The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26
GROWERS NEW PLAN,
Cleveland Proposes to
Change the Old
Policy.
THE COMING MESSAGE.
Now He Intends to Enforce the
Monroe Doctrine, at
Least.
RECOGNITION FOR CUBANs,
1t Is Said the President Will Also Ask
Action on the Venezuelan
Dispute.
RECOGNITION FOR cUBANs,

NEW YORK, N. Y, Nov. 25.-The
Suns Washington correspondent tele-
graphs as follows: President Cleveland S
friends in Washington and elsewhere, with
whom he discusses public questions, con-
tinue to assert that the forthcoming mes
sage to Congress will contain chapter on
the foreign policy of the administration
that will be a great surprise to tho public.
The leading topics to be discussed in this
chapter will be the Venezuelan boundary
dispute and the Cuban revolution.
The surprise, it is said. will be occa-
stoned by the Presidents announcement
that with regard to these questions the
administration has taken such advanced
ground in the direction OF vigorous as
sertion OF American rights as to amount
to complete reversal of its foreign policy
up to the time that Mr.. Olney became Sec
retary of State.
All that is definitely known with regard
to the administration attitude toward
the Venezuelan question is that some time
during the paat summer Secretery Olney
addressed a communication to the British
Government, containing an emphatic noti-
fication that the United States would ex-
pect the Monroe doctrine to be respected,
and would, indeed, insist on its application
to the controversy between England and
Venezuela with regard to the existing
boundary dispute.
AS to Cuba the administration has taken
no steps in addition to the ill-advised let
ter of Attorney General Harmon, giving
it as his unofficial opinion that America
would be doing an unfriendlv act toward a
friendly power in taking part in public
meetings, called for the purpose of ex-
pressing sympathy with the cause Of the
Cuban revolutionists.
Judge Harmon has since admitted that
his letter was written without sufficient
thought, and that in it he took the
ground that he is now willing to surrender.
That unofficial utterance, therefore, does
not count against the administration, and
its record on the Cuban question is still a
blank page. 1t is now asserted that the
surprise prepared for the public is nothing
less than an expression of the Presidents s
hearty sympathy with the efforts of the
Cubans to obtain freedom, and a further
'intimation that, in the opinion of the ad-
ministration, they should be recognized as
2beIligerents.
More than month ago the statement
was published on the alleged authority of
Don NJ. Dickinson that the President
would anticipate his annual message with
the announcement of the reversal of his
former foreign policy, as developed in his
treatment of the Hawaiian question, and
his conversion to vigorous American
policy, inclining even toward jingoism.
At the time this report was in circula-
ton member of the Cabinet pronounced
it to be incorrect SO far as IL stated that
the announcement of the new policy
would be made public before the appear
ance of the annual message to Congress.
In that message and not before, the Cabi-
net Minister said. the President would
proclaim his change of heart, and now the
statement is repeated that the vigorous
Americanism of the new policy will be a
surprise to the public, amounting to a SEN
sation.
The terms of Secretary Olney's midsum-
mer "ultimatum' to Great Britain on the
Venezuelan question and the recommends
ton for the recognition of the Cuban revo-
lutionists as belligerents will be made
public simultaneously, and the admins
tration will devote the remainder of it's
life to popularizing itself with the Ameri-
can people.