Middletown transcript., 1896-03-14

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WNN ed to be about {,
<ssNN resign because o
what Mr.. Cleveland said about tn,
statement given out by him, defining
the attitude of the administration to
wards Cuba and saying in effect tina
no notice would be taken of the con
current resolutions adopted by Congress!
declaring that the belligerency of the
Cubans should be recognized, and that
the United States should intervene, il
necessary to put an end to the war.
Mr.. Cleveland did not deny the cor.
rectness of the statement, but wrote
with his own hand /: 81 am in no way
responsible for it, nor in any way re'at-
ed to it," Now, although Secretary
On.ey's name was not signed to that
statement and did not occur therein, it
is well known to a number of person 8
that it VAS written by him; also that it
correctly represented the attitude OF
the administra ion, as shown in Cabi-
net discus ions Of the matter. Hlf
connection with the statement being
80 we'll known, it is not expected that
Secretary Olney is going 20 pocket such
a snub; hence his resignation is pre-
dicted.
If the Senate agrees with the House,
pensioners will no longer be paid in
person by pension agents. but will haYe
their checks mailed to them, the latter
body having agre, to the change with:
out division.
There is no doubt about where Sena-
tor Cannon, of Utah, stands on the
Cuban question. In the course of a
few remarks made by him at the install
lation of Officers of the Department of
the Potomac G.. A. r. he said : EVERY
American citizen holds in his hand
some portion of the rights and liber les
Of the people of this world. We
should SO onserve our powers and
SO use them that when Amer
lea shall say 'Cuia thou art
free,' she shall be free. That time will
come, speed it Almighty God, when
the people of the United States, free
themselves. shall make the world free
also.
Senator Cullom, of ILL.,, says he is in
the field for the Republican nomina-
tion for President and expects to re-
main there until the St. Louis conven-
tion names the candidate, regardless
of the instructions for Mckinley in
some of the Illinois districts. Mr..
Cullom says he could have had quite
number of delegates instructed for
him, but that he has from the first op-
posed instructing the delegates for any
body. believing that an uninstructed
delegation would WELD more influence
the National Convention.
A member Of the Huntington Paci-
fc Railroads lobby is credited with hav-
ing said that Huntington now has
things, meaning Congressman, in such
shape that he is certain of preventing
legislation that would result in fore
closure sale of the roads by the U. S.
Government, and hopeful of getting
his own pet measure, extendi, g the in
debtedness for 100 years at per cen
through. So many propositions are
being advanced for the settlement of
the indebtness of those roads to the |
government that it is impossible for
any man to say what will eventually
te done, but unless many Senators and |
Representatives vote very differently |
from the way in which they now talk |
there isn't NJ uch show for Huntineton's |
bill. Huntington's manifest intention
to confuse instead of enlighten the
Senate Committee, in the hearings
which have been given him, has in
jured his bill in the eyes of number
in both Senate and House who might
have been won to its support. These
men think that he has shown that be
deserves no favors from the govern
meht.
A strong effort is being made by ad-
Democrats to get the
Carlisle boom on the road. 1t has been
D. K. d by Wall Street and Mr.. Cleve-
and is said to be agreeable. Still it
doesn't 60. Sec'y Carlisle was once popu-
ar whith his Democratic colleagues in
congress, but he isn't now. The sill !.
1er Democrats don't want him, because
hey accuse him of being renegade, ,
md anti-sllver element in the Senate,
of such Democrats as Cor
nan, Brice, Hill and Smith, will not
move finger to help him, because they
egard him as merely Cleveland dunn
ny. In Fact, neither Brice nor Cor !
nan are taking the slightest interest
a the Democratic nomination for Presi-
ent. They both regard the case as SO !,
opeless that they have dec lined even
D take the trouble to attend the Chic !.
go convention. :
The friends Of Gov. Mckinney in
congress indignantly deny the report
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