Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-17
Washington CITY News.

Special Correspondence to HERALD.
WAsHINGToN, d. G., July 10, 189l-Secretary
Foster is still receiving congratulations for hav-
ing changed the form of the treasury statement
SO as to conform to common sense and plain
business principles in such manner that il can
be understood by all. Ofcourse there is class
OF democrats who would willingly see fine credit
of the country ruined and its treasury bankrupt
if thereby they could score political point for
their party, to this class the change is not salts
factory; they still calling the treasury bank
rupt in the face of the fact that it has $3.50 00O
600 in available cash to meet any demand that
may be made upon it. Mr.. Foster has. however.
in his possession documentary proof that promi-
nent democratic business in the great trade
centres approve of and endorse the change as be
ing one for the better
The question of what will be done with the
/ CHILEAN iusurgent steamer Itata is being very
much discussed by government officials, and, as
/ from the first, there is a wide difference of
| opinion, some thinking that the vessel is DO M
to be released by the court and that she never
should have been taken after she got out Of
American waters, while others are confident that
the court will decide that the Navy department.
was right in chasing and bringing her back
The Chilians, both the Balmaceda government
and the insurgents, who claim to be the consti-
tutional government of that country, are repre-
scented here by eminent counsel prepared to out
Wit each other if possible
There are many republicans here who are OF
ardent admirers of Senator Quay, but in the ut
tack which has been made on him by lot Of
Philadelphia mugwumps, who voted twice fol
Cleveland and the same number of times for the
present democratic governor of Pennsylvania,
there isn't a republican here as far as known who
does not side with Quay To kick is the
privilege of every citizen, but when man dur
ing two national campaigns throws his influence
and casts mis- vote against the presidential nom
inees Of his party, as nine-tenths of the signers
Of the attack on Senator Quay are said to have
done, he certainly has no right 10 dictate what
the party he abandoned shall or shall not do. II
has been generally understood from statements
made by MIR. Quay's friends that he would retire
from the head of the National committee before
the beginning of the presidential campaign,
therefore the present attack upon him is simply
regarded attempt to furnish the opponents
of the republican party with political ammuni-
ton.
Ex-Representative Perkins, of Kansas, who is
now in Washington on business, does not give a
very cheerful statement of the condition of
things in his state. He says: "When we were
afflicted with the grasshopper, the drouth and
other plaques we had the sympathy of the people
at large, but since we have endorsed the Farmer
Alliance by electing its men to congress the pub
lie has lost confidence in us as a state: money is
scarce and it is almost impossible to borrow it.
! The money that has been in the market has been
withdrawn. The leaders of the Alliance have
declared for what is practically fiat money and
the reputation of debts. Mrs. Lease, one of
their champions is going about organizing so
cieties to prevent the foreclosure Of mortgages
and the collection of debts. while Senator PETER
has publicly said that the people of Kansas arr
too much involved to pay their debts. My sue
cessor is coming to congress 10 secure legisla-
| ton platform that declares the residents of
| cities are supported by the farmers and that it
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| houses than as tradesmen in the cities. In all
the state, save few cities in the mineral belt.
there is not a nail being driven or a Single be
ing put on. All improvement has stopped and
the intelligent farmer is beginning to realize
that instead of helping them, the alliance has
added to their evils and preeipitated additional
misfOrtunes upon them
| Mr. W. X. Miller, of Ohio. who resides in
| Maj McKinley's old congressional district is
here on business, and says of the campaign in
that state: Gone thing about McKinley's candi-
dacy is that there are no explanations to make,
no fixing up of bad records. You know right
where to find him on every subject. The people
of Ohio are now understanding the tariff better,
and are realizing the deception practiced upon
them by the democratic press. A reaction has
set in and there is no uncertainty about the sue
cess of the republican ticket in Ohio this year:
the only thing that is in doubt is the size of the
republican majority Mr.. Miller's language is
about the same as that of every Ohio republican
who has visited Washington since the nomina-
ton of Maj. Mckinley.