Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-19
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
June 16, 1891.

| Government meditates taking forclDle
possession of the territory in dispute,
which would give the control Of the
mouth of the Orinoco river to Great
Britain. The forcesin British Guiana
are ready to take the field, and the
Venezuelan authorities are preparing
| for resistance. Of course there could
be but one end to such a contest, eX-
cept by outside interference. Nene-
zuela has only 100000 inhabitants,
and Of them nine-tenths are Indians,
negroes and mixed bloods. 1t is re-
garded as certain that the United
States will not allow the British TO
absorb the most valuable part of the
Venezuelan territory.
1t is wonderful how the Keystone
Bank failure is exposing Republican
politicians. The Republican city treas
urer of Philadelphia, "honest" John
Bardsley, was the first to fall. The
interest in the matter increased when
| it became known that Postmaster
| General Wanamaker was in some way
! involved. Then it leaked out that
Comptroller of theCurrency Lacey and
Bank Examiner Drew had known the
condition Of the bank for weeks be-
| fore its failure and allowed it to re
main open, and that during this time
! Wanamakerreduced his business with
the bank. Now it is discovered that
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Nettleton is mixed up in the dirty
business. All these are entering de
mails, but the first duty Of the next
House of Representatives will be to
appoint an able committee to probe
the dirty pool to the bottom.
Some of Judge Gresham's friends
have been holding meeting at which
it was agreed to canvass the States of
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
Kentucky in the effort to secure dele
gates for Gresham. A number of Sec
rotary Blaines friends have an
noupced that they intend to COM
mence an active canvass for him, and
Col. Conger of Ohio, a member of the
Republican National Committee, de-
clared that Mr. Blaine would not in
terfere with the action proposed by
his friends. He also said that with
the single exception of John G. New,
there was not member of the Re
publican National Committee who
favored the denomination Of Harri
son. 1t makes very little difference
to the Democrats what candidates the
Republicans select. Whoever the man
is, he is destined to defeat. Any Dem
ocrat in sympathy with the demand
of the people for money and legisla-
ton, can be elected
There is evident alarm in Govern
ment circles at the certainty of COM
ing deficiency in the Treasury. The
falling off in the receipts for May, as
compared with the same month last
year, was nearly S10,OOO,OOO. If any
thing approaching in amount to this
figure should continue, there will be
an enormous deficit. The possibili
ties are that bonds will have to be
sold to secure money for current eX-
penses. Already the way is being
felt for such proceeding. The New
York Tribune, in an editorial on the
Public Credit" says
''The power of the Secretary to sell
United States bonds practically with
out limit in order to obtain any
amount of gold that may be needed
for the redemption of notes is as large
and as absolute as it was on the day
of special redemption. The act con
ferring that power has never been re-
pealed. The bonds could be sold
without difficulty now at a premium
of 20 per cent or more which would
not then have sold at par"
1t is true the act has never been re-
pealed, but if Secretary Foster was
to attempt to exercise the power that
act confers, the House would I'M
doubtedly prefer articles of impeach-
ment against him, and he would be
SAYING the death knell of the Repub
lican party. If the Tribune is the rec
ognized organ of the administration
as well as the money power in Wall
Street, il is fair to assume that an
agreement has been reached between
"the street and the administration
as to the method by which the credit
of the country is to be maintained.
The people are not and will not be
party to this agreement.
The proof that the Mckinley Bill,
which was to do so much for the
American farmer, did not make a mar
ket for a single barrel of American
pork or bushel of American wheat,
comes to us with vivid force when we
examine the official reports of the ex-
ports of breadstuffs for the five
months of this year ending May 31st,
and compare them with the exports
for the same months last year. Here
are the official figures furnished by
the Bureau of Statistics. Value of
exports Of breadstuffs five months,
ending May 81, 1890, 81, 2O4, 769, for
year ending JANUARY 81, 1891, s55, 15O,
III, falling off fS16, 053, 9Ol or nearly
90 per cent. And yet all breadstuffs
are much higher now than they were
last year. The price is raised TO con-
sumers at home and not so much sent
abroad. That is the effect of the Nc
Kinley Bill. w.
A Baby Without Eyes.
A baby without eyes, says the New
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