The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-23
THAT MESSAGE.
a Correspondent Says It Has Cost the
Country Thousand Million Dollars

a Correspondent Says II Has Cost the
Country Thousand Million Dollars.
London. December ,2.--Thc New York
correspondent OF the Times says:
Perhaps because 1t is Sunday. perhaps
because of the war taih and the dyins; con-
vicuon .hat persistence In tho pfcseat
policy may deepen into war; perhaps for
other reasons. there Is today sensible iia-
piovemert in the situation. The lessons
Of Friday and Saturday have not been
lost. The people OF the United States are
at least a thousand million dollars poorer
than they were when the president launch
ed his message and menace OF war.
He gays of tho second message. 1t ha..
not, in truth. been we'll received. The IN
credible cyric,sm OF the message has
ahrcrvd the community. who well know
that Its present distress is directly trace
able to the presidents policy
Expressions are then quoted from an
onymous sources of the anger felt toward
the president ON account OF bis Venezuelan
message
lie also dwells upon tho confusion of
mind which he sees In congress over the
course to take in regard to the tinancln,
situation and he intlmatcd IL belief that
the supporters OF the president In con-
port OF hts Venezuelan policy 10y Dls sea-
ond message.
he says OF the outlook In Wall street.
The interval of Sunday is Thought likely
To steady mons views and II no mirtor-
tuno occurs Monday IN London. IL ~
thought that Wall street VIII Recover n
good part OF it's confidpncc.
Speaking OF the action OF the senate ON
the HIT bin. the correspondent say5:
Messrs. Lodge and Chandler took the
command OF the party amid the applause
of the gallery crowded with Jingo spec.
tutnrS. The voice OF the American people
IL dcclArcd IN tho senate by delegates irom
The Streets much as II used 10 DE in Inc
French convention by the representatives
Of that large popular constituency which
bmarck IN his time described as gen
uemen of the pavement.
But | do not think tho best Americans
approve OF this mcthod OF influencing
lesislut ton nor viii even submit per.
Lodge and Chandler.
OF names which arc suggested for mem
hership the correspondent mentions OK
Senator Edmunds. ex-Aiinistcr Phelps and
Justice Fuller as excellent numes"
MIR. coudert of New York he continues,
n Tammnny democrat, belongs In diff
fer0ut category lilo iR an ahio lawyer,
very hostile to England, who last Tues
day declared his conviction that Nene-
zuela was right and England wrong, II
the president wants commissioners who
have made up their mind., Mr. Coudort
win do as well as anybody.
Mossrs. Edmunds. Phelps and White ana
the chief justice may perhaps feel diff
flculty in serving on n commission nomi-
nally judicial, hut in fact purely ox-parto
in Its object ana composition
II has, however. been suggested that
true patriotism has horc an opportunity
of service, Whatever the president may
intend a commission OF independent men
OF high character Nigh, arrive ut con
clHsion which would make for peace.
The dispatch concludes as follows. cit
rs upon the various grounds that ara In
dictated IN the beginning OF this dlapa ten
and upon the evidence which I give. and
much more which do not, that venture
to express my belief on "A better condition
OF the general mind Of the country than
that which existed last week. The end
OF jinEoism is not yet But there IL at
least a beginning Of better things and n
hslghter homo for tho Immediate future"