The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-05-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. April 2GtEi. 1895.

feel offended with any democrat who
believes that he bankruptcies or has
ever contemplated taking lily step
that would even seem ike aa attempt
TO eoerce Federal oiiiee-so!dets into
advocating his view az tinanciat mat
tiers. No one is surprised that iepub-
IcanS should pretend 10 believe shat
the President has sHrh intentions:
they have alwass mi>:epre<tnted his
acts as well as his intentions. bat it i,
certainly surprising that any demo.
crat. in view of MI. Clegtfa,ai's record
GU the subject of office holue.s taking
an active part in political matters.
should be willing 70 accept such u
story. President Cleveland doesn't
differ from other in wishing to
see his views Oh tinaNee. OF any other
public question. adopted BY his parry,
nut he has no idea Of asking OF II a.
lowing oiiice-ltoideI, 10 neglect their
legitimate duties in oleiel ~ advocate
his own or anybody el>e.s views on
finance OF any other political subject.
The much talked about Afianca in
cident will soon be satisfactorily set
tied. Secretary Gresham this week
received Il dispatch from Minister
Taylor saying that the Spat.isa GOV
ernment would accede to all Of the de-
mands of the United States in the AL
lIanca affair, and that the captain of
the gunboat that fired on th" Ai!ianca
would be punished tor 81 doin1.
Now that it has been settled that
THE Supreme Court will hear ar.u-
ments on the petition fora iehearing
OF the income tax cases on May 8, and
expected that Il full bench will sit on
thai date, everyday is trying to dis
cover some method Of a~scertaining how
Justice jackson will vote. us his vote
IS likely to be the deciding one us to "a
leieating, and if favorable thereto. as
to the constitutionalit.y of the law.
Justice jackson. although Il democrat,
was appointed to the Supreme Court
by President Harrison. He WAS made
p L. S. Circuit Judge by President
Cleveland, during bis first term.
SO we are to lose Il Teddy after
ali. He has not been able to stand
the ''tatfy" lavlshed upon him by big
New Workers, who believe, or have
made him believe that they believe
him 10 be the only man who can make
a thorough job OF reforming the police
force of New York city. Consequently
"Telly," otherwise known as Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt. will resign from
the L. S. Civil Service Commission
and acceptthe position of Police Com
missioner eff New York city. 1t is not
surprising that the newspapers Of New
York city should have been {; unit in
favoling this change Of base Oh the
part of Teddy. They know that he
will keep himself and everybody else
conAected witt, the police department
of that city IN hot WAFER from the time
he enters Office, and that he will stir
up lots of interesting local copy for
them. But will he reform the police :
That's another question altogether.
He may, and then again he may not.
He has been the High Mneky Muck Of
the u. S. Civil Service Commission
during the greater part of two admin
i~stlatioGs, bat If he has been %instru-
mental in bringing about amy real re-
forms in the Government service no
one except himself has been able to
locate them. But he always shows up
we'll in a newspaper interview. ana
talks interestingly hence he has had
little difficulty in keeping himself be-
fore the public, which is always ready
to forgive any fad OF those who know
how to make themselves interesting.
Washington regrets the loss of
''Teddy" bat expects to keep track of
him through the New York papers.
President Cleveland might have
been excused for smiling and quietly
shaking hands with himself when he
learned that his boy Comptrollel7 of
the Cmrency-Hon. james II. Eekels
had been offered $4,000 u year to
become financial editor of the Chicago
Times-IIerald, which has recently be-
come the property Of Mr.. kohlsaat,
and had declined the offer. 1t was
certainly a notable Tribute To the sa-
gacity of President Cleveland in Sc
lectiug Nj. Eckels for the position he
has filled SO well.
The latest estimate OF Treasury Off
cials is that at least 20 per cent of
those who are known to be liable To
the income tax haze failed to make
returns, among them som OF the rich
est men in the country. Including the
Vanderbilts. The delinquents will be
proceeded against as ooh as possible,
but legal resistance 5 expected from
the most Of them, as it Is known that
it was bv the advice Of their lawyers
that many OF them failed to make re-
turns.
Senator Voorhees, denies that lie
said, as was recently widely published,
that he had information that the SUI
preme Court would reverse the deci- |