Middletown transcript., 1895-02-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| WASHINGTON LETTER.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 18th, 1885,
Ii Mr.. Cleveland expects to get gold
bond valentine from Congress in re-
turn for his ultimatum he is going to
get disappointed. Republicans will
not vote for thirty-year bond Of any
SOFT. because they believe il will be
giving away unnecessarily large sum
of money in interest. Besides, as ex-
Speaker Reed aptly said, both Presi-
dent Cleveland and Secretary CarlisI.
have officially declared that the reven-
ues of the government will soon exceed
the expenditures, which is an argu-
ment against long time bonds. Rep
resentative Springer having failed
twice in his attemprs to get an admin
stration financial bill through The
House, the hopeless task has now been
turned over to Representative Wilson,
chairman of the Ways and Msans
Committee, of trying t. get gold bond
bill through.
All Washington is snickei ing at Mr..
james Fl. Eckles, 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. The dinner
Was given over in Baltimore, and Mr..
Eckles was guest. He returned to
Washington on late train, in the
midst of heavy snow stjrm, and en-
tered public carriage to be carried
home. While in the carriage he took
a notion thar he was about to he kid
mapped, and silently opened tie door
of the moving carriage he bolted for
home through the snow, not forgetting,
however, his dress suit case. Nothing
more ridiculous happened for quite |
awhile, and the idea of Eckles getting |
his head sufficiently swelled to imagine |
that he was of sufficient Importance to |
te kidnapped was funny enough to
make a street carhorse laugh. He
should hereafter be accompanied by a
chaperoD when he attends dinner.
Representative Boutelle, of Maine,
was right in calling the attention of the
House and of the country to a remark.
able change of policy on the part of the
administration within less than 20
days. Said Mr.. Boutelle: "The in
to Admiral Beardslee (now
on board the Charleston in the harbor
at Houolulu) on January 10Th, declared
with the great particularly the doc
trine that ian American citizen who
during a revolution in foreign
country. participates in an attempt by
force of arms or violence to maintain
or overthrow the existing government
cannot claim that the government Of
the United States shall protect him ,
against the consequences of such act - j
but that such citizens '.forfeit their {
rights in that regard TO the protection
of the American fag," whereas l un- 6
1erstand by the official documents that |
'he Secretary of State has telegraphed G
Instructions to the United States /
Ninisterto Hawaii to peremptoril, s.de-
nand" Of that government "the de-
ay of execution of the sentences of o
is own tribunals against persons con- '
7lcted OF completely in an attempt to b
it by force of arms and vic. i
ence."
The Washington correspondent OF a t
'exas Demcratic paper has received a n
'roast' from his editor, for having b
aid good word for Mr.. Cleveland's
ntentions. Following ale two ex- e
racts frsm this EDITORS letter: "We p
o not believe word of the stated de- 81
ire of Cleveland to serve the best in p
siest of the country; do not believe !"
has right to draft bills for Con-
ress to enact. and do not believe he is IL
patriot" I'VE think the q
administration just about as rotten as 'e
nything in the last half century.n
- gold eagles to brass buttons that o'
lis editor insn't postmaster Of his 81 81
'wn. "
Keep your blood pura and healtbv ~,