Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON. ID. C., Feb. q. 1871.
Mr.. Harrison has been credited with
being a man who could not be- csught
by the band brand Of office SEEKERS
but his nomination Of Px-Gov. ('CalicC
Charley'') FOslerto he Secretary nf the
Treasury proves that he not ouly can
be, but that he has been caught hv the
brass band methods adopted hy Foster
and his friends to obtain control Of the
Treasury department.
Personally there is nothing decidedly
objectionable about Mr.. Foster except
the abnOrmally big head which his
private financial surcess has given
him, and which is certain tO ha great
ly augmented by the new honor he has
just captured. To be self-madr man
is highly creditable to anyone, but to
be always telling, by your manner, as
Mr.. Foster does, how proud you are OF
the job, and how much better you have
done 1t than God Almighty could have
done, is anything else but cIeditahle.
Politically Mr. Fnster H. every thing
that is Objectionable; he Is product OF
the Sheman- Hayes- Kiefer school, and
predict that within year from this
time the Treasury department will
| oCSpIlEC "iltI tt was LhC
| Hayes administration, when John
| Sherman, now Senator, was at its head
"a thoroughly organized political ma
| chine personally controlled by its Sec
| retary.
There is no probability that the pol
icy of the Treasury department, if it
can be said to have any policy, will be
changed under Secretary Foster. 1t will
go right on in opposition to giving the
people sufficient volume of currency
to successfully transact the ever grow
ing business of the country, and when
its dear Wall street gets cramped it
will, as usual, rush to the rescue with
all the millions iC can control. This
sort of things will go on until the 4 of
March, 1898; then there will be grand
change.
Well, the orders of Car Reed and Mr..
Harrison have been carried out and the
free coinage bill has been killed. The
committee reported it adversely to the
House, aud one of its Republican men,
bers gleefully said: "Well, it will be
impossible now to vote upon it at this
session."
Between the consideration of appro-
priation bills the Senate has been de-
batting the bill providing for the guar
anteeing of $100,0O0,O00 of the bonds of
the Nicaragua Canal Company. Sena-
against it, in which he called attention
to the millions this Government has
sunk in the Pacific railroads and
pointed out the fact that the passage of
this bill would violate a treaty with
England and be the certain cause of war
Senator Morgan defended the bill and.
intimated that there were special reas-
ons, not made public, why it should be
passed. 1t is almost certain to pass the
Senate. But look out for the liveliest
kind of circus when it reaches the
House.
Gar Reed grows worse rs the time
draws near for him to be uncrowned;
he now not only refuses to have a cap
itulation of a vote announced for the
information of the house, but he orders
the clerk to read a skeleton journal in
stead of the full journal of the previous
days proceedings, and he has MEM
bers not present entered therein as
being present and refuses to allow
changes to be made when attention is
called to such palpable errors, and he is
supported by the vote of every Repub-
lican. On Saturday Representative
Crisp, who is credited with being one
of the most conservative men in the
House, stated, as did his colleagues,
Clements and Turner. of Georgia,
Blanchard of Louisiana. and Wilson, of |
Missouri, that he was entered upon the
journal of the previous day as present |
and not voting, when as a matter of
fact he was not present-he left the |
house with the other Democrats for the
purpose of breaking quorum. Fail
ing to get the error corrected Mr.. Crisp |
said that he wished to call the atten-
tion of the country to the manner in
which the priding officer made up and
falsified the record. This arraignment |
brought storm of applause from the
Democratic side and the galleries. Is it
any wonder that Democrats in the
house fillibuster?
The story pubised here purporting
to state by authority that Mr.. Cleve-
land would under no circumstances be
candidate next year was undoubtedly
concocted by an enemy of Mr.. Cleve-
land, and it did not require that gen.
teman's denial to refute it. His posi-
ton is we'll understood here. Ofcourse
every body knows that he isn't a candi-
date, that is to say, that he isn't 'tseeking
the nomination-if he was the anti
silver letter would never have been
written. That he would refuse the
il rendered, no one for a
believes, unless he thought his
would jeopardize the success
of the party.
To-day is legal holiday and the de-
partments are all closed; Tuesday and !
Thursday of last week they were closed
on account of the funerals of Admiral
Porter and General Sherman. No peo-
pie anywhere get as many holidays as