The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-11-08
WASHINGTON.
e'rom our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4th, 1895.


ance with his usual custom, moved
from the White House out to his
suburban residence, in order to be
able to put in more time upon his
message to Congress than he could
possibly do when liable to almost con-
slant interruptions from callers whom
he would not care to decline seeing. |
These he is entirely free from at his |
suburban residence, as no one goes |
there to call upon him, unless specially
invited. While not stated as a GER
tainty, there are good reasons for the
belief that his annual message to Con
gress will not deal with the diplomatic
controversy with England over the
application of the Monroe Doctrine
in Venezuela, further that to say that
the whole subject will be fully treated
in special message which will follow
the annual message and be accompa-
med by the diplomatic correspondence.
The President and every member of
his cabinet are well pleased with the
present status of this Venezuela mat
ter, and very confident that they will
be still better pleased a little later.
A diplomatic victory is preferable to
one achieved by the use of powder
and ball, in some cases. And this is
one of the cases.
If proof was needed that the real
purpose of the public meeting held
Oct. 3Ist. for the avowed purpose of
expressing the sympathy ofthe citizens
of Washington for the Cuban revolu-
tionists, was to embarrass the admin
istration and make republican partisan
capital, it was furnished in great big
chunks by the names of those who
controlled the meeting, made the
speeches and wrote the resolutions
adopted. Every man of them was a
republican. The presiding officer was
the notorious 'coporap Tanner; the
writer of the resolutions was DR.. Ran
kin, president of the Howard Univer-
sity, the negro college, which is partly
maintained at public expense, and
the only woman speaker was Mrs,
John A. Logan.
Judge Lochren, Commissioner OF
Pensions, has paragraph in his an
nual report headed "Patriotism and
Pensions, in which he says: "Those
men who enlisted early and fought
the battles of the war, were not moved
by mercenary considerations, and un.
less actually disabled did not show
the haste in applying for pensions
manifested by those who enlisted neal
the close of the war for large bounties
and did little actual service, and who
are now the noisiest in clamoring fo
more pensions AS compared witt
this latter class the real soldiers o
the war have been modest in prefer
ing claims for pensions" The figures
IN the report are interesting. June 80
1894, there were on the rolls o6o,54.
pensioners; during the year followin!
39,I85 new names were added ant
4,2o5 names which had been dropped
were restored. There were 27,SIt
deaths, and 1855 names wer
dropped for other causes, making tn
net increase of the total number c
pensioners for the fiscal year endin
June 80 last, 500. The appropriation
for the year covered by the report wa
$I5o,ooo,o 900, and Judge Lochren'
estimate for the next fiscal year
$40, 100000.
Ex- Congressman Bynum, of Ind
is one of the few men who regard
Mr.. Harrison's chances for the reput
lican nomination as being ahead {
either those of Reed, Mckinley c
Allison. He says Mr.. Harrison
stronger with his party in Indian
than ever before and that the Indian
republicans are going to get him non
mated, if such thing is possibl,
Speaking of the democratic nomini
ton, Mr. Bynum said: "On the demo
cratic side there is much talk in fave
of Col. Morrison, and he has man
friends in all parts of the country
My opinion is that eventually demo
cratic sentiment will center on Seer,
tary Carlisle. Ee is we'll liked in th
North and East, and in the South h
nomination would create tremendol
enthusiasm"
Representative Forman of ILL.,, WI
has been on the stump in Kentuck
Maryland and New Jersey, arrived
Washington this week. He says /
hasn't the slightest doubt that all thrt
states will 60 democratic.
Secretary Olney has received a COZ
of the proceedings ofthe Fcench cou
martial which sentenced the neg
Waller, who is a Ex- U. S. Consul,
twenty years imprisonment under Il