Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
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senator 0nerman tOucne0 the ad-
ministration in a sore spot when he
introduced his resolution calling up.
on the Secretary Of the Treasury for.
. statement showing the amount of
Government money on deposit in
National banks on the lst Of August
1888, and the amount and descrip.
tion of United States bonds and 9TH
er securities pledged for the repay
ment of such deposits. The resolu-
ton was passed. 1t has been charg-
ed that the Treasury department. has
been giving favored banks-particu-
larly the Western National Bank, Of
New York City, of which the late
Daniel Manning was president-the
use OF enormous sums of Govern
ment money, without interest, and
without proper security. The state.
ment will be looked for with much
interest.
The Democratic Senators held a
caucus Wednesday morning, to de-
eide whether or not they would at
tempt to tilibuster to defeat the re-
lection of the fisheries treaty. They
decided against obstructive tactics.
Several of them will not be sorry to
see the treaty rejected.
The Democrats in Congress are
indignant at the exposure Of the bar
gam they made with J. Milton Tur-
.ner, ex-Minister to Liberia, the COL
tored man who got up the recent In
dianapolis colored convention. The
bargain was the passage by Con-
gress of bill appropriating $4,000
for the negro section of the Cherokee
Indians, as compensation for their
share Of the lands taken from the
tribe several years ago. J. Milton
Turner is the agent Of these negro
Cherokces, and is to receive twenty
five per cent. of the amount appro-
priated. This scheme was worked
very slyly, the men who made
the disgraceful bargain having
gotten Representative O'Neill, the
labor-democratic member from st.
Louis, to introduce the bill. But
now that the deal has been exposed,
J. Milton Turner will probably have
to look elsewhere for his pay for
getting up the Indianapolis conven-
ton.
Several more pension bills were
vetoed by Mr.. Cleveland. After the
s4th Of next March he will have to
quit this sport. IL
Some moon struck individual
wrote aletter from here this week,
stating that the cause Of the delay in
Cleveland's letter was that he in
tended to decline the nomination.
Dan Lamont has taken the trouble
to deny it, which was waste of
time on his part. Everybody knows
that Mr.. Cleveland has no idea of
declining a thing that he has been
working and scheming for, night
and day, since March 1, 1855. He
probably knows by this time that
his free trade sentiments will defeat
him, but he will run all the same.
The reason for the delay in the ap-
pearance Of Cleveland's letter of ac-
.ceptance: is that he is trying to fix
it 50 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 Gen
eral Garland, for his attempt to pre-
vent the United States Supervisors
of elections in New York state from
properly performing their duties.
II Cleveland could hear some of
the remarks made on his action in
regard to the river and harbor bill
he would blush with shame, if such
a thing is possible. His attempted
explanation of why he allowed it to
become a law without his approval
satisfies nobody. Of course he could
not veto it, having promised long
before the bill was framed, that he
would not. That promise is what
secured the passage Of the Mills
bill. To have signed the bill and
said nothing more about it would
have been the most manly course.
Senator Blair has introduced, as a
substitute for a bill already on the
calendar, bill providing for a pen
sion Of S25 a month to female army
nurses or hospital agents, who served
at least six months during the rebel
lion or were injured in the service.
A bill has been introduced in the
House to give Mrs. Sheridan a pen.
sion of $4,000 a year. 1t should
speedily become law, as the proper
ty left by the late General will not
yield income sufficient for the sup
port of the widow and her family.
The Republican caucus Of Sena.
tors Wednesday night, decided to
press the fisheries treaty to vote
Immediately, then to finish up the