American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-29
The Treasury Department.

| The success of Mr Window in tn,
management of National finances i
cheeriully conceded by the genera
public.
| With the consent of President Gar
field, MIR. Window enacted three and
a-half per cent. Funding bill. in liel
of the three per cent bill that MIR
Hayes. in compliance with the demand
of bankers. had slaughtered with
veto. Having thus ably provided Law
for great emergency, Mr.. Windon
| proceeded to execute his extemporizet
statute, and found no difficulty in re
placing the SKIES and fives with hi.
three and-a-half per cent. bond-thu,
reducing interest on the exchanged
bonds to a point only a half of one pei
cent. higher than would have beer
reached if the Funding bill of tho
Forty-sixth Congress had not beer
| killed.
But despite this success and the gen
eral popularity of Mr.. Window, he il
credited with a sensible desire to gel
back into the Senate. The seatwhich he
vacated is now filled by Gubernatoria
| appointee, and Mr.. Window will find
turn by election in January. The Pres
that a certain piece of work ON which
Mr.. Window entered, and which he
suddenly abandoned, shall be COM
menced dc noro, and prosecuted to the
end relentlessly, no matter how many
CALLED jades vince.
President Arthur is not a repudiatol
in any sense of the word. He owes q
large debt to Mr.. John Sherman, who,
with the aid of Mr.. Hayes, put Col
lector Arthur out of the New York Gus
tom-House. assuring the Senate and the
country that it was impossible to put a
stop to fraudulent and corrupt practices
in that establishment until Mr.. Arthur s
official head was laid low.
We make no doubt that Mr.. Sherman
is ready to forgive his debt. He went
to New York in 1873, and again in
1880. and. in effect, humbly apOlogized
to Conkling, Arthur, Cornell q Co. for
all that he had said and done in the
Custom House affair. He made public
apology to Mr.. Arthur and the Stall
warts generally in Ohio last fall. And
now, when the man whom he and Mr..
Hayes SO contemptuously spurned is in
the Presidential office. there can be no
question that Mr.. Sherman would most
cheerfully let Mr.. Arthur off without
ton.
But Mr.. Arthur is not opposed to re-
pudiation only; he is equally averse OF
any plan of readjustment that deprives
him of the solid, serene satisfaction of
paying an honest debt. Therefore, the
trail that Mr.. Window abandoned, when
he found it growing warm. will be
picked up again.
Mr.. Window will remember that the
Post, in friendly spirit and kindly man
ner. urged him to go on with the good
work he had undertaken. But Mr..
Sherman at that time was.heard to re-
mark that the mission of the Garfield
Administration seemed to be to make
the Hayes Administration odious-or
words of like import. Then it was that
Mr.. Window, called halt and threw q
big double blanket of charity over a
scandal that promised rich develop
ments. Then it was that the "cham-
payne lunches.' the Treasury
Queen" the First National Bank Of
New York correspondence" the semi
ployment of Government men and ma
terial for private uses'' and many other
awful hints were hustled out of sight by
Mr.. Window because. as was alleged,
he could not 60 on without exposing
more of his predecessors. This was
asserted by correspondents and editors
of reliable Republican newspapers.
We might be sorry for Mr.. Sherman
ON whom time has already revenged
Mr.. Arthur rather effectually-if it were
not for the fact that the public good
demands the proposed investigation.
We shall not enjoy further glimpses of
the Treasury Queen" nor shall we
delight in the order of champagne
lunches" billed as - candles''-all this
will be painful to the public, for it will
distress Mr.. Sherman, and he has been
sufficiently.
But it is high time for a thorough
of the Treasury. Investi-
cations ordered by Democratic House
or Democratic Senate have been
misled by inside manipulators.
1t is next to impossible for any commit
tee to get at facts in department if
that department is opposed to the ex-
posture of the facts. Mr.. Sherman could
sit in his Office in calm content while
of Congress were being sue
cessfully bamboozled by Mr.. Sherman's
agents.
All this will be changed when the
Treasury investigates itself. When
President Arthur directs his Secretary
of the Treasury to turn the Sherman
inside out and shake it,
the country will know how much of
truth there is in the serious charges
that have been hanging like a dark
cloud over that department. flashing
ION Post.