The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-05-10
Our Washington Letter.
From 0ur Regular Gorraapnndapt


WASHINGTON, May eff President Cleve.
land and Secretary Gresham needed vindi-
cation for the position they took in the
dispute between Great Britain and Mica
nish full supply, showing as it does that the
administration was thoroughly alive to Ameri.
can interests. Tosay that the Monroe doctrine
was at any time involved in the affair is simply
to display ignorance of the Monroe doctrine
But the treaty between the United States and
Great Britain; known as the Clayton Bulwer
treaty. was the foundation upon which the
administration stood when 1t consented to the
temporary occupation of Corinto by the Brit
lsh. That treaty says: Neither the United
States nor Great Britain will ever erect or
maintain any Notifications commanding the
ship canal or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy
or fortify or COLOMBO or assume or exercise any
dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rico, the Mos
quito coast or any part of Central America" In
the face of that explicit language how silly Il -
pears all the wild talk about the intention of
treat Britain to gObble up us much of Mica
ragua as would give her control of the canal
IL just shows, however, how lamentaUly lgn0r-
ant many of those who write about public uf-
fairs are. But viciouSneSs has been responsible
for more OF the misrepresentation MS in this case
than ignorance has.
Civil Service Commissioner Lyman, whose
rumored forced resignation has been Il sort of
bi-monthly or Oi-quarterly publication, ap-
pearing with sufficient regularity to untitle il TO
claim second class postal rates, ever since that
Congressional committee Investigated the
charges made against him. several years ago
by the washington POST OF flyOrtism towards
u relative in Office, is really going this time
His resignation, which it is needless to say was
not voluntarily rendered, is now in the hands
of the President, and it is expected that his sue
ccssor will be named at the same time that the
Vacancy caused by the resignation of Theodore
Roosevelt is filled. Both Lyman and Roosevelt
are Republicans, but it is the Presidents ill.,
tention to appoint Democrat III place of one
of them, which will make the commission con-
sist of two Democrats and one Republican, M
stead of two Republicans and one Democrat,
as it has been during this entire administration
nj ff4fn liz.
Ions to be quoted in u newspaper, but he has
this to say of the personal attack lately made
upon him by the Hon Isidor Rayner, an as
pirant for the Maryland Democratic guberna-
torial nomination: Il regret to be compelled
to say that | regard Mr.. Rayner's speech as
that of an over-anxious candidate, who has
forgotten his prOteStatiOns of friendship and
what he has always claimed to be his undying
gratitude for my friendship for him during the
past twenty years. Why lie has made the per
Sonal assault upon me, am ut Il loss to compre-
bend, unless it be that his earnest pleading
with me to support HIM for the nomination
failed to receive favorable response. He
my assurance to him. that believed the best
interests of the party required that the nomi-
nation should seek the man, and not the man
the nomination."
Secretary Gresham is not sick enough to JUS
tify the sensational reports sent out from
Washington, although he is confined to his
room and is likely to be for four or five days
more. 1t is the same old trouble-stomach and
liver-that laid him UP u few weeks ago, and the
cause is also the same-overwork and failure
to take proper care of himself. He is in no
danger and only requires rest to bring him
around again.
Attorney General Olney has decided that the
construction put upon the law governing the
purchase of seeds by the Agricultural depart
ment by Secretary Morton was correct conse-
quently, instead of spending the $780, 900
appropriated, Secretary Morton will only buy
sucL seeds as are rare and uncommon" I'M
less Congress makes new law compelling the
expenditure of all the money
Ex-senator Blair, Df N. H., evidently isn't
Reed man. He says: New England is APP
parently for Reed, but the feeling isn't of the
kind that would make men die in the last ditch