San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-15
Chr 9utlY eight.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1895
WASHINGTON LETTER.
BY our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Feb. IL, 80.

ne Is going 10 get disappointed
Republicans will not vote for &
thirty year bond OF any!sort, be.
cause lney believe it will be giving
away unnecessarily a large sum o.
money in interest. Besides, as eX
Speaker Reed aptly said, both
President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle have officially declared
that the revenues OF the govern.
ment will soon exceed the expen.
ditures, which is an argument
against long time bonds. Repre-.
sentative 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 Repres-
entative Wilson, chairman Of the
Ways and Means committee, OF
trying to get a gold bond bill
through.
The foreign syndicate which
bought the 100000 per cent
thirty-year bonds from Mr.. Cleve-
land did a very shrewd thing when
they employed Mr.. Cleveland's foyt
mer law partner to help them
make the deal, but they did not do
a shrewd thing when they got Mr..
Cleveland to put on record, in his
special message, their Willingness
to pay the same price for a 3 per
cent gold bond that they had
agreed to pay for and per cent
coin bond. In making this dis
tinction themselves they have fur
nished an excellent reason, should
any future administrator desire to
take advantage Of it, for paying
the interest and principal Of those
bonds in silver.
The Senate adopted the amend
ment to the consular and diplo-
matte appropriation bill, author
iZing the President to contract for
the laying of a cable to Hawaii,
and appropriating 100000 to be.
gin the work. Senator Pettigrew
voting with the Democrats against
it.
All Washington is snickering at
Mr.. James II. Eckels, who gained
some notoriety by being called the
"Boy Comptroller" when Mr.Cleve-
land, without consulting Secreta-
ry Carlisle, gave him the position
OF Comptroller OF the Currency.
He has since added to that noto-
riety by a series Of after-dinner
financial speeches, not always in
harmony with either Mr.. Cleve.
land or Mr.. Carlisle's ideas. A
dinner is indirectly responsible for
the before mentioned snickering.
The dinner was given over in Bal
timore, and Mr.. Eckels was a
guest. He returned to Washing
ton on a late train, in the midst Of
a heavy snow storm, and entered a
public carriage to be carried home.
While in the carriage he took a
notion that he was about to be
Kidnapped, and silently opening
the door of the moving carriage he
bolted for home through the snow,
not forgetting, however, his dress
suit case. Nothing more ridiculous
has happened for quite awhile, and
the idea OF Eckels getting his head
sufficiently swelled to imagine
that he was of sufficient impor-
lance to be kidnapped was funny
enough to make a street car horse
laugh. He should hereafter be
accompanied by chaperone when
he attends dinner.
Representative Routelle, of Maine,
was right in calling the attention
OF the House and of the country to
remarkable 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 Charleston in the har-
Dor at Honolulu) on Jan. 10, de-
clared with great particularly the
doctrine that IAN American citizen
who during revolution in a for
eign country, participates in an
attempt by force of arms or vio-
lence to maintain or overthrow the
existing government, cannot claim
that the government OF the United
States shall protect him against
the consequence Of such act" but
that such citizens "forfeit their
rights in that regard to the pro-
lection Of the American flag"
whereas l understand by the Of
fetal documents that the Secreta-
ry OF State has telegraphed instruc.
tions to the United States Minister
in Hawaii to peremptorily "de.
mand" OF that government "the
delay Of execution" of the sehten-
ces OF it's own tribunals against
persons convicted Of completely in
an attempt to oVerthr0w n hy