Show OUR washington Cleve lanas cuban policy to be ba con coa tinned by mckinley Mc Kinky from fro m our regular correspondent poor cuba the formal an no that john sher sharman man had beba compelled to become mckin killeya leya secretary of state in in order to 10 make a place in the senate fur boss bose hanna makes it certain that unless this congress 1 loss does something fer cuba it will h have av e to go ga on fighting alone there has bas been a suspicion for some sometime time that mckinley Uc Kinley occupied very nearly the same attitude towards cuba that pree president ident cleveland does and mr I 1 sherman has made that suspicion t a certainty by saying 1 I do not believe th this is government hould interfere between spain and the cubans I 1 do not believe this government should attempt to settle the war or take adv any putting upon us as the burden burdea of determining ter the nature of rule in cuba in case the cubans win As this language was used when he WM wai just from the presence of mckinley and after he e had accepted the of state there the slightest doubt that it is ie an advance of mekin mckin leys cuban policy it if is several shades worse than the pre present sent cuban policy president cleveland luis has at least tried to bring brin about peace mckinley proposes to do absolutely nothing find and to let the be butchery continue indefinite indefinitely lv this may result in stirring up the friends of cuba in congress there are now in washington petitions signed by six hundred thong thousand american asking congress to recognize the independence of cuba it is ia evident that speaker r teed reed expect representative boatner of la who was unseated at the last session of congress s and reelected to fill the vacancy and for a full fall term beginning march ath next to be unseated in the contest which is again being made for his seat otherwise he would not have selected mr boatner who piira fa favor vor pr protection to tc a certain to fill the democratic vacancy on the ways and means acelus committee the republican steering commit ten of the senate has hag given the nicaragua canal bill the first place in the order of business of the senate which is merely another way v ay of killing the time during the four days a week the leisurely senate condecon ds to sit during this ees be sion as they know that the bill has no chance of getting acted ou on in the house those members of Hunting tons lobby who are not regularly on his pay roll found themselves out of a job when the house sat down so hard on the pacific railroads funding bill if the lie free homestead bill fails to get through speaker reed will make numerous western enemies who will be heard beard from if lie he is ie again a candidate for his bartys presidential nomination the bill when passed by the house only provided for free home homesteads beads in oklahoma but before the senate passed it amond amendments ments were added extending the area of free homesteads when the bill went back to the house instead of allowing the house to t voto vote on the senate amendments so BO that the bill could be sent to conference if they were not net accepted by the house speaker reed sent the 1 bl I 1 it back to the committee attee on an public lands and it its 6 friends are whispering that he be did it for the purpose of having the bill smothered the much talked of bill authorizing azin 0 the president to appoint delegates to any loter international national monetary con conference ference that may be called has s been introduced in the S senate en at this I 1 llis is a measure for which everybody in congress wilt will vote and which nobody in in or out of congress believes will ever amount to a row of pius pins so EO far as increasing the use lisa of silver as money is concerned MiroN r ro jan 18 97 |