The Arizona sentinel., 1895-12-28
washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.l

ntessipe m favor of the Monroe doc Urine to Congress. But he mistOOk the applause for the sentiments in the message for applause for himself and in his egotism thought that because Congress promptly adopted his re conImendation for the appointment of a commission to ascertain the real boundary between British Guiana and Venezuala that it was ready to any thing else he wanted done. So he Joined the British who were trying to punish the United SCates for daring to stand up for the Monroe doctrine by forcing us into a financial panic, and sent special message to Congre $ urging imme Hate financial legislation and asking that no Christmas recess be taken until some such legislation as retiring the grecnbacks ar author izing an issue of gold bonds shoul l have been put through.
 In saying that 1t was Mir. Cleve- lands egotism that caused him to write that financial message 1t Is put ting & very charitable constructi' n upon his a,.t. Others Go not hes tate to say that he did 1t hecan-e he Was IrIttlpd by the British attacks upon our finances and by a call which was sred V the New Iok Cha nher of Commerce for a meeting to condemn the Monroe doctrine message. He Is said to have sent member of the cabinet t0 New York to prevent tn
 meeting anI his messenger Is rep )rte'l to have made deal whereby the m ct
 ing was declared ol and Mir. Cleve-
 lanI's hystorical mess .ge was sent to
 Congress.
 So far as Congress an l the American
 people are concerned, the message
 will do neither good nor harm-Con
 greSs will provide for the deficit with !iaritf legisl 1t will unqucs.
 tionably do much harm to cur inter
 ests in England. It will cause tie British to think that Mr. Cleveland has become frightened and already
 regrets his belligerent message; and il
 will also encourage them to keep uI , their scheming to throw us into d ii
 nancial D mic. No possible good Can be accomplished by Congress remain
 ing in s-s-ion during Christmas week
 because even if the House had already passed the measure which will he re ported from the Ways and Means Committee, the Senate would not be prepared to act on 1t until it's reOrgan- } ization has been accomplished. The
 silver men in the Senate, who have ar
 unquestioned majority, say nothing . Can pass that doesn't provi Ic in some way for mo extended use Of silver , Speaker Reeds committee assign t ments contain some personal disap- F pointments, but that was under tht circumstances unavoi liable; there wert more leading republicans than there were leading places. But it is credit
 able to those who were disappointed that they have accepted the situation philosophicallv Representative Payne : of N. Y, merely keeps his old place on : the Ways and Means Committee, the craftsmanship going to Representative Dingley, of NJ 'ine. but Mir. Payne l, given in addition the craftsmanship Oi the Committee on Merchant Marine ana Fisheries, which is an unusual honor, as members of the Ways anu Means Committee are seldom given chairmanships. Cannon, of IllS., got . the chair irnanShip of the Committef 5 on Appropriations but Henderson o1 ] Iowa, his rival for that honor, got q much coveted place on the Committee ] on Rules, as diL DAlzell, of Pa., who
 was at one time tn 'ught to be in line for the head of the Ways anl Mean. f Committee. Walker, of Mass, got the . BAnking and Currency chairmanship
 and Hit, of Ills, that of Foreign Af fairs, as 1t had been understood al
 along they woull. but there were Int: of surprises among the minor chair
 manShips.
 Admiral Meade, U. s. N., in lect- ure on "The Caribbean Sea" took oc. casion to say that he considered th, superiority of the Individual vessels G our Navy and offset for the excess 0
 vessels in the British Navy which wa V sufficient to prevent any fear on ou = rart of contest. He al,o said: |"
 am no prophet nor son of prophet e but predict here tonight that shoul' .- war between United States and Grea Britain come, the first shot fired il , anger will sound the death kuell o 70 the British Empire"
 j. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, in in.
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