Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-04-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON, D. G., April 10. '97.

J.B. Angel, of the Michigan State Uni.
verslty, to be Minister to Turkey. and
ex Representative Meikeljohn of Ne
braska, to be Assistant Secretary of
Wal. This is not Mr.. Angelic first di-
plomatic appointment. as he went to
china as Minister during the Hayes ad-
mlnistration, especially to secure "a re
vision of the B%urlingame treaty, and
succeeded in getting it. He is thought
to be well qualified to enforce the de,
termined policy of the administration
In making Turkey pay for the property
OF American missionaries destroyed by
rioters last year. Mr.. Meiklejohn served
two terms in the House with credit and
Will make an efficient assistant to Sec.
rotary Alger.
Senator Morrill,, the Chairman of the
Committee on Finance, celebrated his
eighty seventh birthday this week and
had the honor of making the motion
upon which the first tariff test vote
was taken in the Senate-to refer Sena.
tor Vests resolution, declaring Secre-
tary Cages order to Collectors of Gus.
toms, concerning the clause of the
Dingley tariff bill making the duties
take effect April /, to be without au-
thority-and of seeing his motion car.
ried by a majority of one. When the
Dingley bill is put upon its final pas
sage it will have a larger majority
than that.
A nots BILE feature of the Jefferson
banquet of the silver Democrats, which
was 30 manipulated as to seem to en-.
dorse Mr.. Bryan for the silver Demo.
cratic nomination in 1900, was the alb.
sence of gold Democrats. 1t was a
combination Bryan silver love feast
and only those were invited who were
known to adore the combination.
There are no longer any sceptics con.
corning President McKinley's inten.
ton to live up to the st. Louis platform,
by making every possible effort to
bring about the acceptance of i~nterna.
tional bimetallism by the great com.
mercial nations Of the world. In ap.
pointing three diplomatic commission
ers to visit Europe and ascertain by ne.
gotiation with other countries what
q be done to bring about an increase
in the use of silver as money, he chose
men who are widely known as staunch
advocates of Observation-Disclosures
Wolcott, of Colorado, Gen. Paine, of
Massachusetts, and Hon. Adlai E.
Stevenson, of Illinois. These gentle
men expect to start for Europe in about
a MONTH time, and will probably re-
main there until the attitude of all the
important European governments is
officially made known to them.
The Committee from the Executive
Board of the Tennessee Centennial Ex-
position which came to Washington to
invite President Mckinley to attend
the opening of the exposition at Mach
vile on May l, went home delighted.
The President told them that as him.
self and cabinet would attend the
dedication of the Grant monument in
New York, on the 9th of this month.
he was afraid that he couldn't be in
Nashville as early as the opening day,
but that he would if he could, and
would certainly visit the exposition
and bring as many members of his
cabinet as could make it convenient to
accompany him, and that if unable to
be in Nashville at the opening he would
start the machinery from Washington,
by electricity.
Believing that the Carnegie and Beth.
lehem Steel Companies are trying to
embarrass the Government by refusing
to make armor plates for the naval
vessels now building at a reasonable
price, Senator Chandler has intro.
duced two bills providing that the
Secretary of the Navy shall take posses.
sion of the armor plants of those two
companies and manufacture the armor
plate needed for the three battle ships
now under consideration, and author
izing those companies to bring SUIT in
the Court of Claims for their compen.
sation. Representative Cannon, of H.
linois, who will be Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations when it
is appointed, was asked what would
be done to meet the stubborn attitude
of the m makers, and he replied:
II suppose we shall have to emove
the limit of cost and allow the con.
tractors their blood money. The ships
must be finished, and the armor must
be had. But if l could have my way,
l do not think any more armored sea
going vessels would be built by the
United States very soon."
The constant clashes between the
men who made Representative Bailey,
of Texas, the leader of the Democrats
in the House and those who wanted to
make McMillin, of Tennessee, leader
are really amusing, and 1t is believed
that they are being slyly encouraged
by slippery Jim" Richardson, of Ten.
nessee. and "Silver Dick" Bland, of
Missouri, both of whom have aspira-
tions to be the leader of the House mi.
nority. Meanwhile the House contin-
ues to meet and adjourn every three
days.
THE GOLD RESERVE.