Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-05
Wa5hlngton Standard
GETTING READY
FOR THE CHANGE.
THE GOLD6UGS PREPARING FOR
ROYAL OVATION.
The inauguration Cuba The TIA
,ifiC RaiIrOad> International
Agreement.

present. Hlgh-up p"!ltIrlan> are all
expectancy and conjecture aS Ia Mr..
Mckinley, Cabinet. :" far Is the
general public knows, only one mrm-
her Of the Cabinet has been selected,
and that i John Sherman, of Ohio,
who Is to he Secretary Of State. While
Mr.. Sherman has been severely criti-
cised for the part he took III the act Of
1913, dcmonctzing silver, he is held
IN very high esteem by the Republican
party leaders. and, hv them, is consid-
cred the embodiment of Republican
principles.
The people OF Washington have
subscribed 4 fund OF about $60,OO0 to
he spent in making Mr.. Mckinlcy's
Inauguration Il glittering success on
the 4th day of March. Extensive
preparations are being made to make
it the greatest occasion of the kind in
the history OF our country. ThOus-
auds of seats will be arranged on either
side OF Pennsylvania avenue, from the
White House to the capitol, where
people can be comfortably seated if
they are willing to pay for it while
the procession passes. Arrangements
are being made for IL large number of
military organizations as well rs por-
tons of the regular army to take part
in the parade The ceremonies will
be wound up with the inaugural ball,
which is expected to surpass in bril-
Eancy anything of the kind that has
taken place in this country in the
past. The great Pension Building is
being deliberately fitted up for the oc-
casion. 1t will cost the poor about
$40 each to be admitted, while the
rich will enter free, owing to the fact
Git is supposedly that they furnish the
silks, satins and diamonds to make
the show.
Judging from recent events the Gu
ban question will go over to be settled
by the incoming administration. Pres
ident Cleveland and Secretary Olney
have been severely criticised by quite
number of Senators for taking the
position that the President and not
Congress had the power to recognize
the independence of country. This
contention has been the occasion for
quite number of spirited speeches in
the Senate
For nearly two years Mr.. Hunting
ton has maintained a lobby in this
city that many thought was we'll nigh
invincible. He had his funding
scheme we'll matured and presented in
bill that many thought was sure to
pass the House, but members seemed
to realize the fact that their constitu-
ents had been plundered by these
roads until the time had come when il
would be the better policy to heed the
people rather than Mr.. Huntington
and his lobby. The failure of the bill
to pass has given much satisfaction to
those who are in favor of the peoples
rights. The Union Pacific and Cen
trail Pacific railways have been the
cause of unfavorable comment for the
past twenty years. The Union Pacific
has been in the hands of wreckers un.
til it is almost destroyed. The original
act of Congress incorporating these
two roads required each road to pre-
rate the through freight and passen-
ger business, and had this law been
carried out the Union Pacific would
have been fairly prosperous; but the
men who owned the Central Pacific
conceived the idea of building another
trunk line east in order to retain the
entire proceeds of the freight and pas.
senger traffic. This they did by build.
ing the main line of the Southern Pa.
cific through Southern California, Ari.
IONA, New Mexico and Texas to New
Orleans. By the building of this road
the business of the Pacific coast has
been diverted from the Union Pacific
and Mr.. Huntington and his partners
have been enabled to amass princely
fortunes while they have held the bus.
mess interests of the Pacific coast by
the throat and made them deliver
There are few honest men who art
sorry that this combination has beer
prevented from further dispoiling the
U. S. Treasury, and that they stand 6
good chance of paying to the Govern
ment its honest due.
The Republican caucus of the Sen
ate has agreed upon bill to be intro
duced in the Senate providing for .
commission Of not less than five to b
appointed by the President after Marcel
4th next. Some of the Democrat,
Senators requested that the words
free and unlimited appear in the bill
but this suggestion was rejected b,
the Republicans, and upon this poin
there will doubtless be a lively discus
sion when the bill comes before thu
Senate.
The arbitration agreement signed b,
the English Minister and Mr.. Cleve
lands Secretary of State is not likel,
to be confirmed by the Senate. Some
insist, for the reason that England
always controls arbitration commits
eiOns in her own interest, that she ha.
thus been enabled to destroy our sea
fisheries of Alaska and now wants t.
advance her Alaskan lines west fal