The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-09-20
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
From our Correspondent
WAsHING1oN, Sept. l6. |

Secretary Carlisle may he worried
over the apparent raid on the gold in
the treasury, which has been made q
great sensation of by those newspa-
pers which are perfectly willing to risk
bringing on another financial panic in
order to iujure the administration and
the Democratic party, but if so, he
gives not the slightest indication of it
to those who are constantly in contact
with him. That the withdrawal from
the treasury of S7,200,000 III gold
for shipment abroad last week-with
one exception the largest amount Of
gold ever taken out in one week.-Mrs.
a disagreeable surprise it is true; also
that II Is difficult to satisfactorily eX-
plain why 1t was done. Secretary
Carlisle declines to discuss the matter
for publication, simply because there
Is nothing 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
temporary and spasmodc complies
ton of our business relations with Eu-
rope. | can he stated, however, that
the rumors of contemplated bond is
sue are entirely without foundation.
President Cleveland did not agree to
the first issue Of bonds until Congress
refused his appeal for assistance for the
treasury, and unless there shall arise
some extraordinary condition placing
the credit of the government in imme-
dlate peril, he will not agree to another
issue of bonds until the Fifty fourth
Congress, which will meet in a few
weeks, shall have refused to legislate
tor the relief of the treasury. While.
of course, possible, it is not regarded
a. probable, that the demand for gold
Will be sufficient to reduce the reserve
fund to dangerous extent between
now and the assembling of Congress.
Senator Gray, of Delaware, now in
Washington, says he thinks that when
the returns begin to come i'm from the
cotton and wheat crops the demand for
gold Will stop, ia that Congressional
legislation Will be necessary before
there Is any permanent relief. II do
not, ~ he says, "vlew the situation As
partisan, but think now as did be-
fore this administration was luaugu-
rated, that the evil must be corrected
by the divorce of the government from
the banking business, and the reforma-
ton of the policy established by the
law of 1873, by which the government
was compelled to keep pile of gold
from which everybody was invited
who had greenbacks or treasury notes
to help himself. The Sherman re-
demption act was no redemption at all.
While it provided for the redemption
OF green backs, it compelled their res-
sue, thus putting in operation the end
less chain, as ii has been called. Until
tins Is suppressed there can be no per-
manent relief. 1t has been apparent
for years, but uuwise legislation was
leading up to it, and it has got TO he
wiped out from the statute book to nut
the treasury on sound basis" Asked
whether he thought the coming Con-
gress would give the relief desired,
Senator Gray replied: at wonld be
crime to question the integrity of the
republic"
Dlllgent inquiry has failed to find
single official who believed there was
anything in the numerous rumors
which have been floating around
Washington for several days concern
ing the intention of President Cleve-
land to recognize the Cuban revolu-
tiOnists as belligerents. On the con-
trary, the impression prevails among
officials that the revolutionists are in
noicondition to ask forsuch recognition.
although their guerrilla style of war.
iare Is making Spain spend great
deal more money than she can afford.
The spanish minister, who returned
to Washington to turn over the draft
Tor the Mora claim, smiled incredu-
lousy when asked if he believed the
rumor OF early recognition for the Gu
bans, and said the revolt would soon
be put down. n member of the adj
mlnlstration, who knows Spaniards
ana 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 indie
pendent colony, with about the same
relations to the mother country that
Canada has with England. He thinks
that would be about the best way to
emu the business, too, as he does not
believe Cubans are either fitted for self
government or for annexation to the
United States at this time, although
they may in course of 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 recognition
OF the revolutionsts by this govern
ment as the first step towards securing
that Independence. He thinks "a great
majority Of our people favor this recog-
milton and that it should he given at
once.