Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03
The Treasury Department.

The Treasury Department.
The success of MIR. Window in the
management of National finances is
cheertully conceded by the general
public.
With the consent of President Gar
field, Mr.. Window enacted three and
a-half per cent. Funding bill. in lieu
of the three per cent. bill that Mr..
Hayes. in compliance with the demands
of bankers. had slaughtered with u
veto. Having thus ably provided law
for great emergency. Mr.. Window
proceeded to execute his extemporized
statute, and found no difficulty in re-
placing the skies and fves with his
three-and-a-half per cent. bond-thus
reducing interest on the exchanged
bonds to point only half of one per
cent. higher than would have been
reached if the Funding bill of the
Forty-sixth Congress had not been
killed.
But despite this success and the gen.
eral popularity of Mr.. Window, he is
credited with sensible desire to get
back into the Senate. The seat which he
vacated is now filled by a Gubernatorial
appointee, and MIR. Window will find
no serious obstacle in the way of his re-
turn by election in January. The Pres
ident is believed to have determined
that certain piece of work on which
Mr.. Window entered, and which he
suddenly abandoned, shall be COM
menced de noro, and prosecuted to the
end relentlessly, no matter how many
CALLED jades vince.
President Arthur is not a repudiator
in any sense of the word. He owes a
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 d Co. for
all that he had said and done in the
Custom House affair. He made public
apology to MIR. 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
any attempt to cancel the old obliga-
ton.
MIR. 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 MIR.
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
MIR. Window, called a halt and threw a
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 SEM
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
corrupt practices on the part of one or
more of his predecessors. This was
asserted by correspondents and editors
of reliable Republican newspapers.
We might be sorry for MIR. 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''-ail this
will be painful to the public, for it will
distress Mr.. Sherman, and he has been
distressed sufficiently.
But it is high time for a thorough
overhauling of the Treasury. Investi-
cations ordered by Democratic House
or Democratic Senate have been
adroitly misled by inside manipulators.
1t is next to impossible for any commit
tee to get at facts in a department if
that department is opposed to the ex-
posture of the facts. Mr.. Sherman could
sit in his Office in calm content while
committees 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
administration 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. - Washing
ton Post.
Platform Of the New York Democracy.
The following is the platform adopted
at the recent New York Democratic
State Convention:
The Democratic party Of New York renews
its fidelity TO the principles set forth by the
New York State Democratic Conventions of
1874. 1875 and 1875, which were thrice approved
at the ballot-boxes by the people of the EN-
p1re State, and were vindicated by the wise
administration of the Democratic state Exec
utlye then chosen, and to the principles set
forth BY the National democratic Convention
at st. Louis. which was approved by decisive,
popular and electoral majorities in the Presi-
dental election of 1876. The victories then
won in this State and In the United States were
In the name and for the sake of reform. The
people were defrauded of the fruits of victory
in the Federal elections by a false count OF
Electoral votes in 1870 and fragrant corrup-
ton in the election of 1880. Reform through
out the Federal Administration is still q neces-
sity. The continuing disclosures of new and
hitherto concealed plundering of the peoples
funds by inner rings in the Treasury, the Post
office n M ha Int ~