Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-11-16
WASHINGTON LETTEP. Enthusiastic Meeting Presided Over by Corporal Tanner Ex- pressing Sympathy With
 Cuba. Report of the Commissioner of Pens ions Made Public-The Case
 OF ex-C1nsul
 Waller.
(From our regular Correspondent)

Had MT. Cleveland remained at the
 White House, instead of moving out tC
 bis suburban residence, be nigh. have
 heard tue enthusiastic cheers of those
 who attended the big mass m eiing held
 last night, and presided over by CorIo
 al Tanner, to express the sympathy oi
 the citizens of Washington with the
 efforts of the Cuban revolutionists to
 throw of tbe burdensome yoke of Spain | The meeting was success, the resolu-
 tiOns adopted being conservative, yet plainly expressing tho sympathy which
 is so generally felt by Americans. They
 were prepared by a committee of which
 Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of .he Howard university, was chairman. Some Ot the speakers were not so conservativa.
 but freedom Of speech is an iDaliena ole
 American right, and the enthusiasm of the audience was calculated to heat the blood of the orators of the occasion. Speaking of Oubs, neither Mir. Cleve- land nor any member of his cabinet has denied the statement made in Madrid,
 and csbled to tte United States, that
 secret agreement or understanding ex-
 isted bstween the Spanish minister to the United States and MT. Clevelsnd's administration for the suppression of the Cuban revolution. Does such an agreement exist? And if SO, what are it's terms and Dy what authority was 1t entered into?. These may be regarded by Mir. Cleveland fs impertinent ques tions when asked through the colums of a newspaper, but he cannot so re- gard them when they are asked on the floor of congress, as they most assuredly will be. The congress which meets next month will not have a majority disposed to cover up, or at least attempt to cover Mr. Cleveland's mistakes, as
 was notoriously done by the last con-
 gress when the republicans were expos ing the infamous policy adopted by him
 towards the struggling republic of Hawaii. Not much. The FIfty-fourth
 congress will be American to the back boue, and nothing short of sn American policy will be tolerated from the admi- nis.ration.
 The annual report of the commission er of pensions, just made public, con- tains figures which confirm the com plaints made by old soldiers of slowness in adiudicating their claims both for original and for increase of pension. Although there were on the Both of last June 552, ,210 cases of all kinds pending, there were only and for every claim allowed more than three were rejected, ka fnf foI fAr ba he, l03,355. According to the report, there
 was net increase in the pensIon roll of 86O names during the year. Some sur
 prise was expressed in Washington at
 Commissioner Lochren's charges against
 pension attorneys. many of whom he de-
 elares to be disreputsble and incompet- ent. If be knows of any such attorney's
 there was a way for him to much more
 effectively call attention to them, by
 having the secretery of the interior dis
 bar them from practice before the per-
 sion office. His slurs upon whole com
 mittees, the citizens of which be charges
 with throwing obstacles in the way of
 conviction of fraudulent attorneys and
 pensioners because of their dislike to
 lessen the nmouat of pension money paid
 in theIr ne,ghbor hoods, will De as sturdl-
 Us YVES us CuEIktS mouS
 in previous annual report against the
 pensioners, charges which stand re.uted
 and which never had any foundation ex-
 cept in the minds of those who dislike
 the old soldier, more for what he did
 than for what he IS.
 Hon. Will T. Burnside. editor of the
 Delta, of BuckhanIon, w. Vs., and
 member of the republican executive of that state, passed through Washing ton this week, with the West Virginia Press association, bound for the Atlanta exposition. He said of the political sit nation in his state: "There is today the same bitter dissatisfaction among the working people of West Virginia with the Cleveland administration that there vas in 1894, and if general election were held in the state this year it would go over whelmingly republican. The times have net improved iu ourpart ct the coun- try. Our timber industry is prostrGte and most of our coal mines have been forced to shut down. With but one or two ex- captions where they are in operation the miners are working at reduced wages The laboring class can't help but draw the cnntrGsI between the good times of republican sscendancY and the stagna- tion of husinoss under the present reg Ime. he bulk of the bread winning element in cur state has gone over to the republican party. and the Oppcsi; ion will not be able to win tkem back. Ne where in the country is tte belief ia protection stronger" Mir. Burnside ! says most Of the Weet Virginia repu bi ] can editors favor Mckinley for prssi l dent, tut that be personally favnrs Ali son. of Iowa, and Golf, of West Virginis, as the ticket.
 After long delay, much of it entirely | Secretary Olnry has re- oeived a certified copy of the evidence | upon which ex- Consul Waller wss sen- fenced to twenty five years in prison by | a court martial, and he will now decide | what the administration proposes to do | about it. Mrs. Waller, who is in Wash pgton, has also place l in Secretary Ol- | ley's hands important documents bear )n the cage.