National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-11-21
THE MAN ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About the Men and Measures that
Pcople Like to Think OF.

Pc0ple Like to Think OF.
Pension office officials arc chuckling over
the brief of Gen. Il. r. Butler In the case OF
Margaret Il. Cooper, widow OF Lieut.. Col. j.
d. Cooper, ID New Hampshire volunteers,
whose namc had been stricken from the rolls
because She had been living In open adultery
with n man named DAWN. Ailer calling at
tention to the facts In tho case as shown in
certain evidence recently unearthed showing
Mrs, Coopers subsequent reform and ruling
of Secretary Teller Of Aug 81, 1883, that the
act of 1882 was not retroactive, Gen. Butler
puts in plea for tho widow OH general prin-
ciples
ut seems also lately to have been very fully
decided" he says "by the highest tribunal
known to the law that prior unch0stity can
work no forfeiture of emoluments or Office OF
honor and profit, or official standing. There
fore my client should be restored to the rolls"
The reference to n recent and successful com
pctor of Gen. Buffers for high office is too
obvious to need further Identification.
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The whisky lobby aud the Union Pacific
lobby will harrow up the ground pretty thor.
oughly this winter. Their agents are already at
work, and by the time congress assemblies next
month combinations offensive and defensive
will be formed among the ax.grinders. The
whisky lobby will demand immediate atten-
tion, and loud walls of distress are piercing
the sky These notes of pain may be consld-
cred in the light of an overture. They are
sounded now in order to prepare congress and
the country for what is to follow. From every
quarter comes the sad intelligence that unless
the tax is Immediately extended on IS, 900, 900
or iO,0OOO 900 gallons of whisky in bond there
will be a universal crash The same story was
told last winter, when it was represented that
all the banks in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Ken
lucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York
would go up the flume unless the whisky
| bonded period was extended on $4,000 gal
| Ions OF the fluid destroyer of happy hours. II
| was claimed that the banks had advanced
| s50,O0OOO0 or sGO,0O0,0O0 on this whisky, and
that II the property should be forced upon the
market it would shrink in value to nothing.
ness and leave the banks In a gaping hole OF
enormous depth. The extension bill was de-
feated and no banks of any account have been
broken in consequence thereof, though about
one.half of the whisky then in bond has been
taken out and the tax on 1t paid. Neverthe.
less, the whisky lobby will be more vociferous
and industrious next session than ever before,
| judging from the indications at this moment
and congress may expect to be deafened by
the clamor for relief for the poor oppressed
banks and distillers that will assail the patient
walls of the capitol. If they are not helped
right away the whole country will be in danger
of falling through itself.
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The Pacific lobbics also want an extension
OF the bonded period. If they can by legal en-.
actmcnt stave off the evil day of settlement
with the government, Pacific stocks would
jump upward, and the gentlemen who hav,
been holding these securities by the tail L
their own personal discomfort and loss woulc
be very thankful. If the laws defining tn,
relations between the United States and th'
Pacific railroads rs they now stand on thu
statute books are enforced, and the companie
are compelled to meet their obligations will
the government, bankruptcy stares them il
the:face. Nothing can save them. They ow,
the government more than the combined prop
critics would bring in open market. For twen
ty years they have been paying dividends OIL
of money borrowed from the fedora
treasury, and which should have beer
paid to the United States instead of to tht
stockholders. Now, with the day of settlemcn
near at hand, the stockholders find themselve
in a bad boat. Prolonged and reckless self
abuse has left the companies bankrupt ant
hopelessly involved. The millions that should
have been applied to the debt owing the gov
ernment have been dissipated, and there II
nothing to show for the money. The only hop
that remains to the stockholders, who hav
been blindly swindling themselves and jeop
ardizing the interests of the government, lie
in their ability to persuade congress to gran
them an extension, and even that may not saw
them from the results Of their folly. Wha
congress will do is one of the interesting ques
tions that may be answered next winter or lai
over for the consideration ofthe next congress