The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-09-25

WAsnlNoroN, Sept. "a, 1891.
Mr. Harrison will return to Washington
tomorrow, and u he can get his attention
away from the horde Of would be public
psp.suckers now waiting TO pounee upon
him, for few minutes, he may be able to
help clear away the suspicion under which
the United States treasury department now
rests. Of having attempted TO hamper the
investigation which Il has pretended to be
30 anxious to have made, of the affairs OF
the wrecked Keystone National Bank, OF
Philadelphia. II is regarded naturally Us
a suspicious circumstance that just ~ the
expert accountants at work on the books
OF ttat bank were getting into the part OF
their work which promised important re-
suits, that Il should be discovered al the
treasury that the fund from which they
were pad was eShau, ted aud that they
must be dismissed and the investigation
stopped. There's money enough to pay
thousand and one unnecessary expenses
for this and that, but not enough TO pay
with which prominent member of the adj
mlnistratlon had been much mixed up.
Isn't that suspicious OF Itseli'
Treasury officials pretend TO be rackIng
their brains to discover a way to pay these
men, meanwhile the men have stopped
work, Perhaps when they resume,if they
ever do, some of the books may be miss
ing. The Philadelphia people have taken
the matter up, and II their committees
stinging letter to the treasury department
does not cause MIR Harrison TO take some
action he Is either thicker-skined than he
has been supposed TO be, or Is afraid for
his friend, Mr. Wanamaker. At any rate
the letter, portion of which follows, will
make Mr. Harrison do some thinking; alt
Is Of vital importance alike to the credit OF
the national banking system and to the
cause Of justice, that the investigation shall
be pursued to the end and directly under
the auspices Of the United States govern
ment. II Il be true, ss stated, that the ex-
perts employed by the government hare
been dismissed for the reason that there
are now no funds available for the pay =
ment OF their expenses, then this commit
tee will ADVANCE any reasonable amount
required to NEE, such expenses" Every
thing may be perfectly straight about the
action of the treasury officials In this ma,
ter, but Il certainly does not look so.
Everybody will concede that the financial
system of nation should be, Ike Caesars
wife. above Suspicion. There II now n
large and respectable body Of our citizens
bitterly opposed to the entire national
banking system, because OF It's principles,
but even they have never charged that
there was erookedncss Ia the adminlstra
tlon Of the system, and voc be unto iha,
! administration upon which erookedness Il
proven,
A gentleman who is very close to Rep
resentatIve Mills ssld of :he report tina,
Me- Mills was hedging on the silver ques
ton: "Those who believe such story do
not know the man. lie never straddled a
question In his lie. could talk to you
FIR an hour about hls position, but instead
! will refer you to the first speech he makes
In Ohio. which will be on the i9. lust.
happen to know ,ha,'h will on that oeea-
sion fully define his p'altion on every
question now before The public, and, with
a wink, "that Is more than some OF his
eompeliIou for the speakenhIp dare TO
do"