financial speeches, not always in
harmony with either Mr.. Cleveland
or Mr.. Carlisle's ideas. A dinner
Is indirectly responsible for the above
mentioned snickering. The dinner
was given over IN Baltimore, and
Mr., Eckles was a guest. He re-
turned to Washington on o late
train, in the midst of a heavy snow
storm, and entered a public carriage
to be carried home. While III the
carriage he took a notion that he
was about to be kidnapped, and
silently opening the door of the
moving carriage he bolted for home
Through the snow, not forgetting,
however, his dress suit case. Moth
ing more ridiculous has happened
for quite while, and the idea of
Eckles getting his head sufficiently
Swelled to imagine that he was of
Sufficient Importance to be KID
mapped was funny enough to make
a street car horse laugh. He should
hereafter be accompanied by
chaperone when he attends Il din
ner.
Representative Boutelle, of Maine,
was right in calling the attention of
the House and of the country to a
remarkable change of policy on the
part of the administration within
less than twenty days. Said Mr..
Boutelle: "The instructions to
Admiral Beardslee (now on board
the Charleston in the harbor at
Honolulu) on Jan. 10, declared
with great particularly the doctrine
that can American citizen who
during revolution in foreign
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