The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-05-16
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Nicarapgua .Affairs VIII be Com
sidered by the Next
Senate.
Senate.
Admiral Meade, Gallant and
brave, has Let his Wrath
Master him.
The Little state Of Delaware DC.
cupies Large Place I'm
national Anairs.
Especial Correspondence

II
Mr.. Cleveland will be compelled by the
senate to make full explanation OF the
somewhat erratic course the admins
tration took in that Nicaragua BUSINESS.
This is not guess. hut positive state
rnent Of fact obtained from trust
worthy sources. It has been known
from the FIRST that the republican senat-
ors would demand this information. hut
now sufficient number of democratic
senator's have pledged their co-opera-
ton to make it certain that a resolution
calling for all the documents will be put
through the senate with a rush. And
that isn't all. IT. is on the program for
the senate to reafirm the Monroe doc
trine as the people, not the lawyers OF
Cleyeland- Gresham stripe, have always
Observation-Disclosures hands off Anne. i
can government; and there is little
doubt that the republican house will
promptly adopt the same. Whether the
administration will be allowed to 60
with the tacit rebuke carried by con-
gressional reaffi rlnation Of the Monroe
doctrine will depend upon the nature of
the explanation it sends with the Near
| auguan correspondence.
| That gallant old tar, Admiral Meade,
after forty years Of service in the navy
| of which any man might be proud. has
been so enraged by the present admins
tration that he has asked to be retired
from active service; and. smarting under
the petty insults which have been heared
upon him. he so far forgot himself as to
publicly express his opinion OF the ad-
ministration, and that opinion was tar
from complimentary. This has greatly
exasperated Mr.. cleveland, and Score.
tary Herbert. who has demanded an
Iexplanation or denial from Admiral
Meade, holding out the threat of a
court-martial for violation of naval
regulations If the Admiral declines. Ad-
miral Meade was unquestionably wrong
in expressing his opinion, but he was al
so very human. Brave men seldom
stand logging silently, whatever the
consequences of resentment may be.
The conclusions of the long wrangle
over the senatorsh,p in Delaware has at.
tracted considerable attention in Wash.
, Iington, because of its possible bearing
on the question, of whether the senate
; shall or not be organized when congress-
! meets. The general impression is that
the democratic acting governor OF Della
ware was wrong in claiming the right
to exercise at one and the same tim,
q the functions of senator and governor
]. and that his vote on the last ballot To-
8 senator was illegal. Accepting tina
t view Of the case Col. Ddpont will be ad
e mitted to the senate as successor to Mr
q Higgins. Senator Sherman said on tn
# subject: "Mr. Dupont will, in my jude
d ment, be notwithstanding that Gov
: Watson, when he cast his vote as sen at
e or, was the then governor of the Sta t
e of Delaware. In other words, Nj
n Sherman doesn't see how one man ca
e governor of state. Do you?
" Although Mr.. Cleveland makes grea
lie claims as to his devotion to civil servic
y reform, the Civil Service Reform Assc
r. citation, of Washington, at its annus
n. meeting, which was addressed bv Conn
It troller of Currency Eckels, unanimousl
le adopted report made bv its secretar
which contained statements calculate
to raise doubts as to the sincerity of M
t, Cleveland's claims in that direction
w This was particularly true of that pc
ton of the report dealing with Record
n. OF Deeds Taylor, whose violations of ii
ur sivil seryicelaw were so notorious tn,
Sc the civil service commission recor
sh manded, in report made to the pre-
re dent, that he be dismissed from offie
re- The report, which vas unanimous
to adopted, says. "At the direction of
ed executive committee of the ASSOCIATE,
of inquired into the charges again
Die Taylor and learned that mo st OF thel
49,, If not all, were we'll founded and
:" reported to the committee. A COZ
me mittee OF the associatiSn,in an intervis
aul with the president towards the close
tic the winter, urged immediate conside,
alton of the report and recommend
tions of the Civil Service Commissic
(which were made to him in August.
Or. far IS known. however. the case b
ge not yet been disposed Of. It is much
III he regretted that in this and other cas-
where charges al violations of the ci
" service law have been made by the oi
we Gals who administer the law, there
its not followed an immediate consider
ton of them by the executive -authori
and where sustained, that swift punt.
ment has not been melted out to 4
offenders.
mt, The supreme court has reached {
be cision on the income tax cases, but t
time there was no leak and the decisl
will not be made public until next we
The impression was general up to
time the decision was reached that ]
=. tice Jackson would vote against the CO
yer titutionaiity oil the tax, but seve
MS things. nnimportant in themselves, he
,s;-l occurred which have caused a rcver
cd. of opinion, and a majority now app,
acA to believe he voted the other way.
nts flittle patience and We shall know:
about it.
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