Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-02
SENATOR EDMUNDS
Looking for a Stroke of judicial
Lightning.
Mr.. FOSTER INTERVIEWED.
Ee Endorses Mr.. Eeech's Remarks About
the surplus, but States that the Debt
Statement will Not be Changed.
To be Held in Allegiance.
A Rumor About Edmunds.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May IA prominent
Southern senator, one OF the ablest lawyers
In that body, said to-day:
when Senator EdmundS said some
weeks ago that he would resign from the
United States senate 1t was general sur
prise to the country, and it is said that the
most intimate friends of the distinguished
statesmen were wholly in the dark as to his
intentions. Satisfactory reasons have been
given, which seem to have been received by
the public IN the proper spirit; but 1t has
been quietly limited that still more honors
await him in the near future. Justice
Bradley is old and in feeble health and may
retire from the supreme bench next winter.
Senator Edmunds entertains the conviction
that an appointment from the senate to the
supreme bench would be in bad taste, as
that body is q contirnatory one. When
Senator Edmunds' successor has been Sc
leeted the acknowledged judicial attachments
of the great Vermouter will certainly place
him in the front rank of the list OF available
men 10 succeed Justice Bradley"
SECRETARY FOSTER
said to q GAZETTE CORES pendent to-day:
'As for the proposed change IN the debt
statement, my views are very decided.
do not like the present form, because it
seems to me that it shows as liabilities what
are not liabilities and it fails to include in
belongs there. However, in view in the ex-
IRENE sensitivenesS which part of the pub
lie manifests at the prospect of a change of
form, have thought it wiser TO leave the
matter open till the president returns and
it can be laid before him and the cabinet.
do not consider that the treasury is in any
trouble, in spite of the anxiety of some of
our friends about our condition. It is posi-
BILE that even if the maturity of the AZ S
should find us prepared to pay them all in
cash and with more to spare, we might
still regard it as wiser to give the bond
holders the option of extending some of
them. 1t is not always the best plan for q
perfectly solvent man to pay out all the
money he has in his pocket at once. It IS
prudent to look ahead little.
Suppose that a season of uncommonly
heavy crops should take all the ready
money out OF the Eastern markets and put
it into the agricultural states and there
should be serious strngency in conse-
quencea Might it not be best for the public
welfare that we should be in position to
relieve the market by having some money
in the vaults to draw on?
These are subjects which cannot be dis
posed of by
SNAP JUDGMENT
I am trying to get the best thoughts of the
people in helping me solve problems as they
arise Take those interviews, for example,
which Mr.. Leech has recently given to the
press. They are drawing forth comments
from all sides. l get great many letters
every day, some of which convey suggeS-
tons well worth considering.
There were few particulars, perhaps, in
which Leech's views did not precisely coin
eide with mine, but in the main l approved
OF them and l was glad to have them all
go forth SO that the country should have a
chance to discuss the ideas presented.
l think one or two points in the first in
terview might have been made clearer and
critics would have passed more intelligent
Judgment OF them"
Public Debt Decrease-Cashi In the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The debt state
ment issued this afternoon shows a de-
crease of the public debt during the month