Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-10-19
A FARCE.
0lneV'S Vigorous Foreign Policy Weakens Into the Baby
 Act.
A Confide utia1 Agent to be Sent to Cuba-5apau has her Eye on tho
 Hawaiian Islands.
(From our regular correspondent. ].

| WASHINGTON, Oct. II, lSJo. l Secretary Oney, the man who hal
 been widely advertised by democrats a
 policy" which is to be put into effect
 accent on the is tC be-has made bad
 start by pleading the baby act. He was
 asked this week what, if anything, the administration proposed to do about the Cuban revolutiCaiste. The man who
 asked the question occupies a position
 which entitled him to reply, otherwlse
 Mir. Olney would have given him the l usual silent bluff with which he parries
 the questions of newspaper men and ] other inquisitive individuals. Not dar-
 ing to do that he fell back on the baby { act, and said that the reports were so conflicting that he had up to this time status of affairs in Cuba; that the | Spanish minister insisted that the revolt was mere nothing and would soon be stamped out, and that the rosy pictures Of the revolutlonist5 successes which ! appear from time to time In the news papers were manufactured in this coun- try. He intimated that it might be necessary to send q confidential agent to Cuba to investigate before the admins tration decided what position it would take. It is significant that the state department officials cite two pIecedents for the idea of sending a confidential agent to Cuba. Ia 1916, before Rcknow- ledging the independence of the revolt
 inE Spanish colonies in South America, Pres dent Monroe sent three commIs- Sioners m a United States man-of-w war !,
 investigate the situation, and in 1S4S
 when Daniel Webster was secretary of
 state, President Taylor secretely com
 missoDed Q confidential agent to go to
 Hungary and ascertain the chances the Hungarians had for success in their
 revolt against Austrian rule, an act
 which caused strained relations between this country and Austria, although the
 revolt was put down before the agent
 got to Hungary, and gave Mir. Webster an opportunity to write one of his strongest state papers. There is 8 re-
 a. onable ground for the suspicion that Mir. Cleveland has alreedy appointed a
 confidential agent, and that the man is now in Cuba.
 Some very ludicrous suggestions have
 been made as to who will be given that vacancy in the supreme court, b. t the most ludIcous of them all is that which came this week from some souther dem. ocrats in favor of Representive Thomas c. Catchings, of Mies.-'' 'Shoestring rom," one of the origiuators and prin- clpal ben fi.ia:ies of crooked election methods in the solth. Ia the eyes of
 most people "Shoestring Tom" has not single qualification for seat upon the bench Of our highest court, but he has
 one trait which in MT. Cleveland's eyes
 may nake up for all that he lacks-he is cuckoo of the most pronounced breed.
 Secretary Morton is the one member of the administration who is open in his advocacy cf freq trade. That's why he has been so anxious that Mexican cattle should be admitted free, under the pre-. tense of iDjurlng the beef trust. He has been loud in his claims that this was in the interests Of the farmers particularly. J ust now the mail of the department of agriculture is burdened with protests i from farmers who raise cattle against | the free admission of Mexican cattle.
 Evidently the American farmers think
 they know what Is to their interest bet ter than the free trade secretary of agri- | culture does.
 Mr. Castle, the new Hawaiian minis ter, who has been in Washington for ten days, but who not yet been off liclally re- | ceived as such by the administration, | denies in the most positive terms the ,,1 1-tp f.ar,. nf- fnf 1 Hawaiian publication brought to the l United States on the last steamer, to the 1 effect that the Hawaiian republic was on ! the verge of dissolution. He says the l editor of the publication in question has
 always been opposed to the republic, | aad that what he prints is treated with
 Fidicule by the intelligent people on the 1 island. MT. Castle declines to discuss | the reports concerning Japap's desire to | obtain possession of the islands, but | from other sources 1t IS learned that the
 mem bers Of the Hawaiian government
 are uneasy concerning what they have i learned of Japan's intentions, and that | their uneasiuess is being constantly add 1 ed to by the unruly action of the Japan
 csc on the islands, who appear to be try 1 ing to raise 6 TOW of some kind in order 1 that fhe Japanese government may nave
 a reasonable excuse for making de-
 mands which could not be compiled
 ~lth upon Hawaii, and in default seiz
 ing the islands, la the English at Cor
 into a few mo9ths ago. According to
 these stories, the Japanese government
 IS counting upon the known hostility oi
 Mr Cleveland to the present Hawaiian | government to prevent any interference
 with it's plans, notwithstanding the re.
 solution adopted by congress saying that lbe United States would tolerate no h. reference with Hawaiian affairs by any
 foreign government. If this be true Japan is making a mistake. Congress will again he in session in a few weeks
 and, if necessary, it will compel the ad
 ministra.ion to make good that resolu' 1 tion.