The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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WASHINGTON, D. O., Oct. 25, '96.
Secretary Olney has, according to one
Of his talkative friends, sent an ultima.
tum, not to England, but to Mr.. Cleve.
land. And that is why Mr.. Olney went
to Boston instead Of accompanying Mr..
Cleveland to Atlanta. The foreign policy
OF the administration is at the bottom of
the trouble. Mr.. Cleveland has been
somewhat displeased ever since the
friends of Secretary Olney caused it to
be widely published thar Mr.. Olney had
declined to become Secretary of State
until assured that he would be allowed
to inaugurate a more vigorous foreign
policy, particularly as to the mainten.
ance of the Monroe doctrine, than had
prevailed under the late Secretary Gre.
sham. and he has given indications of a
disposition to repudiate the stand in favor
of the Monroe doctrine which Secretary
Olney has taken in his communications
to the British government concerning
the Venezuela dispute. This made Olney
mad, and, after Intellectually trying to
get Mr.. Cleveland to say that the Mon.
roe doctrine should be lived up to by
the British in their dealings with
Venezuela, he presented his ultimatum
to Mr.. Cleveland. The substance of
that ultimatum, according to the afore.
said talkative friend of Secretary Olney,
is that Mr.. Cleveland is given his choice
between backing up the policy in favor
of the Monroe doctrine, which has been
very clearly outlined in Secretary Olney's
dispatches 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 al
lowed to do to Nicaragua she will be al
lowed to do to Venezuela-compel com.
pliance with her demands-without re-.
gard to the Monroe doctrine.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, who has
been in Washington for a few days, said
just before returning home: "There is
no question about the sentiment in
favor of upholding the Monroe doctrine.
1t is a right doctrine and should be up.
held. I presume the doctrine will be
declared in some more or less formal
manner by Congress and if the situation
demands that anything be done to en-.
force its observance, Congress, think,
can be depended upon to act promptly.
Great Britain does not seem to care very
much for our opinions or our 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 powerful to maintain the old atti.
tude of indifference towards the affairs
of the world, and as if they saw in our
increasing strength some imagined dan.
ger to themselves. They seem to be
bridling up and displaying disposition
to press US back, forestalling any possible
aggressiveness on our part"
Those Republicans who will publicly
talk about Senator Sherman's book ex.
press 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 appearance o.
the book on the eve of the Presidential
campaign, and say they propose to dc
their utmost toward disseminating the
criticisms, actual and implied, contained
therein.
Secretary Carlisle has ordered that nc
more silver dollars be coined, and thai
the U. S. Mint, at New Orleans, be
closed entirely and the employees be in
definitely furloughed without pay. Those
who claim to enjoy the confidence o
the administration say that no more
silver will be coined, unless Congress
shall order it, and that the San Fran
cisco and Philadelphia mints will worl
exclusively on gold. The silver mel
charge that this is intended by the ad
ministration as another blow at tn,
white metal, and they say the matte
will be heard from as soon as Congress
meets, and that it is likely to make nev
trouble for the administration.
Expert accountants, both in and ou
of the government service, who protest
ed against the radical changes made il
the system of government bookkeeping
by the law which was enacted by Con
gress as one of the results of the Decker,
Commission, which spent a portion Q