Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-06-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June Is.

There is a manifest disposition
on the part of those wild-eyed
gentlemen who have been for 10
these many months making mon
keys of themselves by yelling at
all times and in all sorts of places
that the 1st Of July, 1891, would
see the United States Treasury
bankrupt, to change their tune.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald, who has
led the grand chorus of calamity
walters now says ''The Treasury
Is not bankrupt, and the skill and
courage of Secretary Foster will
probably save it from bankrupt
cy.' This naive admission from
the man who has been loudest in
this prediction of bankruptcy has
caused no little amusement here,
where any one who had the brains
and who cared TO make the neces-
sary investigation might at any
time have fully satisfied himself
from the official figures that there
was not the slightest danger of
anything even approaching nation
al bankruptcy. Readers of this
correspondence need MT he told
!. a., us IL has been stated and re-
stated therein that the U. S.
Treasury is all right, and will re-
main SO as long as it is under
Republican control.
Representative Mills, who is
now here, alleged to be engaged in
literary work, but in reality try
ing to patch up the big holes in
his Speakership boom, has at last
discovered that there are times
when man may talk too much,
and is out in statement over his
own signature saying that all the
so-called interviews which have
been credited to him are bogus,
and saying that he has not and
will not express his opinion on the
Speakership, further than to say
that he is a candidate, and that he
has not and will not express any
opinion upon the merits or demer-
its of any candidate for the demo-
cratic nomination FOR the Presi-
dency, all of which shows that Mr..
Mills is, what the boys call badly
ratified"
Secretary Foster has decided,
as it was thought from the begin
ming he would, to sustain Chief
Meredith, of the bureau of en-.
craving and printing in his con-
troyersy with the Knights of La
Dor, in spite of the dictatorial tao
tics of the leaders of that organi-
zation. a full investigation of
the charges made against Captain
Meredith, resulted in showing
them to be entirely without foun-
dation, and the seven knights of
Labor who were discharged have
been informed that they will not
be reinstated, but if SO disposed
they cas- make application for new
appointments, taking the usual
examination and their chances
along with the other applicants.
The inventors of the country,
who happen not to be provided
with fat bank accounts, are to be
congratulated on a new rule in the
Patent Office, which prohibits
men, who have while examiners in |
hat Office, rejected applications
-or patents, afterwards appearing |
IS Attorneys or agents for these |
same applications. The absence
'f this rule has been the cause of
more applications for patents be-
ng rejected which by right should
lare been granted than anv other
me thing, as 1t is an unfortunate
ruth, well known to those familiar
With the business of the Office,
hat some of the examiners, of
which there are about one hundred,
lave for years systematically re-
ected applications entitled to be
.ranted for the sole purpose of
fterwards getting an Attorneys
ee from the same inventor for
citing the same application al