Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-02-16
PROF. WILSON TRIES HIS HAND.
Echers abduction '-The Wrong
Ok is Gored Says It's Rotten.
From our regalar correspoadeni.l


Cleveland expects TO get a gold bond
valentine from Congress in return for
his ultiInatum he is going to get dis
appointed. Republicans will not vote
for thirty-year bond of any sort. be-
cause they believe it viii be giving
away unnecessarily large sum of
money in interest Besides, as ex-
Speaker Reed aptly said. both Presi-
dent Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle
have officially declared that the reve-
nues of the government will soon ex-
coed the expenditures, which is an ar
gument against long time Is.
Representative Springer having failed
twice in his attempts to get an ad-
ministration 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 S62, 400, 900 4 per cent thirty-year
bonds from Mr. Cleveland did very
shrewd thing when they employed
Mr.. Cleveland former law partner to
help them make the deal, but they
did not do shrewd thing when they
got Mr.. Cleveland to put on record,
IN his special message, their willing
ness to pay the same price for a ) per
cent gold bond that they had agreed
to pay for 81 per cent coin
bond. In making this distinction
themselves they have furnished an ex-
cellent reason, should any future adj
ADMINISTRATION desire to take advantage
oft, for paying the interest and prin-
cipal of those bonds in silver.
The Senate adopted the amendment
to the consular and diplomatic appro-
priation bill, authorizing the President
to contract for the laying of cable TO
Hawaii, and appropriating $500, 600
to begin the work, Senator Pettigrew
voting with the Democrats against it.
All Washington is snickering at Mr..
James H. Eckels, who gained some
notoriety by being called the "boy
Comptroller" when Mr.. Cleveland,
without consulting Secretary Carlisle,
gave him the position of Comptroller
of the Currency. He has since added
to that notoriety 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 before
mentioned snickering. 'l'he dinner
was given over in Baltimore. and Mr..
Eckels was guest. He returned TO
Washington on a late train, in the
midst of heavy snow storm, and en-
tered a public carriage to be carried
home. While in the carriage he took
a notion that he was about to be kid
mapped, and silently opening the door
OF the moving carriage he boited for
horne through the SNOW, not forget
ting, however, his dress suit case.
Nothing more ridiculous has happen
ed for quite awhile, aud the idea Of
Eckels getting his head sufficiently
swelled 20 imagine that he was of
sufficient Importance to be kidnapped
was funny enough to make a street
car horse laugh He should hereafter
be accompanied by chapero1e when
he attends a dinner.
Representative Boutelle, of Maine,
was right in calling the attention Of
the House and Of the country to a re-
markable change of policy on the part
Of the administration within less than
20 days. Said Mr.. Boutelle: "The
instructions to Admiral Beardslee {now
on board the Philadelphia in the har-
Dor at Honolulu) on Jan. 10, declared
with great particularly the doctrine
that IAN American citizen VINO during
revolution i'll foreign country. par
ticipates in an attempt by force Of
arms or violence to maintain or over
throw the existing government, can
not claim hat the government Of the
United States shall protect him
against the consequences Of such act, 2
but that such citizens forfeit their
rights III that regard to the protet ton
OF the American flag" whereas ! uu-
derstand by the official documents that
the Secretary Of State has telegraphed
instructions TO the L. S. Minister in
Hawaii to pereniptorily demand of
that government ''the delay Of execu-
ton of the sentences of its own
tribunals against persons convicted Of
completely in ar attempt 70 overthrow
it by force Of arms and violence.
The unaniniity with which the Re-
publicans Of the House voted for ex-
| Speaker Reeds substitute for the adj
ministration financial bill was very
gratifying to Republicans, but not to
the Democrats who have been predict
ing there would be as many finan cial
factions among the Republicans in the
next Congress as there are among the
Democrats in this. The admiuistra-
ton was strong enough to prevent the
adoption Of Mr. Reeds substitute,
but not strong enough to prevent the
defeat Of its own bill.
The Washington correspondent Of
Texas Democrats paper has received
a ''roast" from his editor, for having
said good word for Mr. Cleveland's
intentions. Following are two ex-
tracts from this EDITORS letter: eve
10 not believe word of the stated de-
sire Of Cleveland to serve the best in
terests Of the country; do not believe
that the abiest financiers are in accord
with him: do not believe he has
right to draft bills for Congress to en-
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