The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-06-05
Washington Letter.


WAsHIxGToS ID. c, May 90, 1891.
Mr., Harrison has at last, If Is sald,
braced up his backbone sufficiently 10
inform Commissioner of Pensions Raum
that he must hand in his resignation as
soon as another man can be found with
some political pull who Is willing TO take
the place Raum did the grand kick
act. and has not vet cunScgated TO resign,
saving thst he prefers heing dismissed;
but he'll change his m52d. They all do
that way. When Tanner was asked for
his resignation he Svcre that ne would
never write it. but lse did all the same
It's essy to talk aboUt being kicked, hut
when the big hoirnailed boot Il RAISED
ther all get out of tine way If possible
Just as might have been expected, the
alleged attempt b. begin criminal pro
ceedings against young Raum and his
partners in office selling has already
practically petered out, and the District
attorney, a Republican of course, has
begun to hint about the difficulty of Sc
| curing the necessary proof to convict
Raum or any of his pals, and the use
| lessness of bringing the case before the
| grand jury. 1t is always difficult L. do
| that which we 90 not wish to do.
BY the way, speaking of Pension Of
/ flee matters, there was quite farce
| played there this week. \ man was
/ tried for borrowing money, and Com
| missioner Raum, the man who ac-
1 knOwIedged under oath that he had
/ borrowed 5000 from the king OF the
/ pension sharks, was one of the judges.
! Ye gods, think of that. 1t WIS certainly
/ ha of nh. NJ
borrower was acquitted, but a victim
had to be found, so the fellow who got
the loan for him from a Washington
ten per center was found, to be toe
loose in his ideas of the amount of in,
terest that ought to be charged for ac-
commodatiOn loans and was according
ly dismissed in disgrace from the Gov
ernment service. There are piles and
piles of crookedness all over the Pension
bureau awaiting the argus eye of Dem
ocratic Congressional investigating com
mittee.
Secretary Proctor having gwen the
| War department several consecutive
days of his valuable time has now gone
back to Vermont to put in about ter
days in looking after his private busi
/ ness.
If II be true, as is generally believed
here, that the instructions telegrapheC
the revenue cutters Rush and Bear as tC
the part they should take in the present
sealing season in Bering Sea, are pratt
cally the same as those issued t0 them
! last seasOn-to pretend to watch, but
at the same time to be very careful nev-
er to see any illegal sealing Mr.,
/ Blaine must feel very thankful that he
was not here when they were issued.
The Attorney General has gone to the
! rescue of the Secretary of the Treasury
/ TO limited extent, by deciding that the
/ last named official has authority To issue
( silver certificates against the $4,000, ,OOG
/ Seigniorage that has been accumulated
| 10y the coinage of bullion. Mr.. Foster
/ has also, il is said, arrived at the conclu-
! sion that he can issue silver certificates
/ against tthe 500, 900, 600 in fractional
/ silver that he has been unSucceSsfully
! trying To put into circulation for sever
al weeks past These are the methods
by which the administration hopes to
stave off that much dreaded deficit
Mr.. Harrison must have been re-
minded of the Conkling-Garfield trou-
ble this week when ex-Scnators Platt
and Miller, of New York. each support
I'd by dozen or more friends, invaded
the White House to engage in fight
over the appraiserShip of the port Of new
York. Mr.. Harrison finally succeeded
in making Secretary Foster temporary
! referee of the C ontest, and he got rid of
the gang by promising to come over to
New York and look into things before
making any decision. When that de
cision Is made, the side that gets left
viii jump on Mr.. Harrison for satiSfac-
ton, and he Will wish, as many another
President has, that there were no FEEDER
al offices in New York
Representative I. j. Campbell, of
New York, who is now here, is authority
for a statement that will have a very
important bearing upon the Speaker
ship contest if he is not mistaken. He
says that ii has been decided that the
twenty-three Democratic votes which
New York will have in the next House
will be cast as "A unit III the vote for
Speaker. The candidate who is to re-
ceive these twenty-three votes has not
been decided upon, and will not be un-
til conference is held; but Mr.. Camp
bell is certain that the delegation will
select the winner.
Hon. Jerry Simpson is going to make
free trade speeches in Ohio in opposi-
ton TO Mckinley's high tariff talks. NJ