The Forrest City times., 1891-02-27
OUR NATIONAL LETTER.

Mr. Harrison has been credited with being a man who could not be caught by the brass band brand of office seekers. but his nomina- ton of Ex-Governor t''Calico Charley'9 Foster to be secretary of the treasury proves that he not only can be. hut that he has been caught by the brass band methods adopted by Poster and his friends to obtain control of the treasury department. Personally there is nothing decidedly objectionable about MT Poster except the abnormaly big head which his private financial success has given him. and which is certain to be greatly augmented by the new honor he has just captured. To be a selfmade man Is highly creditsble to any one. but to he always telling. hy your man ner. as Mir. Poster does, how proud you are of the job. and how much better you have done il than God Almighty could have done is any thing but crediisble. Politically Foster is everything that is objectiouahle and I pre- dict that in a years time the treasury depart ment will have become hat 1t was under tho Hayes administration, when John sherman now senator. was al it's head R thoroughly organized political machine. personally con trolled by its secretary. There is no proha- bility that the policy of the treasury depart ment. If It can be said 10 have any policy win be changed under Secretary Foster IL will 70 right on in opposition 10 giving the people "A sufficient volume of currency to sue cessfuliv transact the ever growing business of the country, and when its dear Wall street gets cramped it will. as usual. rush to the res cue with all the millions il can control This sort of thing will go on until the 4th of March, 1893: then there will be grand change.
 Well. the orders of Car Reed and MT Harri. son have been carried out and the freo coin- age bill has been killed. The committee re- ported fl adversely to the house. and one of its republican members gleefuly said: We H. tt will be impossible now to vote upon 1t at this session.
 Between the consideration of appropriation bills the senate has been debating tho bill pro vidinw for the guaranteeing of sloo. GOO coo of the bonds of the Nicaragua canal company q gg againet It. in which he called attention to the millions this government has sunk in tho Pacific railroads and pointed out the face that the passage of this bill would violate . treaty with England and be the certain cause of war Senator Morgan defended tho bill and inti-
 mated that there wore special reasons, not made public. why 1t should be passed. It is almost certain to pass the senate. but look out for the lveliest kind of . circus when it reaches the house. Char Reed grows worse as the tune draws near for him to be un- crowned; he now not only refuses to have 6 equalization of . vote announced for the in formation of the house. but hs orders the full journal of the previous days proceedinga. and he has members not present entered therein as being present, and refuses Is allow changes to be made when attention 10 called to such pslpahle errors. and hs 10 supported by tho vote Of every republican.
 The story published here purporting to state by authority that Mir. Cleveland would under no circumstances be a candidate ne If of MT. Cleveland, and it did not require that gentleman's denial to refute IL. His position Is well understood here. Of course every. body knows that hs isn't a candldate--tha is to say that he isu't seeking the nomination If he wac the anti-silycr letter would never have been written. That he would refuse the nomination. if rendered, no one for a moment believes. unless he thought his acceptance would Jsopsrdize the success O f the party. Tuesday and Thursday of last week the departments were closed on account of the nj dInV b,ptA and Sherman. No people anywhere ret a many holidays as the department clsrks here.