The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-11-19
WASHINGTON.
from our Regular Correspondent.

have failed in many things he has un.
dertaken, his administration has Just
won the greatest diplomatic victory in
the history of our country. The
negotiations, now completed, of the
treaty providing for the submission to
arbitration of the Venezuela boundary
dispute involves full recognition of
the Monroe Doctrine by Great
Britain, and consequently by the rest
of the world, and complies with every
demand made by this government.
The extent OF this diplomatic victory
may be comprehended best by re-
membering that Venzuela has been
trying to get Great Britain to arbi-
trate the dispute for more than fifty
years, and now the other party to the
arbitration is not to be Venezuela but
the United States. Members of the
diplomatic corps say the credit for the
victory is more largely due to Secre
tary Olney than to President Cleve-
land. No matter to whom credit is
due, it is a matter for every patriotic
American to rejoice over. Beginning
with Monroe every President ofthe
United States has asserted the right
of this country to interfere to prevent
the forcible acquisition of territory on
this continent by foreign power, but
never until now has that right been
recognized by European nation.
The republican circus promises to
open with the reassembling of Con
gress, instead OF waiting for the in
auguration of Mckinley, and the per-
formance is likely to be continuous,
and from the number of clowns who
will appear it ought to be uproariously
funny" The fun may not materi-
alize, but the uproar can be counted
upon 10 dead certainty.
Ex-Secretary HoKe Smith was in
Washington this week on legal bust
ness. He said he was out of politics
for the time being and was not a
candidate for the Senate, because the
voters of his State had decided that
the man elected to succeed Senator
Gordon must be a silver man.
Senator Morgan evidently thinks
that the interview with Chairman
Dingley of the House Ways and
Means Committee which was tele-
graphed all over the country was
given for the purpose OF notifying the
country that the Dlngley tariff bill
would not be passed by the Senate at
the coming session of Congress, be-
cause of the opposition OF silver Sena-
tore. AS one of the silver Senators
Mr.. Morgan said: "If the Dingley
tariff bill, so called, doesn't pass the
Senate this winter it will be the fault
of the republicans. l have no hest.
tation In saying l will not oppose it,
although l would not say that l will
vote for 1t. The Dingley bill, or the
Reed bill, whatever you may choose
to call it, is only makeshift and the
manufacturers of the east do not
really want it. l do not expect to
see it pass. 1t seems to me very
likely that this will be case of the
engineer hoist by his own petard.
The matter Of tariff legislation at the
coming session depends very much
upon whether the republicans really
deserve to pass the Dingley bill, l
have had no talk at anytime with any
Senators regarding their probable at
titude toward the measure in the
event OF its being brought before the
Senate this winter, but so far as | am
personally concerned they may have
their way with it. l would like to see
it presented to Mr.. Cleveland. He
might feel sufficiently grateful to Mr..
Mckinley for praising and upholding
his financial policy to forgive the
severe reproof which the republican
party administered to him at the st.
Louis convention, and to aid the re-
publicans now in getting through
their two year Dingley bill. | am
afraid the republicans will have to
offer great many apologies to the
west for their failure to pass such a
measure, and do not propose that
any of them shall be charged to me.
The president of the Lakeland
Democratic Club, which did effective
work in the campaign just closed, ano
which is to continue its organization,
gives his idea of the situation thusly
If Maj. Mckinley succeeds II
restoring good times permanently, anc
demonstrates that his theory is correct
of course, we will have no fight. We
will be benefited and glad to ac
knowledge it but it is our belle
that Maj, Mckinley cannot overcome
immutable natural laws. His propoS
ed policy offers no encouragement
Business cannot revive unless more
money is put in circulation. The
of tha Uraan hackc will NO