Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland will not begin the preparat-HTii ot ins annual message to Con ” gress until aftijT he returns from the Atlantft.exposition. Mr. Cleveland a Cabinet officers hint that the forthcoming message will be the most important state paper ever launched by the President. Questions of a foreign policy will for the first time be given first prominence, it is said. The message in this respect will be so firm and aggressive in tone as to leave no future doubt of Mr. Cleveland’s devotion to a firm foreign policy. The financial question will be thoroughly discussed and the recommendation for a retirement of greenback currency will be renewed. Some suggestionTvill be put forth for legislation to increase the revenues $30,000,000 to $50,000,000, but the President is not satisfied in his own mind yet, it is said, where this extra tax can be most advantageously laid. A Washington dispatch says: President Cleveland’s annual message to Congress, the preparation of which will soon engage his attention, will be a most noteworthy state paper. It will be more sensational and perhaps of far greater importance than the -famous tariff message of IBS?;-"wiiieh: many " obaWfis think. , changed the history of parties in this country. The principal feature of the forthcoming message, will be the discussion of the foreign relations. It is well known that the. President is eager for a reply from Great Britain concerning this . country’s vigorous-representation in favor Of arbitration in Venezuela, and he wants this reply before the meeting of Congress If lie can get it. More important even than these immediate questions, considering the future of the United States, is the policy of over-sea enterprise which the President is expected to foreshadow in his message. If the expectations of certain of Mr. Cleveland’s confidential friends are realized, he will say to Congress and the .country that the time has come for a new American policy, a policy of aggressiveness, both political and commercial, beyond this country’s coast lines. A Washington correspondent says: President Cleveland looks like an athlete in the pink of condition. The flabbiness of fat, dullness of eyes and heaviness -of movements that gave his watchful friends grave concern last spring have given place to a glow of fine health and an elasticity of step that tell the whole story of complete restoration of physical vigor. His real condition four months ago was such as to occasion serious apprehensions. There were aggravated symptoms of heart and kidney troubles, and he was threatened with a physical breakdown. His physicians, Drs. Bryant and O’Riley, ordered him one of Washington and directed him to spend a long summer in the open air regardless of the weather. The. prescription was most welcome, and from June to the middle of October the President put in every hour he could spare from official duties fishing, huntthe President returns to Washington apparently a well man. His cheeks are brown as mahogany and his flesh hard as iron. He steps off nicely, his eyes sparkle with buoyant spirits, ajid he is bright as a new dollar. [j