The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-09-27
WASHINGTON.
from our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s, 1895.

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When a man gives information to
an enemy in time of war he is regard
ed as public enemy and upon proof
Of his guilt he is executed and buried
in a traitors disgraced grave. But
these is no way to punish those who
prove themselves to be still worse
enemies of the country by trying to
precipitate financial panic through
Misrepresentation Of the condition of
the nations finance and Of the inten-
tons of the administration. A private
individual can, through appeal to the
courts, have tie man who seeks to
iniure his credit and commercial
standing by making untrue and parti-
ally true but misrepresenting state
ments punished, but members of the
administration have no way of reach
ing the men who, solely for partisan
purpose, are daily writing and circulat-
ing attacks upon the credit of the U.
S. in the shape of willful misstate-
ments concerning the Treasury and
the intention of Secretary Carlisle.
Men who bring on financial panic
do a thousand times more harm than
those who betray an army on the eve
of battle, and there ought to be some
way of Furnishing them as traitors to
their country. If that is not feasible,
Congress should at least SO legislate
that the government, through the
heads of the executive departments,
should have the same right to have
newspaper writer or editor arrested
for criminal libel as the citizen now
has. With such law upon our stat
ute books the present partisan misrep-
RESERVATIONS of President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle in republican
newspapers would not be possible,
and the probabilities of financial panic
would be decidedly lessened.
About as near half of the admins
tration as could be got at attended
the dedication of the battlefield of
Chickamaugua as national park.
Vice President Stevenson and Secre-
taries Lamont, Herbert, Smith and
Attorney General Harmon going, and
Secretaries Olney, Carlisle, Morton
and Postmaster General Wilson re-
naming in Washington. Secretary
Carlisle expected to have gone, bu,
circumstances, aided by unpatriotic
misrepresentation, made it advisable
that he should remain at his post.
A gentleman who has recently been
IN Florida on business said : "Sena-
tor Call in advocating the early re-
cognition of the Cuban revolutionists
by this government speaks for a very
large majority of the people o
Florida. This sympathy for the
Cubans is worthy to be classed high
too, when it is remembered thai
Florida is yearly becoming greater
rival of Cuba in the production O
tobacco used in the manufacture o.
fine cigars"
Secretary Lamont's action in ad
vancipg out of his own pocket the
money to make up the shortage ir
paying the June salaries of the officer:
and men of the army is unprecedent
ed but highly creditable. Had h'
not done so they would have had tc
wait for Congress to rectify the errol
that made the shortage before the.
could get their salaries.
Senator Vest Indignantly denies th'
authenticity of the recently published
interview which made him announce
change of front on the silver question
and says he is still for free coinage a
I6 to I, as he has always been.
Hon. J. w. Judd, U. S. Distric
Attorney for Utah, is visiting Wash
ington He says: There is mucl
in the situation in Utah to make th
democrats hopeful of electing thei
State ticket and two U. S. Senators
believe that it is not putting it one
whit too strong to say that our chance
Of success are fully equal to those o
the opposition. Utah has enjoyed
two successive seasons of good crops
and the condition of business is salts
factory. The people are feeling yer
good over the return of better times
and that will inure to the benefit O
the democracy. If we carry the Terr
tory this year it is almost sure thinl
that it will go the same way in 90.
The general impression seems to b
that the Lawyers of Mora displayed
monumental cheek when they filed
protest against the action of Secretar
Olney in accepting settlement {
the Mora claim without compellin
Spain to pay the interest from tn
date of the claim. Secretary Olne
will take no notice of the protes
He did not act in this matter as th
attorney or collector for Mora, but &
the representative of the United State
government. So far as this goverl
ment is concerned the settlement Wa