Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-02-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Is'zoCAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF TIE MoNIroR.
Washington, Feb. II, 1895.

to get disappointed. Republican
will not vote for thirtyyear bono
of any sort, because they believe i
will be giving away unnecessarily {
large sum of money in interest. Be-
sides, as ex-Speaker Reed aptly said
both President Cleveland and Secre
tary Carlisle have officially declared
that the revenues of the government
will soon exceed the expenditures
which is an argument against long
time bonds. Representative Springer
having failed twice in his attempts tC
get an administration financial bill
through the House, the hopeless task
has now been turned over to Repre-
sentative Wilson, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, of try
ing to get gold bond bill through.
The foreign syndicate which bought
the $62, 400,0 900 per cent thirty year
did a very shrewd thing when they
employed Mr.. Cleveland's former law
partner to help them make the deal
but they did not do a shrewd thing
when they got Mr.. Cleveland to put
on record, in his special message,
their Willingness to pay the same
price for per cent gold that they
had agreed to pay for and "a per
cent coin bond. In making this dis
tinction themselves they have furnish
ed an excellent reason, should any
future administration desire to take
advantage of it, for paying the inter-
est and principal of those bonds in
silver.
The Senate adopted the amendment
to the consular and diplomatic ap-
preparation bill, authorizing the Pres
ident to contract for the laying of
cable to Hawaii, and appropriating
$780, 900 to begin the work, Senator
Pettigrew voting with the democrats
against it.
All Washington is snickering at Mr..
James I'll. Eckels, who gained some
notoriety by being called the "boy
Comptroller" when Mr.. Cleveland,
without consulting Secretary Carlisle,
gave him the position of Comptroller
of the Currency. He has since added
to that notoriety by a series Of after
dinner financial speeches, not always
in harmony with either Mr.. Cleveland
or Mr.. Carlisle's ideas. A dinner is in
directly responsible for the before
mentioned snickering. The dinner
was given over in Baltimore, and Mr.
Eckels was guest. He returned to
on a late train, in the
midst of hevY snowstorm, and enter
ed carriage to be carried home. While
in the carriage he took a notion that
he was about to be kidnapped, and
opening the door of the NOV
ing carriage he bolted for home
through the snow, not forgetting,
however, his dress suit case. Moth
ing more ridiculous has happened for
quite awhile, and the idea of Eckels
getting his head sufficiently swelled
to imagine that he was of sufficient
to be kidnapped was fun
ny enough to make a street car horse
laugh. He should hereafter be ac-
companied by chaperone when he
attends dinner.
Representative Boutelle, of Maine
was right in calling the attention of
the House and of the country to a re-
markable change of policy on the
part of the administration within less
than 20 days. Said Mr.. Boutelle:
'EThe instructions to Admiral Boards
lee (noW on board the Charleston in
the harbor at Honolulu) on Jan. 10,
declared with great particularly the
doctrine that can American citizen
who during a revolution in foreign
country, participates in an attempt
by force of arms or violence to main
tain or overthrow the existing govern
ment of the United States shall pro-
tect him against the consequences of
such act'', but that such citizens "for-
felt their rights in that regard to the
protection of the American fag.n
whereas I understand by the official
documents that the Secretary of State
has telegraphed instructions to the q.
S. Minister in Hawaii to peremptori-
ly demand" of that government ''the
delay OF execution" of the sentences
of its own tribunals against persons
convicted of completely in an attempt
to overthrow it by force of arms and
The unanimity with which the re-
publicans of the House voted for ex-
financial bill was very
to republicans, but not to
the democrats who have been predict
ING that there would be as many fin