Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-10-31
D0INGS AT WASHINGTON. |
washington. Oct. IS. 1895.


one Of mis- talkative friends. sent an
ultimatum, not TO England but TO Mr..
Cleveland and that is why Mr.. Olnev
went to Boston instead Of accompany
ing Mr.. Cleveland To Atlanta. The
foreign policy of the administration IS
at the bottom Of the trouble. Mr..
I Cleveland has been somewhat dis
pleased ever since the friends Of Sec
rotary Olney caused it to be widely
published that Mr.. Oiney had declined
to become secretary of state until as
sured that he would be allowed to in
augurate more vigorous foreign
policy, particularly as TO the mantle
nance of the Monroe doctrine. than
had prevailed under the late Secretary
Gresham, and he has given indications
OF disposition to repudiate the stand
in favor of the Monroe doctrine which
Secretary Olney has taken in his COM
munications to the British government
concerning the Venezuela boundary
dispute. This made Secretary Olney
mad, and after Intellectually trying to
get Mr.. Cleveland to say that the
Monroe doctrine should be lived up to
by the British in their dealings with
Venezuela, he presented his ultima
tum to Mr.. Cleveland. The substance
of that ultimatum, according to the
aforesaid laxative friend backing up
the policy in favor of the Monroe doc
trine, which has been very clearly
outlined in Secretary Olney's dis
patches to the British foreign office
and of accepting the resignation of
Secretary Olney. 1t is not probable
that anything decisive will be made
public until after the state elections.
but the impression is strong in Wash
ington that what Great Britain was
allowed to do to Nicaragua she will be
allowed to do to Venezuela-compel
compliance with her demands-with-
out regard to the Monroe doctrine.
Senator Cullom of Illinois. who has
been in Washington for few DAYS.
said just before returning home,
There is no question about the senti-
lnent in Congress being in favor of
upholding the Monroe doctrine. 1t
il a right doctrine and should be up
held. | presume the doctrine will be
declared in some more or less formal
manner by Congress and if the situa-
ton demands that anything be done
TO enforce its observance. Congress, |
think. can be depended upon to act
promptly. Great Britain does not
seem to care very much for our opin-
ions or wishes and we must maintain
our own dignity and uphold our own
rights. 1t looks as if most of the
foreign powers had begun to feel that
the United States is getting too pow
erful to maintain the old attitude of
Indifference towards the affairs of the
world, and as if they saw in our in
creasing strength some imagined dam
ger to themselves. They seem to be
brialing up and displaying DISPOSE
ton to press MS back, forestalling anv
possible aggressiyeness on our part
Those republicans who will publicly
talk about Senator Sherman's book
express regret that he should have
seen fit to publish it Just at this time
as it is calculated to breed dissension
in the party The democrats. on the
contrary. are delighted with the APP
pearance OF the book on the eve of the
presidential campaign, and say they
propose to do their utmost toward
disseminating the criticisms. actual
and implied, contained therein.
Secretary Carlisle has ordered that
no more silver dollars be coined and
that the U. 5. mint at New Orleans be
closed entirely and the employees be
indefinitely furloughed without paw
Those who claim to enjoy the conf
dence of the administration say that
no more silver will be coined. unless
Congress shall order it and that the
San Francisco and Philadelphia minis
will work exclusively on god. The
silver men charge that this is intend
ed by the administration as another
blow at the white metal, and they
say the matter will be heard from as
soon as Congress meets and that it is
likely to make new trouble for the adj
ministration.
Experts accountants. both in and
out of the government service. who
protested against the radical changes
made in the system of government
bookkeeping by the law which was
enacted by Congress as one of the re-
suits of the Dockery commission,
which spent portion of several years
investigating the governments meth
cd of doing business, are not surprised
to learn that the changes made have
in nearly every important instance
proved to be failures outright and in
the rest to be no improvement upon
the old ways of working. The saving
about which the democratic papers
had so much to say when those five
hundred odd clerks were dismissed as
useless under the new order of bust
ness, will in the end prove to be a
loss as it will eventually be necessary
to employ double as many clerks for
long period to get the work up as it
ought to be done. How soon this will
be done is problematic as there has
been no official acknowledgement of
tho foilurp nf the DDpkerv system AL