The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-28
INTERESTING BUDGET OF WASH.
INGTON NEWS.
Our Special Correspondent Sizes Up
The New Secretary of the
TREASURY
Special HERALD Correspondent.


Special HERALD Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. e., Feb. 23.-Mr.
Harrison has been credited with being
man who could not be caught by the
brass band of office seekers, but his
nomination of eX-Gov. ('Calico Char
ley'O Foster to be Secretary of the
Treasury proves that he not only can
he, but that he has been caught by the
brass band methods adopted by Foster
and his friends to obtain control of the
Treasury Department.
Personally there is nothing decidedly
Objectionable about Mr.. Foster except
the abnormatly big head which his pri-
vate financial success has given him,
and which IS certain to be greatly aug
Ilented by the new honor he has Just
captured. To be a self made man is
highly creditable to anyone, but to be
WI US telling, by your IN tnner, as NJ
Foster does, how proud you are Of tho
job, and how much better YOU have
done it than God Almighty could have
done, is anything else but creditable.
Politically Mr.. Foster is everything
that is objectionable; he is a product of
the Sherman-Hayes- eifer school,
and predict that within a year from
this time the Treasury Department will
have become what it was under the
Hayes administration, ven John
sherman, now Senator, was at its head
"a thoroughly organized political ma
chine personally controlled by it's Sec
rotary.
There is no probability that the poll
cy of the Treasury Department, If it
can be said to bave any policy, will be
changed under Secretary Foster. 1t
will go right on in opposition to giving
the people sufficient volume of cur
rency To successfully transact the ever
growing business of the country, and
when It's dear Wall Street gets cramped
1t will, as usual, rush to the rescue with
all the millions it can control. This
sort of thing will 20 on until the 4th of
March 1888; then there Will he a grand
change.
Well, the orders of Gar Reed and
Mr.. Harrison have been carried out aud
the free Coinage bill has been killed.
The committee reported it adversely to
the House, and one of its republican
members gleefully said: "Well, it will
be Impossible now to vote upon it at
this session.
Between the consideration of appro-
priation bulls the Senate has been de-
batting the bill providing for the guar
anteeing of 100000, 0O0 Of the bonds of
the NicaIagus canal company.
Senator Vest made very
strong speech against it, in which he
called attention to the millions this
Government has sunk in the Pacific
rail roads and pointed out the fact That
the passage of this bill would violate
treaty with England and be the certain
cause of war. Senator Morgan defend
ed the bill and intinated that there
why ii should be passed. 1t is almost
certain to pass the Senate, but look out
for the liveliest kind of a circus when
it reaches the House.
Gear Reed grows worse the time
draws near for him to be uncrowned; he
now not only refuses to have a capiJu-
lation of vote announced for the in
formation of the House, but he orders
the clerk to read a SIX eleton journal in
stead of the full journal of the previous
days proceedings, and he has members
not present entered therein as being
present and refuses to allow changes TO
be made when attention is called 10
such palpable errors, and he is supported
by the vote of every republican. On
Saturday Representative Crisp, who is
credited with being one of the most con-
sentative men in the House, stated, as
did his colleagues, Clements and Turn
er, of Georgia, Blanchard, of Louisiana
and Wilson, of Missouri, that he was en-
tered upon the Journal Of he previous
day as present, and not voting, when as
matter of fact he was not present. He
left the House with the other democrats
for the purpose of breaking a quorum.
Falling to get the error corrected, Mr..
Crisp said that he wished to call the at
tention of the country to the manner in
which the presiding officer made up and
falSihed the record, This arrangement
brought storm of applause from the
democratic side and the galleries. Is il
any wonder that democrats in the
House tillibuster?
The story published here purporting
to state by authority that Mr. Cleveland
would under no circumstances be a can
diIaIe next yea wa undo ub ed con-
cUcte by an enemy of MIR. Cleveland,
and it did not require tia. gentleman's
denial to refute il. His position is well
understood here. OF course everybody
knows that he isn't a candidate, that is
To say that he isn't seeking the nOnina-
ton, if he was the anti-slver letter
would never have been written. That
ne would refuse the nomination il ten
dered, no one for a moment believes,
unless he thought his acceptance would
jeopardize the success of the party.
To-day is a legal holiday and the de
partments are all closed. Tuesday and
Thursday of last week they wero all
closed on account of the funerals of Ad-
miral Porter and General Sherman. No
people anywhere get as many holidays
as the department clerks here.