The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-09-20

From Our Regular CORRESPONDENT.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., September 16.-Secre-
tary Carlisle may be worried over the appar-
ent raid the gold in the Treasury, which
has been made q eat sensation of by those
newspapers which are perfectly willing to
risk bringing on another financial panic in
order to iniure the administration and the
Democratic party, but, if so. he gives not the
slightest indication of it to those who are con-
stantly in contact with him. That the with
drawal from the Treasury of S7,20O.0o0 in
gold for shipment abroad last week-with one
exception the largest amount of gold ever
taken out in a single week.-mrs. II disagreeable
surprise is true; also, that it is difficult to
satisfactorily explain why it was done. Secre-
tary Carlisle declines to discuss the matter for
to be said at this time. 1t will be time enough
for him to say something when it shall be seen
whether the enormous demands for gold of
last week are to be kept up, or whether it was
merely the result of u temporary md spas
modic complication of our business relations
with Europe. 1t can be stated, however. that
the rumors of a contemplated bond issue are
entirely without foundation; President Cleve
land did not agree to the first issue of bonds
until Congress refused his appeal for assist
ance for the Treasury; and, unless there shall
arise some extraordinary condition placing
the credit of the government in immediate
peril, he will not agree to another issue of
bonds until the Fifty-Fourth Congress. which
will meet in Il few weeks, shall have refused
to legislate for the relief of the Treasury.
While, of course, possible, it is not regarded as
probable, that the demand for gold will be
sufficient to reduce the reserve fund to "A dam
gerous extent between now and the assem-
bling of Congress.
Senator Gray, of Delaware, now in WASH
ington, says he thinks that when the returns
begin to come in from the cotton and wheat
crop the demand for gold will stop, but that
Congressional legislation will be necessary be-
fore there is any permanent relief. Il do not"
he says, view the situation as Il partisan, but
think now as did before this administration
was inauguratQd- that the evil must be correct
ed by the divorce of the government from the
banking business and the reformation of the
fuhl ich nv hn ln N h
which the government was compelled to keep
a pile of gold from which everybody was in
vited who had g ,r or treasury notes
was no redemption at all While 1t provided
for the redemption of greenbacks, it compelled
their reissue, thus putting in operation the
endless chain, as it has been called. Until this
is suppressed there can be no permanent re-
lief The greenbacks have got to be redeemed.
1t has been apparent for years, but unwise
legislation was leading up to it, and it has got
to be wiped out from the statute books to put
the Treasury, on SOUND basis. ASKED
whether he thought the coming Congress
would give the relief desired, Senator Gray
replied: 1T would be crime to question the
integrity of the republic"
Diligent inquiry has failed to find single
official who believed there was anything in
the numerous rumors which have been float
ing around Washington for several days con-
corning the intention OF President Cleveland
to recognize the Cuban revolutionists as bel
ligerents. On the contrary, the impression
prevails among officials that the revolutionists
ton, although their guerrilla style of warfare
is making Spain spend Il great deal more
money than she can afford: The Spanish min
ister who returned to Washington to turn
over the draft for the Mora claim, smiled in
creduously when asked if he believed the
rumor of early recognition for the Cubans,
and said the revolt would soon be put down.
A member of the administration, who knows
Spaniards and Cubans thoroughly, says he has
an idea that if Spain cannot put down the revolt
before cold weather she will compromise by
making Cuba an independent colony, with
about the same relations to the mother coun-
try that Canada has with England. He thinks
that would be about the best way to end the
business, too. as he doesn't believe Cubans are
either fitted for self-gOvernment or for an
nexation to the United States at this time, al
though they may in time become so. Senator
Call. of Florida, does not agree with this view
of the matter, but is here openly advocating
the complete independence of Cuba and recog-
milton of the revolutionists by this govern
ment as the first step towards securing that
independence. He thinks great majority OF
our people favor this recognition, and that it
should be given ut once.
C. As