Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-03-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 20, 1S9

WASHINGTON, MafCn ~, 1OoO.
The senate in delaying final
action upon the Cuban resolution
is. of course, not doing so to
please the Spanish lobbyists, but
all the same it is pleasing them,
and probably enabling them to
make their Spanish employees
think they are earning their mon
ey. The Senate committee on
foreign relations sat down hard
upon the proposition to send the
Cuban resolutions back to confer
ence by directing Senator Sher-
man to get vote upon them as
soon as possible. How soon that
will be depends upon how many
more senators want to ma k e
speeches on the subject.
| Senator Vest made the kit OF
the week in a se1ni-humorous
speech in favor of Senator Con-
mons resolution directing Secre-
tary Smith to carry out the law
by opening the 100000 acres
comprised in the Uncompahgre
Indian reservation, in Utah, to
the public. He started out by
calling attention tc the admins
tration's disposition to niisunder-
stand the western people and
threw the entire senate into laugh
ter by the following reference to
President Cleveland's speech at
the New York Home Missionary
meeting: "Our president stood
with DR.. Talmage on one side
5 and the Rev. Sheldon Jackson on
the other, and gave us a new
: version of that blessed old mis-
5 sionary hymn which we have
: heard so often in our childhood
a From Montana's sinful mountain;
From Utah's wicked plains;
They call US to deliver
; Our land from Errors chains"
4 AS was expected the house made
: the resolution censuring Ambas
: sador Bayard the basis for a par
tisan discussion.
: According to the present pro
!, gramme, President Cleveland will
E shortly extend the civil servlc
4 rules so as. to cover about ever,
. employe Of the Federal govern
;, ment outside of members of tn
cabinet and the judiciary. l
done the administration whic1
e, will come into power next Marc
N will have practically no patron
II age to distribute. This doesn
,r strike the politicians favorably
is In fact it doesn't strike anybody
N outside of the present office-hole
IS ers and those dependent upo
D. them, very favorably. Whil
ct there never was any sense in tn
Ig wholesale change in the small
f. fry officials of the governmer
n every time there was change
w administration, it squares wit
H. both commonsense and good bus
rv ness ideas to have those hllin
~ executive positions in polite;
ut sympathy with the administr
he ton. If Presid e mt C1ev el a n
e. makes the proposed blanket e
tent1on of the civil service rule
is will be the first step towar'
the total abolition of those rul
by his successor.
]. The fact is not likely to
ry overlooked by foreign natio
of that the naval appropriation b
re- for the fiscal year beginning Ju
re- /, next, which was this we
to agreed upon by the house COZ
he mittee on naval affairs, carrl
tie more money for the increase
gs our navy than has been carried
ire a single bill since the war. /
Sc building of four battle-shlps a
ay fifteen torpedo boats are provld
on for in the bill. The new boz
on are all to be built by contra'
is and to meet any emergency til
& may arise for hurrying them t
ON secretary of the navy is authorlz
yill to spend as much Of the total :
the preparation as in his judgme
1gs may be necessary during the co
ag. ing fiscal year.