Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-01-24
WASHINGTON LITTER.
From our regular correspondent.
wAsHIForoK, ID. c.. Jan. FL. tsas

The democratic party in the sem
ate now consists of the Cleveland
men, or cuckoos, who are few in
number and small in influence; the
Gormanites, or anti-Cleveland men.
who haveNdominated the little that
has been done by the majority Of
the senate, and David b. HILL who
is alone in the senate, but who is
feared because of his influence in
the party outside of congress. With
these factions each pulling differ
ent way nothing can be done in the
senate that does not receive the sup
port of the republicans. The bust
ness men Of the country know that
the republican senators can be de-
pended upon to prevent any disas-
trous financial legislation, and hope
that they can induce the majority to
agree to some tariff amendments
that will make the revenues Of the
government sufficient to meet the
expenditures before the session
closes.
The house is plodding along with
the appropriation bills just as though
1t had never thought Of tackling such
a complicated and dangerous affair
as encouragement of the countrv,s
financial system. Secretory Carlisle
made some changes in his currency
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bill and again submitted it to the
house banking and currency COM
mittee, but it fell so fiat that the
committee made no attempt to get
it before the house again.
Notwithstanding all the talk about
the democratic administration run
ming the government upon more
economical basis than it was run bv
the republicans, the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill, which was last week
reported to the house, carries $1,000
600 more than was appropriated for
the current fiscal year.
If the opinions expressed by indi-
vidual senators and representatives
are any indications of what congress
will do, and they usually are the
very best, Great Britain will have to
wait a long time before she gets a
chance to lease that Hawaiian island
for cable station. Mr.. Cleveland is
accused of having misrepresented
the sentiment of the Hawaiian gov
eminent concerning that request for
the consent Of the United States to
such modification of the reciprocity
treaty as will permit the island to be
leased to Great Britain. According
to more direct information, the gov
eminent Of Hawaii doesn't want that
treaty modified at all, if the United
states will only officially define its
future intentions towards Hawaii;
and the request was made not be-
cause modification was wanted,
but to give congress a good opportu-
nifty to declare itself on the subject,
and with the belief that it would be
refused MIR. Cleveland evidently
thought differently, or he would not
have committed himself in favor of
granting the request.
Ia the opinion of everybody whose
opinion is worth having, Secretary
Gresham would better have sent the
correspondence relating to the sur
render of two Japanese students who
sought the protection of an Ameri-
can consul in China, and their sub
sequent execution as spies by the
Chimes, which was asked for by Sem
ator Lodges resolution, to the senate
without comment, than to have at
tempted to write Il defense founded
upon assertions not borne out by the
official correspondence, as he did.
Senator Lodge says Of Gresham's at
tempt to wriggle out of the response
bility: "Instead of those students
being confessed spies our represent
tative in China insisted that they
We're not spies at all, and that there
was nothing to sustain the charge
against them except the assertion Of
the Chinese. How Mr.. Gresham
could find warrant for his interpre-
tation | cannot understand