The Washington critic., 1886-03-20

shall be oalculable, and shall be numcr.
ical. Sec what the gold standard idea
leads you to. If we have to-day
81 900 ,000, 900 in gold as the currency
of the country and 10000, 900 of people
to use it, and in ten years our popua.
tion shall increase to 10000, 900, and
the gold be no more, 1t Is absurd to say
that the value of the dollar has not
changed. Here are twenty million
more people struggling to get this dol.
lar rs circulating medium. The item
Of demand has come in to enhance
the value of the dollar. You
might throw your thousand million
dollars of gold into the ocean and sub
stitute paper dollars and they would be
Just as valuable rs currency. They
would be in demand just as much as
units of exchange. Their value would
be determined by the shoemaker when
he came to sell pair of shoes. The
man who would sell the best shoes for
the smallest number Of the units of
exchange would fix the value of that
exchange in shoes. The same thing
would happen in any commodity. Thc
dealers would all be striving to get the
representative of value and would
thereby fix and determine its value.
What we need In currency is that ii
shall be issued to keep pace with pop.
ulation. As population increases, we
sell more flour, we use more lumber for
houses, we burn more fuel, we eat
more provisions, and what an absurd
ity it Is to say that we do not need any
more currency. The currency should
be numerical and that is the only quail
ity 1t absolutely requires" "
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Speaking of the investigation of
charges of bribery preferred against
two employees of the House of Repre-
sentatives from Indiana, Senator Logan
said to Curtis, the Gmphic's CORE
spondent This thing of men around
here pretending to influence Senators
and Representatives and receiving pay
for that supposed influence, came very
forcibly TO my notice once. A lobby
list, or attorney or some one WHOM
knew very well, came into my com.
mittee.room at the Capitol one day with
a constituent of mine whom | did not
know. Without first introducing the
constituent the lawyer called me aside
and had some private conversation
| about some trivial matter occupying my
attention for considerable time.
| Then he presented my constituent
and left the room. My constituent said
| he was here in the interest of some
matter affecting my State, and asked
me II / would support the bill. was
Il c,,,, u, "a,
friend, knowing II to be just, and ] at
once said would vote and speak for
it. The man left my room and the
measure was passed. Some time after
ward / heard that that scoundrel law.
| yer claimed to have filled me while
we were talking in private, and that
my constituent paid him $500 for the
supposed service, while the lawyer or
| lobbyist never mentioned the bill to
| me-"
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Says the New York Grdph,c:
Charles Crocker, who has been a
prominent buyer recently of both pic
lures and biic-a-brac, is one ofthe best
known men on the Pacific coast. They
tell II out there as an aristocratic dis.
tinction that he drove mule team
across the plains in '40-a California
patent Of nobility consisting Of evidence
of Identification with the forty miners.
However Mr.. Crocker may have made
his debut upon the coast he was at
one time n very plain man in very
moderate circumstances. but when he
acquired his great wealth he escaped
much of the vulgarity supposed to be
inevitable in the n0Ncedu richo by never
ignoring either the acquaintances or the
circumstances of his earlier life, and in
each Of the several palaces that he has
built have hung photographs of the
little wooden cottages in which his
children were born. Hattie Crocker,
his daughter, who is figuring this win.
ter in Washington society, is young
lady of about twenty. eight or twenty.
nine years, neither very handsome mol
very brilliant, but with reputation for
good sense and kind heart"
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| Speaker Carlisle came into the Sen
ate on the day of Senator Miller's fu
neral with the blind chaplain Of the
House upon his arm. Parson Milburn,
the noted blind preacher, who has
Travelled all over the world, and who
has written lectures upon "What ;
Blind Man Saw in Europe" is a slight
man of medium height, with beard ant
hair of iron gray. Without you were
close to him you would not suppose
him to be blind, and as he walked In
with Speaker Carlisle, the chief sigr
of his blindness to those In the back
sents of the gallery was the manner II
which he felt his way to the front of
the Senate with his cane. Parson Mil
burn was chaplain of the House nearly
forty years ago. He was first appoint
ed away back in the days of Presiden
Polk. He got the office at that time
says Carpenter Of the Leader, through
the widow of Senator Linn of Missouri
who, when Polk was nominated
was appointed postmistress at st
Louis, and who was the first woman II
our history, they say, to get her share o
the spoils of public office. Tom Bentol
opposed the appointment of Mrs. Linn
as he had set aside the plac
for one of his henchmen. Mrs
Linn, however, beat Benton. Sh
applied to numbers of prominen
Democrats for their influence, ant
got Andrew jackson to push her claim
After she was successful she becam
for time quite political factor, ant
IL was through her that the Rev. Mr.
Milburn, then both blind and poor, go
his appointment.