Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-30

will prove a great relief 10 the money market,
and a popular measure with business men.
The discussion of these two measures win
prove of extraordinary interest, and is already
attracting attention and comment throughout
the country.
TREATMENT OF CITIZEN CREDITORS lAND
CLAIMANTS.
TIE subject OF the treatment received by the
individual from the government in matters Of
debt held against it, is one growing in import
ance and must at no far distant dav, be taken
| notice Of Oae would think from the uniform
indifference with which a claimant of any sort
| is treated by the government, that there was a
constitutional objection to the payment of any
thing owed by the government 10 the citizen and
credit due only when Such payment is withheld
II is dfhcult TO see why the rules governing
individuals in matters of obligation 10 pay what
is due from one to the other should not obtain
in transactions involving the good faith of the
government in the same direction. A man who
refuses TO pay mis- just debts is denounced and
prescribed in the community 10 which he lives,
and soon loses the confidence of the public. The
government, on the contrary, is not expected 10
Day uDll every eilJII IL lHdUG ~ III NOW Al i
possible not to do it, and the creditor is con-
s:dered lucky who gets the amount due 10 him
if the half has been spent in endeayors TO get it
through the hands of the custodians of Uncle
Sans money box. There is growing antag-
ouism to this policy on she part OF the people,
and legislators would do well to take note of
the fact
SENATOR PoNFPOY
The Spy having published a letter purporting
to have been addressed by Senator Pomeroy to
W. W, Ross, Indian agent, and severely COM
mented thereon, will be glad TO also publish the
explanation which has come to me. Your COM
ments were severe, but not more so than were
justidable, if the item in question had been
genuine. I have good reason to believe it to be
what MIR, Pomeroy clains,-a forgery. Some
years ago. the senator employed clerk, one
Edward Clark, whom | knew in Kansas, as Il
note shaver aud broker. He is a brothef-ln-law
OF Mr. Collax by his first wife, and passed ior d
pious, trusty person. Alter leaving Mr.. Pome-
roy he went into the claim business with j. b.
Stewart, lawyer here, and a Mr.. Simms. Dur
ing This partnership, Clark desired Stewart to
advance Sl00 900 for specializing in Indian goods
in Kansas, and as one of the inducements TO
this, he said he would use the senator's name
and read Stewart letter (the one just publish
edl addressed TO W. ". Ross, signed by Mr..
Pomeroy, which he acknowledged the latter
never saw. This letter was sent 10 Ross, and
has since by him been gwen TO the public. Mr.
Stewart dissolved partnership with Clark, and
the latter soon after fed the city, having do1e
some similar act which rendered it unsafe for
him to remain. Mr.. Pomeroy has a letter from
Stewart which have read, and Clark who is in
Pennsylvania has promised to sworn acknow
adgement of The letter as his own.
CHRISTMAS has passed off almost soleWny,
Judging from the faces one meets on the street.
The weather is unusually cold, snow covers the
ground, hut no sound of bells as yet greets the
cars in ringing cheer. So seldom are we favored
with sleghing, that it takes day or TWO to got
the sleighs and bells in motion, and by that
| time the snow has disappeared, The weather
prophets have put US down for a cold winter,
and there seems good prospect for the ulfilment
Of the prophecy. OBSERVER.