The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-09-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. G.. Sept. 10

of West Virginia, will receive greater
credit hereafter than he did year ago
/ for his persevering efforts to secure an in,
vestigation ofthe workings of the Treas,
ury Department. With few exceptions
even the political friends of Senator Da-
Wis were tardy in his support. Al the
next session of Congress q more specific
arraignment Of the officials will be
made, and a thorough investigation de-
manded. Facts developed in the last
year or more, and the course of Sher,
man in directing to other uses monies
which should have been paid to various
creditors of the Government, will furnish
grounds for even a fuller overhauling
than Senator Davis called for. 1t can
readily be shown that monthly reduction
Of the public debt, reported by Sherman,
will not bear moments investigation
The Administration has gone to Ohio
on an electioneering tour. Hayes will
distribute medals, bands will play,
speeches will be made, and every display
that is usually thought to influence votes
just prior to election will be part of the
trip through Ohio. Unless the people of
that State have gone mad they will give
tothe trip the weight it should have, and
will look upon it as an attempt OF Gre
FORM" Administration to take advan-
tage of all the tricks that make machine
politics disreputable.
Assistant Secretary Mccormick, if we
we can believe Assistant Secretary Me,
Cormck, is about to resign His place
is distastcful to him; his eyesight is i'm
pared; he does not care for public office;
his private business demands all his att
tenGon; he needs season of rest after
his arduous official labors. He is also to
be made Secretary of the Interior, and a
Foreign Minister. These reports | give
as Assistant Secretary Mccormick gives
them to the newspapers. 1t seems most
likely, however, that he will remain AS
sistant Secretary as long as the powers
that be will permit.
For long time EX>Secretary Robe
son and VIM. f.. Chandler have had de-
mands against the National Repablica,
establishment which could not be enforc
ed without a sale of the establishment
1t is now rumored, as once or twice be,
fore, that one or both OF them, with Elk
Public Printer Clapp, will assume charge
of the paper at an early day.
One of the members of the Louisiana
Returning Board, Anderson, who wa
here lately, carried back with him
Presidential appointment to Fedora
office in New Orleans The reason why
! Anderson is not in the penitentiary is be
cause the Democrats of Louisiana are no
as ready as those of South Carolina t
investigate the acts Of their late rulers.
Speaking of South Carolina it seem
proper to say that the investigations int,
far been fairly conducted. The result
are startling, implicatinga United State
Senator, Governors and almost who'll
Legislature in the habitual preparation
of frauds, but the evidence has COM
I from Republicans, and not from partie
who might be prejudiced by politica
feeling. viii the Democrats of Louisi
ana upon whom, probably, much NOR
depends, be as courageous as those o
South Carolina.
Secretary Sherman year ago owne,
a large amount of unoccupied real estat
here Last Spring he commenced t,
build on it, and at the same time tn
: District Commissioners-our Governor
commenced to improve at great ex
pense the streets around the property
; So rapidly did the Commissioners pusl
the improvements that the contracto
had to work his men day and night
This money was spent by the Commits
sioners and spent in this urgent manner
because Sherman, who owned the lant
and was building on it, was Secretary o
the Treasury. The houses put up b,
Sherman on this land are for sale. /
they meet the ready sale that Secreta-
iy's houses ought to meet, they will al
be sold this Fall, and the Secretary will
have disposed of an improbable piece 0
land for three or four times its forme
value, simply because being Secretary
he could secure the Improvement Q
streets at public expense around his prop
erty. Rex.