The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-08-23
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, August II, 1883.

WASHINGTON, August ~, iooo.
Editor Herald:
Senator Sherman touched the admin
istration in sore spot when he intro
duced his resolution calling upon the
secretary of the treasury for statement
| showing the amount of Government
money in deposit in national banks on
the list of August, 1888, and the amount
and description of United States bonds
and other securities pledged for payment
on such deposits. The resolution was
passed. 1t has been charged that the
treasury department has been giving
favored banks, particularly the Western
national bank, of New York city, of
which the late Daniel Manning was pres
ident, the use of enormous sums of
government money, without interest,
and without proper securities. The
statement will be looked for with much
interest.
The democrats in Congress are indig-
nanr at the exposure of the bargain they
made with J. Milton Turner, ex-minister
to Liberia, the colored man who got up
the recent Indianapolis colored con-
vention. The bargain was the passage
by congress of bill appropriating
SIS, 900 for the negro section of the
Cherokee Indians, as compensation for
their share of the lands taken from the
tribe several years ago. ]. Milton Tur-
ner is the agent of these negro Cherokees,
and is to receive twenty-five per cent of
the amount appropriated. This scheme
was worked very slyly, the men who
made the disgraceful bargain having got
ten Representitive O'Neill, the labor-dem-
ocratic member from st. Louis, to intro
duce the bill. But now that the deal has
been exposed, ]. Milton Turner will prob
ably have to look elsewhere for his pay
for getting up the Indianapolis conven-
ton.
Some moon struck individual wrote a
letter from here this week, stating that
the cause of the delay in Cleveland's let
ter was that he intended to decline the
nomination. Dan Lamont has taken
the trouble to deny it, which was a
waste of time on his part. Everybody
knows that Mr.. Cleveland has no idea of
declining a thing that he has been work
ing and scheming for night and day, since
March 4th, 1885. He probably knows
by this time that his free trade senti-
ments will defeat him, but he will run all
the same
The reason for the delay in the appear
ance of Cleveland's letter of acceptance,
is that he is trying to fix it so that it
will hold the free-trade vote, and not
ALLEVIATE the friends of protection to
American labor an impossible task.
Senator Edmunds proposes to make
things lively for attorney General Gar
land, for his attempt to prevent the
United States supervisors of elections in
New York state from properly perform
ing their duties.
Senator Blair has introduced, as a sub
stitute for a bill already on the calendar,
bill providing for a pension of $25 per
month to female army nurses or hospital
agents, who served at least six months
during the rebellion or were injured in
the service.
A bill has been introduced in the house
to give Mrs. Sheridan:a pension of$5, 900
a year. It should speedily become law,
as the property left by the late General
will not yield income sufficient for the
support of the widow and her family.
The republican caucus of senator's
Wednesday night, decided to press the
fisheries treaty to vote Immediately,
then to finish up the appropriation bills,
and afterwards to take up Senator
Chambers resolution on election frauds
in the South, and the bills for the admis-
sion of Washington, Montana and North
Dakota as states. When these measures
are disposed of, the tariff bill will be
ready for discussion.