The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-03-29
Our Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Presdent Cleve-
| land and Secretary Gresham are having as
much trouble with the influential lingo element
in the United States as with the Pandora's box
| of complications which has been dumped upon
| the Department of State. The jingosts can
| see no excuse for spain not having made the
apology demanded; although il is patent to all
cool heads that the delay is caused by the
change of ministry, and would like to see the
| President send fleet over to seize Cuba ut
| once. The same hot heads also interpret the
Monroe doctrine to mean that the United
States should attack Great Britain, if that
country carries out its threat TO compel Mic
aragua by force to accede to its demands.
Fortunately for the country neither the PreSi-
dent nor his cabinet has any touch of the lingo
fever; consequently the numerous foreign
com pllCatiOnS are being handled i'll Il business
and common sense way.
No further demand will be made upon Spain
until its new ministry has been given ample
time to reply to that already made; then the
demand will be renewed in tone that will
either bring the apology by cable, Or war. As
to the Monroe doctrine: President Cleveland
does not interpret that doctrine to mean that
this country will prevent Il European power
from insisting upon honorable and proper
treatment i'll its dealings with the countries of
Central and South America. President
Cleveland thinks it was originally intended by
President Monroe to insure fair play for the
comparatively weak countries of South and
Central America, and to prevent the ABSORB
ton of their territory by European nations,
and Ambassador Bayard has been instructed
To inform the British government that the
United States would maintain that construction
of the doctl inc. The general belief here is that
Great Britain was making one of her usual
bluffs i'll dealing with weak nations when Sne
threatened to lombard the Ncuraguun sea-
ports il her demands We're not acceded To by IL
specified date but should that threat be car
red out there is wide difference of opinion as
to whether it would be regarded by this coIn-
try as Il violation of the Monroe doctrine with
the majority i'll the affirmative.
The only unfortunate thing about Secretary
GreShumS demand for the recall of the Ha-
waiian minister, because of his repeated viola
tiOns of diplomatic etiquette is that il has re-
opened the whole tiresome Hawaiian question.
The United States is on the eee of diploma
tic victory i'll the controversy with Germany
over its claim that American cattle were dis
eased and were solely for that reason shut out
of Germany, and the prohibition expected 10
be shortly removed, the German government
having been convinced of its error. When
Germany removes the prohibition the other
European countries which followed her III
adopting it will probably do the same. This
victory will bear testimony to the wisdom of
President Cleveland i'll refusing to order tariff
retaliation against the countries which shut out
our cattle
One of the busiest bureaus of the govern
mcnt just now. is that of Internal Revenue.
Secretary Carlisle has had to detail clerks from
other bureaus to assist i'll handling tue income
tax returns. which are pouring IN by every
mail. Already it is apparent that the estimates
of the receipts from this tax. made while it was
before Congress, were very much too low. The
returns are required to be made by April Is,
with II penalty for failure, but the tax is not
due until July /, next. Notwithstanding that
more than $4,000 has already been paid in.
1t is now about settled that u new treaty con-
corning the Behring Sea seizures shall be nego-
tated between the United States and Great
Britain. 1t is understood that Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, assisted
by Sir Charles Upper, minister of marine and
fisheries for Canada, and other Canadian Off
Gals will represent Canada, and that the nego-
tiations are to be carried on in Washington.
Secretary Carlisle has just returned from
New York, where he went to meet his son who
has been in Europe for his health, and incden-
tally to give little personal attention to sew
eral official matters connected with the Federal
offices under his department in that city. The
Secretary has entirely recovered from his own
indisposition, although he still shows the eff |
fects of the hard and continuous work he did |
during the past winter.