The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-01
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Washington, July "a, 1895.

Sensational rumors have followed each ,
,.ber thick and fast since Secretary Olney !
came here and presided over secret cani- :
.ot meeting. These rumors might easily
have been quieted by an official statement
* from Secretary Olney but when newspaper
man yentured to suggest as much to Mr.
Opey Just before ho started to return to
81 his summer residence he was given look
chat was intended to completely annihilate
e him Init it didn't.-black looks dosen't
nbase a newspaper man, if he knows his
business
About the same time Secretary Olney ar
rived, the Spanish minister, who it will be-
remembered went to Massachusetts, to keep
in touch with the Secretary of State, also
arrived in Washington. That made it GER
tain that the cabinet meeting was connected
with Spanish affairs, and the fact that the
Soanish minister had been specially active,
through detectives in his employ, in trying !
locate ilibustering expedition said to be
fitting out in this country 20 90 to Cuba,
made it equally certain that stricter en-
forcemeut of the neutrality laws was one
of the particular subjects discussed.
A gentleman connected with the diplo-
matte corps told friend that the Spanish
minister had been urging Secretary Olney
TO order the arrest OF all Cubans in the
II JJnited States who are openly working to
aid the revolution either materially or
morally, including the recently elected
President of the Cuban Provisional Govern
# ment; also, that he should warn those
Americans including editors, who are open
ly sympathizing with and encouraging the
M rsyolutionists If any public step is taken
# by the administration it will probably be
through proclamation issued by the Presi-
dent.
The most intelligent members OF the labor
organizations in Washington do not hesitate
to express the opinion that Mr.. Sovereign
TX made mistake when he issued that order
M to the Knights of Labor, that national bank
notes must after September lst, be reiured
M by all members of that organization. Mr.
Ma Sovereign says that similar orders will be
M issued by all the other labor and kindred
organizations, but other labor men do not
N think so. At the Treasury the whole thing
|A is regarded as merely bluff to call the
attention of the country to the non legal
- tender quality of the national bank notes
OF course Knights Of Labor, or any othe'
people, have perfect right to refuse tt
accept national bank notes as money, but tt
be logical they ought also to refuse gold ant
al lack the
of legal tender. But as all three classes o
notes are convertible into legal tender upoi
demand at the U. S. Treasury or any of th
sub. Treasures it is difficult to see wha
would be gained by refusing any of them
except the i'll will of those who tendere
them and who would be put to the troubl
Of exchanging them for U. S. notes to pa
their debts. No one doubts that the M
tional banking laws need reform in lots
ways, but boycottng notes, the paymer
of which are guaranteed by the Unite
States government, will not reform tt
system, nor injure the banks to any marke
extent. 1t would, of course, if it becau
general, greatly inconvenience the bank
Init would it not inconvenience the peop
more? Somebody has apparently blunde
ed
The "Pooh Bah" of the comic ope
wasn't in it with Mr. Bowler Comptroll
of the Treasury, if the latter gentlem
really possesses the authority he thinks
does. He has directed that the parties
terestsd shall present arguments to him
show cause why payment OF claim
sugar bounty, which Congress has app
priated the money to pay, should not
withheld on the ground that the orgl
sugar bounty clause of the Mckinley ia
act was unconstitutional Only
Supreme Court has heretofore assumed
thority to set aside Acts of Congress
proved by the President because they "
not in accord with the Courts construct
of the Constitution, but now Bowler ella
it, II his claim be good one the otiic
Comptroller will be several points ah
of that of President when it comes to a
cratic power. But it is more probable
the claim is merely founded on the he
shadow which Comptroller Bowler imag
VA his immense head casts. Anyway his
tons will be watched with interest by
claimants Of the $5, 23S, 900 appropriate
the last Congress to pay sugar bountle'
we'll as by the general public If pre-
laws gives him the authority he Gle
those laws cannot be too quickly char
W The greatest man in this country isn't
enough or good enough to be trusted
such autocratc and absolute power
W public expenditures.
The DeLamar Company's aluminium
-. don't always pass current. The ab
W from them of the screaming eagle an