The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-11-02

the bluff which Great Britain haa
made against Venesnels would b
met BY ! United States feet Of val
vessels, and that the British would
be told once for all that tho Mon
roe doctrine Vas the policy Of this
country and that it would b fought
for, if necessary. But there il =
great deal Of doubt about Secretary
Olney having his way. There are
grounds for the belief that President
Cleveland il opposed to going fur
ther than to use the good Offices Of
this government to bring about IN
amicable settlement Of the dispute
between Great Britain 40 to the
boundary line and to maintain =
hands-off attitude as far - the nsw
dispute about tho afreet o. British
By Venezuelan fIeials ieooncerned.
There Has IN important ns1sl lpe q
the Cabinet held to-day and this
question was discussed. Thefs il
! rumor, believed by many, that
Secretary Olney intimated very
plainly that he would resign if the
administration did not stand by
the position he has already assumed,
in official dispatches to the British
government, in defense of the Mon
roe doctrine.
Whether Mr.. Olney really threat
ened to resign is question, but
the probabilities are all against his
doing 80. He is an ambitious man,
and his friends say that he expected
to further his ambition by having
his name connected with foreign
policy of intense Americanism.
Granting all that to be true is no
argumentin favor of his resignation.
Suppose that President Cleveland
is over-cautious, or even timid, if
you please, the most that he can
do against Secretary Olney's wishes
is to do nothing, for no man is silly
enough to think the President
would openly acknowledge an
abandonment of the Monroe doc
trine by this country. If then Sec
rotary Olney has the judgment his
admirers credit him with he will
see that the best thing he can do is
to remain in the Cabinet until Con-
gress gets a chance at this Venezu-
elan question. Those at all familiar
with Congressional sentiment on
the subject know that it is over
whelmingly in favor of the mainte-
nance of the Monroe doctrine, by
force if necessary, and Congress will
be in session in little more than
a month. It would then seem to
be good policy on the part of secre-
tary Olney to remain at the head Of
the state department, for i; is the
general belief that if Great Britain
attempts to ignore the Monroe doc
trine Congress will compel the ad-
ministration to prevent it, and Sec
rotary Olney, if he remains in
Office, will have the pleasure of put
ting his ideas into effect. Between
now and the assembling of Congress
he can by the exercise of lutte di-
plomacy prevent the taking of any
positive action. Those are some
of the reasons why well-informed
people do not think Mr.. Olney will
leave the Cabinet.
The question of whether the silver
men have a majority in the. Senate
will have to be decided almost as
soon as Congress meets. It has
been asserted by such prominent
silver Senator'S as Teller, of Colora-
do, and Dubois, of Idaho, that the
silver men were in the majority and
that they intended to assert them
selves by demanding and getting
control of some of the important
committees, especially that on FL
nance, as soon as Congress meets.
Now these assertions are met by the
positive statement that the Senate is
by an agreement between anti silver
men, democrats and republicans, to
be controlled and the committees
so arranged that the silver men
will be shut out of all influence il,
the shaping of legislation. Either
the silver men have a majority in
the Senate or they have not. II
they have they are not likely to allow
themselves to be shut out by their
opponents; if they have not, they
cannot help themselves. At any
rate, it now looks as though a show
ing of hands for and against silver
wonld be about the first thing done
after the Senate meets. It may be
that Senator Mills isn't the only
Senator who has changed sides since
Congress adjourned. We shall see.
Every change is not necessarily
q reform. The changes in ways Of
keeping Uncle Sans accounts
brought about by what is known as
the Dockery reorganization law,
which was the work of joint con-
gressional committee Of which Rep
resentative Dockery, of Missouri.
vas chairman, and Senators Cock.
rell, of Missouri, Jones, Of Arkansas,
and Cullom, of Illinois, and Rep
resentatives Richardson. of Tennes.
see, and Dingley, Of Maine, were
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