Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-07-19
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
LITTLE TO REPORT DURING THE
HOT MONTHS.

Secretary Herbert StiIl on Duty
Spanish Creduiity - Tammany I
Will Win-POor hens Efforts 10 !
Keep Himself In VieW-The STAN /
ford Case Will Go 10 the Supreme !
Court.
Regular Correspondence OF the STANDARD.
WASHINGTON, July u, 1893.
Secretary Herbert finds himself so
busy with the plans for building the
battle ships and torpedo boats
authorized by the last Congress, and
other important business, that Ire has
been compelled to postpone his vaca-
ton for time. He hopes to have
things in such shape that he can leave
about the last OF the month.
Everybody is laughing at the Spanish
minister, who has been sent on fools
GRAND by his government. He has
gone to Secretary Olney's summer
residence, in Massachusetts, TO ask an
explanation and an official statement
concerning that silly fake purporting
to be an interview with Ambassador
Eustis, which was published in Paris
paper early this week and cabled to
this country, and which was promptly
followed by a denial from Ambassador
Eustis. No denial was needed. Every
body knew that the thing was fake,
but the Spanish government seems to
have taken it seriously, or, it is so pre-
tending for some purpose OF its own.
Secretary Olney will dispose of the
Spanish minister and his silly request
in short order.
According to Col. Harvey, of the
New York Worlds editorial staff, who
is in Washington, Teddy" Roosevelt
has given Tammany a " cinch" on the
next municipal election. by his strict
enforcement of the excise law. Col.
Harvey said: 1.-THE result will be far
reaching in political way, and will
beyond doubt damage the Republicans
materially in New York City. have
no idea that they will be able to elect
a single Assemblyman or Senator from
the city or from Brooklyn this fall.
Every Tammany candidate will win.
People who live at distance can't be
gin to appreciate the local feeling that
has been aroused by this affair, and it
is not feeling that will die away in
little while. The administration has
gone too far now to recede; it must
carry out its policy. and the more
rigidly that policy is adhered to the
more certain and sweeping will be the
victory of the Democrats"
Evidently Mr.. Benjamin Harrison is
becoming frightened at the hammer
ing Mckinley is getting at the hands
of the friends OF the other candidates,
az a result of his efforts to keep him
self prominently before his party as a
Presidential candidate. Mr.. Harrison
is tender and he never liked hammer
ing, so he has adopted another course.
1t has been said before, but fearing
that it might have been forgotten, he
arranged to have Mr.. John w. Foster,
who was once charged with being Mr..
Harrison's spy upon Secretary Blaine,
and who became Secretary of State
himself when Mr.. Blaine retired from
the Harrison administration, to saw
again that he was not candidate; was
doing nothing to get the nomination,
but would not, of course, decline should
the party insist upon nominating him.
These statements are absurd, and they
fool nobody.
Attorney.G General Harmon isn't sat
isfed with the decision against the
government in the suit against the
Stanford estate, and he this week d. |
rected the U. s. District Attorney at
San Francisco to appeal the case to the !
U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals for the |
Pacific Coast district. 1t 10 no viola
ton of confidence to add that should |
the Court of Appeals decide against
the government the case will be carried |
to the U. s. Supreme Court. This
suit, which is for $4,000. 900. is only |
against the Stanford estate, but If the |
government wins the estates of all OF
Staniord's Pacific railroad associates
who, like him, became rich by their
manipulations of company that has
always pleaded its inability to repay
money loaned it by the u. s. govern.
ment, will have to disgorge to the
amount of their stock holdings in the
road, If to no further extent.
The White House mail gives evidence
of the rapidity with which the news of
the birth of President Cleveland's third
baby has been disseminated, but it also
gives evidence of the careless manner
in which many people read the news.
It would be natural to suppose that
every man, woman and child who
reads the newspapers know that
President Cleveland and his wife and
children are at their summer residence,
Gray Gables, on Buzzard's Bay. Well,
there are thousands who have read or
heard OF the birth of that third girl who
believes that the baby was born in the
White House and that Mrs. Cleveland
is there now, and every mail brings
hundreds of letters addressed to her at
the White House. This is just as we'll,
however, as there are more clerks at
the White House to 20 over these
letters and select such as are worthy
of Mrs. Cleveland's attention than
there are at Gray Gables. Still their
coming to the White House is queer.
Dem.