Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-06-26
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
June 90, 1891

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To THE EDITOR Every effort is
being made to conceal the fact that
there is an actual deficit in the Treas
urv-in other words that the Govern
ment has not money enough to pay
! the current expenses. Yet such Is the
| fact and that too after some OF the
trust" funds have been appropri-
ated, or rather miSappropriated and
used.
The apparent deficit is only about
/ S1,OO0.OOO, but it is actually much
more because some of the appropria-
| lions made by the billion dollar Con-
! gress, which were made available at
once. have not been paid out.
There are several classes Of these
| Several hundred thousand dollars was
appropriated TO pay the findings of
| the Court of Claims the sums due 10y
/ al citizens for supplies furnished the
army during the war. Only three or
! four of these cases have been paid,
| the balance are held back in The De
partment of Justice. Most Of the par
ties to whom this money is due are
poor old people who have been fight
ING for years to secure the money due
them, and after securing Judgments
ana appropriations are still longer de
layed because the Treasury has been
looted
A large number of public buildings
were provided for and not dollar
has been paid out for site nor Is
much being done to secure them. Ihis
class of expenditures always helps the
locality where the building is to be
erected, and the money is expended
there for labor and materials.
1t is a well-knowu fact that thou
sands of pensions now ready TO be
granted are held up and thus thou
sands of poor soldiers are deprived of
their just dues.
There is no just reason for this de
ficiency. 1t is caused solely by the
purchase of bonds that were not due
at high premium and the anticipa-
ton of interest. That was done by
Secretary Window to benefit the Wall
Street SPECTATORS. Whenever their
gambling in grain and stocks put
them in a close place, they appealed
to Secretary Window and he pur-
chased as many millions of not due
bonds as the gamblers said were nee
essarv to relieve them. The preml-
INNS paid on the per cent bonds was
an average of % per cent. Thus a
thousand dollar bond cost $3.50.
One hundred and fifty million dollars
worth of these bonds were purchased
by Secretary Window, taking one
hundred and lightweight million dol
lars out of the Treasury for the bene-
fit of the bondholders, that ought to
be there now to pay the pensioners
and the creditors of the Government
and to erect buildings needed for the
public service.
That is why there is deficit, and
none of the great metropolitan dailieS
dare to tell the story, because they are
all bound to serve Wall Street.
The Democrats of Ohio have a
splendid opportunity to make n Dem
ocratic victory in 1892 certainty.
If Ohio goes Democratic in this cleo
ton. the Democratic candidate in 1892
for President will have walk over.
The Republican platform declared in
favor of the Mckinley Bill against
! free silver and for the Force Bill.
| Either one of these is sufficient TO
harm party but all these render 1t
impossible for the Republicans to win,
| if the Democrats of Ohio exercise the
slightest discresion. They owe 1t to
the Democrats of the country to act
wisely and secure by proper conces-
sions the vote of the dissatisfied farm
! ers.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
declared in his statement that he
made and which the Republican press
said was complete vindication as to
his having connection with the fail
ure of the keystone National Bank,
and the gigantic robberies committed
bv honest John Bardsley, that he,
the Post Master General, had in no
way attempted to delay the appoint
ment ola receiver for the broken bank.
| Comptroller of the Currency Lacy in
the attempt to defend his criminal
! delay in that matter, prints telegram
! from the Postmaster General to the
Comptroller to delay in making the
! appointment of receiver. 1t looks
very much like the truly good collec-
| tor of campaign funds has been as
short on truth" as he was on Read
ing stock, when Jay Gould squeezed
him so hard that the p. NJ. G. mort
| gagged his Washington place, ceased
to clamor for a postal telegraph, and
accepted the old rates for Geographic
| service.
The truly good Wanamaker will
not be so truly good when House
investigation committee finishes with
him. w.
The "HoIy Coat to be Publicly Exhb-
! tied.
\ great religious function will open
at Treves. Germany, on August %,
when the rarely seen "holy coat will
be exhibited in the Cathedral of st.
Peter and st. Helen there to the
Catholic faithful during six weeks.
The holy coat is relic which has